Posted on 07/25/2012 6:30:17 PM PDT by mnehring
With a little help from his friends, former congressman Virgil Goode has taken a key step toward getting his name on November’s presidential ballot in Virginia, submitting more than 14,000 signatures to the State Board of Elections....
..Goode was a Democrat for much of his career, then became an Independent and finally a Republican for his last six years on Capitol Hill. Now Goode is getting assistance from yet another party, the Independent Greens, whose members have collected thousands of signatures for him....
...“Virgil supports rail, and that’s our big issue and he’s with us on that,” said Carey Campbell, a member of the Independent Greens executive committee. “We’ve had for many years a good relationship with the Constitution Party folks.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
No, you are not - you are supporting full fledged, irreversible Marxism. You are no more supporting conservatism than members of the CPUSA.
Actually I do, because Romney ENABLED Obama.
And that Romney was to the left of Ted Kennedy, before he became severely conservative during the Repub primaries. Definitely not an opportunist!
That’s not correct and quite a selective / partial response. Many of those were closed primaries and he won by strong margins in many of them while simultaneously voters tossed out others highly supported by the establishment, such as long time Senator Richard Lugar - who did not even come close to winning (losing 61-39 - quite a revolt against such a long term, established incumbent).
You didn’t vote for him...I didn’t vote for him...but most of our fellow conservatives did. Those are the facts...trying to live in an alternate reality other than the one we are faced with and throwing a childish temper tantrum in a scorched earth strategy deliberately designed to cause harm to your country because you didn’t get your way is not in the least an appropriate thing to do. The stakes are way too high.
I like Virgil Goode, but he does not need to be on the ballot in Virginia.
One claims to be a conservative now, but is a known liar with a liberal record. The other is an anti American socialist tyrant.
One might destroy the country. The other will destroy the country.
Come November, it's "might destroy" versus "will destroy".
People of conscience consider that.
Exactly - just complain for the sake of complaining. "If Obama finishes off the country through more radical appointments and enacting laws through executive fiat - so be it - at least we will have taught Romney a lesson!" Meanwhile they fawn fake comments like we shouldn't trust Romney and instead just focus on getting more conservatives elected to Congress (which, IMHO, would be a very honorable alternative - let Romney sink or swim on his own if you really can't stomach helping him and focuse all of your efforts on these other worthwhile endeavors - such as ensuring Mourdock gets in there in Indiana - what an amazing improvement that would be over Lugar for the GOP caucus!)...but do you see any of these same people focusing their energy toward posting about and encouraging support for the key Senate and House races that could make this happen? Nope - just all posts bashing Romney and marveling about the "creativity" of a "true conservative" candidate's alliance with far left parties trying to get him on the ballot to help Obama's re-election chances.
Goode does have a pretty conservative voting record.
That said, I remembering Pelosi being elected speaker unaminously by her party members.
Goode was a Democrat thru ~2009.
I will and said “don’t” but will respect the fact you have no progeny, no faith, no pride, just the tiny $$$$ you EARNED.
Spend it wisely.
Ha Ha Ha.
Are you including the owner of this site?
Obama is dismantling the Constitution and nothing will stop him if he gets a second term:
UN arms treaty takes shape, raising alarm among gun rights advocates
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/07/25/un-treaty-takes-shape-and-takes-aim-at-gun-owners/
“For a treaty to become U.S. law, two-thirds of the Senate must vote to ratify it. Still, experts told FoxNews.com that if the Obama administration signs on and the Senate does not expressly reject it, the treaty may later be enforceable in the United States as international “customary law†- absent a successful challenge based on the Constitution. “
Obama talks of limiting some gun use in wake of Colorado massacre
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2910856/posts
Oh Ok Didn’t know that.
Your comment is illogical, RW.
My candidate is a conservative. Yours is a radical liberal who just 2 months ago came out in favor of gay couples, and topped it off by insisting that gay couples at state level should be allowed to adopt children.
His name will appear on the ballot in my home state of Ohio. I will vote for him. All of his votes will be in one column, Romney’s in another, Obama’s in another, etc.
