Posted on 08/04/2012 1:26:52 PM PDT by NoLibZone
President Obama is of the view that he knows the key factor for the re-election, and it is very close to the White House. Last night at a high school in Leesburg in Virginia, Obama told supporters that if we win Virginia, we will win this election. Obama became the first presidential candidate four years ago to win in Virginia, since President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. He was also winner in the neighboring North Carolina, the first Democrat to do so since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
The race this year in Virginia also features a wild card, the possibility of independent candidacy by former American Congressman Virgil Goode, a resident of Virginia. Goode, is a former Democrat-turned-Republican, a conservative and could take a significant number of votes from the Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
Virginia was made corner stone of a solid GOP South in the presidential elections, from Ronald Reagan to George W Bush. Cracking of the South by Obama virtually guaranteed his win over John McCain, and would probably do that again, against Mitt Romney.
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I have a different perspective of the recent Virginia history. McCain did not run a campaign in Virginia. I know that for a fact. I had to hold my nose and even personally purchase the signs for my region of the Commonwealth. I've seen Romney now more times here than McCain ever was. And the organization that I’ve seen so far is outstanding. Once he is nominated and elected as the Republican Presidential nominee, watch what happens. Since he’s not elected, there are McCain-Feingold rules that have to be complied with right now since it is a federal election.
Don't get me wrong though, Romney was not my first or even third choice for the nomination, but neither was George Allen (Jamie, Bishop Jackson, Delegate Marshall), but Romney and George won the primaries. I don't want Barry or Tim in the WH and Senate and I've been working for years now on the local and Commonwealth level with the Tea Party and Republicans to ensure that this doesn't occur. I sure as hell don’t agree with George, but I want him voting for a new Senate leader that is Republican who will be surrounded by one of the most conservative group of Republican Senators in recent history. This will change who is appointed to replace Ruth and potentially others. I shiver at the 5 to 4 votes that they have done both ways that affect our freedoms (Kelso, Heller, ACA, etc.).
At this point in time, the RPV and of all of the campaigns are more organized, focused, and conservative than I've ever seen (I’m a comehere but been here a time). And this comes as a continuation of the historic 2009 election, changing our representation in the House in 2010, taking control of the Senate and local offices in 2011. The RPV State Central Committee is now comprised of more conservatives than RINOs and the vote to make next year's mechanism for choosing the top three positions a convention proves that. Hopefully that will ensure that our AG becomes our next Governor - but I get ahead of myself.
The predicament that we’re in now didn’t happen overnight – and we’re not going to get out of it overnight. Once any of these people get elected, we need to hold them accountable – and continue to vet conservative candidates to replace in the future as part of the growth system. The Dims in Virginia are truly hurting because they lost their farm team and will be running McAuliffe next year. How sad is that?
I ask again how has Romney needlessly irritated or angered the voters in Virginia? If you are referring to the Republican primary, he didn’t cause the problems that occurred. What is your basis for that, if that’s what you mean? I worked on getting signatures for several of the candidates, not including Romney, and the primary problems were not caused by his campaign or by Ron Paul’s campaign (who as you know also satisfied the SBE requirements).
I’m not sure I understand what you are looking for, your insight, or what you are doing about removing Barry from the WH and stopping Tim from entering the Senate.
I’ll be at next summer’s Republican Convention to support and vote for Cuccinelli. Will I see you there? In the meantime I’ll be working my a@@ off the next 94 or so days to get Romney and George elected. I will crawl across broken, heated glass with people on my back, holding my nose to vote to remove Barry and stop Tim.
Wasting an opportunity to fire up the base is beyond stupid ~ it is criminal and you know it. The state committee certainly understands the consequences of that.
I don't see Romney overcoming the 10 million voter deficit. He's losing anyway and has not acted like a winner ~ not ever. If his campaign team is well organized and efficient, that doesn't matter unless they can do something about firing up the base to vote for a loser.
“You are so out of touch and uneducated”
You are to late. I have two grown children out on their own and doing quite well thank you. I have only heard of Goode running in Virginia and not on the ballot elsewhere. Hey clue me in if I am wrong. It is quite possible Obama has slipped him enough funding to be on the ballot elsewhere. I live here in California so I am not 100% up to speed as to what is happening on the East coast.
By the way this is twice now you have got into name calling. The first one was calling me and others a Communist. Those tactics are just what the liberals use. It kind of makes me wonder.
“That fool Goode. If he selfishly pulls a Perot that costs us Virginia, he will deserve a kick in the @$$.”
Yeah, thanks RINOs for screwing us over with Romney in the first place.
Gay State > Conservative.
Hey, I’m going to vote for the only prolifer on the ballot after you RINOs screwed us over.
