CONFEDERATE CANDIDATES FOR REPUBLICAN PARTY?

We were surprised to learn that Donnie Kennedy was considering a run for President of the United States and we are relieved now to learn that he will not make a try for November 2004. While we have always considered Donnie to be not only a friend but even supportive of the Federation of States efforts to establish the Southern Independence Party (SIP) throughout the south. Our stated goal is the restoration of the Confederate States of America and not to reform of the United States.

Reform movements have been tried repeatedly in many arenas over many issues. Some have met with limited success, but meanwhile and at the same time, the Federal bureaucracy has marched forward towards totalitarianism in dozens of other directions and arenas. Of course only a few of these movements have been pro-south or pro-confederacy, but most have been beneficial in their stated goals in reducing centralization powers and increasing freedom for the people of the American States.

We, of the Federation of States, differentiate between the United States of America (Federal Union of the U.S.A.) and the Confederate States of America which we insist still legally exists and has never surrendered and which has its own ratified constitution. We have decided not to waste our very limited resources in trying to reform the Federal Union, but instead to work towards restoration and resurrection of the Confederate States of America as a free and independent sovereign nation friendly to the other American nations including north, central and south America. We have no interest in attacking or over throwing any of the national governments of the American continent, rather in obtaining our liberation and freedom for the confederacy that our forefathers began working on in 1774. Our emphasis has been to organize SIP party machinery at the county level in some thirteen States which we are now involved in organizing. When enough counties are organized to offer general coverage of a State at the grass roots level, we then hold State conventions to elect a State executive committee and a State Chairman of the SIP (Southern Independence Party).

The Confederate State of America and the people therein are militarily, politically, and economically occupied today by establishment forces of the Federal Union of the U.S.A. and State's rights have been continually denied in violation of the constitution of our forefathers.

The various southern States today are essentially satellites of the Federal Union who continues their massive reconstruction program in the south especially through the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. but including the assignment of scalawag politicians to rule over these satellite states. These southern satellite states of the Federal Union have been induced to rejoin the Union in spite of the desires of the citizens populating those states. However, none of the southern states have disavowed their statehood in the Confederate States of America and the day of resurrection is drawing nearer. Meanwhile, the Federal Union has given the people in the south the illusion of being able to vote in the Federal elections for congressmen, senators and even the president of the Federal Union. The Federal Union today contains such a massive and entrenched unelected bureaucracy loaded with socialists and fascists (who all function under Admiralty law within their organizations) that no president alone can turn the monster around and reform it.

The Southern Independence Party tells its members to concentrate on electing county sheriffs, constables, commissioners, school board members, judges and county attorneys. Also, they should work to elect the best district officials and, of course, legislators and finally State officials including governors. Since the Federal Union lets us vote in their elections (which are largely controlled by the DEM/GOPs (Republicrats), the SIP tells its members to vote in the Federal election by voting against both the Democrat and Republican candidates by voting for a third party candidate. "Why throw your vote away on the lesser of two evils. You are still voting for evil even if lesser." There are a couple of third parties who run candidates for President and voting for the better of those costs us nothing and serves as a protest against the established DEM/GOPs in Washington.

That brings us to Donnie Kennedy and other Confederates who might vie for the Presidency of the United States. Although this would not directly serve to re-establish the Confederate States of America, it could be helpful in several ways and harmful in other ways.

If a southern leader ran as an Independent, this would provide an easy choice for Confederates nationwide to vote for the Confederate Independent thus providing a forum to speak and perhaps a swing vote for negotiation. (Gaining Republican or Democratic nomination would be out of the question politically).

On the other hand, if such southern leader attempted to capture delegates in the Republican primary, several good things could happen.

1. Some Confederates could also run for lesser offices in the Republican primary and some would perhaps win as tag-alongs with a major Confederate candidate.

2. This would provide a political forum for the public to hear Confederate principles of State’s rights, etc. particularly at the Republican State Conventions. Some Confederate platform positions could be passed in some Republican State Conventions, but these would never be mentioned in the Republican National Convention being stopped by the RNC.

3. This would produce an "in your face" display of Confederate flags for the media feast, but the RNC would, no doubt, ban those flags from the Republican National Convention hall. There could be an opportunity for some ruckus over this denial for the sake of the press.

4. Although the Confederate movement would receive some publicity over a Confederate Presidential Candidate, at this time and mood in the country it would not be feasible to expect a Confederate Candidate to win the nomination of the Republican Party and even less feasible for Confederate platforms to be endorsed by the RNC. Remember there are many high level communists (not carrying cards), socialists and fellow travelers in high positions in the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is even more completely and openly infiltrated with communists and socialists and other degenerates.

5. If, by some miracle, a real Confederate candidate was nominated by the National Republican Party, that candidate would likely win the general election because it would pull many old line Democrats over, or they would just stay home. But, such nomination at this time is not reasonably in the cards. The necessary political machinery simply is not yet in place at the grass roots level to support such candidacy.

6. We saw the abandonment of the SIP in Mississippi when Confederate John Cripps jumped on the "save the flag issue" and then ran for Governor. The people voted to keep the flag, but only 4% voted for Cripps for Governor. Thus, his pre-mature campaign without a party machine at the grass roots level served to damage the Southern movement in Mississippi by pulling away the leaders of our fledgling new party machinery to the Cripps candidacy. We are still trying to regroup in Mississippi and finally with some success. But, there is a political lesson here. Don’t get the cart ahead of harnessing the horses to it. In a State where we have 15 or 20 county chairmen and a State Executive Committee, local level candidates can actually help us generate more recruiting of new members to the party.

7. A small state wide political organization involving 15 to 20 counties might even be enough to run someone for Governor from a grass roots point of view without damaging the party machinery. However, do not overlook the difficulty in gaining ballot access for a candidate. We are a new and building third party and different states have different requirements for ballot access. Winning a statewide office on a write-in basis is not feasible either. On the other hand, in most of our Southern States, if there were Independent Confederate candidates like SIP Candidates and they were on the ballot they would likely surprise everyone with a very high vote count showing and many would win. That is because of the latent southern cultural heritage in the hearts of the people, the rebellious nature of common folks and because of their frustration with the twiddly dee twiddly dum - politics as usual from the DEM/GOPs. A second choice always available to Confederates in State elections is to vote for the Democrat or Republican or even Libertarian who exhibits the better southern values and such a candidate can be endorsed by the SIP without damaging our party machinery.

8. A Confederate Presidential candidate running this year as a Republican, however, would substantially damage, if not destroy the Federation of States plan of creating the SIP party machinery in 13 to 18 States preparatory to electing State officials necessary to restore the Confederate States of America. First it would pull our leadership away into that candidacy. Secondly, if the candidacy failed, it would cause many defections in disgust and frustration. If the candidate was elected, all we would have done is to have converted many of our SIP members into Republicans and there can be no hope of converting the party of Abraham Lincoln to a real Confederate supporting party.

9. If we had a choice, which would we want of the choices below;