Posted on 11/06/2001 5:27:44 PM PST by VaBthang4
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The sheeple are already being lulled back to sleep. The news reports mention that we're bombing some brown people again, while trying to find some elusive criminal. Z-z-z-z-z.
These losses are unfortunate, but this is an instance where there was democrat inertia. Don't expect the "Gore Zone" map to change significantly - unless some terrorist lights off a nuke or the equivalent on U.S. soil. Maybe, just maybe *then* the scales will fall from their eyes. Assuming they live through the attack.
My asessment of Earley may well be off, but it was formed by listening to my neighbors, who are farmers and blue collar workers with long memories. The VAGOP should let Earley go. He won't change the minds of people in gravel road country. They already feel like they got burned by electing him AG.
Now, let's run that noveau riche carpetbagger back to wherever he's claiming to have come from this week.
Gilmore is one of the few Republicans with any balls at all. He stood up to 'RATS & RINO's on taxes, donut eating state employed lay about leeches be darned. Why the VAGOP couldn't make a positive issue out of that, I'll never know. What bonehead ran the Earley and Katzen campaigns? Komrade Kaine used taxpayer money to send busloads of people to anti-2nd amendment marches. He approved the use of taxpayer funds to send a radical city council member with an arabic name on vacation to Jamaica. did the GOP make an issue out of that? Of course not. The Clintons pardoned terrorists; this could have been an issue before 9-11 by forcing Warner to either renounce the Clintons and alienate the base, or approve of the pardons which would have been suicide. Almost 50% voted for Earley and Katzen just because they aren't 'RATS and their sad excuses for campaigns couldn't turn a lousy 3% our way in the state that the Clintons could never carry? The 'RATS give us a gold mine full of dirt to throw at them, and we take no advantage of it at all.
Sleazeballs that they are, the Clintons are sharp politicians. The campaigning never stops with them. Will VAGOP learn a lesson from that and start immediately campaigning against Mark Warner for the next Senate race? I doubt it, since they don't have a clue how run a campaign when a race on.
I doubt that will be a problem. Jerry Kilgore is Virginia's new rising star and to go for any other statewide office Earley will have to line up behind Kilgore, Gilmore and supposedly (from a comment last night) even John Hager.
That may be a moot point. Unless John Warner retires next year - and currently he does not plan to - we don't have a "vacancy" for Earley to fill, and the GOP nod for Governor in 2005 will go to Kilgore.
Exactly. Bill Clinton is supposedly so popular and he endorsed Mark Green.
The legislature runs the state, not the governor. Our conservatives in the House need to be encouraged to attack now. Waiting until Warner dithers around and comes up with some kind of nonissue for the media to trumpet for him ain't going to get it this time. Let's build the fire under'em.
The liberal Republicans in Jersey apparently refused to support their party's candidate - once again, because he was conservative.
What confused me about Virginia was the fact that the NRA supported the Democrat. That indicated to me that the Democrat was more conservative than the Republican. What liberal supports gun rights? None I ever met.
The web site you referred me to indicates the Democrat is a chaemeleon like character who will say anything in order to get himself elected. If that is indeed the case, Virginians got stuck with a bad governor.
It just appears to me that Republicans are really their own worst enemy. True, they have to contend with a hostile media, well-entrenched urban political machines, hostile minority voters, and well-organized union opposition. But the fact remains that their basic political philosophies of strict constitutional interpretation, personal integrity, respect for human life and the right to self-defense and controlling th size of government are logical, morally correct, and more in keeping with the traditional valules and philosophies of our founding fathers.
They just seem to lack the zealousness that all of the aforementioned would seem to justify. Perhaps because they really don't support big government, they are not as comfortable as Democrats in operating in a political arena as are the Democrats.
I AGREE! At least the Republican Party maintained a majority in the State Legislature. However, W's No-show, the national Republican Party, the luke-warm NRA endorsement and even the squishy-conservativism of Earley himself led to this defeat.
I am VERY disappointed.
That's not correct. They refused to endorse Earley, but gave him a grade of A- and Warner a grade C.
The web site you referred me to indicates the Democrat is a chaemeleon like character who will say anything in order to get himself elected. If that is indeed the case, Virginians got stuck with a bad governor.
There, you have it.
Ralph Nader also fits within this framework.
http://www.banned-books.com/truth-seeker/1994archive/121_3/ts213l.html
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
When most people hear the word "fascism" they naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. But there was also an economic policy component of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and '30s as "corporatism," that was an essential ingredient of economic totalitarianism as practiced by Mussolini and Hitler. So- called corporatism was adopted in Italy and Germany during the 1930s and was held up as a "model" by quite a few intellectuals and policy makers in the United States and Europe. A version of economic fascism was in fact adopted in the United States in the 1930s and survives to this day. In the United States these policies were not called "fascism" but "planned capitalism." The word fascism may no longer be politically acceptable, but its synonym "industrial policy" is as popular as ever.
*sigh*
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