He takes cheap shots at Vivian which are unwarranted. He misstates facts. He whines. BUT HE NEVER DELIVERS. Yet, he wonders why people ignore his opinions and think so little of him. He reminds me of the Hollywood star who once complained: “Why does everyone hate me?” His friend replied: “That’s not true. Everyone doesn’t know you.”

No wonder he sounds so miserable and grouchy. For someone who claims to be so involved in local politics, he has no grasp whatsoever of what is going on around him. Why? Because he can’t look at anything other than “it’s-all-about-me.” His track record only confirms this.

And Brian’s comment on Mathieson stating “We’re all in this together . . . ?” That refers to the constituents of the 21st District who have to suffer with Welch and his lap dog Brian . . . kinda like hostages.

Just sit back and don’t take Brian seriously, folks. It’s kinda like watching a toddler play in his diaper and wipe his poop all over himself.

Yes, Brian, THIS TIME . . . it IS about you. Now go get a clue.

Yes, Brian, I’m perfectly comfortable basing a campaign on counting voters. That’s what’s beautiful about election day, kiddo, is that it stops being about the annoying narcissistic candidates (and their narcissitic campaign staffers who insist on posting under their own names when they probably shouldn’t) and it suddenly is about the individual voter who goes to the poll casts his ballot. But hey, keeping my focus on the decision makers this November is only one strategy; by all means, keep blogging your way to victory. Hopefully there are about 7,000 voters who read Bearing Drift every day in the 21st district, in which case you might have a shot.

Meanwhile, keep making this thread about me. It keeps you from asking Democrats what they offer the voters. Illegal Immigration. Taxes. Education. Health care. Don’t talk about those issues, now. You’ll confuse Mathieson.

Ya know…the lazy campaign you were talking about.

And some of us prefer to post anonymously so that when an editor from the Virginian Pilot takes a coffee break to read Viv’s blog, that editor won’t say something like, “geez, is Welch’s campaign staff clueless about what’s going on around them.”

When Bouchard, Mathieson and MacIver had their opening of their joint-campaign office, Bobby Mathison’s quote was “we’re all in this together.” So, don’t blame me if the nutty statements of one are heard as nutty statements by all three.

Voting for Kellam, whom you lampooned, over Drake is just the icing on the cake that is an increasingly-blue district.

You can go ahead and try and confuse the issue (maybe you’re confused, yourself?) by talking about how Bobby claimed that he’s polling ahead without releasing the numbers (that was Bouchard, silly) or that he’s going to get blown out by Purkey (that’s Bob MACIVER, Brian, but I know all these different Bobs can be perplexing to a body). Feel free to keep spinning your wheels in someone else’s mud. The simple truth, though, is that this district obviously does not think like you do.

So I’ll say it again, plainly. The voters are obviously there for Bobby. There will be no excuse for him losing, except possibly a lazy campaign.

That’s just BS, Brian, and you know it. I haven’t seen any candidates on either side release a poll yet.

Besides, when Vivian says something that she can’t prove, she ducks anyway.

As Larry Sabato recently remarked: “It’s a bad year to be a Republican.”

Want more proof? Why doesn’t John-Boy find a position and stick with it? If he really isn’t in trouble, stick with something. But nooooooo . . . not John-Boy. He is a human weather vane, and that requires him to keep changing directions until he finds a position that will get him out of hot water and possibly re-elected.

Fat chance. And if you want to see something that was priceless, get a picture of John-Boy on the stage with the rest of the Authority last Thursday night. That pinched, uncomfortable look on his face made you think he was posing for a laxative ad. He knew he was sitting — literally — on the hot seat. You can’t vote for abuser fees and a leaky transportation plan like John-Boy did and expect people not to notice the hypocrisy.

And what is Welch’s solution? Hiring some blind puppy like Brian to go out here and defend him, which is sad. Watching Brian hump Welch’s leg in public and on the blogs like a chihuahua on crack is so funny it’s almost sad.

Maybe if Marty Williams had won, Brian could go work for him. Oh wait . . .that’s right. He WAS working for Marty.

The only plausible reason if Bobby doesn’t win is if his staff runs an incompetent GOTV operation.

What’s next? Ya gonna tell us how Bob McIver is setting the district on fire with his promises to raise taxes?

Not only did John Welch do nothing at all about his much-ballyhooed gas tax increase, the plans that were introduced, all by Democrats, were killed in the Finance Committee. John Welch was on the, you guessed it, Finance Committee, as well as the Transportation Committee.

Sitting in traffic for hours on every trip northward, as I had the opportunity to do once again yesterday, is a great opportunity to ponder the need for leadership in the General Assembly.

Thanks for the offer, Johnny Boy, but you’ve done MORE than enough. Stay home and let someone else fix your mess.

As for Bobby – all indications are that he’s going to win.