Roseanne Barr running on socialist ticket

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Conservatives who think President Barack Obama is a socialist have another candidate to worry about now: Roseanne Barr.

The 59-year-old former sitcom star, who lost her bid for the Green Party nomination, has been nominated by the Peace and Freedom Party, which describes itself as being "committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality."

“I was asked to carry… a message during this election, and to make socialist solutions part of the narrative of this election because they’re being left out, and they work,” Barr said Thursday on CNN’s "Piers Morgan Tonight." “Government should not be run as a business. Government is the thing that protects the people from fat cats, monopolists and crazy international bankers that just write off human life. You know, I think there are very, very simple socialist solutions to everything.”

In an interview earlier this week with The Daily Beast, Barr said she’s looking to raise awareness for a third political party, giving voters another choice instead of “one party that has two heads.” Barr and running mate Cindy Sheehan, an activist whose son died in Iraq, are also running on an anti-war platform.

“Americans have been bullsh-tted into forgetting that war does not mean freedom,” Barr told the Beast. “When I’m president, I’m gonna outlaw bullsh*t.”