“He was one of the few in Congress to speak out forcefully against the Mohammadan threat to our nation.”
And that may end up being part of his undoing. Did you see the ad where he severely doctored a photo of his opponent to make him look Arabic (or at least dark and foreign) when he is neither? Goode finally quietly pulled that ad but I think his reputation for fairness was damaged by it. He also wasted a lot of time and money trying to brand Perriello as a “New York lawyer,” when in fact Perriello is a native Virginian who happened to spend two years in New York. If the ads had hammered on the REAL problems with voting for Perriello instead of crap, Goode might not be facing this.
No, I didn’t see that ad since I’m in a neighboring state. Still, I’m very disappointed to see his loss. Virginia used to be a great state, and now it’s going to the dark side. All those years the GOP fought like hell to finally get the majority, all hijacked away by the ultraleft cancer spreading south from NOVA...