Zack Strong is the Independent American Party’s candidate for U.S. House in Utah’s 3rd District, and is the party’s Issues Committee Coordinator. The following was posted to the IAP website:
One of the most damnable practices of our time is to shy away from doing the morally right thing for fear of becoming unpopular. Nowhere is this despicable practice more prevalent than in the political arena. Power hungry charlatans on all sides value being reelected far more than they value doing the right thing. Republicans and Democrats alike, fearful of being rejected at the polls, refuse to take hard positions, to make unpopular stands, do the right thing, or to even honor their solemn oaths of office to obey the Constitution.
While driving to the store of July 29th, I tuned into Sean Hannity’s radio program. Frankly, Hannity is such a sycophant for the establishment and the Republican Party that I cannot stand to listen to him most of the time. During this particular episode, however, he interviewed Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, so I decided to give it a listen. Bachmann pontificated pathetically about how the Republicans should not move to impeach President Obama for his many high crimes and misdemeanors nor for his blatant treason and trampling of the Constitution. What could possibly be Bachmann’s reason for not wanting to do her duty and impeach an oath-breaking, usurping, tyrannical despot? Bachmann’s reason was simple: impeachment proceedings would hurt the Republicans in the November elections. Here is a lady who is held up as a defender of the Constitution, as a small government conservative, as a protector of our natural rights, as a leader of the Tea Party, and as a Christian, and yet she brazenly declares on national radio that the Republicans should not impeach the tyrant in the White House because it might hurt her chances of reelection. Wow!
I would be interested to know when the last time Bachmann actually read the Constitution or contemplated her oath of office was. Here is a lady who leads, or at least used to, a group in the House of Representatives whose purpose is the study of the Constitution and yet she does not understand that the sole responsibility she has as a public servant is to defend the Constitution, and, by implication, our God-given rights, from any and all attacks. Bachmann and her fellows in government should be ashamed of their blatant disregard for the Constitution and for their utter contempt for and lack of fidelity to their oaths of office.
The Constitution bluntly states that all state and national representatives and officers “shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution” (Article 6, Clause 3). The current oath of office reads: “I, ______ , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. . .” The oath concludes in the name of God. This oath is not trivial, but is in fact serious and sacred. To neglect to defend the Constitution is, in my opinion, not only a violation of the public trust, but is a sin against God Almighty. For anyone to neglect their duty to defend the Constitution for any reason whatsoever should be looked upon as treason and should carry with it eternal infamy as well as strict earthly punishments.
The Constitution is meant to “guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government” (Article 4, Section 4). Our republican system continues to be perverted and transformed, however, with hardly a peep from those duty bound to support and protect it. Furthermore, the House of Representatives is invested with “the sole Power of Impeachment” (Article 1, Section 2, Clause 5). Why are not the congressmen in the House fulfilling their duty to begin impeachment proceedings against the president and other offenders? Similarly, the Senate is duty bound to try all such impeachments (Article 1, Section 3, Clause 6). Where are the senators prodding their colleagues in the House to do their duty so that the Senate can do its job?
If the president is not worthy of impeachment for his laundry list of crimes, then what could one possibly ever do to deserve impeachment? If launching undeclared wars, foisting welfarism upon the People, allowing criminals to invade across our southern borders, repeatedly covering up scandals, lying to the People, bribing the states with stolen tax dollars, arming the IRS, shipping guns to foreign gangs, standing down our troops to allow an ambassador to be murdered, entering into secret foreign agreements and treaties, and breaking one’s oath to defend the Constitution does not warrant impeachment, then what does? We often here of an imperial presidency and that the executive branch has become too powerful, but no one asks why. The answer to the question is that the president’s power grows only because the Congress refuses to do its job to keep it in check. If you want to point the finger of blame at anyone in government, point it directly at the Congress, and at the House of Representatives in particular.
