Tim Boyer

Robert Hurt Campaign Spinning His Record in the Daily Progress

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:01:00 +0000

In this article from the Charlottesville Daily Progress, Hurt's guy LaCivita is forced to spin Hurt's abysmal record on taxes in response to Feda Morton having the courage to call him out for his voting record(which is fact, created intentionally by Senator Hurt by his votes).

This blogger finds it "amusing", to quote LaCivita, that the best they can do to explain Hurt's vote for 1.4 billion in new taxes, the largest in Virginia's history, is to cite his rating from the Family Foundation!
As usual, rather than answer the charge they deflect attention from the indefensible actions of Senator Hurt by talking about the F.F. or other interest groups.

A page right out of the Clinton playbook:
When caught by your own actions, make fun of those who called you out, and turn attention to something else you consider a little more likely to help your cause.........such as a rating from the Family Foundation.

I also noticed that Mr LaCivita forgot to mention that TFF did not include the HPV bill that Morton mentioned in their choice of bills to rate for that legislative session.

In other words, Mr Hurt gets a high rating from TFF based upon their rating of votes he took that did agree with their positions, but leaving out the bills he voted for that they disagree with......hmmm.

I also noticed he forgot to mention that Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform mentioned Robert Hurt as one of the top Republican traitors for his vote for Mark Warner's largest tax increase in Virginia history.

He also attempted to tie Hurt to Virgil Goode in the following statement:
“To make any claim that Robert Hurt is anything but a conservative in the tradition of the 5th District is just laughable,”

Really?
What he wanted to say was "the tradition of Virgil Goode".........problem:
Goode would never in a million years have voted for any tax increase, much less the largest in history, or a tax scheme ruled unconstitutional as taxation without representation by the Virginia Supreme Court.(HB3202)

I don't know about you, but I do not consider Hurt's record on taxes, his vote for forcing parents to administer vaccinations against a sexually transmitted disease to twelve year-olds(HB2035), or his vote for domestic partner benefits for homosexuals(SB945) to be 5th District tradition.....unless you reside in Charlottesville and work at UVA, perhaps.

No, Mr Lacivita, try as you might that record cannot be spun out of.........Senator Hurt's tax record may resemble Bill Clinton's, but his ability to duck and escape is comical, at best.

Robert Hurt MIA on Call for Convention

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:04:00 +0000

Interesting that all the Republican candidates for congress in VA-5, excepting one, signed a press release that hit today urging the 5th District Republican Committee to select a convention rather than a primary by which to nominate a candidate to run against Tom Perriello;

That one exception was Robert Hurt.
I am not sure if Senator Hurt disagrees with the reasons given for asking for a convention, or if he believes a primary tips the scales in his favor, but it does continue a disturbing trend on his part of siding with party bosses, rather than the grassroots of the party.

Virginia law allows any registered voter to vote in any primary, as long as one does not vote in both the Republican and Democrat primaries in the same year.

As Perriello is an incumbent, it is highly unlikely the Democrats will have a primary, and they will be free to infect a potential Republican primary with Democrat and other liberal voters to select the Republican of their choice to offer up to Perriello.

Senator Hurt's deafening silence on this issue makes it appear that he believes a little Democrat involvement may not be a bad thing, as his record on taxes and homosexual issues makes him an odds-on favorite to 5th district Democrats.
( see other Robert Hurt labels on this blog for details of his voting record)

It is telling that the one Republican in the race who voted for the largest tax increase in Virginia history, as well as an unconstitutional tax bill (HB3202), is the only candidate of the entire field who apparently sees no problem with forcing Virginia's taxpayers all over the 5th district to pay for a primary they have no say in requesting or preventing.........not to mention that taxpayers in split counties like Bedford and Henry which are only partially in the 5th, will find themselves paying their tax dollars for a primary in the 5th, in which many county residents do not even live!

If 5th district leaders voting in this issue choose a primary, let it never be said again that district leadership are as concerned with the state of our Commonwealth and nation as they are with ensuring a coronation of Washington-elite ordained nominees.

Saturday will tell the story.

Warner and Webb Poised to Betray Virginia by Voting for Cloture on ObamaCare

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:10:00 +0000

The VNN reported today that Warner and Webb are both preparing to vote for cloture on the ObamaCare bill;
Cloture simply means that the bill is allowed to proceed to the floor for debate and a vote.
They know that if this bill gets to the floor it will pass, because the Democrats will use the "nuclear option" to allow them pass this bill with only 51 votes, to break a filibuster.

Webb and Warner are planning to vote for cloture, then vote against the bill on the final vote, knowing it will pass anyway, and they can come home for Christmas to tell all their consituents that they voted against final passage.........they will conveniently forget to mention that their two votes for cloture are what allowed the bill to come to the floor for passage.

Tar and feathers, anyone?

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National Conservative Leaders Endorse Feda for Congress

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:19:00 +0000

Here is the most recent press release I can find from the Morton campaign.
It appears that the conservative wing of the RNC has noticed Feda Morton.........I would suggest that indicates a fear of Robert Hurt's lack of ability to beat Perriello next fall, as well as their confidence in Morton..........I also know that Blackwell and Terry were opposed the the RINO Michael Steele from the beginning, which I think demonstrates their conservative dedication and credentials.............anyway, no point speculating;
Here is the press release.

*PRESS RELEASE*

National Republican Leaders Endorse Morton for Congress

PALMYRA, VA - Congressional candidate Feda Morton announced today that her campaign has received the endorsement of two Republican National Committee members. National Committeeman Morton Blackwell of Arlington, and National Committeewoman Kathy Hayden Terry of Botetourt, agreed that Feda Morton is the Virginia GOP's best hope to replace liberal Democrat Congressman Tom Periello with a principled and proven conservative.

Blackwell is one of the longest-serving members of the Republican National Committee, having first been elected in 1988. In 2004, Blackwell was elected to the RNC Executive Committee. Blackwell served in the Reagan White House; his education and training center, The Leadership Institute, has trained a generation of conservative candidates and grassroots activists.

"I've known Feda Morton for years," said Blackwell. "She is a conservative's conservative who will not compromise her principles when she gets to Washington. Feda's commitment to limited government and an America as envisioned by our Founding Fathers is unwavering. Feda will be a true conservative leader in Congress."

Kathy Terry has been a fixture in conservative and Republican politics in Virginia for quarter century. Previously to serving on the RNC, Terry was a longtime member of the Republican Party of Virginia's State Central Committee.

Terry mentioned her years of working side-by-side with Morton as a grassroots conservative activist. "Feda understands the conservative grassroots of Republican Party because she is a part of that grassroots. Feda has never shied away from standing up for her beliefs; she has been a tireless advocate for the conservative principles of life and liberty, and she will continue to do so in the House of Representatives."

