Jon Stewart, November 28, 1962 (New York, N.Y.) -
VP candidate for Independent (2012)
Running mate with nominee: Charles Earl Harvey (b. 1940)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
It was only a matter of time before some obscure Presidential candidate appointed Jon Stewart, the host of the wildly popular political satire program The Daily Show as their running-mate. In 2012 it happened.
Charles Earl Harvey of Littleton, N.C. announced in a Mar. 3, 2011 Youtube that he was running for President of the United States and two days later indicated his choice for a running-mate was Jon Stewart. He also said in that week that Stephen Colbert was his selection for Press Secretary. In one video Harvey implied God was his campaign manager. On his campaign website Harvey listed former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA), and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) as other potential running-mates but Stewart seemed to have been first in line. There is no record I can find of any of these possible VPs responding to Mr. Harvey.
On his webpage [note: all following quotes are transcribed as written], Harvey wrote--
Stewart is very intelligent, and very politically aware both nationally and Globally. He could handle pressure at any level. And has more commonsense than 85% of those in Congress. Steward knows what is going on in America and the World and what should be done. We had one Comedian in the Oval Office for Two terms.
As for himself, Harvey provided this autobiography--
Charles Earl Harvey.
The Unknow man From The "Middle-Class," That can. The powers to be ("Upper-Class" and The "Big-Six"Media Corporations) refuseses to give any media coverage because he is not from the "Upper-Class." He would make a great President for the people. He survived being abandoned, abused as a child in every way you can imagine. He is a recovering alcoholic 32 years, and knows what is like to live on the streets and to go hungry. Here is his house, please compare it to Mitt Romney's house as well as the other "upper-class Wealthy presidential Candidates, and ask yourself who do you think would most likely help the "Middle-Class" that live on "Main Street USA, not "Wall Street."
He would stop earmarks and have clean bills. He would close tax loop holes for the wealthy. He would have American corporations be charged for offshore banking, Outsourcing jobs and manufacturing, If he could not stop it by implementing new laws. He would not use Military intervention in conflicts that are not a direct threat to Americans. He would cut the Military Budget for new weapons and put it towards servicemen and their families and Veterans benefits.
He would close down the Department of Education. He would withdrawal military out Muslim nations. He would work on Americas challenges above. Think about it, a first "middle-class" President, from a tough life always picking himself up, and trying again and again, and accepts responsibilities for his actions, without blaming others. The "Upper-Class" would never want a man like Charles Harvey as president, his belief and values is best said by George Bernard Shaw, "I have to live for others and not for myself: that's "middle-class" morality."
Harvey's campaign attempted to use the Citizens Party of the United States (not related to Barry Commoner's party) but to little avail.
His stand on the issues--
ABORTION
I believe God gave us free will to choose as American provides that freedom. I am Pro Life However, I am not God, and the decision about a woman’s body is hers to make. It is her Body and between her and her God. "You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye." American King James Version
AFGHANISTAN
It is a Muslim Nation and, help should come from all other Muslim Nations. I would hire a covert, Special Opersation teams, to seek out the bin laden and other leader to capture or kill all the terrorist that attack America.
BUDGET
We need to cut defense spending by 50%, and NASA by 60% and stop the Billions of Dollars Politicians are spending on Pork/Ear-marks each year that is Billions and Billion of Dollars. 2011 Budget has over 6000 Ear-Marks well over $40 Billion Dollars. Also, we need to put a moratorium for 10 years of giving money to countries except for natural disasters. Never cut any programs that assist Americans in health, housing, food and employment.
BUSINESS AND LABOR
American businesses doing too much outsourcing jobs and manufacturing. GE is a good example of doing both and laying off American workers and did not even pay taxes on a 14 Billion Dollar profit.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
We say we want punishment, However! Putting a person killing a person by lethal injection is very short time of punishment. Punishment is a person live in a cage for the rest of his or hers life. If, I had a choice I would choose death over living life in a prison. Killing the criminal does not help the person they harmed. Many times we have killed innocent people.
CHINA
What’s the Question? They are financially better off than America, and we work for them by paying one million Dollars a day in interest alone on our loans from them.
CIVIL LIBERTIES
I believe The United States of America should concern themselves with these rights here in our own country and not the worlds. Believing Rights or freedoms given to the people by the First Amendment to the Constitution ...
CUBA
No Missiles and over 50 years of punishment, should be long enough, lets open trade and tourism with them. Let us not let a minority group in Miami that oppose Opening relationships control the United States commerce.
