Chuck Baldwin will get his share of Paul supporters, but he needs to be after Huckabee, Romney, Thompson, Tancredo, Hunter and ALL anti-McCain people to vote for him also. They out number Ron Paul voters considerably! The large conservative vote in America needs to learn who Chuck Baldwin is and where he stands on the issues.

Trust me—im quite aware of the many problems with the CP platform,and with the party. I view them as less trouble than the LP’s though.

With all of that said—you know im a friend to the LP, GE. And in fact, I care for parties very little,and for individuals much more. By the time this election season is over, i’ll have voted for a couple Republicans, a couple constitution partiers, and two libertarians.

On Drugs: “The Constitution Party will uphold the right of states and localities to restrict access to drugs and to enforce such restrictions. We support legislation to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States from foreign sources. As a matter of self-defense, retaliatory policies including embargoes, sanctions, and tariffs, should be considered.”

Although the “right” to restrict drugs is delegated to the states under the Constitution, so too is the right to restrict religion and speech. I do not support the “rights” of states to restrict any of the above (although I do oppose the federal government preventing them from doing so). What’s more, the CP turns interventionist in its calls for the federal government to “stop the flow of illegal drugs” into the U.S., and to use what Ron Paul calls ACTS OF WAR —embargoes and sanctions—to stop the peaceful commerce that the founding fathers prescribed as our foreign policy. Boo!

Gambling: “Gambling promotes an increase in crime, destruction of family values, and a decline in the moral fiber of our country.”

B.S. And I don’t gamble, btw.

Porn: “We call on our local, state and FEDERAL governments to uphold our cherished First Amendment right to free speech by vigorously enforcing our laws against obscenity to maintain a degree of separation between that which is truly speech and that which only seeks to distort and destroy.”

The federal government should enforce obscenity laws? Where in the Constitution is this power enumerated?

You know… After reading through the CP platform, I’m finding lots of areas where it is not very constitutional at all. In fact, it takes a liberal view of the Constitution (referring to “xth Amendment rights” and seeming to accept the liberal notion that the Bill of Rights applies to the states, etc.). It’s all quite Philliesian, in fact.

As for “open borders”—that is a debated position within the LP too. Most, from my perspective, accept the need for border security. They just reject quotas and central planning and they respect property rights. There are others in the LP who are just as radical (and just as wrong) as you on this position, too.

Anarchist: I’m not one, and neither are the majority of libertarians.

So what you’re saying is that you refuse to associate with the LP based on a few beliefs held by a few members. I knew a guy in the Michigan CP who told me he was turned off by overt racists and anti-Semites he encountered at the national convention. So by your own logic, no one should associate with the CP unless they are racist and/or anti-Semite. Or more reliably, you have members (assuming at least two stuck around) who are total f-ing neocons (Keynsians). Then again, so do we (Brian Miller, etc.)

One was not barred from voting in the primary for another race, say Congress or local non-partisan, but they could not legally vote in the US Senate primary in September 2006. One of the reasons that other parties cannot help each other out on ballot drives.

In Minnesota, at least, the LP and CP leadership have encouraged people to gather signatures for each other when they did not have a candidate, ex. had Sue Jeffers not changed her mind and decided to run in the GOP primary for Governor, individuals in the CP were prepared to gather signatures for her to be the LP’s candidate for Governor. LP and CP by-laws prohibit the endorsement of another party’s candidates in a partisan race. However, some of my best support in 2006 actually came from Libertarians because they did not have a US Senate candidate.

fully legalized gambling isnt a problem in my state, nor is pornography, prostitution, drugs or booze. Of course the guys in Michigan probably feel differently.
Im glad you appreciate the hospitality. =)
I’ll not be joining the LP though, pro-choice + open borders + anarchism = not something I can get behind.

The RP vote is only about 1 mill.

But it doesnt matter,that wont happen. Go browse RonPaulForums—more than half of them are for Baldwin.