Feda Morton said she was honored to have the support of these two national republican leaders. "Morton Blackwell and Kathy Terry are known and respected leaders of the conservative movement and the Republican Party, both nationally and here at home. These two know the type of candidates our Party needs to nominate for Congress if we are to be victorious in 2010. Their endorsement of my campaign is a strong signal to those who share our conservative principles, and those who want to see our Party again fully embrace those principles in the future."

Blackwell and Terry join other noted conservative leaders in endorsing Feda Morton's campaign for Congress. Earlier this week, Mike Farris announced his endorsement of Morton. Farris is the founder and Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, a group dedicated to the protection of the rights of home educators across the nation.

Feda Morton is seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in Virginia's Fifth Congressional District. She teaches AP biology at Fluvanna High School, is a former state championship basketball and track coach, past Chairman of the Fluvanna Republican committee, and twice elected to the Fluvanna School Board.

Equality Virginia Pushed Robert Hurt's SB 945

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:17:00 +0000

Senator Hurt voted for SB 945, a bill to legalize extending employer health care provisions, normally reserved for family members, to "domestic partners" of homosexual employees.

This bill is mentioned by Equality Virginia, the largest GLTB group in Virginia, as one of its top legislative priorities;

Robert Hurt should never have voted in favor of this attack on the family, a bill intended to elevate the "domestic partner" to the same legal status as a spouse, in a Republican-controlled state that only three years ago passed a Constitutional Amendment defending traditional marriage!

Gotta love our principled Republican leaders, don'tcha?

Republicans, this is a time for choosing..........which values we believe in, because I assure you they are antithetical to each other;
You can't have this one both ways.........

This race really does resemble the NY-23 in a remarkable manner, does it not?
The establishment tax raising, soft-on-traditional-values candidate, around whom the NRCC has circled their usual wagons, and a truly conservative alternative Republican, whose lifetime of grassroots conservative activism, elective office, and years as a Republican chairman is apparently sneered at by the powers that be in Washington.

The Hill Doubts Robert Hurt on Taxes

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:12:00 +0000

.........listing the 5th district race as one the top ten conservative conundrums of 2010

Scozzafava's NRCC Ready to Endorse Robert Hurt?

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:21:00 +0000

The NRCC is apparently ready to betray their recent insinuation that they are not going to intrude in any more Republican nomination battles by supporting Largest-Tax-Increase-In-Virginia's-History-Hurt over other far more conservative candidates.

The following excerpt from the link story would be quite funny if it were not so irritating:

The national Republican Party has gotten behind the primary candidacy of state Sen. Robert Hurt, R-Chatham, pointing out that he has a proven ability to win elections that cover large portions of the district’s southern half.

Proven ability?
The NRCC quite conveniently forgets to note that Senator Hurt's ability to win in Southside has been garnered in races with either no opponent, or only token opposition after an uncontested Republican nomination process.
I suppose even I could accomplish quite a winning record in several slam-dunk races.............hardly an indicator of electoral strength.

I seem to recall they also thought another tax-raising Republican would be a winner too..........anyone remember Dede Scozzafava?

Regardless, any Republican can win in the southern 2/3 of the 5th district.
Hurt's wins down there hardly indicate his political strength.

If Perriello beat Virgil Goode, with his stellar record, is there any safety in the foolish assumption that a Republican who voted for the largest tax increase in our history, and an unconstitutional tax increase(HB3202) will fare even as well, much less any better?

Perhaps the fact that the NRCC thinks Hurt is a proven winner explains how they could think Scozzafava was a winner too.
With their success rate, if they really want Hurt to win, the best thing they could do for him is to keep their mouths shut...........but go ahead, make my day!

I want a real conservative.

Robert Hurt is Perriello's Dream Opponent

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:05:00 +0000

Tom Perriello, having voted twice this year for some of the largest tax increases in America's history in Cap and Trade and Obamacare, would love nothing more than for 5th District Republicans to give him an opponent whose track record on taxes nearly mirrors his own.

The Democrats have learned what Washington Republicans apparently have not, that liberal Republican nominees usual produce Democrat victories.
Often, as in NY-23, the liberal Republican turns on their "friends" and actually assists the Democrats to prevent a conservative from winning.........Scozzafava, Specter, Snowe, Collins, Chafee, Jeffords.......need I say more?

Dede Scozzafava showed her appreciation for her coronation by Republican cronies by turning on them and handing the election to the Democrat.

Similarly, Robert Hurt turned on his Republican friends in 2005, voting with Mark Warner to pass the largest tax increase in Virginia's history.
At the time, not only did Virginia have a $1 billion budget surplus, but Preston Bryant and Robert Hurt took fifteen other wayward Republican delegates with them to cross the aisle and vote with the Democrat minority to pass this bill!
In other words, their treachery is what gave the Democrats the votes to pass this bill in a Republican-controlled House of Delegates!

The deal allowed Warner to get a tax increase far larger than he even asked for!
Robert Hurt's inexcusable action put Virginia taxpayers on the hook for the largest tax increase ever in Virginia, and made a hero of Warner, who then took all the credit for balancing the budget with the "extra money", leaving the state with the surplus.

The dirty little secret is that Virginia's constitution requires the budget to be balanced when a governor leaves office.......Warner had no choice but to honor that requirement, and no tax increase was needed.
With a 1 billion dollar surplus, it is clear that the only thing accomplished by Hurt's tax increase was to ensure a fleecing of Virginia's citizens, and that Mark Warner would use revisionist history of this act to become U.S. Senator a few years later.

Word has it Washington insiders have made it clear to 5th District leaders that they want to reward Robert Hurt for this terrible judgment with a nomination for congress;
I seem to recall that their most recent meddling episode produced a Democrat congressman in NY-23 who just broke four campaign promises within the first hour of his swearing-in.

This author submits the humble opinion that Robert Hurt, having given away the moral and political credibility with which to call Perriello into account for his tax and spend record, would take away the best hope Republicans have of using Perriello's tax and spend record to bring him down next year.

5th District Republicans would do well to use a convention method of nomination rather than primary, as that would all but ensure the inability of Washington elitist Republican leadership to bring their impressive ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory to bear in the 5th.

If the goal is to defeat Perriello, Hurt is clearly not a safe bet.

Video: Obama Proudly Proclaiming Himself to be Muslim

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:50:00 +0000

Tom Perriello Seals His Fate With Vote Against Freedom

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:17:00 +0000

As Tom Perriello voted away his congressional seat on Saturday with his vote for Obamacare, his actions leave me a little surprised;

Not in the sense that he would vote for something this destructive, nor that he cares nothing about the continued existence of Freedom and Liberty in the world; for indeed, if freedom and liberty die here, there is nowhere else to turn.....we are the last man standing in the world.

But what surprises me is that Perriello is willing to trade his congressional seat for the chance to make Nancy Pelosi happy.......or is there more to it than simply pleasing The Halloween Mask.

What sane human would vote for something so unpopular with his constituents that it all but guarantees he will never again visit Washington, DC as an incumbent congressman after next November?
No, he has been promised something; A cabinet post perhaps......an appointment as a Czar of some sort, in case of political suicide?