DEFICIT
We Americans have dug a hole for ourselves. We have interfered with Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya at a cost of thousands of lived and Billions and Billions of dollars. We allowed Banks to buy, and sell bad paper, and it cost us billions of dollars to bail them out. Oh, and then they gave Million Dollar bonuses to their executives. We failed to regulate the greedy little kids.
ECONOMY
What economy? The government spends too much money bailing out Banks. Banks allowed Americans buy homes that they could not afford. Banks gave loans on weak credit. Politicians are bleeding the tax payers with Tens of Thousand of ear- marks for their states.
Raising the budget for Military defense and Space exploration. Outsource jobs and manufacturing to other countries is insane.
EDUCATION
It is not about money it is about quality. U.S. teens 29Th in science worldwide ... Education, in Science, think about it. It is now and the future of the world. According to the U.S. Department of Education’s 2007 “Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study” (TIMSS), the U.S. trails behind the following countries in average mathematics scores: Singapore Taiwan Japan Republic of Korea Hong Kong Sweden Netherlands Hungary Slovenia ...
ENERGY
We have the capabilities to developed an alternate fuel to substitute oil within 5 to 10 years. Oil Companies and a few hundred billionaires want us depended on oil. That is why our Government supports Muslim nations with lots of oil. We can heat and cool all building through, Solar, Water, and Nuclear Power Plants.
ENVIRONMENT
A question for me? A question you all know, we are destroying every aspect of the environment. We do not care. If, we did then we as individuals would do their part.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
US main problem in this area of foreign affairs is the fact we get involved in to many affairs and act as we are in charge of the World’ We need to attend to the internal affairs of American for the next ten years.
QUANTANAMO
Keep it open for military war, criminals and give them due process by military courts.
GUN CONTROL
It is a right and should follow strong guidelines before issuing a permit or selling guns. 30 day waiting period unless a person needs it for work. Through background checks.
HEALTH CARE
Spend more on health care and less on weapons and space exploration, Political ear-marks. Stop funding other countries. Lets take care of our elderly, disables and mothers with children that need help. We can trip the fat off of Medicare and Medicaid but not the essentials.
IMMIGRATION
I would like to close all but 3 of the 42 board crossing and allow only essential
Transportation approved my the US Government such has government vehicles and import and exports Give immunity to those that turn themselves in and go through the process of being a citizen and paying taxes. We never can or ever will get the Millions and Millions that are here illegally now. Triple the side of border patrol. Remember, that the majority of illegal drugs comes from the South and American are the largest purchasers of illegal drugs. This will reduce drugs and illegal aliens coming across our southern border. Also, cut down the murders on the American side of the border. People want to visit Mexico they will have to find another way of getting there, by air or ship, or boat.
IRAN
Ignore them till they are a direct threat to US or our allies. Again it is Muslim nations, not American or Christian.
IRAQ
Get out stay out and never interfere again with a Muslim nation.
ISRAEL
Negations on not expanding and if they do not agree cut off funding.
[MARIJUANA]
We worry about marijuana that has no record of killing any person. Still America spends billions on fighting it. No, I do not smoke MARIJUANA.
But, we love keeping alcohol legal that kills, cripple people in the tens of thousands every year. We could collect lots of revenue from taxing it if we make it legal. We, have liquor stores, and some State operated liquor stores, so open marijuana stores, and collect taxes.
MINIMUM WAGE
We should increase the minimum wage according to inflation. We give raises to middle and upper class that are not working for minimum wages why not to the people that are doing jobs many do not want to take.
NATIONAL SECURITY
We are on over kill over budget and need to work smarter.
NORTH KOREA
Take a satellite look over all of North Korea, the lights are out. Then look at South Korea at night it is all bright. If they fire missiles then worry, mean while back to the USA problems.
PALESTINE ISSUES
I checked with Gods Bible, and it said his son use to hang out with Palestinians. I hear Both God and his son thinks they are human and deserve to live like humans, and share the Holy land. Maybe if God and his son made the North Pole Holly ice things would cool down.
POVERTY
We cannot fight poverty in American if politician spend billions of dollars every year on earmarks, as well has been over funding Defense and NASA for the last ten years; and giving money to other nations.
PRESCRITION DRUGS
We all know they are much do high and buying the price has to be high is for research has little merit. If American want to buy prescriptions drugs from Canada so be it. We have had American die by bad prescription given to them by doctors and pharmacist here in the US. Now ask if the pharmaceutical companies want us to buy from Canada, You know their answer.
