In my stats’ “Recent Search phrase”: Is Jill Stein the Anti-Christ?

Answer: No.

It’s a perennial.  Everyone asks if every politician of any note is the anti-Christ.  I don’t know why Jill Stein matters enough to be the anti-Christ, but there you go.

She’s gotten a write-up in the NY Times over the weekend.  It is her brief moment in the spotlight.  And here’s what is interesting.

The Green Party’s supporters tend to be young, but the party is also popular with liberals of all ages who are disenchanted with the Obama administration.  Emily Winter, 24, is one such voter.  “I voted for Obama because he preached change, and he’s done impressive work in the area of women’s rights, heath care and foreign policy,” said Winter, a Boston University graduate student who approached Stein on a South End street to ask for a photo. “But I feel like too many other policies are stuck where they’ve been for years.”

The “Foreign Policy” angle is curious.  I saw it before from Congressman Peter Defazio…
Who claimed Obama has made the US No longer an International Pariah.  Citing other items as where Obama has failed us.

When other figures (you know… Glenn Greenwald…) claims this as the area Obama merges with the previous administration.

Albert Gore’s campaign shows up somewhere.  Also on tap for Thursday are the Reform Party, Constitution Party and Democratic Party nominees for the U.S. Senate. Reform Party candidate Shawn O’Hara will thin the crowd, while Constitution Party candidate Thomas Cramer and Democratic candidate Albert Gore will be in full attack mode. Incumbent Republican Senator Roger Wicker is not listed to speak at this point.
Thomas Cramer Constitution Party at 9:10 AM
Shawn O’Hara Reform party at 9:20
Albert Gore, Jr Democratic Party at 9:30

August 2nd.  Be there at this state fair.  To see everyone except for the Senator who will serve the state for the next six years.

Montana’s Senate campaign focuses on meat.  Of course it does.  We’ll get bacon and beef jerky out of these two candidates before the campaign is over.

No endorsement for Yarbrough in Texas.
As for Yarbrough? He seems to be playing on his name, hoping that some Democrats don’t see that his name is spelled differently from their beloved former U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough – a progressive fiery Senator in his own right.

Linda McMahon is running for the Republican nomination in Connecticut.  Looks like she will win it.  Then lose in November, like last time.    It is a rather comedic campaign, actually.

The Democratic candidate in Arizona is catching flak for a politicizing a photo of him helping a guy.  Richard Carmona.  Weird controversy.

Shelley Berkley in Nevada… will either come through stronger out of her ethics charges, or be politically done.
We’ll see.

Candidate Number One:  Virgil Goode.  Constitution Party candidate.  Designated right now as the Most likely “Spoiler”.  The “Spoiler” micro – targeted to his native Virginia, which was the “Tipping Point” state in the 2008 Presidential election (ie: if you go down the lists of Obama landslides to Romney landslides, it’s where Obama pulled over to 270 electoral votes.)

This expert (I call him an expert because it’s clear he knows the geopolitics of the situation) dismisses Goode’s chances.  It’s true that Goode was a fixture in Southside Virginia politics for well over three decades, as both a state senator and as a Member of Congress, but it’s unlikely that he will get serious consideration as a presidential candidate by voters outside the core of his former district, in and around Rocky Mount. He may, to be kind, win a couple hundred more votes than Baldwin obtained in 2008, when the Constitution Party got 7,474. Breaking 8,000 votes in Virginia, however, would be a noteworthy achievement for Goode and his party.

Remember that the problems Conservatives hold with Romney are about the same as the problems they held for McCain.  Also these “insert third party” polls always end up giving a third party candidate a percentage that never materializes — I think there is something to the fact that as the election comes into the front, there just is no media attention to these candidates, and the “Stakes are drawn” brings us to the two parties…

… And the biggest “These are the Stakes” matter, by the way, is the Supreme Court.  We have 2 Justices in their 80s that are on the Conservative block, and 1 Justice in their 80s on the Liberal block… ahem… a lot else ends up lost in the Security State and the divided Congress.

