[sam_paine]

I posted this on another thread but thought I'd post it here to see if I could get some Pro-Goode people to explain it to me.

Why does this guy flipping around through all the parties make him the "solid conservative" in the race?

Virginia's 5th congressional district: Results 1996–2008^[49]

Year		Democrat	Votes	Pct		Republican	Votes	Pct		3rd Party	Party	Votes	Pct
1996		Virgil H. Goode, Jr.	120,323	61%		George C. Landrith III	70,869	36%		George R. "Tex" Wood	Virginia Reform	6,627	3%	*
1998		Virgil H. Goode, Jr.	73,097	99%		(no candidate)				Write-ins		785	1%
2000		John W. Boyd, Jr.	65,387	31%		(no candidate)				Virgil H. Goode, Jr.	Independent	143,312	67%	*
2002		Meredith M. Richards	54,805	36%		Virgil H. Goode, Jr.	95,360	63%		Write-ins		68	1%
2004		Al C. Weed II	98,237	36%		Virgil H. Goode, Jr.	172,431	64%		Write-ins		90	1%
2006		Al C. Weed II	84,682	40%		Virgil H. Goode, Jr.	125,370	59%		Joseph P. Oddo	Independent Green	1,928	1%	*
2008		Tom Perriello	158,810	50.1%		Virgil H. Goode, Jr.	158,083	49.9%						*

Why isn't the first take that this guy is just another perpetual politician?

[muawiyah]

Hmm ~ not really a good question. Why don't you get Romney to tell us why he keeps on running and running and running and never gets above 50% in a seriously contested election.

Now that's gotta' take some deep obsesiveness or something.

Or his buddy Obama ~ he's actually signed up with some kind of commie party thing in Chicago while the Democrats were considering running him as one of them. Now that's just nuts.

You get some answers out of the big two I think the little guys in the race will turn out to be far more reasonable!

Now, about checking on Virgil's nominating petitions, I know little about the people who got them together but we do have a crowd in Virginia who think it's important to check them thoroughly UNLESS it's their candidate!

[cripplecreek]

Don’t care. I’m still not voting for that liberal lying bottom feeder Romney.

You can have every last bit of the credit for him.

[House Atreides]

Well, I’m waiting for their explaination of the inexplicable also. The fact is that Goode is NOT a “solid conservative” but is merely an opportunist who apparently feels a NEED to be on the ballot.

[Nifster]

precisely....but some people will take a pig in the poke

[so_real]

Is party affiliation the sole measure of a man's conservatism? I prefer to discern by the history of the man's words and actions. You've asked a fair question, and I'll be happy to provide a fair answer. But I warn you, once you dig into and truly do the research as to where Virgil Goode stands on the issues, you will discover that you like him a lot. You might even find, as I did, that you overwhelmingly prefer him. Read on :

Virgil Goode on the Issues

• pro life
• anti bailout
• anti homosexualization
• pro capital punishment
• pro drug enforcement
• pro education reform
• pro UN reform
• supports economic sovereignty
• approves voter ID
• pro second amendment
• absolute gun ownership right
• opposes federal health care
• would eliminate ObamaCare
• anti amnesty
• anti progressive taxation
• pro military
• against foreign tax havens
• supports overhaul of tax code
• didn't fall for "net neutrality"
• etc, etc, etc

These are just highlights. Follow the link and the links therein to get a fuller picture.

Your question is how can this guy be a solid conservative if he's not a reliable Republican Party guy. Your question should be how did the Republican Party slide so far away from its platform so as to have a man like Romney at the helm when a man like Goode was ready, willing, able, and more representative.

The current Republican "leader" is a pro-abortion, pro-guncontrol, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gay-adoption, pro-stimulus, pro-bailout, pro-healthcare-rationing, pro-amnesty, pro-spending-mandate candidate. Virgil Goode is solidly opposed to all of these. In my opinion, the only thing keeping the republican electorate from abandoning the Republican Party en masse, is a fear of "losing" and a lack of exposure to genuine conservative candidates like Virgil Goode. I'm helping to fix the exposure issue ... the fear issue is on each of us must conquer on his own.

I hope I've answered your question.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Damn. Virgil Goode changes parties more often than Liberace changed outfits....

[JCBreckenridge]

“Why does this guy flipping around through all the parties make him the “solid conservative” in the race?”

Because he’s prolife and he supports traditional marriage.

I ask all the ROMBOTS why they support the man who supports baby killing and gay marriage.

We had good, solid alternatives, but you ROMBOTs destroyed them in the primary. Guess what, we aren’t going to go support Mitt.