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Russ Potts turned out to be a slimy weasel. All he's trying to do is keep the GOP candidate, Jerry Kilgore from winning for Governor in November. The national MSM would use that as an excuse to say the DUmbocRATS are a "comeback party". I hope it backfires, because GOP voters in VA are very conservative, and well they should be. Running as what he calls "moderate" (translation: liberal RINO), Potts might pull votes away from Kaine. P.S. Bush won VA 54-45.

[goldstategop]

Focus your efforts on establishing conservative control of the Virginia Senate. Its currently in the grip of a RINO-liberal Democrat coalition.

(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")

[DixieOklahoma]

what a loser

[GeronL]

RINO's will do this more and more often over the next several years to throw races to Democrats. RINO's cannot stand conservatives winning.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Where can I contribute to his opposition?

[taxesareforever]

but that the GOP's rightward drift has put it out of line with the thinking of most Virginians.

He will be surprised then when he ends up a LOSER!

[freespirited]

He vowed to turn back one of the most popular political promises in recent Virginia history by allowing local governments to reinstate the car tax.

Wow. I never heard of this guy but I imagine with stands like this he must be wildly popular.

/sarcasm

[gieriscm]

The VA GOP has not drifted right. Potts is a leftist. He's pro-tax, anti-gun, and pro-abortion. The only reason he keeps getting re-elected is he calls for open primaries as the nominating process, and all the D's in his district come out to vote for him, since VA doesn't registery voters by Party affiliation.

[BillF]

Reminds me of that "moderate" Republican who ran as an independent to keep Oliver North out of the Senate in 1994.

I hope and believe that Kilgore will be more successful than North.

Kilgore shouldn't have to face some other factors that confronted North: a high-ranking incumbent GOP turncoat, John Warner, got the RINO (Coleman?) into the 1994 race and used all his power to back the RINO, and the liberal monopoly media went to war against North. (The WP ran hit piece after hit piece against Oliver North, culminating with a hit piece a few days before the election that seemed to come from the anti-North campaign literature of the lunatic Lyndon LaRouche.)

Now I know that the media will favor the Dem in this year's VA gov. contest, but I don't think that they will be as strident as they were against North. Also, the liberal media will be less effective than they were in 1994. Talk radio and the internet, much more powerful than in 1994, can help overcome media bias as proven in Bush's reelection against an outrageous stream of lies, half-truths and distortions of the media.

[Jan Hus]

"I believe that Virginia is a moderate, middle-of-the-road state," said Potts, 65. "That's where I am." The only thing you find in the middle-of-the-road is a "Yellow Stripe" or a "Dead Skunk".

[iceskater]

pro-investment campaign

This is Demo-speak for "tax increases".

[Guillermo]

If he was truly "in step" with Virginians, and not "out of step" like he says the GOP is, then he should cruise to victory in the GOP primary...right??

[Republican Wildcat]

If he's going to run on a leftist platform, he may just draw votes from the Democrat.

[JohnBDay]

Marshall Coleman was able to get as many votes as he did because he had the implicit endorsement of John Warner. This time, Warner has alrighty endorsed Kilgore. I'd be shocked if Potts gets more than 5%.