We may never know, but one thing is certain;
Mr. Perriello cares not a whit what his constituents think, nor does he care about the Constitution;
He has no scruples, no morals, no principled positions that he will not sell for a price;
His convictions are limited to only his latest political whoredom.

That an American citizen can so easily betray his country with this vote, as well as Cap and Trade, that only a few years ago would get him impeached is beyond sane reasoning;
In the Nineteenth Century he would have been tarred and feathered for such an extremist action.

Our own elected "representatives" are now selling your freedom and mine and that of our posterity on the altar of slavish devotion to their Supreme Leader and Comrade Obama and his Marxist agenda.

It has all happened before...........the question is, will we recognize it and put a stop to it while we are still free to do so?
I cannot emphasize strongly enough how near the precipice of slavery we are as a people to our own government, nor the arrogant and committed determination of Perriello and Obama to force a Marxist society down our throats.

We must have ALL options on the table to regain and keep our freedom this time;
How ironic that Obama used the terms "extremists" and "anti-government people", in his browbeating of the Blue Dogs Saturday night, referring to anyone who believes in adhering to the limits of governmental power mandated by the Constitution.

HE is the extremist, HE is the one who hates our current government, as it is limited in scope by his most hated document of all time, the Constitution. (next to the Bible, of course)
HE is the one who has thrown aside all restraints on himself and his Marxist buddies in the Democrat party; It is HE who is willing to make his congressional friends lose their seats if that is what it takes to take over another almost twenty percent of the American economy and give it to government.
HE is the one who proclaims America to be no longer Christian while keeping a deafening silence as another Muslim murders our troops.
It is HE who allows continued murder of our sitting duck GI's in Afghanistan, for fear of endangering his Marxist takeover of the healthcare system.
It is HIS politically-correct military who kept their silence about Major Hassan, knowing for weeks or months that he was a Muslim radical

Yes, it is HE who believes that he, and only he, should have the final say in everything that pertains to a U.S. citizen, and that is the practical definition of Marxist government.

OK, Barack, WE are the extremists??
You and the liar Perriello fit the definition far better than we.
It is YOU who have committed High Crimes and Treason against the Constitution and the Citizenry

Face it folks, it has happened; He is in the White House.
Now are you going to join the freedom movement, or will you sit back and refuse to defend freedom for all others until yours is removed, at which point it will likely be too late?

What will finally be your breaking point?
Will you wait until they forcibly take your kids as Brownshirts, or enact forced sterilization?
How about when they force you to let your Grandad die because his life has become expendable?
Think it can't happen here, think again!

I remind us all that Hitler was freely elected as president in Germany and only six years later forcibly made himself dictator.........it was the same U.S that Obama and Perriello seek to destroy that had to stop him; Only you can stop Obama and Perriello!!

Are you willing to sacrifice Life, Fortune and Sacred Honor, if necessary, to win back our freedom for which countless thousands have died to procure?

I suggest we throw out all the Statist bums (Perriello) in DC that forcibly removed our constitutional freedom by voting for Obamacare or Cap and Trade.
Get involved, join a campaign, run your own campaign, donate to conservative candidates, write letters to the editor, speak the truth boldly whenever and wherever anyone will listen, call your representatives even if they are not listening, call the White House though they could not care less, man the phone banks, call into radio talk shows;

And if all else fails in the end, be ready and willing to exercise our right to Keep and Bear Arms. As George Washington said " the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is the citizens last line of defense between themselves and over-reaching government".

I hope and pray it never comes to that, but this adminstration is NOT above the use of force on American citizens if they view it as necessary to the successful take-over by Marxism.
Read Karl Marx and Saul Alinski, if you can do it without throwing up, to see what Obama, Perriello and Comrades believe...........oh yes, and welcome to the Soviet Union!

Are you going to step up and prevent it?
Mr. Obama, I am an American, I live with Americans, I recognize an American, and I love Americans;
You, sir, are no American.

One last final word of advice to Obama and Perriello:
DON'T TREAD ON US!!!

Ed Gillespie Assassinates Character of Fellow Republican in WaPo Op-ed

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:17:00 +0000

Ed Gillespie recently took the opportunity to launch a thinly-veiled and unprovoked attack on my friend and fellow patriot Catherine Crabill; Enjoy the self-aggrandizing of Mr. Gillespie, and then read my response below.
For those of you who do not know, he is referring to her in the talking points section of his op-ed, where he talks about language the voters want to hear.

I want to respond to Ed Gillespie's gratuitous and unprofessional remarks about a friend of liberty and fellow Patriot, Catherine Crabill.
In his recent op-ed Mr. Gillespie misquoted Mrs. Crabill by inferring that she said that if Republicans fell short at the ballot box they might want to resort to the bullet box.
Here is her actual remark....." we must fight this war at the ballot box, BEFORE we have to resort to the bullet box".

Mrs. Crabill's point was in the context of her support for the 2nd Amendment, which guarantees all citizens the right to keep and bear firearms.
Her point was that we have the blessing of the ballot box with which to defend our dwindling liberty, and must exercise that freedom in order to prevent being forced to resort to firearms once again.......... I totally agree, and so did the Founders.
She clearly was not advocating the unilateral use of firearms in murder, as she has been portrayed.

Further, her point was that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to give us a last ditch method of preventing tyranny from our own government. George Washington stated that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms was the citizens last line of defense between themselves and overreaching government. Perhaps Mr. Gillespie will find it incumbent upon himself to call President Washington a right-wing nut, as he appears to hint that Crabill is, but then again, maybe not.
I remind Mr.. Gillespie that once upon a time it took the dedicated use of the bullet box to bring about the freedom to use the ballot box.

That was Mrs Crabill's underlying premise.
Further, I happen to know her and she is one of the boldest and most outspoken proponents of constitutional principle and she understands the importance of the 2nd Amendment as being absolutely foundational to all the other constitutionally guaranteed liberties we once enjoyed in this nation.

By the way, Mr. Gillespie also forgot to mention that as McDonnell and Bolling were publicly disavowing themselves of the campaign of a "radical" Republican nominee, breaking their PLEDGE to support ALL Republican candidates, McDonnell was publicly endorsing and campaigning for another Republican House of Delegates candidate, who as a proud homosexual campaigned on his desire to overturn Virginia's Marriage Amendment, just passed in 2006, for which McDonnell takes a lot of the credit.

Mr Gillespie's uncalled for and totally gratuitous assault on a fine lady and defender of liberty in front of the whole state, comes on the same day that she was at the Michelle Bauchman rally in Washington, yet again defending Mr. Gillespie's freedom to voice his opinion without fear of retribution from political authorities.

Too bad he and McDonnell do not afford Mrs. Crabill the same respect. While she fell a few votes shy of defeating a longtime Democrat incumbent (thought to be invincible) thanks to McDonnell's public ditching of her campaign, she has picked herself up and started right back into battle as Gillespie and Co. continue to be obsessed with her.