SAME SEX ISSUES
What goes on behind closed doors is their business. But changing the laws of marriage for less than 3% of the American population that goes back over 6000 years for a few people, is very self-centered and self serving. And, please to give me that ant-gay rhetorical comeback when a person oppose Gay issues ...
SOCIAL SECURITY
Guarantee the fund will be there and do not borrow from it. If our Government needs to borrow money, get it from the politicians ear-marks and the many billionaires in American, Like GE that made billions in profits they can load our Government money with low-interest rate. Do not go to China and Japan. American went to war against Japan, now we borrow from them only coming in second to China. America is loosing the economical war with China.
STEM CELL RESEACH
Yes, Yes! Do not waste what can be use for the betterment of mankind.
TAXES
Well taxes, at this time are lower that the 30% it was for the last ten years. But it is really not equally fair. When you think that 1% of the population has more money that 92% of the people, and 2% of the population make $200,000 to $250,000 a year, don’T you think they can pay maybe another 3% Remember 72% of the American population are middle class making under 50,000 a year. How about putting higher luxury taxes on all the very expensive things that only the rich and famous can afford.
TRADE ISSUES
Our Government caused the problem. We allowed too much outsourcing manufacturing. Then we import products made for American company back to the us that could have been made here in American by our workers and exporting our made product to other countries and American buying American made products. Right now Americans buy 9 out of 10 products made in other countries.
Note: I would like to stop all imports on all vehicles that use oil based fuel. You would see miracles in alternate fuels for vehicles. And American would become competitive.
Harvey listed what he considered 20 major problems with America and followed it with some interesting observations on his competition. He basically endorsed Obama for a second term as a backup plan--
The presidential candidates for 2012 are really a joke that I'm afraid that many take them serious. As a retired clinical therapists that spent years diagnosing and profiling people, I can see right through the candidates. I am not talking about the obvious dumb things they say, but their personality, strengths, and weaknesses.
Herman Cain
All about Him. Who does he admire? Himself. Supper-Ego. Out of touch. Thinks all black play the race card. If a person does not have a job it is their own fault. His knowledge base is Pizza, he even sings a song "imagine a world without Pizza. Cain speaks rhetorical *BS, what he thinks people want to hear. He has Two personalities. The one you see in the media, and the one you do not see. If he says something people do not like, he will say he was joking. Loves to live the high life and hang out with the "big dogs."
Mitt Romney
Mr. Flip Flop on many issues. He is like a Republican Flag that goes in the direction the wind is blowing. So out of touch with "middle-class" he has never ever been near a middle-class life. All talk. He is a man in a empty expensive suit. His favorite quote , " We live in the greatest country on earth" Send him the 20 things that are not so beautiful about America I listed above.
Michele Bachmann
Her strength is following, but she would need to be told how and what to do. .Not a leader. Thinks God makes Huricanes to get Americas attention. Thinks the earth is only a few thousand years old. She said, ''Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. However there isn't even one study that can be produced that show that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.'' She also said. "But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."That would make our founders living a very long time since they wrote those documents in 1776, and slavery officially ended in.1865, and they were not springs chickens at the time of the writing the Constitution.
Ron Paul
A very honest man, I respect, however! He has extstream and radical ideas on the function of Government. The people formed a government through election to guide and help America prosperous and safe. Not sure if any of the 20 problems I listed are on his list to do.
Gary Johnson.
A proven track record, Born in the "middle-class" and in touch with the people.
Jon Huntsman
From the rich and for the rich, I believe he would not change or solve any of the 20 problems listed above.
Newt Gingrich
Hangs with top Dogs, Loves media attention. Great giving lectures if you interpretor. "middle-class" can expect nothing from him from him.
President Obama.
Very presidential and intelligent and I think he would give us results in his second term. He has been blocked on all things to help the middle class from the Republicans. Obama only received backing from the Republicans if it was for the wealthy like, "Wall-Street. So less Republicans would help him accomplish more. If you do not pick me, then give him a second chance.
Harvey apparently did not gain ballot access or become a registered write-in in any state. It is unknown if Jon Stewart ever knew he was on this ticket.
Election history: none
Other occupations: high school soccer coach, caterer, busboy, shelf stocker, bartender, comedian, actor, author, television host, film director
Notes:
Birth name was Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, legally changed it in 2001.
Jon Stewart in my VHS/DVD collection: Evan Almighty, Adjustment Bureau. I confess I tossed out Death to Smoochy which I now regret just because it is so bizarre.