It’ll be fun to watch Goode’s endorsements pile up.  Christian Fundamentalist Ron Paul fans.
The Nebraska delegates are deciding between Paul and Romney Saturday. The pastor believes Republican delegates should obey God and choose Paul.  He explains that Christians and Libertarians agree that Christian Ron Paul is the best person to be President. The Christian vote is what will get Paul elected.  He believes that pastors and denominations silent on Obama’s and Romney’s sins is why there is corruption in government (Ezekiel 22:26-27). He has called July “Repent of non-Christians Romney and Obama Month” and calls pastors to speak truthfully. Learn more.(http://www.usachristianministries.com/2012/06/28/july-is-repent-of-non-christians-obama-and-romney-month-2-chronicles-192/)  “Will you pray, ‘Father, who do you want for President? In Jesus’ name. Amen.’ When I prayed God told me, ‘Of the three, I want Ron Paul.’ It matches Scripture.”  “If the Republican Party doesn’t nominate Ron Paul, then Christians should join the Constitution party and vote for Virgil Goode,” he continues.

The good news for Romney is we’re at the base level of supporters who would not even consider any Republican who might be nominated.  Note the fun had with Virgil Goode arguing he will get votes from both campaigns — the reality is he’ll be picking up from neither first, and from Romney second, and from Obama never.  Because his constituency thinks Obama is the Anti-Christ.

Incidentally, the more likely comparison for Goode than the last Constitution Party on percentages in home state is Libertarian Bob Barr for Georgia.  And he got… point seven percent.

Candidate Number Two:  The Green Party Candidate is Jill Stein.  Who has just made big news by not picking Roseanne Barr as her running mate.  No.  Really.  That’s the actual headline.

Long-shot Green Party candidate Jill Stein has chosen her running mate: Cheri Honkala, who, Stein said, is “the nation’s leading anti-poverty advocate.”
Honkala is so obscure that Wikipedia doesn’t have a page for her (as of this writing).
Roseanne Barr, a Green Party candidate who lost the nomination to Stein, was considered as a running mate but didn’t make the cut.

It says something that the photograph the news media uses is for neither the Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate.
I wonder if she made a quick pick just to side-step the media blurst attention toward Roseanne Barr…. which puts this campaign right in some Hollywood blog places.

 And that’s just about the last time Jill Stein’s campaign will be the news outside Inside These Times magazine.

Candidate Number Three:  Rocky Anderson on the “Justice Party”.  I used to wonder why the need for some duplication (Can’t he aim at the Green Party?), but now that I think about it… why the heck not?  Whatever attention these candidates get in traversing the nation on fluke media appearances is duplicated by the multiple candidates.
Attention Rhode Island … OpEd News needs to hear from 4 Rhode Island Rocky Anderson Supporters.

Candidate Number Four:  The second most likely “Spoiler Candidate”, and may wobble in and out for the top spot.  Libertarian Candidate Gary Johnson.  Has a larger impact than Virgil Goode, but is in more states on this score.  Two to pay some heed to.

No one, not even Gary Johnson, expects him to score Perot numbers nationally. But in his New Mexico, he polls at 7 to 12 percent. In New Hampshire, he polls at 7 percent. If this is going to be an election defined by negative ads and Obama trying to disqualify Romney personally, there’s going to be some runoff into third party voting. The most serious third party candidate used to be a Republican. You can see how this goes.

He at least can claim to get some (liberal) Democratic votes on social issues (and national security), unlike Goode.  Maybe for Johnson we can see if he can snatch up to Ron Paul’s 2008 Montana showing of 2.2 percent.  (Though, Paul was not running.  And Gary Johnson does not have Paul’s constituency in the black helicopter groups.)

Candidate Number Five.  Interesting.  Socialist Tea has endorsed the Peace and Freedom Candidate.  After a week of voting for your preferred presidential candidate, the readers have spoken and Socialist Tea would like to officially endorse the Peta Lindsay/Yari Osorio 2012 ticket!
Okay.
Shouldn’t this just be consolidated into “Occupy”, which is where we see Peta Lindsay marching anyway?
Google news the name and you’ll see a lot of press releases from the party.
(Wait.  This isn’t Peace and Freedom?  What?  It’s the Party for Socialism and Liberation?  Talk about splitting things up!  Also… they’re too young to be president.  So what’s their ballot push about?

 Candidate Number Six.  The Objectivist Party.  (Groan).  A one man operation, it would seem.  Tom Davis at least has a blog which… has a review of a presentation for the musical Hair.  He likes it.