What does Mr. Gillespie so fear about a losing candidate from an obscure county in rural Virginia that he cannot apparently reconcile himself to her very existence? Why does he find it necessary to air McDonnell's dirty social laundry to the whole state, just for the joy of attacking Mrs. Crabill?.
I suppose Mrs. Crabill's "radical" defense of the 2nd Amendment is "language the voters don't want to hear", but overturning the Marriage Amendment is the mainstream norm in the South, eh.

Fortunately though, Gillespie is still capable of complimenting the most radical President in American history, while assisting him in broadcasting false White House talking points that Virginia's elections are not a reflection on Barack Obama;
How foolish can one former RNC Chairman really be? Until Mr. Gillespie has the social skills to avoid publicly hitting a lady while she is down, I would recommend to him the old-fashioned right-wing radical notion of counting to one hundred before choosing to publicly humilate oneself.

Another note;
After the GOP Chair of the Westmoreland Republicans told the media that Crabill was nothing more than a caricature, and after being thrown publicly under the bus by the entire party apparatus, including the statewide candidates, she came within three points of beating Pollard.
Maybe there are few more radicals around who understand that our freedom really IS under direct threat from a Marxist administration in Washington, and that the Republican leadership are still wantonly clueless to this stark reality.

But, I guess Gillespie and his crowd would rather have a Democrat who will make deals with our freedom than a patriot who will not...........John McCain is very proud today, Ed.
How's that Hope and Change working out for you, eh?

Apparent Muslim Gunman Murders Soldiers at Fort Hood

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:35:00 +0000

Now that we know that Maj. Nidal Hassan was at the very least a Muslim sympathizer, the question rings loud and clear:
When will we stop pretending that there is no need to treat Muslims with a cautious amount of suspicion?
How many more Americans will have to die before we stop letting the war-like religion run unchecked on military bases?

How much carnage inside our borders will it take to finally convince Washington that "Houston, we have a problem"?
12 families are suffering the loss of loved ones tonight, while thirty more suffer the emotional and physical pain of this avoidable mass murder.

Our politicians still refuse to admit, for obvious political reasons, that Islam is a grave danger to innocent Americans, and it appears that they are more concerned that they not irritate potential Muslim voters than they are with ensuring that more Muslims previously thought to be harmless can't kill more people.

I know I'll be called a hate-filled warmonger, but I submit that is the murderous religion of Islam that is hate-filled, not the few of us who actually have the courage to tell the truth, and try to call our nation to it's senses before it is too late.

My sympathies lie with the murdered, not with the murderer

Republicans Romp; McDonnell Must Seize the Moment

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:26:00 +0000

Yesterday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey clearly were a referendum on Barak Obama's Socialist and Marxist governing policies;

Only a year after winning Virginia as the first Democrat to do so since 1964, and sweeping New Jersey in a landslide, Obama and his Democrat underlings were systematically and thoroughly destroyed by the concern over his own Cap and Trade and Obamacare takeovers of the free enterprise system, and the reputation of McDonnell and Cuccinelli as Reagan conservatives;

McDonnell, and Cuccinelli both were publicly vocal about their respective agendas, and
the Republican ticket did a far better job of appealing to the electorate on issues than the Democrats, and aided by the political climate created by fear of Obama policies, swept away the Democrats in a tide of center-right Virginia voters.

Let there no longer be any doubt that the wave of Obamamania last year was nothing more than just that, and that Virginia's brief flirtation with Democrat control is effectively over for at least the next few years, if the Republican stick to their constitutional guns.

Bob McDonnell has enough political capital now to stand up to the Obama agenda, claim the sovereignty granted to Virginia by the US Constitution when it becomes necessary to do so, and lead this state back to respect for constitutionally limited governing principles.

Whether or not he realizes the opportunity he has is still to be seen, but he is an intelligent man, and I hope he seizes the moment for traditional American values of Faith, Family, Freedom, and Limited Government.

Governor, this is a time for choosing;
We chose you, now we ask you to choose to defend our ever endangered liberty from the tyranny of government.
The sky is the limit for you if you allow the people to be your best friends, and the Constitution your closest advisor

Congratulations, Sir.

Homosexual Republicans Blast Cuccinelli, Praise McDonnell; This Blogger is Loving Cucc!

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:50:00 +0000

Below is an article by Amy Gardner reporting on the Log Cabin Republicans love for Bob McDonnell and hatred for Ken Cuccinelli; While it is not my desire to have to rip McDonnell again this close to the election, I cannot let my friend Ken Cuccinelli take arrows from a group of Republicans that really should be Democrats without defending him, and that will require contrasting his position with that of McDonnell;

Feel free to read the article below I have pasted in, and if you are truly conservative you will admire Cuccinelli for the courage it took to say what he does this close to an election, particularly knowing that McDonnell will throw him under the bus for standing up for what he believes, but standing up anyway.

Ken was absolutely correct that homosexuality defies natural law; he also did not say that he would discriminate against them in hiring practices.....only that he would not PLEDGE to pretend that there is no difference between hetero and homo;

Cuccinelli's viewpoint is out there for all to see and know, and it looks like the vast majority of Virginians are going to elect him AG;
If so, that same majority is putting their stamp of approval on Ken's willingness to take arrows from the homosexual leadership for his belief that God created them male and female, and that one leaves one's father and mother and cleaves to one's wife, not ones domestic partner.

What a shame that McDonnell and Bolling do not have Cuccinelli's principled traditional American values, and that they will throw him under the bus for standing up for those values.

It is so refreshing to see an American patriot like Cuccinelli who is not afraid to stand up against the militant homosexual leadership, while so many other Republican leaders are wetting their pants in fear;
Just as the New York Republicans put up a flaming liberal for Congress in NY-23, Bob McDonnell endorsed Danny Smith, a homosexual Republican in NoVa whose main platform plank is calling for the overturning of our Marriage Amendment that Bob claims to support and champion.

As usual, Republican leaders are trying to have it both ways, no pun intended, refusing to take principled, uncompromising positions on traditional issues that most Americans care about more deeply than even the economy.

The lessons of the Reagan era appear to be forgotten and eschewed by Republican leadership, as they actively court and recruit liberals to carry the banner of the Republican party whose platform is antithetical to liberalism.

Normal Americans get this and don't like it; Cuccinelli also understands we are aware that we are losing our nation to liberalism, socialism and Marxism, and that we reject the liberalism currently being spewed forth by the current administration and way too many Republican leaders desperately trying to regain their personal power base;

Cuccinelli views the role of government much the same as it was intended by our Founders, and his ability to win elections in NoVa when most other Republicans have long since died indicates that even in increasingly liberal Northern Virginia people still respect a man who will stand up for traditional American values without apology or equivocation;

Ken Cuccinelli is still unneutered by Republican leadership; Ken Cuccinelli is still a man.

Ken stands for traditional American values of Faith, Family, and Freedom, and therefore I stand with Ken Cuccinelli.