The Congress is granted the authority to see that the powers vested in “any Department or Officer” of the government are faithfully performed (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18). Where are all the congressmen who should be stepping forward to fulfill their duty to ensure that the various departments and officers are kept in line? The preamble to the Bill of Rights clarifies that the amendments are intended to “prevent misconstruction or abuse of [the Constitution’s] powers.” Why aren’t representatives heeding this injunction to prevent misinterpretation of the Constitution and abuse of its limited powers? As a bare minimum, why don’t the members of the House cease funding the president’s tyrannical and unconstitutional policies and programs? After all, “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives” (Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1). The House of Representatives could literally choke the life out of any of the president’s illegal and unjust policies if they felt like it by turning off the flow of funds. Yet they do nothing. They are complicit in the tyranny and are willing participants in the criminality. By their silence and inaction, the Congress has consented to the shredding of the Constitution. And, unfortunately, when they do speak up or act, it is usually in favor of unconstitutional polices and destructive ideals. The branch of government specifically designed to most closely represent and defend the People has turned against us.
Congresswoman Bachmann, for all of your pretensions, you are nothing more than a coward and an unfaithful representative of the People. You are an oath-breaker and an enemy to the Constitution and to the People who instituted it to protect their sacred rights. You and your fellow oath-breaking politicians ought to be thoroughly ashamed of your conduct. I call upon all representatives in government to apologize to the American People whose trust you have broken, to repent in sackcloth and ashes before God Almighty whose just laws you have violated, and to remove yourself from your position of power in order to allow someone with honor and fidelity to fill its places.
None of us is perfect, but when we swear an oath, we must be held responsible for keeping our word. Our Liberty literally depends on how strictly we hold our representatives accountable for their actions while in positions of trust. How is it that Bachmann and her ilk in Congress have a 9% approval rating yet over 90% of incumbents get reelected time and time again? The American People have become careless and apathetic in the defense of their precious Freedom. Self-government, the crowing jewel of the American system, has been converted into top-down rule by a handful of despots seeking for power and wealth and control. I call on all Americans to repent and to forsake their carelessness. We must turn back to God, resurrect our foundational principles as espoused by our humble Founders, and permanently expel conspiring and unworthy individuals from positions in local, state, and national government.
Until the People rise up in their righteous indignation and seize back the reins of government from tyrants, oath-breakers will continue to do what is personally advantageous for them and to spurn what is morally right. John Quincy Adams is credited with saying, “Duty is ours, results are God’s.” This sentiment has existed since the dawn of man and is still true today. We must do what is right, not what seems popular or beneficial. The one congressman who alone does the right thing, though unpopular or politically detrimental, will cement his place in the annals of history whereas the hundreds of congressmen who twiddle their thumbs and only care about reelection will receive their just infamy for time and all eternity. This principle applies to all of us no matter our station in life and no matter whether or not we have officially sworn an oath. It applies to mothers, fathers, sheriffs, the president, judges, congressmen, city councilors, country commissioners, educators, postal workers, priests, factory workers, ditch diggers, and so forth. If we will simply do the right thing, God will prosper and bless this nation beyond our wildest dreams and hopes. If we fail to care enough to act uprightly, our fate is sealed. What will our fate be as a People? What will your fate be as an individual?
The other parties had candidates on the ballot even if they were not identified as such.
Mr. Ziggler, according to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Office, the organization which runs elections in our state, “Political organizations that have attained ballot status are currently the Republican, Democratic, and Constitution parties. The names of candidates for President and Vice President for these parties are placed on the General Election ballot when their names are certified to the Government Accountability Board by the state or national party chairperson.”
In 2012, these parties, and only these parties, were on our state ballot with candidates. All other candidates, the ones you refer to above, were listed as Independents both on the ballot and in official election results. ( http://gab.wi.gov/sites/default/files/Amended%20Percentage%20Results-11.6.12%20President.pdf ). Your statements above about the veracity my blog are therefore false.
Thank you, Paul
Or at Nathan Norman’s “news” (?) blog either. LOL….
Quirk – An extra point which I forgot is that you so sickly claim to have supported Bill Shearer yet you have far far far more totally supported his criminal attackers; Robinson, Seidenberg, and Noonan; as they, who have always referred to him with extreme and spitting contempt, have happily destroyed/shredded the work which he spent his life building.
Yet another illustration of your own scorpion character.
Don J. Grundmann, D.C. Chairman Constitution Party of California
Well, the Idaho story did get posted at IPR but it’s still not up at A3PR where Cody Quirk is signed up as a writer.
