Comments on: Free Soil Party presidential candidate

by: David Gaines

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:50:23 +0000

What’s the point? What makes this person’s views so different from the Green Party that she thought it was necessary to form yet another party that is essentially indistinguishable from the GP, which already has a very strong feminist bent? Did I overlook something here? Why didn’t she simply run for the GP nomination instead of reinventing the wheel?

by: Ghoststrider

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:49:47 +0000

Wow. Guess I have to update my listing of alternative parties again.

by: Eric Sundwall

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:04:29 +0000

I’ll stop by Martin Van Buren’s grave tomorrow and see if there’s any evidence of soil disruption from within.

by: Alex Peak

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:44:53 +0000

To my knowledge, the original Free Soil Party was more libertarian in its approach than this new one. The original tried to combine the free-market leaning policies of the Democratic Party with the anti-slavery leaning policies of the Whig Party and the Liberty Party. (The Liberty Party had been more of a one-issue party.)

On their “missing bill of rights” page, they write, “Whereas, the original bill of rights permitted slavery of Blacks and women…”

I would have thought the Free Soil Party would be holding the position that slavery was never constitutional, the position advocated by Lysander Spooner and adopted by the Liberty Party.

by: DonLak e@sbcglobal.net

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:36:23 +0000

No telephone, no street address or mail box!

Five miles wide and half and inch deep!

by: NewFederalist

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:59:28 +0000

Chief Wana Dube for VP!