Interesting controversy from the past about this man.
 I want to mention that Dr. Tom Stevens — of the so-called Objectivist Party has written the most absurdly offensive blog post possible: Farrah Fawcett’s E-Mail Reveals Ayn Rand Thought Their Sharing The Same Birth Date Had Significance. I won’t pain you by quoting the pompous blog post, but basically he accuses Ayn Rand of relying faith, superstition, and mysticism because she apparently made an offhand remark to Farrah Fawcett about them sharing a birthday.
Tom Stevens:  More Randian than Rand.

 Just so you know.  The Reform Party national presidential convention will be August 10-12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The party is ballot-qualified in Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  Who possibly would attend such a meeting?
I think Darcy Richardson is the front-runner?  You may remember him as someone who ran against Obama in the Democratic nominating races, and wasn’t able to do the double digit hat trick of some other candidates.

Candidate Number Seven.  The good old reliable Socialist Party.  It’s Stewart Alexander.   If I were him, I may just aim my campaign to get citations in all “Obama is Not a Socialist, and I would know” news items.

Candidate Number Eight.  The Socialist Equality Party.  Trotskyite Party.  The Presidential candidate was campaigning in Montreal recently.  Because when you’re part of an International, your presidential campaign for national office can show no borders.  Fish his name out for yourself.

Candidate Number Nine.  Jack Fellure is running a far more old-fashioned campaign for a far more old-fashioned party, the Prohibition Party. Fellure has been the nominee of the Prohibition Party for almost a year, since they held their convention at a Holiday Inn in Cullman, Ala., in June 2011. Needless to say, the party’s platform includes support for a ban on “the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages” as well as strong support for states’ rights and social-conservative values. However, as Florida Prohibition Party Chairman Bill Bledsoe made clear to a local newspaper, it’s still in favor of allowing people to drink:
“There’s nothing in the Volstead Act that says a person cannot drink,” he said. “But most people say, ‘Oh, you’re trying to take my booze away from me.’ Well, that’s just a lie from the pit of hell. What the national prohibition law did say is that no one can manufacture, sell, trade, or do commercial business with alcohol; you can make all you want at home, as long as you stay home and drink it.”
Fellure though takes a far stricter line on the consumption of alcohol, believing it isexplicitly forbidden in the Bible. He also forsakes the party’s platform for his own, which consists entirely of the 1611 King James Bible.
There is an Anti-Prohibition Party in New York.   As I recall in the past, the Prohibition Party had two states worth of ballot access.  They’re undoubtedly not in New York, so unfortunately the party won’t be able to run an anti-campaign.  (I also note the Prohibition Party ignores the borders… I noted them with a campaign stop in Washington State in 2004.  Also I think the party split that left two parties up there has heeled itself.)

Dateline Maryland
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino will be rallying against federal, state and local bureaucracies.
Bongino is headlining the rally on Wednesday in Temple Hills.
He’s citing costly regulations in health care as examples of federal government run amok.
The former Secret Service agent is running against Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat.

That’s the entire AP article.  Press release from the Dan Bongino campaign, I would say.

Mississippi
The Republican from Tupelo, Wicker is sitting on a $2 million campaign fund. His Democratic opponent is Albert Gore — a retired minister from Starkville who’s running a low-key campaign, not the former vice president from Tennessee. 

A “Low key campaign” is still a campaign.  I want evidence that this campaign exists.  I want to see some of his speeches before lacks of crowds on youtube.  A brief comment in some news item or other.  SOMETHING.

Because here’s the reason I am drawn to some of these “No Chance” candidates… Albert Camus from his journal in 1937…
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble–yes, gamble–with a whole part of their life and their so-called ‘vital interests’.

Also kind of why I find the presidential election a tad uninteresting and non-illuminating.  Looking at you, Obama, and the whole “You campaign in Poetry and govern in prose” line… a tacit admission of bullshit, somewhat.  Though, the one thing about running for re-election is that you are now forced down to campaign in the muckity muck of that prose.  I think Obama is riding tenants of Clark Clifford Memo and Rove strategy reprise 2004 — what to do in tough electoral climates — to victory, and that John Roberts may prove to be the man who put Obama over the top by giving him something to prove his lack of in-effectualness.

Chestnut in Wyoming, I think, gets this bit.  Maybe the Vermont “Moderate” candidate.

I think kinda notable…

Republican Sen. Roger Wicker’s Democratic opponent Albert Gore is also listed in red, seemingly minting a race with two Republicans.

