Whacked Out Republican Presidential Candidate Speaks Out
October 14th, 2007 by Steve
A lot of criticism of certain third party candidates is justified. When not working for the national party or a national campaign, I’ve often been one of the folks leading the criticism. When third parties run blue guys or certified whack jobs, they deserve the negative attention they receive.
Major parties certainly aren’t immune from this problem, and Alabama’s Hugh Cort certainly seems to be another nutso, whacked out candidate. Hugh Cort is the Alabama psychiatrist seeking the Republican presidential nomination on a doomsday platform that only someone like Michael Medved or Michelle Malkin could support.
When the Birmingham News gave him ink the other day, Cort responded with a letter to the editor:
There are a few points I would like to clarify. The “straw polls” I have been in include:
The Texas Straw Poll, where I spoke and was on the ballot with the top 12 Republican candidates. I got a standing ovation from many of the 2,500 Texans there.
The first statewide South Carolina Straw Poll in Columbia Sept. 20, where I spoke and was on the ballot with the top candidates.
And the first Straw Poll in Rhode Island in May, which I won.
The chairman of the Iowa GOP, Ray Hoffmann, asked me to bring my friend Gen. Tom McInerney with me to accompany Hoffman on his Chairman’s Tour of Iowa in June, and we got a great response to McInerney’s plan to win the war in Iraq and stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
Some counterterrorism experts, such as Michael Scheurer, Yossef Bodansky, Hamid Mir and Paul Williams, agree Osama bin Laden may well have nuclear devices here already. Pastor John Hagee writes about bin Laden’s “American Hiroshima” plan in his book “Jerusalem Countdown.
I’ve been following GOP straw poll wins across the country and the Rhode Island victory he claimed seemed a bit odd, so I did some checking. Apparently he did win, but Anchor Rising provides the probable mechanism of victory:
Results from the Narragansett/South Kingstown GOP Presidential straw poll ($1 per vote, vote as many times as you want) are in… […]
(*)Candidate Cort graced the citizens of Rhode Island with an in-person appearance at the event and, in the spirit of the evening, was very generous to the South Kingstown and Narragansett town committees.
I’m sure most everyone will agree that the guy is more than a bit bizarre. What I find interesting is that his platform differs little from Bush’s 2004 platform and there is little difference between his foreign policy proposals and those of Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Fred Thompson and the rest of the non-Ron Paul GOP Republican candidates.
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JACK STILES wrote on 10/24/07 at 2:29 am :
JACK STILES VICE CHAIR CHRISTIAN COALITION OF VA., Dr. Hugh Cort a man who is willing to stand up for what is right in america, and wants to restore GOD,FAMILY and PRO-LIFE values. This for some is hard to understand attacking a man for some ideas, means you have nothing left in the tank to fight with no new ideas nothing keep attacking and god bless you.
urbangop wrote on 10/30/07 at 10:22 pm :
Oh come on, you complain that Cort “bought” the Rhode Island straw poll, that’s exactly how every candidate wins… Texas, Iowa, it doesn’t matter.
As to Cort being whacked out… you obviously are clueless. Then again, you have trouble making a living writing, so you blog.
Third Party Watch » Blog Archive » Fringier Fringe Candidates Than Even We Cover On This Somewhat Fringe Site wrote on 12/29/07 at 1:08 am :
[…] even further out than Robert Milnes or Daniel Imperato. Even further from the mainstream than Hugh Cort, the Republican presidential candidate running on a somewhat mainstream Republican […]