Minuteman Leader on 2008 Ticket of Obscure Party?
If true this candicacy, by my fellow Orange Countian, would have about as much chance of succeeding as a Snowball in Hell. ;-D
On one of the COOLER days in Hell. ;-D
WorldNetDaily has the story:
Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project, is considering a run for president in 2008 with the Constitution Party.
Gilchrist has just returned from Florida where he met with the party’s national committee.
Chairman James Clymer told WorldNetDaily the party was excited about the possibility of Gilchrist as its marquis candidate.
“Yes, indeed we are interested,” Clymer said. “Gilchrist spoke to us last weekend in Tampa and our people asked Jim then if he would be the candidate. We think it would be wonderful if Jim Gilchrist would seriously consider being our presidential candidate.”
Gilchrist told WND the only candidate he would support as the Republican Party presidential nominee in 2008 was Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
“If John McCain enters the race for president,” Gilchrist said. “I will definitely run. John McCain should have forfeited his right to run for President on the Republican Party the moment he put his name on immigration legislation with Sen. Ted Kennedy.”
Gilchrist and the Constitution Party both agree on the need to secure our southern border with Mexico. Commenting on the street demonstrations planned on May 1, Gilchrist said they are nothing more than “a declaration that we are no longer a nation governed by the rule of law, but that we are being ruled by mob rule.”
Asked whether he felt President Bush’s “guest worker” program or the administration’s “pathway to citizenship” were reasonable compromises, Gilchrist reacted sharply: “The Republican Party is going to pay a huge price for pandering to what they think is going to be an illegal-alien vote and for their reckless disregard for the rule of law. The Republican Party has sold out our sovereignty.”
I'm as ready as the next guy to consider someone other than the ususal Top Tier Republicans as the party Standard Bearer in 2008, but a Gilchrist candidacy would only serve to inflame passions over a divisive issue, and split the Republican base at a time when it needs to be united against the threat of a Democratic party that thinks it has the upper hand.
If we are going to be arguing Illegal Immigration in 2008 we need to do it as a united party against the Dems.
Mr. Gilchrist, I remember Ross Perot's campaign....
And you, Sir, with all due respect, are no Ross Perot.
Hat Tips all around to:
Emperor Misha, of the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.
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