Chuck Baldwin and the Two-Party Charade

With a persistently leftist media stacked against them, the McCain-Palin ticket needs all the help they can get. However, there are some issues regarding McCain that don't enamor me. In some ways, he is not well-distinguished from his opponent; however, on most issues, he is at least tolerable, and their differences are noteworthy.

Ideally, voters should have more of a choice at the ballot box. We need representation by a candidate and a party which are more aligned with the values of the disenfranchised Christian heterosexual pro-life folks who love this land and its Constitution.

To wit, why do presidential and vice presidential debates consistently exclude viable third- and even fourth-party candidates? Why must we hold our noses as we cast votes for candidates who only partially represent our views? The political landscape contains too many variables to be represented by an either-or mentality.

Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin would have brought out the communist in Barack Obama and the sometimes Democrat, sometimes Republican in John McCain. Seeing three distinctly different viewpoints responding in three different ways to the same question would have been a refreshing change. It might have shaken up the status quo and opened the doors to the efficacy of a nationally recognized third political party.

I believe the Democrat machine is as afraid of that prospect as is the Republican machine. For the foreseeable future, don't count on seeing the televised debates including a Constitution Party candidate.

If they had a real chance to win, I would vote for the Constitution Party, even though there are some very good Republicans out there. Perhaps they would jump ship if and when the Constitutionalists ever stake enough of a claim to threaten seriously to win an election.

What a thought!