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Is a protest vote for a Constitution Party candidate an acceptable protest vote?
Southern Noachide:
I am well aware that the "Constitution Party" is (at its top level at least) an anti-Israel, "palaeoconservative," palaeo-Jeffersonian front for the John Birch Society. I well remember that Alan Keyes was rejected as their nominee one year simply for being pro-Israel.
However, when faced with the choice of a liberal Republican and a Democrat candidate, is a vote for the CP candidate (who isn't going to win anyway) acceptable as a protest vote? On the one had I realize that even if the candidate is anti-Israel, he/she is never going to get the opportunity to enact his/her views. On the other hand, a vote for any anti-Israel candidate, however symbolic, could be seen as a vote for the right wing anti-Zionist ideology and could even be punished by Heaven.
What makes me think this question is worth asking is that I have heard that the CP's grass roots members include many good pro-Israel people who don't share the arcane and cultic views of the party leadership. Robert Dornan was certainly pro-Israel, and HE ran on their ticket one year.
Does anyone have any advice?
Lisa:
If I remember correctly, Mord posted a months ago about JBS. He wrote that they are actually pro Israel. In fact, I went through their site, and it seemed pro-Israel. I didn't see anything anti-Semitic about it.
Now as for the Constitution Party, I have no idea. If their top brass are a bunch of Buchananites, then maybe it would be best not to vote at all.
Southern Noachide:
Thank you for your advice on the CP, but I must disagree with the assertion that the JBS isn't anti-Israel. The JBS has, in fact, served as the "blue lodge" where people have been exposed to the "conspiracy theory" (which is too often simply anti-Semitism with the word "Jews" removed) for the first time. From here, such people have often gone on to become raving Jew-haters in out-and-out anti-Jewish and national socialist organizations.
The JBS' own position on Israel is very subtle. I can tell you this though, with absolute authority: they are NOT the philo-Semitic American Fundamentalist Protestants who make up so much of the religious right in this country. Ron Paul is practically their patron saint, and they have never (with the brief exception of the Begin era) considered Israel an ally against Communism as they have Nationalist China, Rhodesia, apartheid South Africa, Falangist Spain, Papadopoulos Greece, or Salazar Portugal.
I know all this because I was once a member, and I saw first hand their promotion of bowdlerized anti-Jewish literature such as that by Prince Michel Sturdza (Romanian Iron Guard apologist) and Nesta Webster.
I know that there are Jewish members in the JBS and always have been. But so long as the JBS remains a "palaeoconservative" organization its Jewish members will be nothing more than window dressing and camouflage.
Now, if its Jewish members ever take it over and make it into a truly decent organization, then I will reconsider my position.
Lisa:
Thanks for the info. Southern Noahide.
Judging by your description, I would stay away from them. After all, why be a "beard" for them? And what's a "blue lodge?"
As for what you should do, if you can't stand either the Democrat or the RINO running, then don't vote.
Southern Noachide:
--- Quote from: Lisa on October 12, 2014, 08:41:23 PM ---Thanks for the info. Southern Noahide.
Judging by your description, I would stay away from them. After all, why be a "beard" for them? And what's a "blue lodge?"
As for what you should do, if you can't stand either the Democrat or the RINO running, then don't vote.
--- End quote ---
Thanks. Looks like that's what I'll be doing.
Too bad there are no decent independent candidates.
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