Yesterday, the Log Cabin Republicans praised Republican Bob McDonnell for his "inclusive" statements promising never to discriminate against employees on the basis of sexual orientation.

Today, the group of Republican gay activists slammed McDonnell's ticket-mate, Ken Cuccinelli, for the reverse. Cuccinelli, the Republican nominee for attorney general, was quoted in the Virginian-Pilot newspaper declining to commit to the state's nondiscrimination policy against gays and lesbians.

"My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong," Cuccinelli told the newspaper. "They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that. . . They don't comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society."

David Lampo, vice president of the Log Cabin Republican Club of Virginia, put out the following statement today:

"That Mr. Cuccinelli would make such incendiary and prejudicial remarks as a candidate for the state's highest legal office is truly frightening, and we call on him to apologize for injecting his personal and hateful opinions into this race," said David Lampo, vice president of the Log Cabin Republican Club of Virginia. "The overwhelming majority of Virginia voters, 90 percent according to Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, support a policy of employment nondiscrimination for state employees. We hope voters evaluate very carefully a candidate who intends to let his personal beliefs and prejudices guide his decision making as Attorney General."

"Cuccinelli's remarks stand in stark contrast to the inclusive statements of Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for Governor," Lampo continued, "Mr. McDonnell has rightfully said the government should not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, and so we call on Republican leaders and candidates throughout Virginia to repudiate Cuccinelli's hateful remarks and stand with Bob McDonnell on this important issue."

Cuccinelli's opponent, Democrat Steve Shannon, also criticized Cuccinelli for his remarks. Shannon sent a letter to McDonnell urging him to denounce Cuccinelli's remarks, and McDonnell did -- sort of, while also taking a swipe at Shannon for focusing on the issue at all.

"Bob McDonnell's record and position is clear: he does not tolerate discrimination of any kind and he hires and promotes based solely on merit and ability," spokesman Tucker Martin said. "That was his policy as attorney general, and will be his policy as governor. There are only six days left in this critically important race. Bob will spend that time continuing to advance innovative ideas to create new jobs, improve our schools, fix our roads and turn Virginia's economy around. Steve Shannon, as a candidate for statewide office in these tough times, should think about doing the same thing."

By Amy Gardner | October 28, 2009; 2:28 PM ET | Category: Amy Gardner , Attorney General's Race , Election 2009 , Ken Cuccinelli , Steve Shannon

Obama Poised to Make Move to Begin Destruction of United States with Climate Change Treaty

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:01:00 +0000

White House (Obama) Steps Up Assaults On Hannity, Beck

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:34:00 +0000

This story raises my hackles yet again at the brazen assault on the citizens right to express his opinion by this Marxist regime in Washington, DC;
This man and his cronies should not be anywhere the reins of power in this or any other country, and it is high time the American people demand impeachment;

We have the option to send any congressman packing next year who refuses to consider impeaching this unconstitutional president;
American freedom itself is at stake here, and time is critical.

Every American should be furious at this attempt to silence the only major television media outlet that disagrees with Obama at times.
Apparently in Obama's America freedom of the press is good only as long as the press agrees with Obama's plan to enslave us.

But that should be no surprise, coming from a president who hates the Constitution, and views it as a meaningless impediment to his schemes.

Stand up and fight for your freedom, America!!

Rush Limbaugh's Money Not Good Enough; NFL Turns Into Political Organization

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:34:00 +0000

Now that Rush has been officially barred from NFL ownership, I have a few comments to make about the sorry state of the NFL today;

All the flap about Rush' "controversial" comments is manufactured by media and sports figures for the purpose of embarrassing and depressing conservative involvement in public endeavors outside of the political arena;

The comment in question was when Rush said on the set of ESPN that the media was desirous of a black quarterback succeeding, and hence they overrated Donovan McNabb;

While I disagree with Rush that McNabb is overrated, he is absolutely correct about the desire of the sports media to see a black quarterback succeed so they can fulfill some need for reparation in their twisted manner of thought;

Rush never said anything personally negative about McNabb, and did not say that his race had anything do with his physical ability; in fact, his point had nothing to do with McNabb per se';
It had to do with the media, not McNabb.

As usual, the media, certain players, and the "Justice Brothers" (Jackson and Sharpton, two of the worst racists of all time), took the opportunity to get him removed from ESPN, and to lie about his comments and smear his reputation with their revised version of his original statement about McNabb and the media;

I am sick and tired of racism being treated as a one-way street, and I refuse to buy into the false conventional wisdom of racists that says conservatives are racist for telling the truth regardless of its popularity or lack thereof, but certain liberal blacks can say any horrible things they want about white people and that is perfectly acceptable and treated as intelligent thought.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are two of the most vicious and vile racists of all time, and to hear them preaching about Rush is sickening and laughable;
These two racists-of-the-cloth have made millions of dollars causing and patronizing racial strife, and only are successful when they cause blacks to hate whites and vice-versa.

I don't hear them condemning Ray Lewis for hiring someone to murder his girlfriend, or the NFL for doing nothing about it; I don't hear them condemning Mike Vick for his animal cruelty or the NFL for doing little about it........or Dante' Stallworth for getting drunk and murdering a man....or Steve McNair for cheating on his wife and girlfriend with yet another woman......or Pacman Jones for a lifetime of being on the wrong side of the law.....the list goes on and on

Nor do I hear the NFL refusing to allow lawbreakers such as these and many others to participate in NFL activities;
No, its Rush who is racist for telling the truth with which Tom Jackson and Michael Irvin agreed publicly until someone got to them to straighten them out and get them thinking straight....I hardly think they have a problem with black people.

The NFL has sold out to politics, and when a conservative's money is no longer any good to them then neither is a conservative's TV ratings.
As such, I can only assume that if they don't want Rush, they don't want me and neither do their advertisers.

From now on, until they reverse their wanton assassination of Rush' reputation, I will no longer be watching games, looking online, or buying anything from their advertisers.

This nation belongs to us, not to Jackson, Sharpton, or any other racial hucksters out there.
While I support the right of the NFL to decide who can and cannot own teams, I also support our right to let them know they are not good enough for us anymore.
They need us, not the other way around.

I will not stand by and allow them ignore reality and act as if it is no big deal to me, because it is.
Rush is a gentleman, who tells the truth about racists and racism and is therefore is under assault for exposing them for who they are.

I don't see much racism left in our nation among real people who live outside elitism;
I see it mostly among media and Democrats, who see everyone as some kind of category rather than as an American.

It is these race-baiting professionals who make a habit of racism, not rank and file blacks or whites.

Go Rush......buy a team yourself, and I will purchase stock.

Senator Robert Hurt Announces Congressional Run; Wrong Choice for 5th District Republicans

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:30:00 +0000

Now that it is official, I want to announce my objection to Senator Hurt as our nominee for this seat;

I have done extensive research into his voting record while in the Virginia House and Senate, and have concluded that "conservative" to him really means "march in lockstep" with Republican power brokers regardless of the commitment or lack thereof to conservative values.

