UPDATED: Constitution Party Nominates Randall Terry and Stephen Broden; State Vote Totals; Acceptance Speech; New Officers

On Saturday 27 April 2024, the Constitution Party nominated Randall Terry and Stephen Broden as its Presidential ticket. (A transcript of Randall Terry’s acceptance speech with endorsement of pastor Broden for VPOTUS can be found below.)

Following Mr. Terry’s morning session win on the first round, Mr. Broden was nominated by acclamation in the afternoon (with a handful of “no” votes scattered around the hall).

About 45 minutes after the convention was adjourned the CP national committee met in a smaller nearby room and replaced all four of its officers with unanimous votes of acclamation following single-candidate nominations for each position as follows:

(NOTE: Both the current and newly elected officers serve together (described as a training period) until the next Executive Committee meeting, when the latter formally assume the offices. The location of that meeting was being discussed at the time your reporter left to fulfill another obligation. The proposed date for the next meeting/transition of officers was 8-9 November 2024, and New Hampshire (or Boston) was being discussed as the most likely location. IPR readers with additional information, including other elections or appointments, are invited to share the same in the comments.)

Newly elected Constitution Party Vice Chairman, Glenn Miller (left) and Chairman Justin McGill (right) moments after the election of Miller.

RANDALL TERRY
Acceptance of Presidential Nomination
Speech to the Constitution Party National Convention
27 April 2024

Hi, everyone.

I am not opposed to talkback – I grew up in a Pagan home, then I became a Christian, and then I went to churches, where they would say, “Amen!”, and then I went to Catholic churches, and they’d say . . . nothing!

(LAUGHTER)

So, when I was speaking to Catholic crowds, I’d be like – “You know what, you guys need to know how to be Pentecostal or Baptist, and I’d work with the crowd a little bit.

(From the audience – PREACH IT FATHER!)

I want to first thank the entire assembly for the privilege of representing the Constitution Party in this upcoming election. I tip my hat and thank and honor all of the candidates who ran. It is not fun, it is not easy, and those of you who did it, and those of you who helped them, know exactly what I’m talking about. It is hard, and I honor you for your tenacity and your effort in this process.

I want to thank Jim Clymer for his years of service. He goes back all the way to the beginning, with Howard, as the outgoing Chair, another round of applause for him, is a big thank you.

(APPLAUSE)

And hats off to the incoming Chair. May it go well with you, and may you receive a prophet’s reward. That would be a cup full of water, patriot anger, and all the things that come with it.

I want to thank Darrell Castle and his wife, Joan, for a lot of encouragement, God bless you.

(APPLAUSE)

And for welcoming me as a favored son into the Tennessee Party.

What I’m going to do is share a little bit with you, then I’ll introduce Pastor Broden to you, and I’ll come up and clean up at the very end. There’s a lot that I want to discuss, and so for those of you who have questions for me, please feel free to see me afterwards privately, but I think that given all that we face as a party and all that the country faces, far more importantly, that I want to use this time to share with you my heart and what I see.

I know that political campaigns can be rancorous; this one was no exception, but I’m hoping for the good of the country, for the good of the party, especially for the good of the country, so we can go forward and stand for what is true, and right, and just together. Without flagging, without equivocation, standing for what is true, and hopefully being a witness and a salt, and light, and a force for good in the culture that does some good in this election cycle. And so what I want to share with you is some ways that we can be a force for good in the election cycle.

The first thing I want to explain to you without question is that I am not a single-issue candidate. That has been a very good and appropriate question. I believe in a hierarchy of ethics. I had a discussion, a brief one, with someone yesterday who said: “All sins are equal”, to which I said, “No, that is not true. Murder is not the same as stealing a piece of gum. Committing adultery is not the same as stealing a piece of gum. Just ask your spouse!”

(LAUGHTER)

Bada boom!

So there are sins that cry to God for vengeance; the Bible teaches this. The Christian community has always held since the dawn of the church that there are sins that cry to God for vengeance and they actually have a pecking order.