That’s pretty funny.  The Democratic Senate Campaign page in the past has mocked some of the Republican “fluke” candidates, though I wonder if some of those candidates might wander into “mainstream Republican” material after a few election cycles.  The Democrats went ahead and listed Alvin Green last election cycle.  The Republicans, notably, didn’t mention Bob Kelleher in 2008.  Why would they want to claim Albert Gore, I don’t know — even if it seems scurrilous to mock some old guy.

John Lewis to Occupy Movement:  “Be More Focused”...

An interesting thing.  A long haired hippy guy gave me a piece of paper with a link to Aaaron Russo on Infowars about Gun Control.  With Occupy time slots.  He said “This is why we’re losing our freedoms”, and darted off.  Arguably the Democratic candidate most attune to “Occupy” is this Cynthia Dill in Maine.  Tacitly ignored by the Democratic Party and in the end with nodded winks by the Republican Party.  Worth watching, though maybe not doing anything about.

So consult the Camus quote, Ms. Dill, and outod Elizabeth Warren on some things.

Candidate Number One.  Your “Middle Ground”, huh?  Democratic Albany County Commissioner Tim Chesnut.  Yes, I do find that “find the center, always find and reposition to a center, the center must exist somewhere” line always tedious…
 The 47-year-old Laramie resident admitted his chances of victory were small. But Chesnut hopes his campaign will help shift the political climate away from the hyperpartisanship seen today and encourage politicians to find middle ground. […]

Chesnut doesn’t fit the mold of a conventional Senate candidate. Despite working two jobs, he needed help from the Albany County Democrats to pay the state’s $200 candidate filing fee. He also has multiple sclerosis, which he said often keeps him in a wheelchair.

I do like this attitude.

“I don’t know if I have a snowball’s chance in hell to do this thing,” he said. “But I know that I’m going to have a really good time going out and meeting with the people of Wyoming and learning from them.”

No.  Hobby candidacy in the Land of Dick Cheney.  A perfect excuse and chance to go around and meet people.  It works for me.

I suppose we should check in with his views on the Health Care ruling?

“The Act is not perfect,” said Chesnut. “But it is time to move forward and make it better. The alternative that Sen. Barrasso proposes – total repeal of the Act with nothing to replace it, is not good for Wyoming. I’m surprised that a physician can be that out of touch with Wyoming citizens. Before the Act, we had a badly broken health care system. Barrasso and the Party of No have nothing but that broken system to offer.”

And.  He fancies himself a comedian.

“I’d like to bring some civility and a sense of humor to Congress that seems to have been lost since Al Simpson,” he said. “My campaign slogan is: ‘Chesnut is the best nut for Senate.’”

Better keep on him and scrutinize his current elected position.

With Chairman Tim Sullivan presiding, commissioners Tim Chesnut and Jerry Kennedy approved a motion to transfer funds to cover budget deficits in the district court, clerk of the district court, county attorney’s office, fire warden’s office and coroner’s office for the 2011-12 fiscal year, which ends Saturday.

Rail against it just for the sake of being difficult.  HOW DARE THE CORRUPTABLE TIM CHESTNUT do that… move… he just did.

Candidate number two.  Running to everyone’s Right in the Republican Primary.   I don’t care if he’s for Universal Health Care…

For four decades, Thomas Bleming has fought to eradicate communism from the African jungle to the Panamanian rainforest.
But now, the 65-year-old Lusk resident wants to take his fight for freedom to the U.S. Senate. […]
This doesn’t sound so good, but… the man’s full of surprises.
He favors a government-run universal health care system for all Americans, and he said he would push to withdraw all American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. He also favors abolishing the Federal Reserve system and tearing up all of America’s IOUs to other countries.

On that last score:  And you thought the credit downgrade from AAA to AAplus was the end of it all?

There’s more on this guy:
A Lusk man running as a Republican for U.S. Senate seemed mostly unfazed after recently drawing criticism and controversy over reported Facebook posts disparaging Jews and agreeing with some beliefs of Adolf Hitler. 
Thomas Bleming, former decorated soldier and mercenary, is challenging against incumbent Sen. John Barasso, who recently said the people of Wyoming may find Bleming’s online postings “disturbing and wrong.” 
Bleming , 66, says his online posts, which cover a variety of subjects from second amendment issues to government investigations and controversies, are well-researched. 
“I spent countless hours (researching) everything I (post),” Bleming said. “I don’t deny them. (Barrasso) said they were wrong and disturbing, but he couldn’t say they were lies.”
“You’ll have people out there with every candidate, and for one reason or another, they love them or hate them” he added. […]
“It’s a grassroots movement; we’re not into putting out yard signs and the normal way of politicking,” he said. “This is a very unorthodox way of campaigning.”

