{"id":3077,"date":"2008-09-12T09:54:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T16:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/12\/ron-paul-supports-the-libertarian-communist-green-war-peace-smog-party\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T19:03:16","slug":"ron-paul-supports-the-libertarian-communist-green-war-peace-smog-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/12\/ron-paul-supports-the-libertarian-communist-green-war-peace-smog-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul supports … the Libertarian Communist Green War Peace Smog Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Wikipedia article on The “American Vegetarian Party<\/a>” (ahem):<\/p>\n

The American Vegetarian Party was a <\/em>United States<\/em> political party formed on <\/em>July 28<\/em>, <\/em>1947<\/em>. The party held conventions and nominated candidates for President and Vice-President in several national elections, although they never seriously pursued <\/em>ballot access<\/em> or official recognition as a political party by election officials. They ate vegetables all the time.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I suppose that last\u00c2\u00a0sentence is technically accurate, but it does feel a little off somehow in a way that I can’t quite qualify or quantify.<\/p>\n

I\u00c2\u00a0thought about the “American Vegetarian Party”(*) in consideration of the Ron Paul press conference, where he brought together Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, and who knows who else, and urged Americans to consider voting for one of them.\u00c2\u00a0 There is an equivalent of coming out and urging support for both the Vegetarian Party and the Carnivore Party, or of coming out in full fledged support of the “Libertarian National Socialist Green Party”.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe the collection of parties Paul came out swinging for had some issues of civil liberties that bound them together, but beyond that the parties offer drastically different visages for us all.\u00c2\u00a0 But there’s a certain personality type, and to a degree I am one of them or close enough that I understand the effect, that will enthusiastically support Ralph Nader at the same time as supporting Ron Paul — never mind the multitudous contradictions — and, well, take part in the “Ron Paul rEVOLution”ary cities being built.\u00c2\u00a0 You just don’t want to shove away the two-party system and see beyond it — in all directions — a connection — willing to vote, sure, but vote for anything other than a “D” and an “R”.\u00c2\u00a0 But, if you are like me,\u00c2\u00a0it leads to the realm of Tucker Carlson partaking in the “Ron Paul” counter-convention, and having to rush out when Jesse Ventura starts in on 9\/11.\u00c2\u00a0 And, if you are like everyone paying attention, it leads you to scratch your head when a “Ron Paul \/ Michael Bloomberg” ticket is floated in whatsitstate a week or two ago.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Ron Paul is on the ballot in Montana.\u00c2\u00a0 The state Constitution Party kicked the national ticket of Baldwin off the ballot and chose Paul.\u00c2\u00a0 He just might be a player if he wins the state and McCain and Obama fall below 270.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, you know, hopefully Paul can swing three electoral votes in a marginal swing state Obama’s direction.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, the hordes of Bob Kelleher voters can create a new party-line with which to go with here.<\/p>\n

(*) Just one of the ways I am different from you:\u00c2\u00a0 it is possible for\u00c2\u00a0the “American Vegetarian Party” to pop into my head with the right stimulus.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose you could say the “American Vegetarian Party” was the “Natural Law Party” of a previous era — a ready joke whose punchline was that it actually existed, though the Natural Law Party declared its insolvency in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Wikipedia article on The “American Vegetarian Party” (ahem): The American Vegetarian Party was a United States political party formed on July 28, 1947. The party held conventions and nominated candidates for President and Vice-President in several national elections, although they never seriously pursued ballot access or official recognition as a political party by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd-parties","category-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","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=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}