DFU SONG: Mrs. Robinson (meet Vernon Robinson, GREAT candidate with great video in North Carolina)

DFU SONGS | 6-2006 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland

[Soul Seeker]

I'm not rich by any means, so I'm selective about which candidates to fund.

I'm adding Robinson, he's too good NOT to support. A candidate that runs as a CONSERVATIVE, has humor, and tells it like it is without political correctness cluttering the airwaves.

Any folks in his district need to sign up to work his campaign if they haven't already. Everyone please donate if you haven't.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

That has got to be the greatest political ad I've ever seen.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This guy is presidential material. Forget Congress the RNC should just annoint him as their 2008 presidential candidate and to hell with the GOP primaries.

Pence for VP, IMO.

[doug from upland]

He is on my list too.

[Alia]

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[Vinnie]

Sadly, my congressman is David Price.

Price is from Chapel Hill. Need I say more?

I'd love to be able to vote for Robinson.

[NCSteve]

jern probably won't answer you. He (?) has taken to making drive-by comments for a while now. I have no idea why.

Vernon has a long history of irritating mainstream Republicans. That might be what jern's problem with him might be.

[southernnorthcarolina]

It's a great ad; one of the best I've ever seen. If the ad was the only thing I knew about Vernon, I'd send him money, and maybe even volunteer for his campaign (even though his district is 100+ miles away from me).

Unfortunately, I do know Vernon, and jern, though it'll be an unpopular opinion around here, has it about right. "Grifter" (a petty con artist) is an apt description. To which I'd add "perpetual candidate," "district hopper," "showboater," and "master of the ad hominem attack." He has run for, and lost, State Superintendent of Education (twice); Congress (this is his second attempt, this time a different district he doesn't live in); and City Council in Winston-Salem. He copied the inane stunt of the judge in Alabama by commissioning a granite Ten Commandments monument and having it installed, without permission, in a county courthouse; it was, of course, removed. He slimed his opponent in the 2004 Congressional primary (Virginia Foxx, who won, and who has a 100 rating by the American Conservative Union, but is still thought of by some as a "RINO" because of Vernon's lies about her), and he has strongly implied that his current opponent is gay, despite a total lack of evidence.

As I said, great ad. But those of you who haven't seen this kook operate need to dig a little deeper before getting on board (yes, a mixed metaphor).

Vernon likes to call himself a "black Jesse Helms." Actually, he's more like a "poor man's Alan Keyes" but without the intelligence or the charm.

Question jern's conservative credentials if you like. Question mine, too, if you wish. But I recommend that FReepers steer a wide path around Mr. Robinson.

[jern]

you need to dig a little deeper before you get that guy a dollar

[jern]

NCsteve: I don't have all day to spend on a message board to tell everyone how great I am.

The comments in post #28 would echo what I have to say. His "shtick" is being the black republican who will say anything. He uses hi shtick to finance himself so he doesn't have to get a real job.

Does he even live in the district?

[doug from upland]

He is the nominee. Are you suggesting people vote for the far leftist Democrat?

[FOXFANVOX]

I feel for you Vinnie, but we are north of Charlotte and were gerrymandered out of our district. Our Congressman is now Mel Watt!!!

[southernnorthcarolina]

He [Vernon Robinson] is the nominee. Are you suggesting people vote for the far leftist Democrat?

No. If I lived in his district, I'd vote for him, hopeless though it might be. But I'd send my limited financial resources elsewhere, to candidates who a) have a chance of winning, and b) aren't obnoxious.

[kalee]

ping

[NCSteve]

I forgot to mention as well that most of jern's posts these days consist of snarky innuendo and nasty verbal pokes.

I'm not sure who crapped in his Cheerios, but these things happen, I guess.

[NCSteve]

There are a few in the NC FReeper gang who repeatedly find it necessary to attack and belittle people like Vernon because of his "style." I'm not quite sure what their problem with him might be. They will mouth the selfsame issues, in many of the selfsame ways that Vernon does, but when he does it, it rouses their ire. I suspect it is because he had the temerity to rise through the ranks of the NCGOP without "doing time" or asking permission of the establishment. The same folks who repeatedly attack Vernon for his ads, his persistence in running for office, and his unconventional campaign style inevitably jump on the bandwagons of RINO after RINO and loser after loser. They seem to prefer the pretenders who claim to be conservatives, but who are actually just the same old Democrats and leftists without a core principle to their name. The terrible irony is that the pack of losers and reprobates they support have no better record than Vernon does, sometimes even worse. And it isn't just Vernon, they aim their vitriolic bile at people like Sue Myrick and Fern Shubert as well. You can be sure that if the candidate isn't a glad-handing, go-along-to-get-along waste of space, these folks won't have a bit of use for him (or her). Of course, as long as these folks are around and claim to hold a "mainstream" position in the NCGOP, it will continue to be the petty, ineffectual organization that handed away the first GOP majority in the General Assembly since reconstruction.

Vernon may be his own worst enemy (I know him personally), and he might never win another election, but in every campaign he brings up issues that need to be discussed. That is as opposed to the smarmy idiots who kiss babies and mouth platitudes and then either lose the election or win and immediately sell us down the river. For that reason alone, Vernon is a treasure and a credit to our political process.

Should Vernon surprise everyone, including me, and win, he will be a breath of fresh air in the Congress and they will have a bushel of trouble on their hands. Trouble they so richly deserve, I might add. Of course our sour FReeper friends will continue to grouse and moan that Vernon is an "embarrassment" to Republicans everywhere. Personally, if that ever happens, they can go stew in their own bitter juices for all I care.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the input, Steve.

[91B]

Southernnorthcarolina-just to clear up any misunderstandings, my experience with Virginia Foxx goes back to when she was President of Mayland Community College and her interaction with the overwhelmingly Republican population of Mitchell and Avery Counties. She may have seen the light since that time, but she was the very definition of a RINO then.

[JWinNC]

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[TaxRelief]

Not true. Do you have proof?