Virgil Goode will never be President, but he may keep Mitt Romney from being
July 24, 2012
Who's running for President? Most will tell you Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Few will tell you that Virgil Goode is also running. But he is and he can be a spoiler.
Goode is the Constitution Party's presidential nominee. He needs 10,000 signatures in Virginia and has already turned in 14,000. He hopes to bump that number up to 20,000 just for good measure. That will put his name on the ballot. Click here to read more about that.
He has also turned in the 500 necessary signatures to the North Carolina Board of Elections in order to qualify as a write-in candidate in North Carolina. Click here to read more about Goode's North Carolina campaign.
Then there, Gary Johnson. He's the Libertarian candidate from New Mexico.
Recent polls in Virginia show Goode pulling 9% of the vote. Most significantly almost all of that is coming from voters who report they would otherwise vote for Romney. Goode gets almost no Obama voters. Johnson pulls about as many Democrats away from Obama as he does Republicans away from Romney. But he has 24% of the independents going over to his side.
This could get to be very interesting. You can read more about it here.
If you're interested in where he stands and what his voting record in Congress has been click here.
Left of center Democrats know and trust that their party will actively support the agenda laid out by the Left. However, advocates for private property and personal liberty have watched the Republican Party of Nixon, Bush and Bush spend decades overseeing growing deficits, increased intrusion into personal choices and profligate spending at home and abroad.
The Republican Party is nothing more than a course in Democrats 101. Once voters get past all the Founding Fathers lip-service there is nothing to distinguish Republicans from Democrats. They are all Kennedy wanna bees.
Is it any surprise that year after year, less and less of the American center is encouraged by the prospect of growing statist power offered by Republican bailouts of banks, foriegn wars and concessions to welfare hacks and crony capitalists?
Do you suppose that the idea for him to run came from David A. in Chicago?? Sounds paranoid but not so far fetched if you look as some of the tricks he has allegedly pulled in the past.
While Virgil Goode, Gary Johnson, and one you left out Terry Jones from Florida, may all have good intentions for standing up for Constitutional Principles and better Government they lack sound reasoning to understand the Obama threat. Those who would stand on principle and cast a vote to show their disapproval for Party Politics will in fact be casting a vote for Obama. Trends and philosophies are important. The philosophy of Barak Husain Obama is toward socialism which is the forerunner for Communism. The trend has been set by Obama toward government takeover and a welfare state run by his enforcers. The coming elections will be a tight race because of the uninformed voting public. If we could educate our people to look at social success models and understand that the only truly successful model in the world has been the Democratic Republic of the United States. But most know more about American Idol and Football than the history of Government. History shows that Third Party Candidates can sway and election and it is lunacy for these well meaning men to destroy the very thing they wish to preserve. The best chance the Country has at this point in time is Mitt Romney. We need to make him our president so that we can be sure that we have an opportunity to vote again. Buzz Cayton
In 1968 American's chose Republican Richard Nixon. While in office Nixon ended the Gold Standard, used the Federal Reserve to get elected in 1972, lied to the nation about Watergate and established price controls on the economy. If there was a way to stuff government down our throats Nixon found it. George Bush The First "read my lips", no new taxes" laid $600 million in new taxes on our backs. George Bush the Second gave us "No Child Left Behind", an unaffordable Medicare Drug Benefit, an economic collapse, a housing meltdown and a bank bailout engineered by his Goldman Sachs Secretary of Treasury. Mr. Romney preceeded Obama in legislating mandatory health care while governor of Mass.. The Republican Congress is just a non stop fifty year disappointment. Mr. Obama is a failure is many, many ways, but supporting the useless and indistinguishable solutions to our problems offered by eiher of the vampire political parties now in power is not really working...is it?
and not a lying, deceiving socialist. I do hope you people will compromise your pie in the sky ideologies to change the current administration to anything but more of the same. Romney is also smart. He knows what is happening in this world and in our nation, and will have a more "We the People of the United States" strategy to restore liberty,prosperity and I believe he will honor the rule of law, and use his influence to establish better and more Constitutional laws. Why on earth would you want to dilute the vote with all those candidates who would diminish his chances of winning in November? I think this promotion of more candidates is absolute political suicide.
Virgil Goode is presently on about 17 state ballots as the Constitution Party candidate for President. Getting on the ballot in Virginia, where he is known best, could really affect the outcome of this race. Virginia is a much needed swing state for Obama and Romney.
But, you know what? We wouldn't need a Constitution Party if our elected representatives would simply uphold their oaths of office to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic. Unfortunately, they do not.