“By the way this is twice now you have got into name calling. The first one was calling me and others a Communist. Those tactics are just what the liberals use. It kind of makes me wonder.”
Telling people to vote for your candidate even though he sucks over a stronger candidate isn’t communist to you? I thought this was a free country where we could vote for the candidate closest to us.
The primary problem came about because of the lawsuit filed by independent candidate for the legislature, Michael Osborne, who sued the RPV because it did not check petitions for its own members after they submitted primary petitions. Osborne had no trouble getting the needed 125 valid signatures for his own independent candidacy, but he charged that his Republican opponent’s primary petition had never been checked, and that if it had been, that opponent would not have qualified. The lawsuit, Osborne v Boyles, cl 11-520-00, was filed in Bristol County Circuit Court. It was filed too late to be heard before the election. The effect of the lawsuit was to persuade the Republican Party to start checking petitions instead of just notifying the SBE that the filing by each candidate was in accordance with the Code of Virginia.
I agree that the more, the merrier in a primary. But based on the lawsuit, the Code of Virginia, and the lack of action by the campaigns, that didn’t happen. As an example, I worked with Newt’s effort (and somewhat with Perry), but we couldn’t pull it off. McDonnell was even assisting Newt, I was there.
In Virginia in 2008, Barry and Joe got 1,959,532 votes (52.62%) to McCain/Palin 1,725,005 votes (46.22%) for a 234,527 difference. I easily see Romney making up that difference and beating Barry in the Commonwealth. Just in blue, blue Fairfax County, there are 35,000 fewer registered voters than in 2008. The youth and even the black vote (I attend local NAACP meetings) are not even close to being energized. On the other side, people are flooding the call centers and volunteering like I’ve never seen. New PACs like We r Virginia have formed (and are well funded) just for this federal election. We even had 120 people show up in Henrico County in the pouring rain just for a four second pass of Barry’s motorcade in route to a campaign stop. . Romney is winning. The Rassmussen poll of likely voters shows Romney is beating Barry. The Citizens of the Commonwealth and our great nation have donated more money to Romney than Barry during the last two monthly reporting periods. I don’t know what you are looking at. But Barry’s numbers are terrible. The economy sucks, his negatives are horrendous, and people flock to Chic-fil-A (not to mention the formation of the Tea Party and all the other elections since 2008).
This isn’t 2008.
“He wouldn’t be on the ballot if he’d been in the GOP primary.”
And what did you RINOs do to us in the primary? You destroyed every single conservative candidate and shovelled Romney down our throats.
Goode- like Reagan was a democrat but the party left him. He is pro life and pro traditional marriage, unlike Romney. This is why I’m cheering FOR him rather than AGAINST Obama.
My conscience will be clear.
We haven't heard anything from Michael in a long time, and I hope he's out of state by now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2825002/posts All about the gentleman mentioned in the ‘likely excuse for Mittbot excess” post just preceding this.
The folks going to Chick Fil A are protesting the existence of people like Romney. There’s every chance they probably won’t vote for him.
I didn’t vote for Romney in the primary. I didn’t shove him down your throat. I didn’t vote for Romney, McCain, or Huckabee in the 2008 primary either.
Next time the GOP-e will hopefully be banned from the Republican party, but in case they aren’t maybe they’ll have learned to not run another godless, soulless, unfriendly, leftwingtard apparatchik.
This is where Osborne — Oz or Ozzie to his friends — comes in. The self-proclaimed conservative independent and former Republican leans any which way but Romney in the Republican presidential primary fight, and says he likes what Gingrich has to say. But thanks to a lawsuit he filed after his local GOP, he says, tried to keep him off the ballot earlier this year as their nominee in a southwest Virginia delegate race, Osborne may be partially responsible for Romney’s much smoother path toward a win in the Commonwealth on Super Tuesday.
But why was he a convenient excuse for Bolling and Romney? They had no relationship with him and he did what he did without their prompting. To me, he caused the problem.
BTW, Bolling has worked with Newt and vi ca versa too. I’ve even got a picture to prove it.
I was buried at the time of the post. By the time the post came out it was too late. Quickly reading through it, there are a number of posts in error - but oh well. Due law, there were limits of what could be done - and a lot of things were looked at. That lawsuit hurt...
But we're suppose to feel bad if they don't.
They got a two-fer. All the Conservatives out, and their boy (Romney) in ~ and without Romney's nominating petitions being reviewed at all.
Then a volunteer who worked with the verifications died immediately afterward in a suspicious accident.
Bolling and McDonnell would have used some other trick to bump everybody else out and keep Romney in the primary if Osborne hadn't come along.
Your boy Romney is unconcerned with First Amendment issues as well.
Bolling probably went over to the Dark Side on a promise of a position on the St. Lawrence Seaway Commission someday. Many better politicians than him have sold out for that one!
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