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The Tea Party presents itself as a grassroots, jus’ folks, not-gonna-take-it-any-more uprising, consisting of regular people who were so fed up after several weeks of Barack Obama’s presidency that they just couldn’t take it anymore and they just had to do something. But that’s basically the opposite of what we’re seeing here in the fifth …
Continue reading “The Tea Party: Just like any other political party, only hopelessly naïve.”
This Fifth District Republican primary is really separating the men from the boys: [Robert] Hurt is a likable person personally, [Mike] McPadden said, but “Democrats and moderates like Hurt will vote to raise taxes when the going gets tough.” That’s right—if the U.S. were (say) invaded by China, that namby-pamby Tom Perrillo or the spineless …
Feda Morton is angry because Sen. Robert Hurt has declined to participate in a pair of proposed candidate forums, and the story behind why he declined turns out to be revealing. Both are among the seven Republicans looking for the nomination to run against Rep. Tom Perriello. The race is basically Hurt vs. everybody else. …
Continue reading “5CD Republicans have started their debate debate.”
There’s some odd complaining going on about Fifth District Republicans’ decision to hold a primary, I see in Brian McNeill’s article in today’s Daily Progress. The logic is that primaries are expensive, with the bill footed by local registrars’ offices, and they really can’t afford it right now. With Republicans trying to claim the mantle …
Continue reading “Never mind the Republican whinging about the cost of a primary.”
Somehow I missed the recent news that Jeff Clark of Danville will be running against Rep. Tom Perriello in the general election. Like the high-larious Bradley Rees, Clark is too far right even for Fifth District Republicans, which is saying something, and isn’t bothering to try to get the nomination. As with Rees, I intend …
Continue reading “Another 3rd party congressional candidate.”
Sen. Robert Hurt is courting the fringe right, Olympia Meola writes in today’s Times-Dispatch: Some conservatives object to Hurt’s voting record—principally his support of a $1.4 billion tax increase pushed by former Gov. Mark R. Warner in 2004. After he cast that vote, Hurt was among 19 Republican delegates and 15 Republican state senators featured …
Continue reading “Robert Hurt has signed on with the free-lunch crowd.”
The Fifth District Republican Committee has chosen a primary as the method of selecting their nominee against Rep. Tom Perriello, Janelle Rucker writes in the Roanoke Times. It was a 19-13 vote. That’s a significant blow for the backers of basically all of the candidates but Sen. Robert Hurt and Ken Boyd (my representative on …
The field of Republican candidates vying to run against Rep. Tom Perrillo is so strong that…a seventh candidate has kicked off his campaign. Jim McKelvey, a Smith Mountain Lake developer, completes our septumvirate of dwarves. McKelvey says both that he’s not satisfied with any of the other candidates and that “a couple of other good, …
Continue reading “Yet another 5th District Republican (YA5DR) running against Perriello.”
Teabagger Nigel Coleman on why he’s cancelled his plans to burn Rep. Tom Perriello in effigy: I feel like I obviously handled this poorly, as far as the press goes. We really should have thought this through more … and seen how this was going to affect not only us, but other TEA parties and …
Continue reading “The burning of Rep. Perriello has been cancelled.”
In the name of Bradley Rees, we pray. Dear God, we thank you for your bounty of stupid. In what promises to be a lousy month for Virginia Democrats, you have been fit to deliver to us Bradley Rees. In your wisdom, you have arranged for Rep. Tom Perriello to win reelection, by creating this …