What's the difference?

[heath.whiteaker]

What's the difference between the Libertarian party and the Constitution Party? From reading what the Constitution party stands for I think it is a shoe in for Ron Paul

[CaveDog]

There are a lot of similarities but the Constitution party is closer to the republican party than the libertarian party is. Probably the biggest, most relevant difference is immigration policy. The constitution party is more strict on border control while the libertarians favor restricting entry only where things like criminal background or health issueas are involved. They oppose immigration quotas so basically as long as someone is healthy and can pass a background check they'd allow them in without much restriction.

The constitution party platform is definitely very similar to Ron Paul's.

You can check out the party platforms...

http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php

http://www.lp.org/issues/platform_all.shtml

Additional note: The constitution party is also more oriented toward Christianity and incorporates Christian principles heavily.

[Mesogen]

The Constitution Party should be renamed the Theocratic Party.

That's the difference.

If Ron Paul ran on a third party ticket, especially the Constitution Party, it would be a guaranteed loss.

He has much better chances as an independent.
Getting on ballots would be just as difficult though.

[Eponym_mi]

The Constitution Party should be renamed the Theocratic Party.

I agree. The religious angle is the fundamental difference between the LP and the CP. The LP is more secular.

[Mesogen]

http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php#Pornography


We call on our local, state and federal governments to uphold our cherished First Amendment right to free speech by vigorously enforcing our laws against obscenity to maintain a degree of separation between that which is truly speech and that which only seeks to distort and destroy.

With the advent of the Internet and the benevolent neglect of the previous administrations, the pornography industry enjoyed uninhibited growth and expansion until the point today that we live in a sex-saturated society where almost nothing remains untainted by its perversion. While we believe in the responsibility of the individual and corporate entities to regulate themselves, we also believe that our collective representative body we call government plays a vital role in establishing and maintaining the highest level of decency in our community standards.

Um No.

[heath.whiteaker]

Yeah I was looking at the platform and I was pretty amazed at how close they were with Ron Paul

[Eponym_mi]

Yeah I was looking at the platform and I was pretty amazed at how close they were with Ron Paul

The CP platform contains planks that attract social conservatives. The LP platform contains planks that attract anarchists. I believe they're both compromises that ignore present reality and the Constitution to some extent. My ideal would be a minarchist, secular government....which is what I believe the Constitution really represents.