Quirk – As usual you are a complete fool and idiot in addition to being an outright liar on many of your topics in your latest screed. To begin to address as many of your lies as possible at this moment –
A) The so-called ” leadership of the AIP which you support gained their control of the party by the crime of fraud via deliberately constructing and filing false documents with the Secretary of State office. But of course you, being the moral nitwit that you are, have, both now and then, no problem with their outright criminality and in fact end up attacking me repeatedly through the years as I have worked to expose their criminal acts.
B) I am the Chairman of the California Constitution Party and have kept my voter affiliation in the AIP for legal reasons; reasons which are FAR above the ability of a total fool like you to have the slightest understanding of. We have been fighting a prolonged legal battle against the criminality, which you have totally supported, of Robinson, Seidenberg, and Noonan. Such battle continues to this moment.
C) I was ” removed,” illegally, by the criminals ( whom you support ) for opposing their criminality. You would only make such a statement if you STILL, TO THIS MOMENT, totally support their criminality. Your statement shows that you have been coached by Seidenberg, an outright agent of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Republican Party. Your statement hence shows what a stooge you are for their causes and yet even more shows what a nitwit fool that you are. You NEVER asked any one, NOT EVEN ONE, of the true AIP members regarding the attack of the Robinson Criminal Syndicate upon the party but instead have totally soaked up their lies without the slightest hesitation. Why? Because of your own religious bigotry against myself and the other REAL AIP members in addition to your own glory seeking via supporting the criminals; i.e.; shamelessly brown nosing them so that they would support you with whatever dog bones they would give you as a reward for your obedience/groveling such as by attacking me.
D) My ” divisive rhetoric ” was attacking literal criminals who worked to destroy the party; the criminals whom you support.
E) I was not ” shunned and condemned.” That is your idiotic fantasy and total lie to justify your own backstabbing of myself and, especially, the party. It was YOU who, working to support the criminals, spread your own poison through the party against me. It was YOU who, working to defend the perverts and their supporters, spread your pro-pervert attacks against me through the party.
F) I AM one of the ” various CP leaders.” YOU ARE NOT – AND NEVER HAVE BEEN. YOU are a lying backstabbing coward fool who is a replacement for Don Lake, the total nitwit who made up countless lies about the CP. Your total idiocy was exposed not only by my letter to the CP regarding your actions but especially by your totally outrageously and colossally stupid response, something which only an absolute idiot would have written. Using my e-mail correspondence with you to claim that I was ” stalking ” you could ONLY have been made by an ABSOLUTE AND STAGGERINGLY STUPID IDIOT.
G) I have NEVER attacked Mormons in any way or fashion. I have ALWAYS defended them in multiple forums and on every occasion. This is yet ANOTHER outright lie by you. I voted YES in Tampa to disaffiliate Nevada because of Chris Hanson being pro-death and for no other reason. Others may have been so-called ” anti-Mormon ” but I was not. Yet you continue to lie about this in order to ” gin-up ” your nitwit attacks against me.
H) I support Riley Hood because he is a true fighter for the nation and not a total wimp and a%%hole like yourself. He is an honorable man – 2 words which you have not the slightest clue regarding.
I) I will support any organization, including the IAP, that is smart enough to recognize what an absolute idiot, nitwit, fool, and moron you are. More power to them for sending you an utterly and staggeringly stupid fool like you packing.
J) I DO care for my Mother and I consider myself blessed to do so. And you attack me for this????? You are so completely desperate to ” gin-up ” by any possible way your attacks against me that you attack me for this????? This, all by itself much less so many many other reasons, shows what your character truly is. For caring for my mother is something that I am happy and honored to do. And quite frankly I give her superior care, better than at least 95% of the care that any other mother would receive in any care situation. Certainly that includes your mother for whom I shudder thinking of her dismal fate with a son such as yourself. Yet you, as the totally shallow fool that you are, actually attack me for this. Well go ahead fool. Your attack just illustrates, yet again, so clearly your totally sick character. I will match my care of my mother against that of anyone and ESPECIALLY of a total weirdo like yourself who can actually think that, yet again, you can ” gin-up ” your attack against me by attacking me on this. What an utter moron you are!!!! I am PROUD of caring for my mother. I am totally blessed by God to be given the opportunity to do so. So stick that up your posterior you God-forsaken fool.