Yeah.

Actually, if you go ahead and google him… he has quite the history of political activism, I will say.

Candidate Number Three… Al Humburg.  Perennial Candidate.  Interesting to note:
 Back in 1989, in a U.S. House campaign with the New Alliance party he was charged with forging petition signatures of dead people. In Wyoming, if you run under a minor party ticket, you need so many signatures to get on the ballot. Hamburg’s claim is that if he had won back in ’89, the deceased ones would not have been harmed. The Wyoming Supreme Court correctly said if he had won, voters would have been defrauded. Due to a lack of evidence, part of the conviction was overturned, and in 2003, his voting rights were restored. However, he is still a convicted felon and thus, barred from public office.

 The New Alliance Party???  He was with the Newman Fulanis… no kidding!  Actually, it seems that Fulani was on the “peace and freedom” ticket at the presidential level, and he was at the Senate level.

And the electoral history.  Highlighted where he got double digits.

08/21/2012 WY US Senate- D Primary ???
08/17/2010 WY Governor – D Primary Lost 4.86% (-43.14%)
08/19/2008 WY US Senate – D Primary Lost 37.62% (-24.75%)
08/22/2006 WY Governor – D Primary Lost 10.34% (-79.32%)
08/17/2004 WY – At-Large – D Primary Lost 9.25% (-38.58%)
05/14/2002 NE US Senate- D Primary Lost 40.69% (-18.62%)
05/09/2000 NE US Senate- D Primary Lost 7.39% (-84.72%)
08/21/1990 WY US Senate- D Primary Lost 18.79% (-16.28%)
11/08/1988 WY At-Large Lost 0.49% (-66.13%)
06/07/1988 CA US President – PFP Primary Lost 5.95% (-29.75%)
08/19/1986 WY Governor – D Primary Lost 6.19% (-64.73%)
09/11/1984 WY US Senate- D Primary Lost 31.09% (-14.20%)
09/14/1982 WY At-Large – D Primary Lost 43.66% (-12.68%)
09/09/1980 WY At-Large – D Primary Lost 23.06% (-30.02%)
09/12/1978 WY – At-Large – D Primary Lost 7.93% (-44.95%)
09/14/1976 WY At-Large – D Primary Lost 14.02% (-71.95%)
08/20/1974 WY – At-Large – R Primary Lost 6.52% (-69.35%)
08/22/1972 WY – At-Large – R Primary Lost 1.89% (-49.54%)

Candidate Number Four

University of Wyoming history professor Phil Roberts has announced he is running for the U.S. Senate as an independent candidate.
Roberts launched his bid because he said both Republicans and Democrats are leading the country in the wrong direction.
He said the country’s leaders should be focused on creating jobs, rather than chipping away at the nation’s budget deficit.
He said Republican-supported cuts are too severe, and he called President Barack Obama’s stimulus package of 2009 too “timid.”
Instead, Roberts said the country needs new major jobs initiatives similar to the New Deal programs that came out of the Great Depression.
So.  He’s the Liberal in the race.

And … comments… 3…2…1
” “Roberts has taught at UW since 1990. He specializes in American and Wyoming history, as well as legal, environment and natural resources history.”
It should read that ..”He has been polluting the minds of UW students for 22 years with his Liberal, Progressive drivel.”

Candidate Number Five.

William Byrk.  His name is familiar, and I think it’s just ’cause I sometimes wonder into this territory of fun.  It’s worth taking a look at his electoral history.  Double digits highlighted.

08/21/2012 WY US Senate- D Primary ???
05/08/2012 IN – District 08 – D Primary Lost 9.30% (-48.54%)
05/25/2010 ID US Senate – D Primary Lost 25.35% (-49.31%)
01/08/2008 NH US Vice President – D Primary Lost 21.35% (-25.58%)
01/08/2008 NH US Vice President – R Primary Lost 0.01% (-62.42%)
02/01/2000 NH US Vice President – R Primary Won 32.34% (+7.19%)
11/02/1999 Richmond County District Attorney Lost 1.66% (-59.99%)
11/03/1998 NY Assembly 59 Lost 1.70% (-69.75%)
11/04/1997 New York City Council 49 Lost 1.40% (-58.80%)
11/05/1996 New York City Council 05 Special Lost 2.33% (-69.54%)
09/09/1980 NY District 18 – D Primary Lost 5.94% (-74.92%)

Interestingly enough, he already lost a Congressional race in Indiana this year.  This guy gets around.