I would never vote for Romney or Obama. Ever, for any reason. It NEVER would have happened.
I opposed him in 2008, and I oppose him now.
I am not inconsistent.
I’m betting I can find posts in which you claim he’s a liberal no account. Am I right?
Goode was not a democrat through 2009.
He ceased being a democrat in 1999 and wasn’t even a representative in 2009 to be able to vote for Pelosi.
You pulled that out of thin air, FreeReign.
Thou shalt not bear false witness.
I would rather dis agree.
My take is it that “one” will destroy the country.
“ONE” will destroy the country with YOUR CONSENT.
Or not.
“People of conscience consider that.”
Still waiting for all these pro Romney types to admit the obvious...
“I, __________________, declare that I have decided that conservatism has failed and as such, I will vote for the Republican Mitt Romney, A man whose history I am aware of regarding his liberalism. It is with open eyes and no regrets that I will disavow everything I believe conservative ideals and the American Constitution ever stood for just to get Obama out of office.
Further, by doing so, I accept that I adopted the very things I formerly despised to get a liberal elected President and henceforth I have no legitimate right to ever be trustworthy again - since my newly adopted situational ethics allow me to bend like a twig in the prevailing political winds.
Signed, _____________________________”
Now if they are so gung ho on Romney being SOOOO much better than the other lib running, they should have the guts to man up, stop all the excuse making and admit before the world who and what they really are...because a vote for a liberal, regardless of the reason shows definitively what they are.
How does one “save” America by voting for abortion, gun control, homosexuals in the military/marriage? Romney has stated no intention to fight abortion, reverse the queering of the armed forces, hold any of the current admin to account or anything else. And his promise on Obamacare has NOTHING but air behind it.
So have some integrate Romney fans. Sign the above statement and stop pretending conservatism guides you. Then again, anyone willingly voting for a lib, R or D, has pretty clearly outed themselves regardless. That’s just reality.
Goode was always a conservative and kept getting in trouble for it.
He lost democrat support when he voted to impeach Clinton.
He lost Republican support when he refused to support TARP.
His voting record has a higher conservative rating AS A DEMOCRAT than all but a handful of republicans.
As a republican his voting record was unimpeachable.
He has never wavered on support for pro-life.
Compared with Radical Liberal Romney, Virgil Goode is Ronald Reagan.
Edit... Integrity
Excellent pledge, Norm. Let’s see how many sign it.
I was mistaken, off by a decade.
I posted in all sincerity as I always do.
Your accusation that I didn't is false and pulled from thin air.
Look in the mirror about bearing false witness, xzins.
Sometimes democracy is like making sausage . . .
Well, it certainly isn’t going to matter in the state of VA. I hear that the Democrats are registering not only the dead, but dogs and cats and illegals in that state.
Ha Ha Ha.
Hi, X. Just sayin' hi. Just had a really fine time (in the rain) cookin' a fat hog for a big family reunion. Saw an absolutely beautiful 5 year old grandniece there.
And Yes.
By my consent...
Sorry. You didn't deserve that. But there are others.
You pulled the “supported the election of Pelosi” part from thin air.
You did not have a clue.
You made it up.
It’s obvious that you did, because you didn’t have the foggiest idea about the date.
And your a conservative voting for the former Dem who is now being pushed by the greenies??
The Mitt-haters are clearly dissembling and grasping at straws. Soooooo sad to watch adults stomping their feet and at the very least helping Obama.
So have some integrate Romney Bambi fans. Sign the above statement and stop pretending conservatism guides you. Then again, anyone willingly voting for a lib, R or D, radical Marxist to be reelected has pretty clearly outed themselves regardless. That’s just reality.
Go ahead, integrate how stupid that is...........
Hey, I have this great idea, let's reenact Picketts charge to show how pure we are.......
Idiots. Unfrickingbelievable idiots.
I said that I was mistaken about the date.
I specifically looked up Goode's record, and saw the date Jan. 2009 and mistakenly thought that he was a Dem. thru that date.
Claiming that I pulled the date out of thin air is false.
Claiming that I was bearing false witness is false.
It’s obvious that you did, because you didn’t have the foggiest idea about the date.
