McDonnell, much like many of his compadre’s in the House, will say anything to get elected, and pray that no one checks their record against what they are saying. The petty sniping at Deeds kids, isn’t going to win this one for the GOP!

When we substitute our wants and our emotions for careful and honest consideration, we usually don’t achieve our desired end. How do we know that? From a hard and unforgiving teacher. From experience we learn the end does not justify the means.

Any serious student of history knows socialism has been tried repeatedly, and it does not work. We also know why socialism does not work. The means are in direct contradiction with the ends.

For example, one of the goals of socialism is to empower the people. Yet socialist methods require either government ownership or intense government regulation. If the government eliminates competition and eliminates alternative choices, how then are we empowered?

Unfortunately, most people do not study history. Instead, they would rather believe politicians will solve all their problems — until experience teaches the futility of believing such lies.

I fear this sort of nonsense goes in cycles. The Great Depression started about 80 years before this one started. The FDR introduced his legislation…. 80 years is about as about as long as most people live and about as far back as living memories go.

Hamilton is bought and paid for by the drug companies, insurance companies and hospitals. He is nothing but a pac man gobbling up all that pac money, and one would presume, doing their bidding in Richmond.

What a dynamic in the race. On the other side is a candidate who fights the aforementioned companies them every day on behalf of consumers (and hopefully voters!) getting screwed by them.

This will be fun!

In the meantime, the rest of us will be doing something useful for this country and our society.

Everyone has a right to eat, too. The farmer works to grow his crop, and the government takes the crop to feed someone who does not or will not work. Is that right?

I thought we had this big war around here some 150 years ago to put an end to the notion that anyone could have a right to anothers’ labor.

Is there some hidden clause in the Constitution that allows the Federal Government to become the sole purchaser of any commodity or service?

I can’t find that in my copy.

The logical fallacy is two-fold. First, while unemployment due to the disappearance of a job might conceivably spread from State to State, unemployment due to disability or old age will not, because the job still exists and will be filled by someone else. Second, as we are doing now with health care, is the jump from the general welfare of the States to the welfare of specific people.

Also note that the SC handed down these rulings under Roosevelt’s court-stacking threat. He had enough backing in Congress to add seats to the Court and put in socialist judges. If these parts of the New Deal were not approved by the courts, he was simply going to stack the court with socialists and bring the cases back before the Court.

The current crop of socialists has a similar disdain for the Constitution.

We’ll see.

1) I’m still recovering from last Fall – I worked hard campaigning and spent a lot of mental energy analyzing and stewing over the politics of the Presidential election. I was over the moon excited over Virginia’s results, but I felt like an airless balloon that Wednesday morning and have had very little taste for politics since – and I won’t likely be ready to jump in again until the Fall.

and 2) as Joel said above, I’ve felt a general lack of enthusiasm for the Democratic offerings this year. I’m an Albemarle Dem and I’ll support Creigh wholeheartedly this Fall, but do I think he can win in a statewide contest against a guy he’s already lost to once? NO.

What it’s really time for is a little more constitutional literacy and adherence.

From a logistic standpoint, it is simply impossible to download and watch all of the video that is posted on a given day.

A real, value-added step, that bloggers can apply to this process is to include a brief summary in writing along with the video. That way, people seeking information can quickly scan the summary and decide whether or not to take the additional time to watch the video.

I didn’t watch the video, so I still do not know what “It’s Time” for.

Don’t get me wrong, I support this ticket as an alternative to Bob and gang; but I wondered if active activists (you know, the ones that actually knock doors, make phone calls, and give campaign’s life) would give their time and resources.

You’ve been involved longer, so maybe it’s just the cycle; but I’m pretty sure enthusiasm, or lack thereof, is a factor.

One would have thought that Heller’s confirmation of an individual right to own and possess would decrease paranoia, but the real effect seems to be the exact opposite. I had hoped that, post-Heller and once the incorporation question is settled, the extremists would realize the right to own and possess is secure and that we could move on some common sense regulation. For example, I’m a concealed carrier and I think it just makes sense that, if you are going to carry a concealed weapon, you should have demonstrated an ability to hit what you shoot at. Now that the General Assembly has approved online safety certification for concealed weapon permits (thanks Senator Cuccinelli), I’m as worried about an incompetent concealed carrier who’s never fired a weapon at a target accidentally hitting a bystander as I am about people being victimized because they are unarmed.

Similarly, once the Supreme Court establishes that handguns can’t be taken away, it would be nice if we could establish a handgun registry so we can track them like we do cars. The extremists have opposed registration on the ground that the Government knowing you have them is the first step in the Government taking them away.

Unfortunately, I think we can see the extremists are never going to be happy.

Vivian, you have a Jefferson quote right there in your “Welcome” block. Here’s another you might want to consider:

“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”

I’m amazed you squeezed so many insults and namecalling into one comment. Surely you are to be commended. I only knew one other person who could do that so well.

Just as a factual point of reference, Palin pushed her kids into the limelight, the media didn’t go “after” them, she ran them out, to make herself look good. Big difference, but then why am I pointing out a factual difference to a professional smear artist? Won’t make a bit of difference.

I’m just glad to see that they are still using the same playbook, that cost them the congress, WH, VA Senate, Governor’s Mansion and soon to be HOD. Clearly the republithugs are slow learners. Try as they might, slither under the rocks, twist, spin and opine, they are destroying themselves and will blame everyone else, but themselves for their humiliating losses. So please, keep posting BK, so we can see the entire 2009 playbook on campaign tactics! Lets see that manufactured indignation and pompous bellyaching!

Keep it up Vivian, you’ve drawn them out, in a most professional and accurate manner. Lets watch them huff-n-puff-n-pound-their-little-hairless-chests!