The establishment gop in Va sandbagged Ollie. I went to the debate at Hampden Sydney College. It was something to see! Robb fled out the side door with a bunch of college guys chasing him..lol
But remember..Goode was crazy for Gov Wilder and we KNOW Gov Wilder was pro choice and anti guns. I still want to know in detail what cuts Goode wants to make to the defense dept.
I know the words “Constitution Party” is alluring but better think long and hard about the person running on that ticket.
Depiste Coleman not backing Ollie..as I said alot of the Virginia establishment didn’t but check out Colemans record..I really liked him otherwise and at least he didnt back Wilder
The problem isn’t that Coleman didn’t back Col. North, it is that he ran 3rd party and took the key votes that would’ve gone to North. Robb was toast otherwise. Frankly, I’m glad Coleman never won the Governorship given his behavior. Having Wilder as Governor & Robb in the Senate for that period allowed their ugly feud to be as public as possible, weakening Robb. There’s also a good chance that Coleman as Governor would never have been succeeded by George Allen.
Goode tried to keep the VA Democrats from becoming an all moonbat party and also forced them to agree to power-sharing when they reached parity in the State Senate. Even as a Democrat, by GOP standards, he was a good legislator. In a way, it’s too bad he never got the chance to be VA Governor.
As I stated, I do not expect Goode to embrace the nutty neo-isolationist Ron Paul stuff and that anything related to Defense to be a responsible Conservative stance. His website position isn’t explicit beyond this:
“National Defense: We need a strong national defense. However, reckless federal spending which has given us a deficit in excess of one trillion dollars necessitates cutting defense spending. We must now come home from Afghanistan and reduce our expenditures around the globe.”