More information about Albert Gore, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Mississippi.  I like him already!

This Gore is a retired Methodist minister and Army colonel who completed 91 parachute jumps during a distinguished military career. “He declined to give his age, but said he’s in good health,” reports the Biloxi-Gulfport Sun Herald. The Wall Street Journal‘s Washington Wire blog describes him as “a political newcomer” and notes that he “doesn’t appear to have a campaign website.”

Comments:  He sounds nice and all, but is this the best the Mississippi Democratic Party can do?
I believe Santorum won in Mississippi – so, in answer to your question … probably. 

This guy needs a campaign website, and fast.  Somebody, please, post something up.  Figure out how to put something up on the defunct geocities for the proper effect.

A bit more Semi-credible Democratic candidate in Arizona… or at least, credible enough that the Democrats can float quasi-internal polls out there, and I take it that he’s gained a reputation for affecting a … um… Macho Image.
That last link is a must read for political satire, by the way.  I’ll put it in the “Best Political Satire of the Year” category.
Interesting with this race.  It may not matter for Richard Carmona’s chances, but the Republican front-runner — Jeff Flake — has a severe primary test on his hands — Rep. Jeff Flake is set to spend at least $1.4 million of his Senate campaign war chest on television advertising in his attempt to secure the Republican nomination.  Flake has found himself in a costly primary against self-funding real estate investor Wil Cardon. The ad buy is set to run from July 9 through the Aug. 28 primary.
Richard Carmona is one of those Democratic politicans not attending the Democratic convention.  Obama probably shut down his chances with Arizona with his stances on immigration — campaign decisions that close some states and go for other states.  Jeff Flake — plenty rightwing of a Republican — has his opposition coming from the Right, making your old Tea Party run of it.  It may be that Carmona could beat Cardon and not Flake, but who knows?

To the Republicans running hopeless — or maybe semi-hopeless — campaigns:
Delaware.   It’s Kevin Wade. A Republican running for the US Senate from Delaware says state Democrats are “living in another century.”

Minnesota:  In something of a surprise, the Republican nominee will be state Representative Kurt Bills, an economics teacher with Libertarian views and a supporter of outgoing Congressman Ron Paul.  Yes, but he has elected office experience:  In 2008, Bills was elected to the Rosemount City Council from a field of 26 candidates.  They say that politicians just keep running their first winning campaign over and over again.
The Ron Paul Revolution…
The only thing worse than high school debate is……is High School economics, you have to wonder what this guy is teaching. I’ll tell ya his plan right now for free: Tax Cuts, “small” government, and innovation. The only real question is who will blamed for his defeat? Will true believers claim the party just didn’t get behind him, or will Paulites be blamed for eschewing moderation?

New York gets us… Wendy E Long and here’s what the wikipedia page says… Her Senate candidacy has been endorsed by American Conservative Union PAC, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, the New York Post, former Conservative gubernatorial candidate Herbert London, National Organization for Marriage, the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms PAC, and several current and former Republican candidates and elected officials.
What’s weird is that I assume that this was added into the wikipedia page by Long, but it just as easily would be added by the Gilibrand campaing.  None of these are endorsements you would be touting if you’e trying to win a statewide race in New York State.  I note that Scott Brown in Massachusetts is not attending the Republican convention.

Rhode Island.  Barry Hinckley.  Once again on the Ron Paul Revolution.  And it is … Here is his pitch to the crowd of rich California conservatives. Hinckley was doing OK until about the 4:30 mark where he goes off the rails describing his vision of an America that is run like a corporation. He actually calls it “America, Inc.” And we aren’t citizens, we’re “employees.” And we don’t have states, we have “divisions.” But I don’t want to spoil it for you. Watch it for yourself and let me know what you think.
Yeah, about the America, Inc. thing… I assume that’s how everyone talks at the Bilderberg Meetings and behind closed doors.  Cue the Network (given to Howard Beale) speech “There is no America”, but give it without any sense of menace.

