I engage with extremists: rock and roll part two
Paul deParrie says he found this amusing and whimsical. (This board has a lot of bugs on it, and it took a bit of effort to get the post up. A bit more than was worth it, but never mind.):
Now that deParrie has shocked the Constitution Party Establishment by declaring something to the effect of “I did not leave the party; the party left me”, he’s going to need a new party. Some helpful suggestions:
http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm
1: The “Constitutional Action Party” sounds kind of like the Constitution Party. Though, it seems to have some organizational and morale problems.
The CAP is a tiny Religious Right party that wants to abolish the federal income tax, ban all abortions, end Affirmative Action, impose protectionist trade tariffs, fight pornography and end federal involvement in education. CAP founder Frank Creel wrote Politics1 in January 1999 that the CAP “has had virtually no success since its 1995 founding. It has no local chapters anywhere, no candidates for office and no prospect of running a presidential candidate in 2000. There is little to no prospect that we will be able to hold a convention anytime soon. … Only some sort of economic or other catastrophe will produce conditions favorable to the emergence of a new party.” Still, the CAP keeps it small web site online, and recently updated the design. The CAP fielded its first candidate in 2002, when CAP Chair Frank Creel ran for Congress in Virginia.
But all the better: ideological purification is assured.
2: Neal Horsley has his “Creator’s Rights Party”. Perhaps deParrie can join this one. deParrie and Horsley share a role as go-to-guy when the Media wishes to grab a quote form someone who comes close to condoning the maiming of abortion providers. On the other hand, Horsley has some curious items in the closet. Is the legalization of Man-on-Mule Sex in the Creator’s Rights Platform?
3: Natural Law Party. Who isn’t against Natural Law? Actually, this has been a liberal party with strong New Age overtones… not conducive to deParrie’s political beliefs. But the key is that the party has disbanded. So it’s there for the taking!
Now of course Paul can create his own party, as he suggests here:
I recall meeting Howard Phillips—at least the old Howard Phillips—when I first became involved in the Oregon Constitution Party. One thing he said that I remember well was, “If some day I, or the Constitution Party, should ever abandon the core principles of the Party, don’t wait. Leave and start a new party.”
I haven’t forgotten that, Howard.
I await word of whether the Oregon Constitution Party will secede from the national. If so, I’ll be here. If not, I’m gone.
Well, Theodore Roosevelt left the Republicans and created the Progressive Party. Popularly called the “Bull Moose Party”. Which figures. deParrie’s party’s symbol would have to be either a floating fetus ghost or a Porcupine or a talking beret, or some combination of the three — a floating Porcupine fetus wearing a beret?