The RP replacement 2012 Ticket !!
Roseanne Barr and her Veep Cindy Shehan
Jeff Christensen
Barr is the presidential nominee for the Peace and Freedom Party, making her a participant in the grand, democratic, and sometimes oddball reality of American politics: if you can get on the ballot, you can run for the highest office in the land.
Barr, the 59-year-old comedian famous for her long-running sitcom Roseanne, is quick to note that she is “dead serious.” She argues that the country has become undemocratic in its election process, making it too difficult for third-party candidates to get onto state ballots and into presidential debates.
“There is no real third party in America,” she says. “There’s this one party that has two sides to it—the Democratic and Republican side. It’s one party that has two heads. We want to give voters a choice for people not owned by Wall Street.”
Earlier this year, Barr campaigned for the Green Party nomination but lost to Jill Stein, a Harvard-trained physician in Massachusetts. This past weekend, Barr nabbed the nomination at the convention for the Peace and Freedom Party, which bills itself as an advocate for “socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism, and racial equality.”
Or, as Barr puts it: “Our party is about peace and freedom—Americans have been been bull****ted into forgetting that war does not mean freedom ... When I’m president, I’m gonna outlaw bull****.”
Her running mate, Cindy Sheehan, is an antiwar activist whose son died in the Iraq War. Sheehan is perhaps best known for a protest she staged in 2005, camping out in a ditch near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, demanding a meeting about the war. She has been arrested multiple times at antiwar protests around the country. The government is reportedly suing her over unpaid taxes, to which she has replied that she gave her son to the country.
Barr says she and Sheehan met through documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
