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Constitution Party aims to thwart Hillary, GOP
Group opposing merger of North American Union prepares to nominate 
own candidate

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Posted: December 3, 2006
10:46 p.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

As Hillary Clinton begins her own preparations to run for the 
presidency , the deciding factor of who will be the next commander in 
chief may have less to do with whomever is chosen as the Democrat or 
Republican nominee, and more to do with the choice of the 
Constitution Party.

This weekend at a national committee meeting in Manchester, N.H., 
Howard Phillips and the Constitution Party he founded set in motion 
the plans to launch its own third party candidate for president.

"The time has never been better for a third party dark horse 
candidate to grab the White House," Phillips told WND.
He affirmed that by next July, his party intends to nominate a 
presidential candidate, with possibilities for the ticket including 
Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, former Republican 
presidential candidate Alan Keyes, Baptist pastor Chuck Baldwin, and 
author and WND columnist Jerome Corsi.

The Constitution Party is also strongly supportive of Republican 
Congressmen Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul, but there is no decision yet 
that either would leave their home in the Republican Party to pursue 
a Constitution Party nomination. Tancredo has said numerous times he 
is considering a run for the presidency.

"The American public are angry at both the Democratic and Republican 
Party," Phillips said. "If neither major party wants to listen to the 
American middle class, the Constitution Party is ready to enter 
center stage and get back to the basics that have made the republic 
established by our founding fathers work for over 230 years."

The meeting was highlighted by a lineup of well-known conservative 
speakers, including those who may end up running.

"For six years, the Bush administration has refused to secure our 
borders," Corsi told the group assembled at Friday's dinner, "in a 
stealth plan to create a European Union-style North American Union 
under the cover of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North 
America that President Bush announced at the March 23, 2005, summit 
meeting with Mexico and Canada in Waco, Texas."

Corsi warned the group that "as a result of the Bush administration 
obsession with NAFTA and unbridled free trade, the United States is 
on the verge of an international dollar collapse."

Why?

"China now holds over $1 trillion in foreign exchange reserves as a 
direct result of our huge and growing trade deficit," Corsi 
explained. "China sneezed over Thanksgiving, suggesting that a move 
might be made to hold fewer dollars and the dollar began dropping 
like a rock."
Last night, speakers included Baldwin, a prominent pastor who hosts a 
weekly radio show from his congregation in Pensacola, Fla.

Baldwin told the group the "radical left" has an agenda to remove God 
from the United States of America.

"When both the Democratic and Republican parties join together 
agreeing that we should put 'In God We Trust' on the edge of our 
coins where nobody can read it," Baldwin told WND, "then most 
Americans are ready for change."

Baldwin told the conference "the 2006 mid-term elections sent a 
message that George W. Bush and Karl Rove have yet to hear, namely 
that if the Republican Party thinks they will succeed by abandoning 
conservative principles, then the great mass of red state America is 
ready to abandon the Republican Party."

Also issuing a call to "renew America," was Alan Keyes who told the 
assembled Constitution Party leaders that "we are on the verge of a 
sea change in American politics."
Asked by WND whether he thought the Democrats had truly won the 2006 
midterm elections, Keyes responded with a note of caution.

"In 2006, the American people were dissatisfied with George W. Bush, 
but Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were not given a blank check to 
pursue a far left agenda."

Phillips concluded the conference by saying both major political 
parties face crises because "the core conservatives in the Republican 
Party are not ready to embrace pro-choice candidates like John McCain 
or Rudi Giuliani, and the Democratic Party of Howard Dean and John 
Kerry are not ready to embrace Hillary Clinton, especially not when 
she wants to portray herself as a moderate."

"The political center of America remains conservative," Phillips 
said. "We believe America is now ready to hear the message the 
Constitution Party has to deliver."         

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