So I suppose that not having a base of voters makes it impossible for you to be a leader?

I understand you need a base to win, but all this talk of, “Well Kenny would be the best guy, he just has no money and can’t get elected” is just ridiculous.

I totally understand its a longshot, but fact of the matter is if Kenny was in Congress now, he would be 10x better than Rigell or Nye in Congress as far as leadership and understanding of the issues are concerned.

In my opinion, that should be the only qualification you use. Anything and everything else is exactly why we are in the mess we are in now.

Health Care:
I’m for a single payer system. Safe, well-regulated drug importation to keep drug prices competitive. I would be more than willing to open Medicare to everyone in lieu of creating a new system. Market based health care is an abomination in its current form.

Jobs:
Green jobs; wind farms off the coast instead of oil rigs. Infrastructure jobs to aid and construct improvements to transportation as outlined above. Instead of outsourcing our best jobs we need to “insource” and give more incentives to get people to come here. That does not mean “tax cuts” as the only solution.

Military:
We have got to have a lean, mean, fighting machine for a military. The 2nd District has got to support the military families who live here but we have also got to make sure that our economy can thrive without them. We have great research schools in the area, we have technology, we have great tourism areas, and again I mention the wind farm idea. We’ve got to take care of everyone.

Mr. Klear:
FYI, I will turn 25 next year, so in 2012 I’ll be 26. Lifelong resident of not only Virginia but of 2nd CD.

Nye haters may want to keep in mind that there will be a redistricting between now and the next election in 2012, and odds are the district will be made more difficult for any Dem, even Nye. If Rigell wins, he’s the one who will left in for life.

His campaign is over $55,000.00 in debt: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/alsorun.php?cid=N00031555&cycle=2010

His campaign is in the red because the voters in the Second District are smart enough to know that he will only be a spoiler in this race with at most 4% or 5% of the total vote. No one will support someone that does not have a chance. He seems like a man with a grudge that wants to be a thorn in the side of the local party.

God Bless our Military, but as a Cmdr he did not have to meet a payroll out of earned profits. He was spending government tax dollars not his own. There is a big difference between spending someone else’s money versus meeting a payroll and expenses from your earned profit when you don’t have the luxury of printing your own money.

If he’s somehow still around in 2012, I might do it then.

I am getting the urge to run for Congress but I am also worried that my candidacy would transform into some sort of laughingstock because I have zero notoriety or money.

But I truly believe that I could represent the 2nd far better than any of the current candidates.

So why didn’t you challenge him with a primary, whoever you are?

JFCOM, in all likelihood, is probably just the beginning when it comes to realignment here in the region; everyone should be taking some time to think very seriously about what might happen during the next round of BRAC, and what sort of industry we’d like to see fill whatever economic vacuum BRAC could create.

Are any of these three guys candidates who can be the leader we need. I dunno. Rigell’s an empty shirt who can’t find a compelling-enough argument against Nye’s voting record to justify challenging him, and so he focuses all his venom on Nancy Pelosi so that he doesn’t have to admit to voters that he’s ultimately running for Congress because he thinks it looks like a pretty sweet gig. Whereas for Glenn Nye’s part, I cannot fault his claim that he’s independent from his party, but he hasn’t really given me any compelling reason to believe that he’s as interested in leading his constituents as he is in ingratiating himself to them. And Golden, oh, Golden. I’m sure Kenny Golden was a very capable military leader, but you can’t be a political leader without a base of voters to support you.

Funny, my people got mad at me for saying the exact same thing…

While there might be some that say ‘he is better than putting Rigell in’ – I disagree.

If we re-elect Nye chances are we will BE STUCK WITH HIM forever. On the other hand we now have the opportunity to GET RID OF HIM. So we are stuck with someone else for 2 years, it would still be better than leaving him in for life, which is what it would be.

This is why he should have been challenged with a primary, but no one had the nerve to do it. More party politics at its worst.

I won’t be voting for Nye because I want a better option next time.