Your comment is nonsense.
Clearly, the Greens understand that helping Goode get on the ballot helps Obama win the state. If he needs their help to get on the ballot, then he was never a viable candidate.
“No you can’t. Your enemy is radical liberalism. You are supporting radical liberal M instead of radical liberal O.
I am supporting CONSERVATIVE Candidate Goode.
You are supporting:
gay couples
gay adoption
gays in the military
romneycare
free abortions in romneycare
greater government revenue takings/fees/fines/asssessments
pro-choice
gun control
crony/social corporatism
illegal amnesty
hiring illegals”
By voting for someone who has a snowballs chance in hell, you’re actually voting for all of the above. Your logic is rather flawed. But hey, that’s ok, maybe your conscience can keep you going through the dark days of another 4 years of Obama...but hey, you sure showed those GOP-e types didn’t ya?
Most of the people who would vote for this opportunist asshat would happily vote for Snarlin Arlen.
Can’t admit what you are Lake? Doesn’t matter. It shows. All the excuses in the world do not change the FACT that you are voting for a liberal and thinking yourself smart to do so.
Hint: It ain’t smart. Electing a lib and expecting him to be something else shows what an idiot really looks like. And since I’m not voting for a liberal with wide eyed and drooling ignorance, and you are, well...
But you just go back to your “Count of Sesame Street” routine like a good muppet. And we’ll all thank you as the dead babies continue piling up on a Planned Parenthood floor, the homos keep sodimizing each other and the uniform in military supported gay day parades and NOTHING gets better because a liberal cannot by definition make anything better. Only louse it up more.
The greenies are hoping more like you vote for Goode so Obama gets elected AGAIN!
a Republican for his last six years on Capitol Hill
The above is just the SECOND sentence in the article that leads this thread.
It is now 2012. 2009 was just 3 years ago.
If he spent his last 6 years as a Republican, there was no way...none...nada...zilch..zero way he would have been voting for Pelosi in 2009.
Thin flippin' Air!
Small point of disagreement here.
Had you been actually reading and seeing what is going on here, and I know you have, you would have to agree that it is not so unfreeking believable after all.
What is unfreakingbelieveable is that conservatives who have spent much of their political lives in the firm conviction that liberalism is responsible for the destruction of America, are now suddenly gung ho to vote one into the presidency so he can ‘save’ the country and ‘fix’ the other liberal’s reign of error.
Now exactly what part of that is incorrect? Don’t go off on a tangent about how bad Obama is, just address the above. Directly and without excuses.
Did I say that I read the second sentence in the article.
You pulled that assumption out of thin air.
That's three assumptions out of thin air by you, while my mistake was only one.
You seem to have a hard time admitting that you are wrong. Instead you rationalize your mistake, over-and-over again.
I have a long record on this board of posting what I think is the truth.
Yet I'm accused by a Chaplain and somebody who has been here long enough to know better that I'm lying.
I don't know what your problem is but I'm thru with your nonsense.
Is there any Romneybot out there even capable of addressing an issue in a serious manner without resorting to lockerroom bullshit?
Not one of you has so far. Just lots of the same tactics the libs use. Guess you can’t ‘support’ your chosen candidate with anything more than “He aint Obama”. Gee, wasn’t that what we mocked Kerry and Obama fans for in the last two elections?
Why yes...yes it was. And here you are acting just like them and using the exact same reason for supporting Mitt Romney. I’ll keep my ‘purity’ and my ‘principles’, thanks. You can enjoy whatever it is that you’ve become. Because it ain’t conservative.
Virgil Goode: A Democrat now aligned with an offshoot of the Green Party. Oh hell yeah; I can’t wait to vote for this dude.
The value is Ralph Nader. We need more independent parties. Are there any Tea Party candidates, and what about Libertarians.
The value is Ralph Nader. We need more independent parties. Are there any Tea Party candidates, and what about Libertarians.
Is there any Romneybot out there even capable of addressing an issue in a serious manner without resorting to lockerroom bullshit?
