Peoria Pundit

(From my Inbox)

The Modern Whig Party is pleased to announce that the Illinois Chapter has now been recognized. For more information on being a part of this important aspect of our grassroots movement, please contact Jesse Corray at Illinois@modernwhig.org.

We also should add that local media coverage of the Modern Whig Party is catching on to our mainstream, non-fringe and realistic approach, with a few more articles on the way. However, we are always looking for more mainstream coverage as a means to continue building. If you have a few minutes, please think about sending a quick email to the following Associated Press address, briefly explaining why you are a part of this movement.

Tell them why you joined! info@ap.org

Or contact your local newspaper: http://www.usnpl.com/

Executive Committee
The Modern Whig Party

P.S.: We are always looking for members interested in running for office on either the Democratic, Republican or Whig ticket. Please contact Mike Lebowitz at chairman@modernwhig.org if interested.

http://www.modernwhig.org

A blog that backs Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin has declared his campaign dead:

The Establishment has seen to that. The Power Elite have told their subordinates, whom they own, “Baldwin will have no platform on our media.” Instead, the Constitutionalists, Greens, Libertarians, independents and all other outsiders will be smeared as crackpots, morons, conspiratorialists, etc. The sheeplelectorate have bought the propaganda, hook, line, and sinker. Completely. Without question. Gullible has left the building and will not be back. The people are ignored, since they are mere pawns in the globalist agenda chess game in which the peons do not know the rules.

Please understand, dear reader, your writer fully supports Dr. Baldwin, the Constitution Party, and all for which they stand. All who criticize us do so in deep ignorance, hubris, even stupidity, as well as blindly serve the cause of Satan himself, and they would forever deny such charges.The lost are always in denial.

Let’s review: The voters are sheep, party critics are the tools of Satan (you’ve gotta love that one), the media is part of a global conspiracy. Yep, that’s how to win friends and influence people. Keep up the good work. And don’t let anyone get away with calling you a crackpot.

Take it from someone who once was a member of a third party. Third Parties do tend to attract crackpots. Some more than others, of course.

Editor’s note: I learned about the Modern Whig Party quite by accident. I recalled the name from dusty old high school history textbooks, mainly as the party that broke up and whose members, including Illinois’ own Abraham Lincoln, created the Republican Party.

I checked out their Website, fully expecting to find it to be yet another group that thought the Republicans weren’t conservative enough, or that the Democrats weren’t liberal enough, or perhaps a guy in his basement promoting conspiracy theories.

What I found was a group of people who didn’t hate the government, but who just wanted it to work better. Their ideas didn’t seem revolutionary, but founded in common sense and a respect for the law and individuals. And no conspiracy theories.

The group is just a few months old, and they have 10,000 members, chapters in 12 states and just recently issues a call for candidates to run in state and local elections in 2009.

I was intrigued enough to contact National Chairman Mike Lebowitz and ask him a few questions. Read more »