K) Is it required to have children in order to fight for them? According to an a%%$543 like you it is. That is just ANOTHER illustration of what an idiot you are. And since YOU bring up the topic aren’t you paying alimony? Don’t you have a child? If so I will not even bother to pray for that God-forsaken child. To have YOU as a father utterly dooms the poor child to your shallowness, idiocy, and total foolness. May God save the poor child from their horrific fate.
L) Again, since YOU bring up the topic – are YOU married? Why not? Your wife saw the absolute fool that you are and – thankfully for her – woke up and got out of hell? Is marriage required to fight to defend children? Yes, according to a fool like you. Well nitwit I have been working to defend children for years and will do so permanently whether married or not. This is – YET AGAIN – a classic illustration of your shallowness and character bankruptcy.
M) Cody, I have done 10,000 times more in the battle to fight perverts and many other things attacking our nation than you could, can, or will ever do. Especially since you always rush to their defense. And then, of course as par-for-the-course for you in your ” gin-up ” attempts, you accuse me of being a pervert.
Well I will have the last laugh. Because when you wake up tomorrow ( AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR GOD-FORSAKEN DAYS TO FOLLOW ) you will still be Cody Quirk – idiot, fool, nitwit, moron. You will be so by YOUR OWN CHOICE. And it will be PERMANENT.
So send all of the lying attacks which you want. You will still wake up, look in the mirror, and see a fate worse than death. THAT is why I will always and forever have the last laugh.
Don J. Grundmann, D.C. Chairman Constitution Party of California
http://functionalfillmorefrugal.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/competing-against-ipr/
ROFL
I’ve only posted 2 articles since you sent me those articles Cody, and those only because they were very short and quick to post. I’ll have some time available tomorrow for some other posts, but, like everyone else, I have limits on my time. In fact, I have more limits right now because my husband is working out of town, and I need to do all the lawn watering and dog walking, besides taking care of a house and running a business. I’d say well more than half the articles that cross our paths at IPR get posted because we all have to set priorities..
Certainly do send them to the other site. If it’s an important issue, there’s nothing wrong with both sites carrying the same story.
And you would not be stepping on my toes if you post it. I prefer it if you do because that would be one less on my plate.
But at least we have the Functional Fillmore Frugal blog “competing” with us now. LOL
Jed,
Sorry, my internet keeps going in and out at this crappy motel, so I did not see your comment when I replied to Cody. I changed it afterwards to show that I was responding to him, not to you when I said that.
Don,
You are a very unprincipled ‘constitutionalist’; while you were a former leader and member of the California Constitution Party, you ran for offices in 2010/2012 under the American Independent Party ticket, despite your vehement hatred of the AIP and it’s leadership- which only says that you are two-faced and a hypocrite when it comes to party affiliation.
In fact you were REMOVED as State Chairman of the California CP and replaced with Nathan Johnson because of your divisive, counterproductive rhetoric and tactics, which actually has made you shunned and condemned by the same national party which you claim to defend; I can show the emails from the various CP leaders on here about you, Don, if you would like?
You claim to be a Christian, when in fact you supported the anti-Mormon efforts to remove the Nevada IAP from the National CP in 2006 because they were accused of being “Pro Abortion” when in fact they were not and they actually passed several state resolutions supporting the CP’s Abortion Plank and were in fact subject to vile anti-Mormon attacks from other CP members based in the eastern state affiliates (including Scott Whiteman and John Lofton)- and you went along with them. You also claim to support Riley Hood when in fact he has bashed Mormons, Catholics, and has behaved in a manner which violates Matthew 6:4-8, 7:1-5, 23:12-28,1 Corinthians 5:9-13,1 Peter 2:13-19, 5:5-6, etc. And in fact you also violate the same verses as being the unhinged pharisee that you are.
So much for you being a supporter of the IAP.
You claim to be a defender of the family and children when in fact you are not married, nor do you have kids, and you still live with your mother for God’s sake! Which certainly makes your personal life and sexual-orientation open to question. Yet on my end I am happily married and I have kids- which would qualify me as a better defender of the family while that would disqualify you!