Conservatives have been shoved to the side within the official framework of the Republican Party of Virginia for years, and Hurt's voting record shows an oft-moderate follower, not a "proven conservative leader" as he says.

Read his questionable record below in several previous posts

Robert Hurt Not the Conservative He may Appear to Be- Part 5.......Domestic Partner Benefits

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:12:00 +0000

SB 945 will , in effect, make it legal and mandate for insurance providers and employers in Virginia to extend certain insurance coverages to the "domestic partners" of any given employee, in violation of Virginia's Constitution.

In a state where we just passed a Marriage Amendment to our Constitution to protect traditional marriage from the attacks of the militant homosexual lobby, we now have some Republicans crossing the aisle to vote with their socialist Democrat counterparts to again assault one of humanity's greatest and longest held institutions from God;

Naturally, the GA tried to hide the ramifications of this bill in nuance and platitudes, but if one is looking, it is not hard to extract the fly from the ointment; here is the damning portion of the text of SB 945;

B, may be extended to insure the spouse and any child who is under the age of nineteen years or who is a dependent and a full-time student under twenty-five years of age, or any class of spouses and dependent children, of each insured group member who so elects.

ANY CLASS OF SPOUSES.........
What exactly is a "class of spouses"??
You guessed it...............one's "domestic partner".

Last I checked no one is trying to have an animal, plant, man-made creation, or otherwise classified as a "class of spouse".

This is yet another attempt to encroach upon the defining lines of traditional marriage by certain lobbies who have so far been defeated by Virginia's native sons and daughters at the polling place.
Senator Hurt again shows, by voting for this bill, what appears to be either a lack of principle or a dereliction of duty to his Oath of Office, by being lax in his research of the consequences of his votes.

One might ask how this vote reflects a violation of his Oath.............let me explain;
Virginia's Constitution now defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman, as does history, tradition, the Bible, and logic and common sense, and the vast majority of Virginians who passed it into law.

Since an elected official takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, how can Senator Hurt vote for a bill that clearly violates the Virginia Constitution by creating a "class of spouses", in direct opposition to the guidelines of the Constitution which defines spouses as a man and a woman?

The Constitution of Virginia leaves no room for the GA to re-define marriage by adding classes of spouse.
According to Virginia's Constitution, there are no classes of spouse, only a man and a woman.

No, Senator, you are on the wrong side of the Constitution again, only this time it is even more important and potentially destructive than your vote for unconstitutional taxation without representation in HB 3202.

All this begs yet another question regarding limited government;
How is it any of the business of government to legislate who is or is not covered by private insurers in a private enterprise?

What will be next?
Sprint will be forced to provide cell phones to those who are likely to refuse to pay their bill?
That's not so far fetched, if one only recalls the genesis of the housing market crash from two years ago;

That began in the seventies under the leadership of the National Hemorrhoid, as Rush calls Carter, and was exacerbated in the nineties under the National Hound-dog, as they FORCED banks to extend home loans to people that had already proven to the free market that they were a high "risk" of refusing to repay the loans.

In an era of Barak Obama, anything is possible, and Republicans should be leading the charge to reduce government to it's constitutionally mandated size and scope, not assisting the Democrats in it's further explosion is size and scope.

Senator Hurt's voting record is a far more accurate indicator of how he would govern as a congressman than is his rhetoric, or the rhetoric or endorsement of any fellow legislators who may care to endorse his record.

If 5th district Republicans had no other choice than Hurt, I could perhaps see taking the pragmatic approach to defeating Tom Perriello;

But we have real conservatives in the race;
Why settle for less in a tremendous opportunity to defeat one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the country?

We need movement conservative leadership to bring us back from the brink of national collapse, not more of the same Republican leadership that assisted the Democrats, or at the very least stood by and watched as liberals destroyed the very freedom that countless thousands have died for over the last 250 years.

Robert Hurt Not So Conservative- Part 4

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:19:00 +0000

Again, I want to stress that my interest in Senator Hurt's record has to do with how it impacts the Constitution and the accompanying conservative movement, not anything personal about the Senator.

Now..........
A couple of years ago the Republican-controlled VA House of Delegates passed a bill (HB3202) that established Regional Transportation Authorities for the purpose of collecting taxes ostensibly for fixing the roads in Northern Virginia (NoVa).

These UNELECTED bureaucrats were granted the power by the General Assembly to raise taxes without oversight by the GA.
Those of you who revere the Constitution will recognize this as taxation without representation.
Unelected bodies with the power to levy taxes on you and me!

This accomplished a twofold purpose;
First, it allowed the Republican majority to raise taxes for the purpose of fixing roads without having to actually vote for a tax increase, and then take the credit for fixing the roads "without raising taxes".
Secondarily, it protected the elected officials from the wrath of angry voters whose taxes would be raised in order to do so.

Now raising taxes is ALWAYS a problem for me.
But a far greater problem for me is taxation without representation, which HB 3202 undeniably did.
When this anti-American legislation was challenged by Bob Marshall and Pat McSweeney, even the Virginia Supreme Court agreed in a 7-0 decision that it WAS taxation without representation, and they overturned it.
This all happened under Republican control of the VA House and Robert Hurt voted for this bill.

Between this vote and his vote for the largest tax increase in Virginia's history, a disturbing pattern is becoming clear in his record.

Folks, we fought a war partially over taxation without representation 250 years ago, and now here is the "conservative" republican party hatching a plot to do exactly that, and then dare to tell us that they are for lower taxes??

Once again, if our party cannot do better than this, how can we possibly present any kind of a contrast to Perriello?

I also hope the 5th District Committee will have the courage to stand up for the people they represent and resist the powers that be to vote for a convention, so Democrats will find it far more difficult to infect our nomination with their liberal poison in a primary.

The Committee should be offended if Washington surrogates attempt to usurp their authority in the selection for the method of nomination, if indeed that becomes a reality as it generally does in this type of situation.

It is about time We the People take back the responsibility for recruiting our own leaders rather than ceding control of our political future to bureaucrats in Washington.

Combined with his voting record, and reported support from some bureaucrats in the Washington establishment Senator Hurt looks less and less like the right man to challenge Perriello.

Robert Hurt Not So Conservative- Part 3

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:09:00 +0000

Today we examine Senator Hurt's vote for HB 2035, an all-out assault on parental rights.
This pet project of Bill Bolling's could and should get Robert in a little trouble with proponents of limited government.

Again, I am certain Senator Hurt had nothing malevolent in his heart and mind as he voted for this piece of legislation.
Regardless, we must be able to trust our Republican legislators to properly vet legislation they consider before voting on it.
Men and ladies who campaign as government watchdogs must find it incumbent upon themselves to take the role seriously.
If, as I suspect is true, Robert simply did not read and/or understand this legislation before voting for it, there even still is no excuse for such a vote.

