AMERICAN PARTY -

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

I don't know much about the American Party. Here is a little background on it.

AMERICAN PARTY - The AP is a very small, very conservative, Christian splinter party formed after a break from the American Independent Party in 1972. US Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) and Governor Mel Thomson (R-NH) both flirted with the American Party's presidential nomination in 1976, but both ultimately declined. The party won its strongest finish in the 1976 presidential election -- nominee Tom Anderson carried 161,000 votes (6th place) -- but has now largely faded into almost total obscurity.

The party's 1996 Presidential candidate -- anti-gay rights activist and attorney Diane Templin -- carried just 1,900 votes. Former GOP State Senator Don Rogers of California -- the 2000 nominee for President -- did even worse, as he failed to qualify for ballot status in any states. The party -- which used to field a sizable amount of state and local candidates in the 1970s -- rarely fields more than a handful of nominees nationwide in recent years, although they do claim local affiliates in 15 states.

Beyond the pro-life, pro-gun and anti-tax views that you'd expect to find, the American Party also advocates an end to farm price supports/subsidies, privatization of the US Postal Service, opposes federal involvement in education, supports abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency, supports repeal of NAFTA, opposes minimum wage laws, opposes land use zoning regulations and opposes convening a Constitutional convention. Of course, the AP also opposes the United Nations, the New World Order, communism, socialism and the Trilateral Commission. As in 2000, the party's 2004 Presidential ticket embarrassingly failed to qualify for the ballot in any states.
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**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

They need to just become an arm of the republican party, the conserv wing, if you will.

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

It sounds like they sould have named it the Anti Party. Laughing

They have a lot of views that the Libertarians have with the anti government stand.

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

The Party was probably started by disgruntled libertarians. Sedems to be the answer, if your planks do not make it into the platform; start another party.

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

Here is some info about how it started.

According to Vol. I No. 1 of the Eagle (Official National Monthly Publication of the American Party in the United States) published in December, 1969, a preliminary meeting of over 300 George C. Wallace supporters from 37 states occurred on February 1 in Dallas, Texas! This meeting paved the way for the founding organizational meeting of the American Party of the United States on Saturday and Sunday, May 3rd and 4th in Cincinnati, Ohio! The first National Chairman of the American Party was T. Coleman Andrews, Jr. His father, T. Coleman Andrews, Sr was an independent candidate for President running against Republican Dwight David Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson in 1956!

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