In fact it also disqualifies you because you are so petty and extremely narrow in your appeal that you actually turn more people away from the constitutionalist, pro-family camp then you attract! Hell, I wouldn’t even be surprised if you are a plant for the LGBT lobby because you make the Pro-family/Traditional/Moral Values camp look very bad and unattractive- just like WBC founder Fred Phelps further made homosexuality look more innocent and victimized because of him and his church’s vile tactics and protests which indirectly benefited the LGBT agenda.
Another thing on that subject- while I do have my beef with Janine Hansen, however when it comes to defending the family and moral values in America- at least she ‘walks the walk’ and does something about it in the Nevada state legislature through her lobbying, political activism, and constant dialogue with various politicians in getting good legislation passed and bad legislation defeated; regardless of what she has done elsewhere, she has rightfully earned the title of ‘Defender of the Family’ while YOU HAVEN’T! You do not attempt to lobby your state legislature or peaceably work with politicians or other lobbyists to protect families in California, ALL YOU DO IS DRESS UP IN DEVIL COSTUMES AND SIMPLY PROTEST AND HARASS, STALK, AND THREATEN PEOPLE ONLINE AND ELSEWHERE AND ESPECIALLY MAKE THE CP AND PRINCIPLED SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES LOOK BAD THROUGH YOUR BEHAVIOR!
YOU HAVE FAILED TO DEFEND THE FAMILY AND MORAL TRADITIONAL VALUES IN CALIFORNIA AND ELSEWHERE!
You are a arrogant, egotistical, delusional little worm that can only answer others with ad hominem rhetoric and profane threats, and I got sick of your behavior long ago that I turned against you and I’m glad I did so.
Lord Rebuke You in Christ’s Name! Because I am a Christian, but I denounce pharisees and closet-homosexual supporters like you because I will point out the mote in your eye while you bitch about motes being in the eyes of others like the hypocritical faggot that you are!
“I haven’t said that I won’t post them. You may have noticed I haven’t posted any articles since then?”
I noticed, wasn’t trying to step on your toes Paul.
“There are always a lot more articles that I can post than I have time and energy for. That’s why I keep trying to recruit more writers.”
True. And if I posted everything that was sent to my inbox, either directly, forwarded by you, or as a Google alert, I’d never have time for anything else. Thus why I limit myself & just post 3-6 a day, and try to find what I feel (maybe others don’t) is most newsworthy & interesting. More writers could get more news & a greater variety out there.
“I’ve sent quite a few articles that could be posted here pretty much every day. Most of them never make it. That’s not a editorial function so much as a matter of having a small number of unpaid staff trying to run this thing.”
Bingo. It’s not like we have an editorial board that decides what gets posted and what doesn’t, we have a few volunteers who contribute to our site at their leisure, and I think do a pretty damn good job. I’m not sure why people think otherwise.
As far as A3PReport goes, the last post was August 5th. I’m tempted to put up the video for Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust”, but I don’t want to be too presumptuous or insulting.
By that standard the Idaho story at least qualifies. The Germantown paper opinion piece, less so.
I haven’t said that I won’t post them. You may have noticed I haven’t posted any articles since then? There are always a lot more articles that I can post than I have time and energy for. That’s why I keep trying to recruit more writers. I’ve sent quite a few articles that could be posted here pretty much every day. Most of them never make it. That’s not a editorial function so much as a matter of having a small number of unpaid staff trying to run this thing.
“The Constitution Party was one of only three parties with a candidate on the Wisconsin 2012 Presidential ballot. ”
Wrong. Democratic Party, Republican Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party, Constitution Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Equality Party. That’s seven. Even if you don’t count the PSL, who technically didn’t get their candidate on, a stand-in was listed, that’s still really wrong.
“Does anyone else find those links to be newsworthy?”
Haven’t read them yet, but pretty much anything about candidates I find newsworthy seeing as how we are in an election year. That’s pretty much all I’m interested in to be honest, everything else is on the back burner. I’ll look at them & see if it should be a story after I’ve had time to recuperate from vacation.