Let's talk about 2035 for a minute.
Just a couple years ago, Merck and Glaxo developed a vaccine for the Human Papilloma Virus, a cause of cervical cancer.
Sounds good.........until one understands that according to many medical doctors, including Dr. Charlotte Haug, MD, PhD, MSc, there is no reason to believe that this vaccine has even been properly proven to work in the women of the youngest ages (12) for which it has ostensibly been marketed.
You can read Dr. Haug's opinion here
She really lays out the case against this whole scheme to enrich pharmaceutical makers and politicians, though she does not case it as such.

I'll leave the proof of the medical unnecessity of this drug to Dr. Haug; I wish to discuss the constitutional and parental rights upon which this bill royally tramples.

How many of us believe it is the place or power of government to force upon twelve year old girls a vaccine for a non-epidemic disease, with or without the permission of her parents?
But that is exactly what Senator Hurt voted for when he voted for HB 2035.

Read this summary of HB 2035 as passed by the House of Delegates;

Required vaccinations; adds human papillomavirus vaccine. Requires females to receive three properly spaced doses of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The first dose shall be administered before the child enters the sixth grade.

To Ken Cuccinelli's credit, he forced Tim Kaine to add a parental opt-out to this bill, but regardless, it should never have made it out of a Republican controlled committee, much less pass a Republican controlled House.

The idea that our elected officials think they have the right under their constitutional power to force a vaccine for a non-epidemic disease which can ONLY be contracted by having sexual relations, is worse than offensive;
It is an all-out assault on the American principles of parental rights and personal freedom.

Nowhere does the Constitution give political authorities the power to tell us what health choices we must make, ( abortion is NOT a health choice) or worse, to make for our own daughters.

To think that Senator Hurt's action by his vote gives the impression, correct or not, that he views his role in the oversight of my daughter's health and sexual behavior to be paramount to mine, and that his vote assumes sexual promiscuity on the part of my daughter, and that he has the right to make health decisions for her whether or not I sign off on it, is mind-boggling!

How have we, in the Unites States of America gotten to the point where Republicans are actually taking it upon themselves to patron, champion, and vote for legislation like this?

How can men like Bill Bolling, whose National Lieutenant Governors Association made this legislation their number1 priority, and Robert Hurt conscience usurping our individual freedom to make it their choice?

Perhaps it has something to do with fact that Mr. Bolling received over three thousand dollars from Merck and Glaxo for his efforts, and Senator Hurt also received money from Glaxo.....
Perhaps their contributions have nothing to do with his support; it really is immaterial to my argument.
Again, it is NOT the motives and heart of the senator I question, simply the outcome of his actions.

Back to the facts of the case;
Merck and Glaxo have financed a worldwide campaign to get this legislation passed in mandatory form all over the world and in all fifty United States;
Only Virginia, of all the U.S., has passed legislation making this vaccination mandatory for school entry.
Money talks, eh?
Perhaps Bolling and Hurt should have more carefully vetted the patron of HB 2035, Phil Hamilton.
He recently found himself in deep legal trouble for using his position in the House of Delegates to get himself a $40,000 a year job.

No politician should be above the laws by which we all abide, and they certainly should not be allowed to overstep the bounds of their constitutional power, though it is happening on a daily basis.
As he begins to look more and more like more of the same, it is all the more reason Senator Hurt should not be the Republican nominee for Congress in the 5th district.

How can he call Perriello into account for supporting the ObamaCare bill which has it's own HPV provision in it, when Hurt has already beat him to it here in Virginia?

Just as with Cap and Tax, Senator Hurt has voluntarily given away any hope of credibility with which to oppose the forced HPV vaccination agenda of Tom Perriello and Barak Obama

Robert Hurt Not So Conservative- Part 2

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:48:00 +0000

We continue our investigative report on Robert Hurt's voting record;
This evening we are discussing his vote to make seat belt violations a primary offense, SB 1161.
On it's surface it may not seem so outrageous, but let's think about it from the angle of it's encroachment on our civil liberties.
It is not the place of government to "protect" us from ourselves; This bill flies in the face of our constitutional right to ensure our own protection, or to place ourselves in harm's way if we so desire.
Government may be in it's place to enforce reasonable child restraint laws, but to make an adult's decision to leave his seat belt unbuckled a crime is preposterous.
Where will we stop this nonsense?
We already are telling businesses that they are no longer free to make their own decisions as to whether or not they will allow smoking in their own establishments; we are telling dog owners that is is not their right to own a dog without a license ( known as a TAX) from the locality.

We tell farmers they cannot use their own property if is too wet for a certain number of days per year;
Get my point??
If I want to take a chance with my life by making the free choice to leave my seatbelt undone, it is my right to do so without interference from Senator Hurt and other big-government politicians.
I neither need nor approve of Big Brother making personal decisions for me, especially when they overstep their constitutional authority, and trample my freedom in so doing.

Next will be cell phones, pagers, GPS devices, laptops, and all sorts of other useful devices to be outlawed in the car by government.

Why not outlaw climbing too high on ladders?
Or driving in the rain, walking in the snow, picking up too much weight, or many other potentially dangerous activities?

As always, any new law being considered by the legislature should be viewed with skepticism and caution by not only by legislators, but by the populous.
We should ask ourselves 'who wants this law, why is it all of a sudden necessary, and who stands to benefit or suffer from it's passage?'

Senator Hurt, I am sure, can give a good excuse for this vote, but there is not a good reason.
It is far overshadowed though by some far worse votes against personal freedom and parental rights Senator Hurt has made which we will soon review.

Sen. Hurt Not the Conservative He May Appear to Be; 5th District Republicans Should Look Further

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:16:00 +0000

Virginia State Sen. Robert Hurt's name has been thrown around as the "heir apparent" to former Congressman Virgil Goode as the new savior for Va's 5th district Republicans who are looking for the right candidate to dethrone freshman "Blue Dog" ultra-liberal congressman Tom Perriello.

With Goode's decision not to seek election again, we are now in the process of vetting for ourselves a new champion of conservative values with which to send Perriello packing once and for all.
Any and all true conservatives should be seriously considered by district Republicans, but to quote Reagan a little out of context, "trust, but verify", when it comes to Republicans masquerading as conservatives.

Some of you know I am a Republican Unit Vice- Chairman, and very few people are more skeptical than I of claims of conservatism made by members of my own party;
I have seen too many times the successful exploitation of conservatives by my party, and the subsequent casting to the side when it comes to voting and behavior behind the scenes.

Bolling and McDonnell are professionals when it comes to using conservatives to get themselves elected, but doing terrible things behind the scenes, such as taxing us without representation (HB 3202), and HPV.(HB 2035).
According to one recent poll I have been made aware of, McDonnell and Bolling have statistically significant leads over their Democrat rivals (6-8 points), but only Cuccinelli's is comfortable (over ten points).