The first is the shedding of innocent blood. Nothing worse that happens in this world than a person murdering another person. As the old Jewish proverb goes: “If you kill one person, it’s as if you kill the whole world.” The converse is true. If you save one person, it’s as if you save the whole world. So the shedding of innocent blood. In fact, interestingly, when Noah got off the ark with his family, the only negative thing God said to him was, to not shed blood. Who so sheddeth man’s blood, by man, his blood shall be shed for in the image of God may be man. Murder is a direct attack on the image of God. It’s an attack on God himself. So that’s the number one.

The next one, not politically correct these days, but thankfully our party platform is not politically correct. The next one is, the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. One man, one woman constitutes a marriage. Not two men, not two women, not two people and a pony, not two, you know, just, no! One man, one woman, that’s a marriage. And we will not equivocate on that. And it is also a sin that cries for vengeance. In the scriptures, the Almighty said to the children of Israel: “I’m not giving you this land because you’re good, I’m giving you this land because they’re bad. And if you ever do what they’re doing, I’ll throw you out like I’m throwing them out.” And then God went on to list the crimes: offering their children to demon gods, child sacrifice, sexual perversion. It’s almost a blueprint for America’s hedonism. We’re in trouble as a nation.

And then depending on which school of theology you all have the withholding of the laborers, wages, slavery, and the mistreatment of orphans and widows. Some constitute withholding of wages as the same as slavery. That said, there is a hierarchy.

I want to see our border protected. I can articulate why our border must be protected, and I will.

I want to see us getting out of, we’re not the world’s policemen, we need to get out of endless wars that are draining the life and treasure out of this nation.

(APPLAUSE)

I would love to return to real money. And I think Mr. Skousen did a great job explaining how difficult that is going to be to get back there, especially with 98% of the world functioning with fiat currency. All I know is that there’s probably more silver and gold collected in this room than there are in half the banks in America. Just leave it at that. Wink, wink, we all know what we’re talking about.

The Second Amendment is not for duck hunting, Mr. Clinton. (Mimicking President Clinton’s voice) – Can I get a witness please?

(AMEN!)

I know that my Clinton voice is outdated, but it’s nevertheless funny. I used to have a lot of good Clinton jokes and a good Clinton voice and now the young people don’t even know what I’m doing. So, it’s not for duck hunting. It is in part for personal defense. But at the end of the day, the reason we have the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights is so that, if necessary, we can defend ourselves from a tyrannical government and if need be, overthrow it. That’s why it’s there.

(APPLAUSE)

Thank you.

I don’t want to get in a fight with our government and right now it’s not squirrel gun against squirrel gun. It’s not squirrel rifle against squirrel rifle. We are vastly outgunned and it would be a living hell. I pray God it never happens. But those who don’t get it, don’t want to get it because the facts are there. The history is there. The debates are there. The reasoning is there. I am perfectly content, capable, and willing to talk about these issues, not just on the campaign trail, but when I am on various television shows, various radio shows, etc.

When we began this process of running for president, Pastor Broden, my vice presidential pick, and my close friend, Joseph Slovenec, who is our campaign manager, we looked at the law. . . .

I’ve done this before. For those of you who don’t know, I ran for president before. I switched my party to Democrat back in 2012. No, I was not doing drugs. I switched my party to Democrat, so I could run against Obama in several primaries around the country, just to bust his chops. And one of the states I was on was Oklahoma, in a Democrat primary, a closed primary. This is not a switchover, okay? I went, I campaigned, I ran ads showing aborted babies, and I said: “If you vote for Obama, you have blood on your hands; he is a baby killer.” I got 18 percent of the votes statewide against a sitting president. I beat him in 13 counties. According to the rules, I should have gotten six delegates. They were never going to let Randall Terry on the floor of the Democrat convention, saying, “I’ll give my six vote for me!” That was never going to happen. So they changed the rules and they made sure that I didn’t get any of the delegates.

