Virgil Goode submits 14,000 signatures for ballot, with help from Independent Greens

Virginia Politics ^

[mnehring]

With a little help from his friends, former congressman Virgil Goode has taken a key step toward getting his name on November’s presidential ballot in Virginia, submitting more than 14,000 signatures to the State Board of Elections....

..Goode was a Democrat for much of his career, then became an Independent and finally a Republican for his last six years on Capitol Hill. Now Goode is getting assistance from yet another party, the Independent Greens, whose members have collected thousands of signatures for him....

...“Virgil supports rail, and that’s our big issue and he’s with us on that,” said Carey Campbell, a member of the Independent Greens executive committee. “We’ve had for many years a good relationship with the Constitution Party folks.”...

[fieldmarshaldj]

Ynotjjr, Cripplecreek is a distinguished and well-respected member of this forum with an impeccable record of supporting Conservatives and Conservatism. Your comments to CC were repugnant and vile. If you claim to be remotely Conservative, we’ll tell you that we’re not tossing out everything we believe in to vote for a lying, backstabbing Socialist scumbag like Willard just to “beat” someone who scarcely differs from him. The RINO establishment has given us Conservatives the middle finger for election after election, and we ain’t gonna empower these big government loving dirtbags that stand for everything we oppose. Ya dig ?

[Gay State Conservative]

I'll be forwarding your post to William “Bill” Ayers and to Van Jones as well.Upon receipt they're both certain to want to thank you for your “principled stance”...Ayers,by inviting you to the next meeting of the Strategies For Speaking Truth To Power Club and Jones,by inviting you to the next “More Proof The 9/11 Was An Inside Job” lecture.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Technical Correction: A vote for Virgil is in fact a vote not for Virgil, but to ELECTORS IN VIRGINIA PLEDGED TO VOTE FOR HIM IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE usually on 15 December 2012 locally convened in their state capitol (and others as wel), then the sending of the state-certified results into Washington; were Mr. Goode to win 50%+1 of the popular vote in Virginia on Election Day November 2012, he would then secure the win of that state's entire electors. Both Romney and Obama will be denied them. You all figure out the chances of that. However, if a vote for Virgil goes to his delegates (electors) it will not go to the slate of electors pledged to Romney (I know I know tons of problems with him). Nevertheless this is a battleground state, you figure it out. What the enemy wants to be done here. If a conservative vote is not counted as GOP, and in a close race, the state could pivot into Obama's column. It is not a stretch that in a close 270 Electoral Vote race, that Virginia could decide the election as a lynchpin. Therefore a cast vote not for the Republican in that state could indeed allow the electors pledged to Obama to win, and thus carry the commonwealth and he will be re-inaugurated on the steps of the Capitol on January 20, 2013. Hope people can live with that. Hope they can countenance it when precisely this is that the strategy team of snotty, zit-faced, polysci major, young marxist beltway political wonks running the "2012" (Obongo) race and the DNC, want precisely to happen. I would think this through very carefully from a tactical position. Particularly if Goode is not on enough ballots in the USA to get him theoretically (which can hardly happen) to the magic 270.

[GlockThe Vote]

Anyone knowingly giving Obama a second term at this point really needs a good hard look in the mirror.

[SMM48]

What state you from, SMM48?

And that is relevant because?

[newnhdad]

facts don’t matter.. all that matters is that they join with Obama in the destruction of the country because they’re upset that their guy/gal didn’t win the primary. We all should pay the price..

[swpa_mom]

Your comment is quite unusual for FreeRepublic. Most of those who are not voting for Romney claim they are doing so because Romney isn’t conservtive enough for them. You are voting for a democrat turned republican with help from greens because you don’t like another guy. I guess his lack of conservatism is okay, he’s not that other guy.

It’s good to see consistency among the “I won’t vote for Romney” crowd..............

[cripplecreek]

I don’t have any issues with mormons.

[cripplecreek]

I’m in good company.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2906619/posts

[LibLieSlayer]

WUCK FILLARD... I can dig it!

LLS

[cripplecreek]

I've eached the conclusion that "moderates" are the true purists who would rather have a democrat than a conservative. Sure they talk a good game about unity but only when the candidate is liberal enough for them to support.

As far as encouraging them is concerned, recent news is a perfect example of what happens when "moderates" feel empowered by a moderate nominee. We have sitting GOP congressmen openly endorsing liberal democrats to serve as examples for the rest of us. Republicans are attacking Michele Bachmann for speaking the truth. Where is Mitt Romney while this is going on? Instead of leading as the presumptive nominee, he's cowering somewhere letting the conservatives twist in the wind because he's so afraid of losing his moderate support.

Rush Limbaugh nailed it back in December and we'e on to the moderate game.

VAN SUSTEREN: Why has Governor Mitt Romney not had a so-called "surge"? We hear "surge" used with basically every Republican nominee, but you don't see that "surge" with Governor Romney.

