Roseanne Barr and Cindy Sheehan.
From the Chicago Tribune: Those who follow her Twitter feed know that Roseanne Barr, the
59-year-old actress and comedian, has been running for president for a
year now. Originally, she promoted herself as the standard-bearer of the
Green Party.
Now, her White House quest has taken a different turn.
She announced Thursday that she will run for president on the Peace and
Freedom Party ticket. Her running mate, Barr said in a news release,
will be Cindy Sheehan, whose son,U.S. Army Spec. Casey Sheehan, was
killed in Iraq in 2004. In August 2005, the Gold Star mother mounted a
lonely antiwar protest outside President George W. Bush’s ranch in
Crawford, Texas.
"The American people are sick and tired of this
'lesser evil’ garbage they get fed every election year,” Barr said via
the news release. “Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same
evils once they’re in office. I’m here to tell the voters: if you want
to tell the government and the two domineering parties that you’re sick
and tired of all their evil, register in the Peace and Freedom Party and
vote for me and Cindy.”
In the release, Sheehan, who
was vilified by the right for her Crawford vigil, said she was honored
to be selected as Barr’s running mate. “I am excited about the chance to
infuse the message of socialism with the heart and soul that is missing
from political discourse,” she said.
The Peace and Freedom Party
was founded in Los Angeles in 1967. It came about after demonstrators
protesting the Vietnam War were attacked by police in Century City,
where President Lyndon B. Johnson was holding a fundraiser, and has
struggled ever since to qualify for ballot status.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/celebrity/la-roseanne-barr-peace-and-freedom-party-candidate-20120802,0,7226374.story
While they may not be a Ralph Nader, they do have name recognition and may siphon some hard left voters from President Obama. A debate with these clowns would be interesting.
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