{"id":2102,"date":"2007-02-25T22:03:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/02\/25\/gene-chapman-and-the-perils-of-third-partydom\/"},"modified":"2007-02-25T22:03:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T05:03:50","slug":"gene-chapman-and-the-perils-of-third-partydom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/02\/25\/gene-chapman-and-the-perils-of-third-partydom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Chapman and the perils of third partydom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><tt>I find <a xhref=\"http:\/\/thirdpartywatch.com\/2007\/02\/22\/presidential-candidate-gene-chapman-fed-up-with-the-constitution-party\/\">this<\/a> amusing.\u00c2\u00a0 This controversy would not have come about if not for \"3rd Party Watch\" passing it to where the Constitution Party director could see it.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever else it is, it is more interesting than the current media-hyped fight between Hillary and Obama over David Geffen's finanical backing, as well as about as significant to the lives of any person I know.\u00c2\u00a0 My advice to the people of the Constution Party -- ignore Gene Chapman.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand, I do not think much of the Constitution Party, but I think one can recgonize a practical jokester when one sees him.\u00c2\u00a0 Gene Chapman is either knowingly or unknowingly the equivalent of Ali G, Borat, or Phil Hendrie, or a second rate morning radio zoo prank caller.<br \/>\n<\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt>I guess he has played his antics with the Libertarian Party -- to well enough cheer, and is now, within his domain, attempting a Libertarian -- Constitution Party fusion?\u00c2\u00a0 If the Constution Party wants him to carry out his charade before them in their domain at their Idaho Convention, <a xhref=\"http:\/\/chapmanforpresident08.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/cp-leadershp-talking-to-chapman.html\">as they apparently are<\/a>, that is their business.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, I heard a right wing Christian radio show interview with their 2004 presidentital candidate -- some guy whose name starts with a \"P\", where the host explained to the listener that if the election is fractured enough, he doesn't even need to get nearly a majority to win -- 30 percent of the vote might suffice and this man might just be your next president.\u00c2\u00a0 His election returns being a rounding error, he was only 30 percent off from where he needed to be then.<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>The perils of third partydom is that they end up taking Gene Chapman seriously&#8230; to some degree or other.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;C&#8221; stands for &#8220;Communist&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this amusing.\u00c2\u00a0 This controversy would not have come about if not for &#8220;3rd Party Watch&#8221; passing it to where the Constitution Party director could see it.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever else it is, it is more interesting than the current media-hyped fight between Hillary and Obama over David Geffen&#8217;s finanical backing, as well as about as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd-parties","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}