[RepublicanLady]

My thoughts on this do not involve my personal religious beliefs. Mainly, I see this as Robinson wrongly using religion to gain publicity.

Look at the facts. He is merely copying someone else that gained a tremendous amount of national publicity for placing the Ten Commandments in a public forum in Alabama. Robinson is playing off of this using the Ten Commandments as a way to gain more publicity for his campaign.

TaxRelief, let me ask you this. Do you honestly believe that Vernon Robinson would have paid $2,000 to have this monument placed on City Hall grounds if he were not running for Congress? The extremely obvious nature of it all is what makes it seem so forced and contrived. That's my opinion.

[ConservativeGadfly]

Yes, I do believe he would have done this regardless of his run for Congress. His political career is decorated with all kinds of guerrilla marketing.

Even without the guerrilla marketing he has consistently stood up for conservative values -- standing up against the homosexual lobby to stop them from defunding the Boy Scouts, consistently offering conservative alternative budgets to the drunken sailor spending sprees they pass every year in Winston Salem. Most of all, he has stood as a stalwart conservative -- as the lone conservative -- against every other member of that city council.

Now. You don't like this, fine. But don't pretend you know Vernon's motivations for this. Particularly when you have clearly never bothered to look beyond the Winston Salem Journal's characterization of him.

Go ahead and continue to swallow the nice, non-threatening, ordinary little talking points from the Republican Party, RepublicanLady. I, for one, am going to go for the conservative everytime. We have enough RINOS in Congress from NC who are afraid of their own shadow to last us a lifetime. I want things shaken up.