Vote Earley ( and often)

nationalreview.com/ ^ | 11/05/2001 | By John J. Miller & Ramesh Ponnuru

[Mudboy Slim]

"...the gross stupidity of the electorate never fails to amaze me."

Stupidity?! Perhaps...but I prefer to use the term "IGNORANCE," which is correctable over time, with some hard work educating and with some major patience. I saw where a CNN Exec said, when explaining FoxNewsChannel's "O'Reilly" whuppin' up on Larry King Live in the ratings, "You can never underestimate the stupidity of the American people." I like to think that at least some of the American People are not quite as IGNORANT as they used to be.

FReegards...MUD

[Michael2001]

Well the moron Warner won. Everyone in my church voted Earley, but Warner did have the VCU hippie squad behind him.

[Ligeia]

I thought you might be working a precinct since we didn't hear from you all day. I emailed my precinct captain this morning to find out what the final numbers were at mine. I'm curious to know. The WJLA poll was quite close, and so was the internal Earley poll. I heard the Guiliani ad ran six times during the World Series.

This is a tough loss for us, but I'm bouyed by the House of Delegates victories. That will stem some of the damage Warner can do, but I don't think they will be able to do anything about the damaging appointments Warner will make to cabinet positions such as the Board of Eduction and the liberals he will place at the state universities. After eight years of Republican governors, conservatives were finally starting to show up on college governing boards.

George Allen once said that we can't win unless both wings of the party "flap together." If a lot of conservatives stayed home this election, then it probably had an impact. Hopefully, everyone can find a candidate to rally around in four years. I won't be joining the "get John Warner" bandwagon. I already supported former Reagan OMB Director Jim Miller to unseat Warner, and it's a waste of time to try again. I'd rather spend my time going after Democrats than popular Republicans.

Keep the faith!

[stand watie]

sorry, but stupidity is correct i fear.

[fhillary2]

Ligeia,

The conservatives didn't stay home; the liberal/moderate/country clubbers/blue bloods/(a lot)hager supporters/whatever they are calling themselves today RINOS are the folks who stayed home election day and the entire election cycle. They didn't lead, they didn't follow and they didn't get outta the way at the end. We have some serious house cleaning to do in the RPV and there is a common denominator with a lot of these traitors- mccain!