RUSH: Well, every poll I've seen of Republican primary voters, he can't crack 30 percent. It has been curious. And you look at it from the reverse, 70 percent of Republican voters want somebody else. This is why we have the phenomenon of the "Not-Romney." Bachmann was the "Not-Romney" for a while. Herman Cain was the "Not-Romney." Now Newt is the "Not-Romney." I think it boils down to something that's not complicated at all. Republican primary voters are conservative. They don't believe that Romney is. They believe that he will stick a finger in the air and moisten it and see which way the winds are blowing and try to get in that direction. They remember that Romney said he believes in global warming and he believes that man is causing it. Well, conservatives don't believe that. They believe it's a hoax. Conservatives know that the whole story of man-made global warming is a hoax. And they're not going to get excited by a candidate who is trying to gain favor with non-Republican primary voters by articulating that stuff.

Here's the big problem, Greta, for the Republicans. And I am a lone wolf on this. The rule of thumb in elections, both parties, 40 percent are going to vote Democrat automatically, whatever you do, 40 percent are going to vote Republican, automatic, no matter what you do. And in the middle, who do we have? The precious, God love them, independents and the moderates. And they are the targets. They are the focus of every election. And our brilliant campaign consultants tell our candidates they are the ones that know how to go get a majority of those independents. And we have, as Republicans, put ourselves in prison to this whole silly notion that you only win elections by moving to the center and getting great independents. Fine and dandy, but if you squander your base in the process, you haven't a prayer.

The Republican Party is trying to do something in this primary that is unprecedented. They're trying to split the conservative vote and win the primary with a moderate, with Romney. It's the other way around. You consolidate your base and then you move to the center in the general. The Republican establishment has decided they don't want any part of conservatism. And this is really not new. People are surprised to hear this, but the Republican Party formative event with conservatism is Goldwater's landslide defeat. That's what they think of when they think conservative. They don't think Reagan. They think Goldwater.

They believe what the inside-the-Beltway philosophy is about conservatives. They're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Southern hayseed hicks. They're pro-lifers. They're embarrassing to have to go to the convention with them. And they're just embarrassed to have those kind of people in the party. They're dumb. They're not erudite. They're not educated in Ivy League schools. We'll take their votes on election day, but we really don't want to hang around with them. We don't want anybody in Washington thinking that we're really that close to them and aligned with them. So in the process -- you know, it's a very sophisticated electorate. The Republican primary voter can sense that the Republican Party really doesn't like them, really doesn't want them, thinks that they are the route to defeat. That's the problem in a nutshell. The Republican establishment thinks that a conservative nominee is the route to defeat because they think Goldwater landslides are going to happen because they believe what the popular misconception the left has created of conservatives -- they think everybody thinks that.

Rush Goes On the Record with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren

They chose this hill they chose to die on and they'll have to find their conscripts elsewhere.

[xzins]

Goode has always been a pro-life, pro-God, pro-gun, pro-small government, conservative.

He has never deviated from that, and his ACU rating was higher than most republicans the entire time he was a democrat.

He was either the only, or one of only a few, who voted to Impeach Bill Clinton.

You really need to get your facts straight.

[KevinDavis]

Only losers like you would support a loser like Virgil Goode..

[xzins]

Not only is Goode on the ballot in the states you’ve mentioned, BUT, let it be known to all that the hurdle to be a certified write-in candidate on a state’s ballot is a lower hurdle than getting one’s name on the ballot.

Therefore, the effort to get one’s name on the ballot will easily reach the hurdle to become an allowable write-in candidate.

Like her or not, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska proved last cycle that a write-in campaign can be very effective. And, at a minimum, it allows a conservative a conservative candidate to vote for.

So, let’s say Goode doesn’t make it onto the ballot of the Great State of Confusion but does become a certified write-in candidate. Can the Confusionites still vote for Goode?

You bet. They just write his name in in that portion of the ballot.

[xzins]

It’s relevant if it’s a blue state.

[KevinDavis]

Again a loser supporting a loser... Even though I’m from Illinois I will be voting for Mitt.. Third parties are for losers..

[xzins]

You are wasting your vote. Romney doesn’t have a prayer in Illinois, and the Illini know it.

Therfore, a vote for Romney is a vote for the GOP-E to continue running radical liberals.

A vote for Goode is a direct message to the GOP that conservatives want a conservative candidate.

I think you’re wrong, but I’ve never lived in a blue state and had to put up with what you all have had to put up with.

[xzins]

more than likely a born-again Evangelical (as am I).

If you are a born again Evangelical, then you will stop misrepresenting another born again (baptist) evangelical brother, Virgil Goode, by claiming he was a liberal democrat.

He has always been a pro-life, pro-God, pro-gun, pro-America, anti-open border, pro-small government conservative.

His ACU rating proves it. His vote to impeach Bill Clinton proves it. His vote against TARP proves it.

In each of those he stood against the flood and refused to do the wrong thing.

[xzins]

No, MC, my logic is just fine.

I suspect that the liberal romney supporters have pushed Romney on us to discourage conservatives and throw the election to Obama.

Gop-E Romneybots are actually the Obama Supporters, trying to throw the election to him by giving us a radical liberal as our choice.

[G Larry]

“..trashed all the conservatives..”

I sent cash to Newt and voted for Santorum in the CO caucus.

So, you’ll have to revise your allegations.