http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/11400

and this audio

http://www.futurequake.com/Audio/FQShow107Hr1.mp3

Then tell me if Keyes is fit for CP. I say No.

They are quite the funny crew!

-Larry Breazeale, Msgt. (ret.) USAF
National Veterans Coalition
Constitution party…www.nvets.org,
Orange County Central Committee,
American Independent Party

Shearer was more of a populist, pro-labor, anti-war person. Anderson was a leader in the John Birch Society. I don’t agree that the AIP was “more extremist” than the American Party. That word is far too subjective; it all depends on the issue. Shearer’s technique for recruiting a presidential candidate was always to go after someone with credentials. So he 1976 the AIP recruited former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox; in 1980 they recruited former Louisiana Congressman John Rarick. The American Party was far more interested in purity of doctrine, and always nominated someone who wasn’t famous but who swore allegience to the platform, which they practically worshiped.

“The American Independent Party is a California political party. The party was established in 1967 by Bill Shearer and his wife Eileen. In 1968, the American Independent Party nominated former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace as its presidential candidate and retired Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay (who replaced former Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin on the ticket) as the vice presidential candidate. Wallace ran on every state ballot in the 1968 U.S. Presidential Election, although in some states it was too late to replace Griffin’s name with LeMay, and, consequently, in some places the former Georgia governor remained on the ballot in the second spot. Wallace did not represent the American Independent Party in all fifty states. In Connecticut, for instance, he was listed on the ballot as representing the “George Wallace Party.” The 1968 presidential ticket received 13.5 percent of the popular vote and 46 electoral votes. The party opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and welfare programs.

In 1969, representatives from 40 states established the American Party as the successor to the American Independent Party. (In some places, such as Connecticut, the American Party was officially constituted as the American Conservative Party.) The official party flag adoption took place on August 30, 1970. The flag depicts an eagle holding a group of arrows in its left talons, over a compass rose, with a banner which reads “The American Independent Party” at the eagle’s base. In 1972, the party nominated former Congressman John G. Schmitz of California for president and Tennessee author Thomas Jefferson Anderson for vice president. In 1976, the American Party split into the more moderate American Party, which included more northern conservatives and Schmitz supporters, and the more extreme American Independent Party, which focused on the deep South. Both of the parties have nominated candidates for the presidency and other offices. Neither the American Party nor the American Independent Party has had much national success.”