Protecting and defending the Constitution should be a fundamental issue separating duty from treason. It should not need to be a plank in a party platform. But we have to recognise that we live in a country where planks from the Communist Manifesto have ingrained themselves into everyday life, including the policies of political parties and planks in party platforms.
One thing included in the latest National Republican Party Platform is: "Republicans will uphold and defend our party's core principles: Constrain the federal government to its legitimate constitutional functions." Republican Representatives, Senators, and Presidents need to put their money where their mouths are. Talk is cheap. It's past time to put up or shut up.
I'm looking towards August 27-30, 2012: The Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. We need a strong national platform. That convention must also produce some very clear understandings concerning where we go from here as a party. If the GOP fails in this, then it deserves to fail as a national party. If that happens, the GOP will start bleeding members at a rate similar to the defection rate of the Democrat Party, and Unaffiliated will more quickly be the choice of the vast majority of Americans. Or the GOP could step up and make history.
I am a Constitutional Conservative first and a Republican second; I always have been. I was using the term "Constitutional Conservative" long before the term entered the common vernacular during the rise of the Tea Party. After 34 years of voting, I no longer allow the chronic moderates who infest the GOP establishment to urinate down my back while trying to tell me that it's merely raining.
I'll decide between the Constitution Party ticket and the Libertarian Party ticket for POTUS/VPOTUS sometime between now and November and I WILL cast my vote accordingly. I will only consider voting GOP in the down-ballot contests as an effort at damage control -- and then only if the track records of those candidates indicate a fealty to Madisonian limited-government principles.
I am utterly and completely fed-up and disgusted with GOP moderates who apparently have no guiding principles (other than political expediency) and no balls. GOP moderates have screwed We The People time and time again by compromising on matters of core principle at crucial turning points when they should have stood firm. This is unacceptable and I will not support them when they do it -- period.
I have no reason to think that Mushy Moderate Mitt from the People's Socialist Republic of Taxachussetts will be any different. His track record suggests otherwise. Sorry, but I'll pass once again on another opportunity to hold my nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. Asking me to choose between Obama and Obomney is like asking me to choose between syphilis and gonorrea. I'll just abstain since Virgil Goode and Gary Johnson are both principled alternatives worthy of support.
If the GOP ever has an epiphany and nominates a true Consitutional Conservative once again, then they'll get my vote. At the rate things are going, though (see: Ford, Dole, Bush 41, McCain, and now Romney), I've finally come to the conclusion that we'd be better off to start doing whatever it takes to break the back of the two-party system. Can't be done, you say? They said that Governor Scott Walker couldn't break the backs of the public sector unions in Wisconsin either, but he has succeeded. It can be done; we just have to have the intestinal fortitude to do it.
I hope there will not be too many of you ideological Koolade drinkers out there. Don't you know your candidate will not be elected and will only serve to push Obama over the top. Plus, I, as a a strict believer in the rule of law and Constitutional government as well, I will vote for Romney, a candidate who will lead, is brilliant as a leader, whose biggest problem is campaigning effective because of his shining character of genuine humility. Stop believing that he is otherwise, because if you do you'll believe propaganda and wind up a Communist nation living under a second term of Obama.
My vote is not a vote owed to the Republican Party. It is not specifically a vote against Mr. Obama.
My vote is an expression of my beliefs and my hopes for the future. Neither the Republican nor the Democratic Party represents my desires for this nation. They are a matched set of professional politicians who have worked in tandem to twist governmental power to their own benefit.
Many Obama opponents seem to be under the misunderstanding that defeating Obama is the big picture. In fact, for many of us Mr. Obama is of no real consequence. He is nothing more than the left wing of a Republican/Democratic political alliance which needs to be seen for what it is. Obama merely took us through a door Bush opened.
Supporting the Republican Party's bland offering of two faced pleasers while they fawn for public approval every two and four years has proven to be a waste of time for those of us who want less regulation of our business and personal lives and lower taxes.
How many unchallenged unconstitutional executive orders, UN Treaties and bureaucratic intrusions can you count that have become law under Obama's dictatorship? I'm not good at math so I may not be able to count that high. And, also, do you agree that honest men should be elected? I do, and Mitt Romney is an honest man.
I will be taking a different path. We each get a choice. It's the American way....for the nonce.
The Republicans might have been out done by Democrats in some executive orders here and there, but they get credit for domestic spying, price controls, Gitmo, TARP, "Read my lips: No new taxes", Watergate's web of lies to the American public, the Bridge to No Where, Home Land Security.... need I go on?
Being no worse than Mr. Obama's crew is not much to run on.
Warren Smith
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