Why yes, yes there is. However, that horse has been flogged mercilessly until it is nothing but pulverized bones, in pieces too small for a buzzard to show interest in, yet the same questions are being asked, over, and over, and over, and over, it is actually nausiating, but alas, sometimes I forget and click on a reply because I have my page set on everything.
Not one of you has so far. Just lots of the same tactics the libs use. Guess you can’t ‘support’ your chosen candidate with anything more than “He aint Obama”. Gee, wasn’t that what we mocked Kerry and Obama fans for in the last two elections?
It has been answered, countless times, by many, some whose eloquence far far surpasses my feeble attempts. But then, you, who have been her forever, have no doubt read them, and yet, you still ask.
Is it the disbelief that there exists thoughts and views other than yours? Is it a non willingness to even entertain another point of view? Is it inconceivable that there are some on this board who would give their honor, their fortune, and yes, their life to get rid of the son of a bitch marxist bastard in the white house who is taking the greatest nation in the world and turning it into a 4th world crap hole? Aided and abetted by the willing media and the entire democrap party, who knows what is best for you, and has plans even for you?
Why yes...yes it was. And here you are acting just like them and using the exact same reason for supporting Mitt Romney.
I’ll keep my ‘purity’ and my ‘principles’, thanks. You can enjoy whatever it is that you’ve become. Because it ain’t conservative.
With all due respect, your purity and principles and a couple of gold coins might get you a top bunk in camp, temporarily.
I thought you were in MI cripplecreek. How are you going to vote in VA? Goode won’t make the ballot in MI. Guess I’m confused.
Well, (R) voters in Washington, Oregon, CA, Illinois, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maine, Vermont, NY, NJ, Hawaii, CT, Maryland, Massachusetts, & DC also have less than a snowball's chance of giving Romney those states' electoral votes...are you going to tell all (R) voters in those states not to vote for Romney 'cause he likewise has less than a snowball's chance??? Where's your consistency there?
Romney has NO chance of winning the electoral votes along the left coast, most of New England (except New Hampshire), the DC-Maryland area, the NY-NJ area, Illinois, Hawaii...
Bingo!
Why would ANY Washingtonian state resident who claims conservative vote for a liberal pro-abort socialist healthcare guy (Romney) who has less than a snowball's chance? Talk about letting the RINOs dictating your wasted vote!
At least I get something out of the deal. You are too I guess. The ‘honor’ of everyone knowing you voted for a liberal expecting things to improve.
The repeated questions I and others have posted like the above have NEVER been answered. The most famous of which is “How can a conservative vote for a liberal without abandoning his conservatism to do so?”
Now your crew repeats your bs ad nausem...”We answered that!!!!” But they never seem to be able to show the actual answer. It’s always an excuse why they can’t too.
Look, if you want to throw out the constitutional principles the nation was founded on because they mean squat, that’s your call. But stop lying to yourself and the rest of us that what you are doing is somehow patriotic oe a good thing to do.
If you spineless libs would stop voting for your own kind and instead vote for a conservative, we’d get one. Instead, you are willingly voting for a man whose record had no verifiable conservatism in it and claiming that anyone refusing to join your descent into cowardice by standing on the principles of the founding fathers is somehow a dumb ass thing to do.
That’s the facts. I don’t care if you lack the rational thought process to see it. Nor do I care if you think I’m an idiot. It is what it is and you are what you vote for. In this case, Romney being a liberal, liberals will vote for him. Conservatives will not.
Simple math. Do some.
You vote for your liberal and I’ll vote for mine.
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Cripplecreek, it’s apparent from your tagline that you are a church person; more than likely a born-again Evangelical (as am I). May I ask you: Do you have the hatred for Romney that you have because he’s a Mormon? I mean, if you could vote for Virgil Goode (Liberal Dem / Green Party sympathizer), it must because Romney is Mormon because Goode is more politically wacked than Romney could ever be. Just sayin’
(Except that Virgil IS ALREADY on the ballot ALSO in Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan...and Nevada...ALL the states you mentioned -- except Indiana and Pennsylvania...in which Goode could still become eligible to be on those two states' ballots!)
Plus conservative FREEPER Tom Hoefling is on the Florida ballot + will be on OTHER states' ballots!!!
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