If IPR is seriously going to be this picky on what third party news items they post, then I am going to further support A3PR.
I understand you have a way of doing things on here, but to be overly selective in your reporting defeats your reputation as being a news source of minor parties, because ANY minor party news IS news and when you don’t, or even refuse to report the news, then IPR becomes more of a commentary/opinion only website that is biased in it’s coverage.
I will certainly make sure these articles, especially the incident with the Idaho CP, get covered by A3PR.
Does anyone else find those links to be newsworthy?
Quirk – A) Your post(s) so clearly illustrate what a total fool that you are that I find I am both saddened by your staggering stupidity which you so revel in and yet feel a satisfaction with the Creators universe that you will, and will apparently ( and unfortunately for you ) forever continue to, reap the ” rewards ” which come to fools such as yourself. You are a perfect example of the ” Darwin Awards ” in action as you are so egotistical and ultra prideful – in and of nothing – that you are incapable of ever growing beyond the condition of being simply a large and emotionally retarded child. I am always sorry to see those who destroy themselves since such a pathology is a fantastic tragedy especially when multiplied out through the entire populace but then again nothing can be done to stop the destruction as it comes from the sufferers own hand. It is simply a matter for the rest of us, the sane people, to work to limit the damage done by the ” retards ” such as yourself. B) I can see no possible gain from the extra efforts of the IAP to be in competition with the CP but I simply acknowledge to Mr. Strong how fortunate he is, as with the CP, to have you on the outside looking in regarding whatever he is doing. If they have a total fool like you attacking them I know that they are doing at least something right. Certainly there is far more hope and optimism that Mr. Strong and his friends will see the natural and quite logical value of aligning themselves with the CP, wherein both become stronger than their separate components, than for you to ever recover from your foolness.
Don J. Grundmann, D.C. Chairman Constitution Party of California
P.S. – I am certain that Janine is far more annoyed with your continuous flea bites against the CP in your never-to-end attempt to gain revenge for their own ” crime ” of not recognizing your genius, greatness, and glory. You will be forever attacking the best party in the nation; a fools endeavor performed by a fool.
I haven’t ruled out covering it. I posted ten articles last night so maybe it’s someone else’s turn or maybe I’ll get to it tonight or tomorrow or whenever. Put up the articles up there first and we’ll see.
I’m honestly not seeing how running the guy (given that he was supposedly abstinent) or renouncing him (given that he came out for marriage equality) violates their ideology.
Still curious as to how many of the policies mentioned in Adair’s article in the Germantown paper you actualy disgaree with.
I guess A3PR and the whole Idaho media will cover it while you guys ignore it then.
Shame.
Not sure why it’s newsworthy but I will keep it in mind. Aren’t you signed up for A3PR, btw? I don’t even think you posted either of those there?
Paulie I’m trying to point out how these things do not fit with Grundmann’s logic. Plus that Idaho piece I think is very newsworthy.
As far as running a gay guy I don’t see the hypocrisy. He can’t help who he is attracted to or what he did in the past, but in accordance with their ideology he claimed to be abstinent from gay sex after being “born again”. There’s also nothing hypocritical about the fact that they denounced him after he came out for marriage equality, given that they are strongly against it.
From Adair:
“”Pro-lifers … homeschoolers … end the Fed advocates … opponents of the UN and other organizations that challenge US sovereignty … all are voter blocs we are trying to reach. ”
Well, yeah. I support ending the fed, homeschooling and getting out of the UN also; so what? And half the US claims to be “pro-life” (against legal abortion).
“The national party website lists such key issues as “gun control” (against), Common Core (against), Obamacare (against), “amnesty” (against), and the dreaded Agenda 21 (against).”
The only thing I disagree with them on from that list is “amnesty,” which I think is a good first step but not enough (the quotas which make the immigrants “illegal” to begin with need to go, too), but I expect you agree with them and not with me.
“The group further calls for the abolition of the Department of Education.”
So do I. Don’t you?
“Education as a whole, therefore, cannot be separated from religious faith.”
I don’t agree with them, but I do want it separated from government. What’s your view?
“The Constitution Party was one of only three parties with a candidate on the Wisconsin 2012 Presidential ballot. ”
That is false. Gary Johnson was on in Wisconsin. I would have to check on others.
