As to the rest of your diatribe, all I can do is point at it and say “Your honor, the plaintiff rests.”

For dramatic flourish, I might add a “Ta-Da!” towards the jury just for fun.

Just for your edification SC, when a party leadership actively ignores our Constitution (domestic spying, torture, imprisonment of citizens without trial) while doing the bidding of multinational corporations who are shipping our strategic manufacturing base off to China just as fast as they can, such a party can no longer make a legitimate claim to representing the interests of the American people. The Republican Party has dwindled to a fascist, xenophobic group that has shown that they will do ANYTHING to stay in power.

While a few good citizens still claim affiliation with the Republicans, they are just those who have yet to recognize the truth behind their party’s rhetoric.

Watch as the Republicans try time and again to sell off our assets, while shipping our jobs off to China.

Mr. Ballance has been eliminated from the game.

on a budget typical of most student government races

Hardly. You can’t do TV and radio on that kind of budget. Wait til the finance reports come out – I’m betting McWaters spends over $1 million. And we have no idea at this point where that money is coming from.

Along came Warner, then Webb. Both men gave the citizens a positive vision of the future and relief from the ongoing xenophobic rants or the Republican leadership. Thousands who previously voted Republican, showed that they would vote for a Democrat who talked about REAL SOLUTIONS and provided a positive vision of the future.

This special election could be won with a few thousand votes and on a budget typical of most student government races. You only need 250 signatures to get on the ballot for heaven’s sake, yet local Democrats can’t find anyone to stand up?

Even if you are sure you can’t win, there should ALWAYS be an opposition voice to force the fascist Republicans to answer tough questions. The PRESS sure as Hell won’t put any pressure on the politicians, anymore.

I want someone to raise real issues and challenge the Republican corruption, especially with regard to McDonnell’s plan to sell off operating rights to Virginia assets, such as the Port of Virginia and our roads, to Communist Chinese owned operating companies.

I want to hear candidates talk about:

How they will ENHANCE our LIBERTY.

How they will promote local job growth and the restoration of domestic manufacturing.

How they will act to create an energy independent future for our citizens.

How shall they act to end the current trends of “political correctness” and special rights for “protected classes” of our citizens, thereby restoring equal treatment under the law.

How we can restore government FOR the people and end the Bush legacy of government ON the people.

How about asking Hank Howell to run? Doesn’t he live in the Eighth?

Is there any rhyme or reason to Virginia Beach politics? I view VB politics, much like the college biology experiments, where you touch a nerve in the frogs brain and it kicks one of its legs. Stimulus, reaction, but no thought, planning or reason behind it.

I like rosemary much better than any random you’d throw at her.

I hope that someone who lives in the Eighth will read this and go to the State Board of Elections website, under Candidate Bulletins, and file the forms so that the citizens can have a choice in the Special Election to be held on January 12, 2010.

(Go to: http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/cms/documents/Cidates/Bulletins/2010Jan_SE_SEN_Dst0837.pdf )