Goode lost because of his own screw-ups, like saying that better border enforcement would prevent Muslims like Keith Ellison from getting elected to Congress (what an illegal-alien invasion has to do with a Black Muslim getting elected in Minneapolis is beyond me). So Goode wanted the GOP to come to his rescue because he didn’t outraise the Democrat by all that much? He was in a district far more conservative than VA as a whole, and he lost.
And Goode didn’t vote for Pelosi for Speaker because he was a Republican by the time she was the Democrat leader. Back when Goode was a Democrat, he voted for the Democrat leader for Speaker (Gephardt). And in the VA state senate, the RATs had a one-vote majority in the early ‘90s thanks to Goode. He was a loyal Democrat until he realized that the GOP would control redistricting after the 2000 Census and could place his home county in another Democrat’s district, which would end his congressional career, so he became an “Independent” that caucused with the GOP and soon thereafter an official Republican. Now, after losing to a Democrat, he lswitched parties again, and is an Obama-enabling candidate in cahoots with the “Independent Greens.”
As for your praise for Goode for (perhaps) being able to meet the (ridiculously difficult) signature requirements to get on the ballot in VA by joining forces with the Independent Greens, I think you may be a bit confused. Goode didn’t make a deal with the Independent Greens so that the two parties would each collect signatures for two presidential candidates (Goode and a Green guy); that wouldn’t work, since for a signature to be valid the person must only have signed a petition for a single candidate for a particular office. If a bunch of those signatures that Goode turned in were from voters who also signed petitions for a Green presidential candidate, then Goode won’t get on the VA ballot and Obama will be deeply saddened. What the Independent Greens must have done is not to collect signatures for a Green candidate (who, after all, would take votes away from Obama, whom they want to see defeat Romney in VA), and only collect signatures for Goode. So Goode didn’t form a signature-gathering coalition of also-rans so that they could a get on the ballot; he merely is benefitting from the Independent Greens using their party machinery to get a candidate on the VA ballot who would take votes away from Romney abd could tip the state to Obama. It’s as if the GOP had helped Ralph Nader get on the ballot in FL in 2000—you could call it a smart Republican strategy or Republican dirty tricks depending on your point of view, but one thing you could not call it was “a brilliant move by Nader to get on the ballot,” since Nader would have merely been the recipient of GOP help in taking votes away from Gore.
Signature collectors ask lots of people, and some will sign for candidate A and some will sign for candidate B and some will sign for neither. In any case, you cover more ground with 2 people asking that with 1 person asking. I’m sure you see that.
The collector is simply a collector.
Goode was a consistent pro-life, pro-gun, pro-God, pro-family conservative throughout. He voted to impeach Clinton. That is what riled them up.
He voted against TARP. That’s what riled them up. And, so far as losing a congressional campaign...he won many through the years. So, the same as Santorum, there is no fault in losing a campaign. If Romney is your candidate, and losing a campaign disqualifies a candidate, then his loss to Kennedy was crushing, and his pending loss in his 2d term as governor had him turn tail and run. So...I guess that means you can’t vote for Romney.
All that said, Goode didn’t come out in April for gay couples and for gay couples at the state level having the right to adopt children. But, Romney did.
Goode didn’t just say (last Monday) that he though gun control was just fine if brought to him in a bi-partisan way, that that is the kind of legislation he likes to sign. But, Romney did.
Goode is not extolling the virtues of Romneycare in Masschusetts. But, Romney is.
Goode was not promoting pro-choice as his effective position as recently as late 2007. Romney was.
Goode is not fearful of taking a stand on illegal immigration and is incomprehensible when responding to the idea of amnesty for young illegals. Romney is, and even hired illegals.
I could go on, but this will not open the eyes of those who’ve made up their minds to support Romney.
So, go in peace, Au. I’ve known you in the past as a solid Freeper. My guess is that you still are.