But the point is this, these ads work, because there are Christians of every denomination out there who vote for these baby killers, like Biden, and now Trump sadly has thrown the babies under the bus. But the Democrat party is covered with blood. These people are child killers. They are perverts. They are promoting transgenderism, which is literally from the jaws of Hell itself. And so these ads work. Nine of the top 10 Democrat states are the heaviest Roman Catholic populations. One third of evangelicals voted for Biden and Hillary. Over 50% of evangelicals voted for Biden and Hillary. I’m sorry, over 50% of Catholics. Almost 90% of African Americans voted for Biden and Hillary. Even though they’re promoting black genocide, and Pastor Broden will address that in more detail. So our ads are designed to run right at those people. Right at the evangelicals and the Catholics, and the African American community.

Now, people have asked rightly so, what do we bring to the party besides the dude with crazy hair? And I mean, go ahead, you can laugh.

(LAUGHTER)

Some people are jealous of that crazy hair. I’m not going to point out who doesn’t have a lot of hair there, but in any event – what do you bring to the party? It’s this. I’m going to make a quick list for you. This is not in an order of importance. I raise money. Our goal was to have $100,000 raised before this convention; we have already crossed 110 as of this convention. We will raise at least one and a half million dollars. We might raise two and a half million. We’re talking right now with various fundraising organizations and people who are pros of this, but I have personally raised tens of millions of dollars over the years. I know how to raise money – if it’s for something that is just and holy and good. I personally have no 401K, no retirement, nothing. I have been a warrior my whole life. Give me money and I’m going to ram it down the throat of the enemy in whatever form of warfare we need. That’s just how I’m wired. We will raise money to run these ads and we will run them aggressively. We’re already negotiating with Black Entertainment Television in Wisconsin and Michigan in the hopes that we’re going to win the support of those states, where we will run ads exclusively with Pastor Broden saying: “If you vote for Joe Biden, you are part of Black genocide. Abortion is Black genocide.”

How many of you in this room knew that to be true, before today? I want you to hear what I’m about to tell you, because really, you should be on your feet screaming, cheers. No candidate, no human in the history of America, has done what we are about to do. We’re going to have a Black candidate on television looking into the lens saying: “If you vote for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, they are doing the killing for the Ku Klux Klan. It is like lynching Black babies in the womb” (while) showing dead Black children on television. No one has ever done that, ever. And all of us in the pro-life movement know the dirty secret that a huge part of the abortion industry is to suppress the Black population. It is Black genocide! And we’re going to say it on local TV and on national TV and they can’t stop us.

So here’s the big thing that we bring to the party. Federal law says that within 45 days of a primary, or 60 days of a general election, 45 or 60, that as a federal candidate, you can run an ad on television or radio and the owners of the TV station or radio station cannot stop you. They must take the ad. They can’t edit it. They can’t refuse it. Nothing. They have to run it. It doesn’t apply to a governor. It doesn’t apply to a mayor. It doesn’t apply to a state senate race. It only applies to federal candidates. 45 days from a primary, 60 days from a general.

So on September 5th, part of our discussion is to run our beautiful people ad. I hope you go to watch it. We call it the beautiful people ad. And it starts off with the a voice going: “I am so sick of stupid celebrities.” And it just shows all these stupid celebrities who embarrass themselves. We’re going to run those commercials on The View with Whoopi Goldberg. Oh, yeah. And her face is in it. So just picture Whoopi, and The View, and Joy Behar

(BABY CRIES)

She’s saying, Amen! By the way, she’s happy.