“Both statewide candidates support the abolition of reproductive freedom.”
He means they are against legal abortion. Don’t you agree with them?
“The party leadership strongly opposes marriage equality.”
An issue which I differ with them on, but I think you agree with them and not with me, correct?
“CPoW chair railed against gambling”
Personally believe gambling should be legal, although I did have a problem with it myself and have been largely abstinent from gambling with rare exceptions as a result. I don’t actually know what your position on that particular issue is but there are all kinds of people who don’t agree with me, including some mainstream progressives and conservatives. It’s hardly an extreme position in and of itself, either way.
” fringe ideas as abolishing Common Core (sorry, Germantown!), doing away with income taxes, birtherism, and advocating so-called Creation Science in schools.”
I had no idea that abolishing common core was a fringe idea. I’m also for doing away with the income tax, as I hope you are. I think birtherism is bunk (dunno about you) but I don’t think all conspiracy conjecture is necessarily wrong, and it’s even possible that Obama may be hiding something about his past. Since I oppose government schools, I am sure some private schools would teach “creation science” (as some already do). Parents can choose what kinds of schools if any to send their kids to.
So how many of these issues do you actually disagree with them on?
I’m referring to your first link, you put up the second one while I was typing and I haven’t read it yet.
Cody, I am surprised that you contacted me to publish the article from the Germantown paper. Not saying I will or won’t, but many of the positions that the apparently progressive author is attacking the CP for there are ones that I would think you would share with them. A few (although not as many) are positions even I and other Libertarians would share with them. Yet Paul Adair seems to believe such views as opposing common core and calling for ending the income tax are not just wrong but completely beyond the pale and anathema. I find his tone to be more than a little offputting, even as someone who shares some (but not all) of the same disagreements with the CP, IAP and similar parties.
Here’s another good CP article, Don-
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/14/idahos-constitution-party-was-ok-with-gay-governor-candidate-until-he-supported-gays/
It seems that the CP was ok with having a celibate homosexual run for Governor until he came out in support of same-sex marriage- what’s up with that? Why were they allowing a homosexual to run under their party’s banner in the first place, if you say they truly are 100% opposed to the ‘Sodomite/Pervert’ agenda, Don?
Congratulations Don, you just pissed off Janine Hansen and many in the Constitution Party that detest the rivalry and constitutionalist vote-splitting of the National IAP, especially in Utah.
Then again what do you expect from a man that was never married, lives with his mother, makes physical threats, stalks people, and claims to be a member (or leader) of one party while running for public office in another party (AIP), along with following a distorted and warped interpretation of the bible?
BTW, you’ll enjoy this- http://www.germantownnow.com/blogs/communityblogs/271147761.html
Mr. Strong – Thank you for your above article. I greatly appreciate your perspective. I have never met an individual from your party and if I have the opportunity to do so I would question and seek the reasons for your decision to build a party separate from my own Constitution Party. With that being said I know that you are honest, well meaning, and God fearing people whom I would be happy to associate with simply through knowing that you must be ” good guys,” and certainly very intelligent if a total moronic nitwit fool like Cody Quirk is now attacking you.
As I have commented on another previous thread your party will now, like mine, perpetually have the political Chihuahua Quirk knawing at your ankles via putting down your party in any way possible until, as in the above example, you do EVERYTHING his way and change EVERYTHING to the way which he wants it to be, irregardless of how idiotic he is or such actions would be. Such will be the cross which both parties must bear – to have an intellectual and moral flea such as Quirk perpetually attacking both parties with the articulateness of the Tasmanian Devil.
I am happy for your party that it, like the Constitution Party, gained so immeasurably from losing the psychosis of Quirk from your membership. Now you can just put up the political equivalent of a Shell No-Pest Strip to deal with the never-to-end verbal flatulence of this whoop-whoop-whoop 3 Stooges wannabe as he endlessly attacks your party on into eternity for the crime of not acknowledging his genius, greatness, and glory.
Don J. Grundmann, D.C. Chairman Constitution Party of California
I did the right thing; I left your joke of a political party and won’t return until you change your platform, approach, and vote in a competent and more practical National Chair.