The Constitution Party’s Disintegration Continues

How does it feel, gentlemen, to meet the enemy and realize it is you?

Here's a note I sent today to a friend's discussion list concerning the Constitution Party's implosion over the Nevada state party's abortion stand. -- RDM

by Rod D. Martin
May 22, 2006

Gentlemen,

Please pass on to your list a couple points in response to Perry Coghlan's defense of the Constitution Party.

1) Perry says no one thinks the Nevada state chairman's beliefs are reflective of those of the Constitution Party; and yet clearly plenty of people do, since the Ohio and New York Constitution Parties have now seceded from the national Constitution Party over this issue.

2) Perry says that Mr. Hansen's beliefs (which include abortion in case of "danger to the mother's health," fetal defects, etc.) are not the views of the state party in Nevada; but clearly that's a red herring, since he remains state chairman there, since Jim Clymer says his wife will be handling any abortion legislation which comes before the state legislature, and since the Nevada party continues to run him for Governor.…