Picture them seeing these ads on their show. It’s $11,000 to run a 30-second ad nationwide on The View. 11 grand. That’s it. There’s four people in this room that could each stroke a check for $3,300, which is the max. And the ad is paid for. $11,000, 30 seconds on The View. We’re going to run those ads. We are going to create a firestorm. Because child killing, shedding of innocent blood is the number one issue. And because it’s the number one issue in our platform. It was the number one issue for Howard. We should not, we must not run from it, or pretend that it’s one of many issues that are equal. Because it’s not. Let me tell you something. If we won the White House, and we fixed the border, and banking, and education, and Second Amendment – all the things that we cherish and fight for, but we did not stop the shedding of innocent blood –

(AMENs, APPLAUSE)

America is doomed because there is a God in Heaven and blood talks to him. “Where is your brother? Your brother’s blood is crying from the ground; crying from the ground!” So those of you who want this campaign to talk about other issues, I’ll do it. We made an ad for you. We showed you the ad. We’ll make more ads. I have a television studio. We can make ads like falling off a bike. But you’ve got to help raise money to run them. And I can run an ad in your state that’s about whatever you want me to talk about. You can say, oh, I need to talk about child trafficking. And I want a 30-second ad that’s just about child trafficking and how horrible it is and how the politicians know what is happening. They’re turning their eyes the other way. I’ll say, okay, give me the script. Give me the pictures you want. Storyboard it for me. We’ll make the ad. And all I have to do at the end is say, “I’m Randall Terry, and I approved this message.” If I approve the message, we’ll make the ad, people. You want to be in an ad? You want to be in an ad? Your face in an ad? Like we have Pastor Broden, we’ve got a Catholic priest who’s doing five ads. Directed at Catholics saying: “Hey, Catholics, I’m talking to you!” Priest in his priestly garment. “Catholics, I’m talking to you. If you vote for someone who promotes murder, you will face God with blood on your hands!” How cool is that? Does anyone here think that’s cool? Good?

(LITE APPLAUSE)

This is a hard room to preach to. There’s four people. (In an affected voice) We like the man, but not that much. He irritates me. The tone of his voice bugs me.

(LAUGHTER)

I’ll try to speak with a different tone then: We’re going to create a living hell for the Democrats and make Republicans exceedingly uncomfortable.

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE)

Thank you. We’re going to have fun in this campaign. I promise you.

(From the national party secretary: “Don’t get that table started.”)

(LAUGHTER)

You shouldn’t have told me that. What do you get when James Brown and Bill Clinton collide? (mimicking Bill Clinton) Jump back; kiss myself. Thank you.

The wrong table’s laughing; they’re too young, they didn’t even get it.

Alright, we will run these ads. I’m going to run without flinching people, without flinching, and I hope no one in this room flinches. Don’t succumb to the notion of the politically correct, the cowardly, and the baby killers, that this is counterproductive. It’s not counterproductive. It’s how you win.

As I shared yesterday in my candidate speech, you have to show images, incendiary images, for whatever battle it is that you are fighting. And we will do that. And we’ll do it with the transgender thing. God, save us. Christ, save us. Please, Lord. The Bible says, “He that rules among men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.” He that rules among men must be just. David said, God Almighty said to me, “He that rules among men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.”

Now, me winning the presidency is a long shot; let’s just be honest. But I can still run a campaign in the fear of God. Amen? Agreed?

(scattered AMENs)

I can run a campaign in the fear of God; I can emphasize the things that matter to the Almighty, and that matter to us in the hierarchy. And that’s my goal. Now, I want you to picture something. This is all of me getting into something that I and Pastor Broden, that our campaign bring to the Party.

You ready?

Just picture. This is an achievable goal; I don’t know if we’re going to make it, but it’s an achievable goal and we’re going to try.

It’s election night, and George Stephanopoulos, or one of the empty heads at MSNBC or CNN, is reporting – “This just in Joe Biden has lost Wisconsin and Michigan. It appears that the margin of defeat, which we showed with the exit polling was the Constitution Party candidate.” Then they cut to an interview. “Yeah, I was going to vote for Biden, but that Randall Terry guy got to me with those images and I realized I just can’t vote for those guys. They really are baby killers.” Imagine George Stephanopoulos saying, “The Constitution Party caused Biden to lose Wisconsin and Michigan and caused him to lose the White House.”

(APPLAUSE)

Those of you who didn’t applaud, are you okay? You don’t want the Constitution Party to count?

