I cover Oregon Politics
Why don’t you link your blog to leftyblogs.com. I am sure others would like to read what you’ve written.
I provided the answer in the comments, which is simply that I don’t concentrate on localized politics, surrounding Portland, Oregon, enough. I have a recent spate of comments on the City Council race. I regularly check in on the US Representative for my old home. This comment was perched to a post about the Democratic Senate Candidate for Virginia — and I note that at this precise moment a single news item dominates the “latest news” at Leftyblogs: apparently the entire Democratic Machine has stopped pretending that they’re neutral on the primary race and has stepped forward to announce that they endorse James Webb. At any rate, I’m covering something from across the nation with that one.
You know what I’ve entertained mentioning here that traffics from Portland? This bit of inanity. Did he leave the Constitution Party, or did the Constitution Party leave him? Difficult to say, that.
Which is further engaged with this bit of inanity. I focus your attention on this sentence:
At the same time, I must also say that the Constitution Party remains as a mere blip-on-the-radar screen in national American politics because of the public perception that the organization is a Johnny-One-Note conclave where abortion and school prayer seem to constantly dominate the political landscape and discourse of the Party to the virtual exclusion of anything else.
Nay. I call it the “Christian Reconstructionist Party”. It has its devotees, and I suppose if the party splits in two, I can mock the split in the same spirit I mocked the split that occurred in the Prohibition Party in 2004, and to a lesser degree the Reform Party in 2000 (the Natural Law Party tangling in was bemusing). (The Prohibition Party split was hilarious because the party’s vote total — I do not believe — passed the three digit mark in the previous presidential election.) The man leaves out the stoning of homosexuals in his “fringe” equation of single-issue voters.
I last saw Paul deParrie standing outside the Rose Garden before a “March of Dimes” event of some sort, waving a sign featuring an bloodied aborted fetus. I did not understand the symmetry here. March of Dimes. Breast Cancer. Women. Is it simply an anti-woman stand? See… when he stood before the Mall at Christmas time saying “Happy Herod’s Day”, I could make sense of that. Blah blah blah… sin… blah blah blah… Jesus is the Reason for the Season… blah blah blah… Abortion is Sin and Jesus Cries at Abortion.
As it were, Paul deParrie, who the news media can always count on to get a quote for a stand nearly endorsing maiming abortion providers, has left the Constitution Party, and… um… wandered into the Political wilderness? Is he on the political fringe now? Only now, and not then?
Sheesh.
That’s where I will wander back into Oregon politics. Does leftyblogs want to index that? I don’t know.