Just Say No

The man just don’t give up….

America’s Independent Party met last night in its inaugural National Convention and chose former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes of Maryland as its nominee for President of the United States.

A platform was also debated and adopted, and national officers were elected.

America’s Independent Party is being built by Reagan pro-life, pro-family, “Peace through Strength” conservatives who believe that the Republican Party, with the pending nomination of John McCain, has abandoned the principles of Ronald Reagan – particularly the Reagan pro-life platform plank that recognizes the personhood of the unborn and their protection by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

The party also opposes John McCain on many other important points, including his opposition to a federal amendment protecting traditional marriage and the natural family; his sponsorship of the McCain/Feingold legislation, which they view as a direct attack on their First Amendment rights to political free speech and grassroots citizen activism; his long-time support for so-called “comprehensive immigration reform,” which they consider to be amnesty; and his support for the global warming agenda, which they believe will destroy our economy and strip us of our national sovereignty if pursued as public policy. - AIP

So if he is on the ballot in Tennessee then I personally will be voting for Keyes. The Constitution Party is not serious about winning and I admire a man who lives by principle and just keeps on going in spite of the odds.

Ambassador Alan Keyes, who at one point sought the Republican nomination for president, now says the leading candidates for president – Democrat Sen. Barack Obama and GOP Sen. John McCain – both represent the kind of government colonists founded the U.S. to escape.

And in an exclusive interview with WND, he said if people do not choose to be ruled by a few elites, as he claims both Obama and McCain espouse, they should just say no.

“The major issue we’re confronted with [in the 2008 election] is exemplified by the parties themselves, that is the destruction of the American republic,” he said. “Government of, by and for the people, dead and replaced by the emergency rule by the few, which was exactly the form of government that America came into existence to displace.” – WND

Welcome back Amabassador Keyes!