(LAUGHTER)

That’s what we’re talking about; that’s an achievable goal. Now, am I happy with Trump? No, of course I’m not happy with Trump. If at the end of the day, I had to choose gun to my head, who’s president, Biden or Trump?

TRUMP!!!!

It wouldn’t take me that long. It wouldn’t take anyone that long in this room. You would all say the same thing. I know you would because, you know, a broken clock is right twice a day. And that’s Trump. He’s a broken clock. He gets it right, you know, maybe even more than twice a day.

Biden is Satanic. I say that word with surgical, theological precision. That man is from the Devil. That man has Devil eyes. Name that comedy show. That goat has Devil eyes. Saturday Night Live? Remember the black guy? And he would . . .

(SILENCE)

Just forget about it, Joe (Slovenec) knows. Just move on? All right, I’ll move on. My VP and my campaign manager are going, “No, no, no. Don’t go there!”

Look, I can go there if I want to go there. You’re not the boss of me. I’m telling mom when we get home.

(LAUGHTER)

All right, let me tell you. That’s what I can bring to the party. Name recognition. I’ve been talking to people, because I’ve been seeking this nomination. I said, “I’m trying to get the Constitution Party nomination” and the glare comes over their face. “You heard of the Libertarian Party?” “Uh-huh.” “You heard of the Green Party?” “Oh, yeah.” “Have you heard of the Constitution Party?” “No.”

No name recognition. You want that to change? Well, this is the means people! Conflict, controversy, a train wreck, a fire – you can’t help but look.

I have been on Oprah Winfrey, when she had show – twice. 60 Minutes, three times. 2020. Good morning, America. Today Show, Face the Nation, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC – all the major networks, repeatedly. I’m a known quantity in those circles. Now, it’s been a few years since I’ve had that kind of name recognition, because I haven’t been as incendiary as I’m about to be. But when we start doing this, we’re going to get a lot of news coverage. And I’ll mind my Ps and Qs. I won’t say anything other than what I’m saying here, except that I won’t make a joke about Bill Clinton, okay? I won’t make a joke about James Brown and Saturday Night Live. But I will say Joe Biden is Satanic. What he is doing to children is evil. He’s an evil man. I don’t even know who’s running the White House because it’s not the ice cream licker.

(Mimicking Joe Biden) I’m so excited. Hey, could I have another vote? I want maple walnut. It’s my favorite.

By the way, I’m not mocking old people. I’m just mocking him.

(LAUGHTER)

I want to tell you a whisker about myself, just so that you can understand me a little bit. I was born a small child and I was so ugly that the doctor slapped my mother.

(LAUGHTER)

My parents moved around a lot when I was young, but I always found them.

(LAUGHTER)

My mom would tie a pork chop around my neck just to get the dog to play with me.

All right. All joking aside, I was born in April of 1959. My birthday was yesterday. I turned 65 years old.

(APPLAUSE)

Thank you. Where’s my social security Mabel?

My mom was pregnant with me when she got married. My mom and dad had a shotgun wedding. My dad and mom, my mom was pregnant with me. They had broken up. She was 18. They had broken up and then she found out, oh my goodness, I’m pregnant. So they had, what in those days we called a shotgun wedding. They got married six months later. Out comes nine pounds, six ounces me. Grew up in a fairly turbulent home. One of my key memories as a child was when I was in the second grade, maybe the third grade, there were three girls that were murdered in Rochester, New York. Molested sexually, raped, and then thrown into ditches. One of them got out of the assailant’s car, somehow got out of the car on Route 404 in Rochester, and was running down the road screaming, little eight-year-old girl, running down the road screaming against oncoming traffic. So cars are coming this way, she’s running, and then the guy got out and chased her. A hundred cars they estimated passed her. One hundred cars. Now I’m a boy, and I feel it right now. All I could feel was rage at those hundred people. Who the hell were they and why didn’t they stop? What excuse in the name of heaven and earth could they possibly have given to just not stop!?! And that, it just, it got to me like, and then I’m older.

