December 22, 2003
More on the Texas Ballot
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
I was going to post something about the Democratic Texas Ballot yesterday but I see that Byron was thinking some of the same things. So far, filing for a spot as a 2004 Presidential Candidate are four people.
Howard Dean, who was first to file for the spot.
Joe Lieberman, who apparently fairs well in the few Texas polls I have seen but I'm not sure he will even survive to our March 9 Primary.
Lyndon LaRouche, Jr., who I believe we have already covered.
and
Randy Crow, who likes to spell some words with s's in them with $'s instead.
Frankly, with half of the candidates filing so far being, um, not entirely normal, I would quite like to see some of the candidates filed for the DC Primary try to get on our ballot. I think Vermin Supreme would really shake up the race.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at December 22, 2003 06:14 PM
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Does anyone know the rules about the filing deadlines for presidential primary races?
From the post I can only assume that the strategy is to wait until the last minute to file so as not to spend the filing fee & conserve resources because you do not know if you are going to be around by any given state's primary.
Very interesting that so few mainstream candidates have filed so far. Dean is going to kick ass in Texas - too bad the primary is moved back a week (thanks Tom Delay) so we have less input.
Out of morbid curiosity, I checked out Ramndy Crow's website. What a nut!!! This guy is worse than Lyndon LaRouche. He is an absolute Jew hating bigot.
(His site says, inter alia, that the bone which is placed on the Sedar tray is a "weapon" ready to be used to kill Christians and is a symbol of the Jews' murdering of Christ - and I thought that Christian dogma tried to retreat from its centuries old tenent bigoted notion that the Jews murdered Christ).
With all this said, he has the right to be on the ballot, which includes the right to getting his ass kicked at the ballot box. If we start having "litmus-tests" for the eligibility of candidates to be on the ballot, the people ultimately lose. Never try to censor a nut, because he will fester in obscurity. Instead, allow him to be disinfected by the sunlight. Hold him high on the pedestal and expose him for the bigoted, paranoid nutcase he is.
