Constitution Party courting Judge Roy Moore to run for President

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=1276

NADER MAY NOT EVEN BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT INDEPENDENT OR THIRD-PARTY CONTENDER IN 2004: Those in the Bush White House and its echo chambers on right-wing talk radio and the Fox television network, who have been delighting in the prospect of a Nader run, may not be laughing for long. Judge Roy Moore, the Alabama jurist whose fight to display the Ten Commandments on state property drew national attention last year, is being courted by the right-wing Constitution Party as a potential presidential candidate. (The Constitution Party was on the ballot in 41 states in 2000, and retains a solid network of activist supporters nationwide.) With growing numbers of core conservatives angered by Bush's policies on immigration, federal spending and individual liberties, a Moore candidacy could develop into a serious problem for the president. More than 20 percent of the voters in January's New Hampshire Republican primary cast ballots for someone other than Bush; more than 10 percent of Oklahoma Republican primary voters did the same. Come November, Moore could pose a greater threat to Republican prospects than Nader will to the Democrats.

[Florida_Geek]

1. Run Roy Run

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[AlinPA]

2. How significant is the "God vote" in the border states?

In PA I know Moore would draw a lot of votes away from Bush. 10%? Would need a poll done with good statisticians.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Even if it's 1%

That sways Florida to us in 2000 and probably in 2004. Good enough for me. RUN ROY, RUN!!!

[mmonk]

4. Encourage him!

[cally]

5. Please run Roy

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[TheDonkey]

6. Let's keep encouraging him!!!

Roy Moore could really split the rethugs up.

[KC21304]

7. Go Roy Go.

What a harmonic convergence that would be.

[GreenArrow]

8. Judge Roy Moore -- Constitution Party

Isn't this kind of oxymoronic? I didn't think Moore had any use for the Constitution?

[mmonk]

9. Neither does the Constitution Party

It's like the term "compassionate conservative".

[SlavesandBulldozers]

10. i was thinking the same thing

Of course, to ask that a man of Moore's intelligence have a sense of irony is perhaps to ask a bit too much.

[DaveSZ]

11. Where can we contact him to beg him to run?

Is there a place to write Moore to encourage him to run?

I read that this morning too. :D

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Kewl...

and I betcha they got more assholes who will vote for Moore than we got assholes who will vote for Nader.

[chiburb]

13. He'll be bought off... n/t

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[Bonhomme Richard]

14. He will probably run now that Nader is in........

He'll figure it won't hurt the repugs to bad with the dems split. Only problem is I'd bet the house that Nader will pull out down the road. Naders only interest is having a forum, not being prez.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. Moore's been promised a seat with the Supremes if * gets in more than

likely. Why settle for 8 years when you can be a "lifer".

[mobuto]

16. I thought Moore said "No"

It'd be great if he ran, but I think he'd rather be Governor of Alabama than a fringe candidate for President. Hope he changes his mind. When asked about a possible candidacy, Moore said he has "no plans to leave the Republican party."

[chiburb]

17. On second thought...

Snip:

GO, PAT GO. Tim Noah wants to "fan the flames" of rumors that Alabama judge Roy Moore might launch a third-party bid for the presidency attacking Bush from the right. It's an interesting idea, but I think a better candidate might well be Pat Buchanan. His 2000 Reform Party campaign to revive the isolationist and protectionist elements of the American right fizzled because at the time it was lacking in a serious rationale. Events since 9-11, however, have proven that in an important sense Pat was right and this is not your grandfather's Republican Party. Check out his cover story in the latest issue of The American Conservative, ostensible a review of An End to Evil but in fact a long screed against neoconservative foreign policy in general. It ends saying:
The Perle-Frum book is marinated in conceit, which may prove the neocons' fatal flaw. In the run-up to the invasion, when critics were exposing their plotting for war long before 9/11, the neocons did not bother to deny it. They reveled in it. They boasted about who they were, where they came from, what they believed, how they were different, and how they had become the new elite. With Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush marching to their war drums, one of them bellowed, "We are all neoconservatives now!"
But it is always unwise of courtiers to boast of their influence with the prince. And now the neocons have outed themselves. We all know who they are. We all have the coordinates. We all have them bracketed.

With the heady days of the fall of Baghdad behind us and our country ensnared in a Lebanon of our own, neocons seem fearful that it is they who will be made to take the fall if it all turns out badly in Iraq, as McNamara and his Whiz Kids had to take the fall for Vietnam.

For a long time now Buchanan's basic conceit has been that the president is a good guy being tragically mislead by some of his advisors. This notion, however comforting, is pretty clearly untenable. After all, it isn't just the Iraq War that Buchanan dislikes. By his magazine's lights, the president's new immigration initiative is far too generous, Bush's spending habits are out of control, and his trade policies are all wrong as well. At a certain point you need to recognize that your beef is with the president, not his advisors.

http://www.prospect.org/weblog/

[flpoljunkie]

18. GO, PAT , GO!

Even better! Hell, let them both run!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

19. Roy, Roy, Roy!!! Come on Roy, take a principle stand and....

take the True "Conservatives" away from Bush.