So I go through life, I become a renegade, 16 years old, honor student, honor student, right? I’m majoring in music, and I get the wild hair idea. I’ve got so many credits in high school, that I’m going to graduate a year early. But what do you think I was doing? Oh, I realized that smoking marijuana was kind of fun. Bad plan. Amen. Started dropping different drugs, and then I thought, you know what, I don’t need to finish high school. Four months from graduation as an honor student, I decided I think I’m going to quit school. My father beat me so bad that I had ended up with, you know, red, no whites in my eyes. And that inspired me to leave home, which I did. And then I traveled all over the country, hitchhiking, sleeping under bridges, me and a buddy. I’m 16, and I’m sleeping under bridges, I’m traveling all over America. You can imagine the anxiety and the torment in my poor mom. In retrospect, I cannot even think of the anguish that I put my mother through. Can you imagine your 16-year-old traveling around, sleeping under bridges? I had a backpack, and I thought I was really cool, huge afro at the time. Talk about a target. I didn’t get killed, even though a policeman threatened to shoot me and my buddy, because we were out in the cow field picking mushrooms out of the cow poops.

(scattered LAUGHTER)

Only the people laughing know, why he is picking mushrooms out of cow poops. Ask me later. So, I start reading my Bible, and a guy comes and preaches to me. He sees me reading my Bible. I came home, cut the tip of my thumb off on a meat slicer, got a little insurance check, and bought my first car. And I thought, oh, man, I’ll get a job. Well, the guy said, you can have a job, you’ve got to hack your hair off. So, I was like, oh, shoot, all right, fine. I cut my hair, and I’m sitting there reading my Bible. And this guy comes up and starts telling me about the Lord, and I become a Christian. He leads me to the Lord. BANG! I mean, I was saved. I was born again. I was spirit-filled. I have my Bible, and I am a threat to all my sinner friends.

So, I’m going to all my druggie buddies preaching to them while they’re sitting there smoking weed. “You’ve got to find Jesus!” “Tell us more, man. The Book of Revelation, that’s cool!” So, one by one, they start becoming Christians. Five of them went into the ministry. Pastors and missionaries, I kid you not. I go to Bible school, graduate from Bible College, and then a couple years later, I have this vision – God showed me what to do to fight child-killing. I literally saw it. I saw myself, I saw a real vision. It was not normal for me. I didn’t tell anyone for quite a while because I thought – I’m going crazy. And it came true. I saw thousands of people in front of abortion clinics, and I ended up leading the largest peaceful civil disobedience movement in American history.

(APPLAUSE)

Thank you. So, to give you, and this is not in any way to gainsay anything from any other movement, but to give you perspective, there were over 7,000 arrests in the civil rights movement from 1958 to 1968. And the rescue movement, Operation Rescue, we had over 75,000 arrests from 1987 to 1994. Ten times the size in arrests.

So, that story that I told you about that girl, it never left me. And then I read the Good Samaritan story. The guy’s dying in the ditch, and along comes the priest. He’s got good theology, his politics are good, and he walks by on the other side. And then comes the Levite. He walks by on the other side. Now, what I learned since then is that the priest was actually an author. He was so troubled and disturbed when he got home, he wrote a book “Secular Humanism and Hedonism: The Root of Ditch Beatings”.

(LAUGHTER)

It was a best seller. He went around the country and did presentations . . . (pointing to a previous presenter) very similar to yours, sir. Yeah, you did great presentation, I’m teasing you, that was a good presentation.

And then the Levite went by, and he was a singing Levite, and he too was so distressed, when he went home, he broke out his harp and he started playing it. And he wrote an incredible song called, “Dying in the Ditch”. He sang it, he recorded it, got a Dove Award.