Meet the man challenging the “Democratic Socialist” Bernie Sanders is Vermont… John MacGovern.  The Republican party there is keeping a bit of distance, apparently.   Vermont Republican Party executive director Mike Bertrand said he met MacGovern for “about 15 seconds” at a GOP event and said he seems like a “a very capable individual.” But Bertrand stressed there’s at least one other Republican exploring a candidacy, though he did not name the person.
“I would not assume by any stretch of the imagination that that is the one candidate,” Bertrand said of MacGovern.
And that would be H. Brooke Paige, former CEO of Remmington News Service. 
While climbing the retaining wall in front of the State Office Building in Montpelier for a good photo of the May 1^st Putting People First Rally across the street, I happened to meet a nice gentleman who introduced himself as “the sacrificial Republican opponent to Bernie Sanders.” You have to respect a man with a sense of humor. He knows he doesn’t stand a chance in hell, but he’s willing to run a good race anyway. Why? Well, the way he got on the ballot sort of answers that question.
I have no idea how this primary race shakes out.  I really don’t.  It’s movement conservative versus true moderate.  And I gather this man isn’t the guy the Republican Party in Vermont had in mind with “other candidates”.
I would love to include a picture of Mr. Paige in this story, but I can’t find one. Even the state GOP hasn’t posted one. That’s sad, really. Mr. Paige told me that he expects he will not get enough donations to run any television ads, but maybe enough to run a couple of ads in the weekly free newspapers, you know, the local “Shopper.” So far, his biggest contributor has been his mother, who gave him $100. Mr. Paige is under 6 feet tall, a bit overweight (more Gingrich than Christie) and much better dressed than Bernie, who somehow manages to always look like he slept in his suits. He was a small business owner who commuted between a chosen home in Vermont and his businesses in Philadelphia.

I guess this is the man who will be on the ballot in November against Maria Cantwell in Washington.  He has a facebook page.  That’s … his deal?  On the other hand, I guess that puts Michael Baumgartner ahead of the 8-ball as opposed to Albert Gore of Mississippi.
(Actually I shouldn’t mock that.  That’s sort of the product of the local news.   If you were in Walla Walla, you could’ve met with him.)

Maine…
Note the next candidate is an Independent.  A new WBUR poll shows former Maine Gov. Angus King as the heavy favorite to replace retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe. Current poll numbers have King, who is running as an independent, with 50 percent of likely voters, Republican Secretary of State Charlie Summers with 23 percent, and Democratic state Sen. Cynthia Dill with 9 percent.
Who is Cynthia Dill?

The National Republican Senatorial Committee said Tuesday night that Summers is running against “two liberal Democrats” – Dill and King, who Republicans believe Democrats are quietly embracing King at the expense of other candidates in hopes that he will eventually caucus with them in the Senate.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has said nothing – zilch, nada – about Dill’s win since last night and the silence is part of a strategy that Democrats privately concede is designed to hopefully win King’s support by playing nice with him.

It’s kind of like the Florida race in 2010 if… um… the Democrats had taken the giant gulp and gone with Crist from the state.
Nine percentage points, huh?

Despite Maine’s long hunting tradition, she rebuked the National Rifle Association. In the face of loud opposition, she wants to consider a national park in northern Maine. While her fellow Democrats celebrated a presidential visit, she chose to protest against big money in politics. […]
For the record, Dill supports President Barack Obama and believes he has done great things. Nonetheless, while Obama was dining with campaign contributors at the Portland Museum of Art on March 30, Dill was across the street in a “free speech zone” near OccupyMaine demonstrators.
Dill didn’t join in the drum-thumping Occupy demonstration, but she was there to voice her own concerns about the corrupting influence of money in politics.

Who did she beat in the primary?

With more than 88 percent of the state’s precincts reporting by about 8 a.m. Wednesday, Dill had 45 percent of the vote compared with Dunlap’s 35 percent in the four-way race. Jon Hinck had 13 percent of the Democratic vote and Justin Benjamin Pollard had 7 percent, according to unofficial results tabulated by the Bangor Daily News.
Someone with a cultural profile that goes with the NRA, it looks like…
Geography played a large role in the race. Dill had a stronger showing in southern Maine, while Dunlap lead in Aroostook, Piscataquis and Penobscot counties.
Hm.  Neat?