As Hillary Clinton begins her own preparations to run for the presidency, the deciding factor of who will be the next commander in chief may have less to do with whomever is chosen as the Democrat or Republican nominee, and more to do with the choice of the Constitution Party. This weekend at a national committee meeting in Manchester, N.H., Howard Phillips and the Constitution Party he founded set in motion the plans to launch its own third party candidate for president. "The time has never been better for a third party dark horse candidate to grab the White House," Phillips said.
He affirmed that by next July, his party intends to nominate a presidential candidate, with possibilities for the ticket including Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, former Republican presidential candi-date Alan Keyes, Baptist pastor Chuck Baldwin, and author and WND columnist Jerome Corsi. The Constitution Party is also strongly supportive of Republican Congressmen Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul, but there is no decision yet that either would leave their home in the Republican Party to pursue a Con-stitution Party nomination. Tancredo has said numerous times he is considering a run for the presidency.
The “Seven Principles” of the Constitution Party are:
1) Life: For all human beings, from conception to natural death;
2) Liberty: Freedom of conscience and actions for the self-governed individual;
3) Family: One husband and one wife with their children as divinely instituted;
4) Property: Each individual's right to own and steward personal property without government burden;
5) Constitution: and Bill of Rights in-terpreted according to the actual intent of the Founding Fathers;
6) States' Rights: Everything not spe-cifically delegated by the Constitution to the federal government is reserved for the state and local juris-dictions;
7) American Sovereignty: American government committed to the protection of the borders, trade, and common defense of Americans, and not entangled in foreign alliances
- JJ Commentary: The Constitution Party’s stated objectives are to “restore our government to its Con-stitutional limits and our law to its Biblical foundations.” The two-party system is broken. Both are immersed in special interests and big government. Biblical values are set aside for political expedi-ency. We will be starting a local chapter of the Constitution Party soon