And along comes the Samaritan. Now, you can fill in the blank for whatever the Samaritan was, right? Because he’s the villain in the Jewish mind, but he’s the hero in Jesus’ story. So put in the blank, you know? A homosexual Muslim came along and saved his life. What? You fill in the blank because by Christ saying that it was a Samaritan, he was insulting the Jews. He was insulting the priests, and the Levites, and the Jews who thought “we got it all together”. Yeah, then why did the priests and Levite pass by on the other side of the road? So, I’m proffer to you: You do not need a special calling to love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus said, love your neighbor as yourself. What does that mean? Who’s my neighbor? Everyone knows – Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, right? And love your neighbor as yourself.

Who’s my neighbor? There’s a guy dying in the ditch. To show that you love your neighbor, what do you do? You rescue your neighbor. You risk your life to save his life. That’s what it means to love your neighbor as yourself. And you don’t need a special call from God to love your neighbor. Someone say Amen?

(scattered AMENs)

We are all called to fight for the end of the murder of babies. We’re all called to save them from the ditch. It’s just simple, it’s just that simple. No one gets to live a normal life while they’re hacking babies to death!!! I would love to have a normal life. I’d love to go live in Rome. I would. I want a normal life. I don’t even know what the heck a normal life means anymore. But I know that I’m not allowed to live a normal life while they are butchering innocent human beings on my watch. And your watch.

Alright, so anyway, that’s a little bit about me. I like to hunt. I don’t hunt anymore. I used to like to hunt, but then I was like, you know what? I’m tired of gutting deer. Fish, I like to fish. I grew up playing sports. I was a music major. I wanted to go to the Juilliard School of Music. We have four music albums. Joe, my campaign manager said, make sure people know that that stuff that’s out there – nothing of mine is for sale. But if you want to look out there, books, tapes, we make movies, we make music, documentaries, live action films, time travel movie. I love the arts.

And David is the ultimate example. He was a warrior, and he was a singer, and he was a musician, and he sang for Saul, and played for Saul, and the demons left Saul. So, David is my hero in the Bible.

That’s a little bit about me. I tell you these things, just maybe we can have some kind of a human connection, because I know that I appear to be one-dimensional to people. I have a bachelor’s degree in communications. I have a master’s degree in international relations from Norwich University, which is one of the oldest military schools in America. I can’t remember exactly what my master’s is called . . . it’s a foreign policy degree, and my concentration is in international terrorism. So, when you see my work on Islam, there’s thousands of hours spent studying Islam, and the history of Islam, and the history of Islamic terrorism. So, these things matter to me. I am not this caricature that the media and myself, I’ve played it, and I’ve been part of it, made myself into that caricature. I accept it. But I want you to know, enough about me. Let’s talk about you. I want you to know that I want your party, our party, the Constitution party, the party that I helped Howard Phillips start, using my name recognition, the capital, and money, and the radio show, all these things. I helped.

I want the party to have an impact. I want the party to be known. I want the party to be feared, and respected. If they don’t know who we are, and they’re not afraid of us in a good way. You know, like the demons? “Jesus we know, and Paul we know, but who are you?” We want the bad people to know who we are. Because we’re a force for good, and they hate us. Jesus said, “blessed are you when all men hate you, revile you, cast your name out as evil, persecute you, say all men are evil against you falsely, separate you from their company. Oh, I wanted to go to that party. They didn’t invite me.” Jesus said in that day, what? “Rejoice. Leap for joy. For great is your reward in Heaven. That’s the way they treated the prophets who were before you.” People who spoke the truth, the prophets. We’re speaking the truth. We are a prophetic party. We’re speaking the truth to a culture that’s going, “I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to hear it.” And we’re speaking it because we fear God more than we fear man. And if they hate us, the Lord said, “Know this, they hated me before they hated you”. And we’re in really good company when the Lord says, “You’re like the prophets!”

So I want to introduce you to a man who’s been called an Uncle Tom, a traitor, a betrayer. He is hated by the right people, and he is loved by the right people. Come on up, Pastor Broden. He is my vice presidential pick for this campaign. He is bad to the bone. Backbone of steel; heart of gold. I give you Reverend Pastor Stephen Broden.