This should tell Republicans yet again that conservative rhetoric is not enough by itself; it must be accompanied by movement conservative action that leads us back to the place the Founders envisioned for the proper role of government in our lives, not battling the Democrats to see who can make government more palatable.
I don't expect these men to get it; after all, if the consequences of nominating Bush 41, Bush 43, Dole and McCain don't get the lesson through, nothing ever will.

Therefore, I want to warn 5th district conservative Republicans, among others, of the potential danger of nominating Mr. Hurt for this congressional seat.
First, let me say this; Robert Hurt, at least from my limited contact with him is a fine gentleman and husband and Daddy;
My opposition to his potential nomination to this seat has absolutely nothing personal in it.

My fears stem from his voting record.
Some serious mistakes have been made which give me reason to doubt either his principle, political courage, or his judgment, or perhaps a combination of all or some of the above.

For the sake of time, I will break this examination of his record into several articles, so stay tuned for more.
Today, we will focus on his vote for the largest tax increase in Virginia's history.
Senator Hurt voted for the so-called "Commonwealth of Opportunity" budget and tax reform act of 2004-2005.
This assault on Virginia taxpayers came courtesy of then-Governor Warner and Republican Preston Bryant, who convinced seventeen other Republicans to join him in crossing the aisle to provide the necessary Republican votes to get this bill passed in a House then controlled by Republicans.( Bryant was paid off with a Cabinet position in the new Kaine Administration)

Sadly, not only did Hurt vote for this bill, providing the needed Republican votes to pass it, but we found out only a short time later that Virginia had at the time a $1 billion (that's right, $1 BILLION !!) budget surplus at the same time we were stealing more money from Virginia's citizens, under the pretext of a budget shortfall.

The same Republican party that assaulted Warner, and rightfully so, as a tax and spender, provided desperately needed Republican votes for the largest tax increase in Virginia's history.
The bill could not pass with Democrat votes alone, so Republicans did it for them; Senator Hurt was one of those eighteen Republicans.
How can Senator Hurt possibly call out Perriello for his Cap and Trade tax increase vote, among others, with any credibility?

Perriello will only have to respond, ' yeah, here's Mr. Largest Tax Increase in Virginia's History calling me a tax and spender!!'

In eminent future posts, we will discuss Hurt's votes for state-mandated (forced) vaccinations of your daughters for a sexually transmitted disease, employer health coverage for domestic partners (homosexuals), a vote for hidden taxes and assault on freedom under the pretext of making adult seat belt violations a primary offense, and taxation without representation (HB 3202).

We will also visit the questionable nature of some of his supporters for this potential congressional run, and how one of his biggest fans, and potential campaign manager, contributed mightily to Virgil Goode's loss last year, and has since spent the last eight months blaming Lucy Goode for the loss.

I am no longer carrying the water for my own party;
From now on, if they want my support, they will have to show me that they are serious about defending my freedom to exercise my constitutional right to live as I believe God has directed me, and to rear my family in a free country, without interference from the state.
They will have to prove to me that they are serious about returning government to the constitutional size and scope the Founders mandated, not competing with Democrats to make me like it more.

I have allegiance to God, Family and Freedom;
Not to any political party.
If you want my support, execute your office in a constitutional manner, as a public servant.
Your only job is to ensure liberty and to provide order within the bounds of your constitutional authority.
If you can convince me you are serious about that, then and only then will consider giving you my vote.

Bob McDonnell Makes Crucial Mistake Running From Thesis

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:23:00 +0000

"In the thesis, "The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of The Decade," McDonnell described working women as "detrimental" to the traditional family. He criticized a U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing contraception for unmarried couples and decried the "purging" of religion from schools. He advocated character education programs in public schools to teach "traditional Judeo-Christian values," and he criticized federal tax credits for child care expenditures because they encouraged women to enter the workforce. "

Yeah, SO??
In this excerpt of McDonnell's "controversial thesis" from the WaPo, the paper attempts to make an issue of McDonnell's formerly espoused conservative beliefs;
As usual, Bob is too weak and calculating to give the proper response to the questions now being asked;
Let's go back in time, shall we?
In 2005, Jerry Kilgore was leading Tim Kaine by a comfortable margin, Kaine having run a no-show campaign to that point; Needing something to gain momentum, Kaine stumbled into some undeserved luck by attacking Kilgore for being too conservative on abortion; despite the fact that most Americans do not support abortion on demand, Kilgore let Kaine define the issue for the rest of the campaign, even to the extent of saying (Kilgore) in NoVa that he was pro-abort, while campaigning in Southside as a pro-lifer.
Needless to say, the hypocrisy was easily picked up on and rejected by the same voter base that had given Kilgore his previously comfortable lead in the polls; Result: Kilgore lost.

Enter George Allen the "conservative hero", supporter of hate crimes legisaltion with special protections for homosexual couples.
In 2006, enjoying a huge lead of some 20 points in the polls over challenger Jim Webb, Allen made a stupid comment that the media turned into "evidence" of racism; Ignoring the lessons of recent Virginia Republican history, Allen again allowed the opposition to define the rest of his campaign with endless apologies for his 'macaca' comment.
Result: Allen lost.

Now, Bob McDonnell is taking the same foolish tactic as Kilgore and Allen, and allowing the media and Creigh Deeds to define the rest of his campaign with an old thesis from years ago.
McDonnell obviously has no clue how to handle a situation where he has to fight for a seat, rather than being coronated;
I waste no love on him, having long been a critic of his fraudulent claim on conservatism, having a record that often belies his conservative rhetoric.
However , for the sake of being a gentleman, I will lay out for McDonnell how to answer questions regarding the most "radical" statements from his twenty year old thesis; I will answer the charges in the third person, as Bob McDonnell.......here goes!

First, let me begin by pointing out that if all politicians had always been held to the standard to which Mr Deeds and you media guys want to hold me, bound for eternity by actions decades old, than Robert Byrd would be taking racial sensitivity courses, and would never have won office as a dogcatcher, much less US Senate; Bill Clinton would be in jail in Arkansas for real estate fraud; Jesse Jackson would have lost his position as a preacher after his extramarital affair; Ted Kennedy would have just died in prison, completing a life sentence for voluntary manslaughter; FDR, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush would have been impeached for failing to honor their respective oaths to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.

Barney Frank and Chris Dodd would now be serving twenty year jail terms for using their political offices to provide for others and secure for themselves financial favors at the expense of their constituents, and the demise of the banking industry;
So if in the past I have been over-zealous for productive and acceptable behavior on the part of the citizens of the greatest nation on earth, so help me God.

Now let's address a few of your concerns here;
#1. Working women are detrimental to the family; Aboslutely true, as studies out since my remarks years ago have borne out; While some women must work to provide for themselves and their children, there is no question that the most secure upbringing and best nuturing environment for America's kids is a stable two parent home, where Mom provides the day to day care and nurturing; far from putting down our ladies, I was and am still holding them up to the highest possible and most honorable position: that of Homemaker!

What could be more important than insuring the physical, mental, developmental, and spiritual success of those innocent children entrusted to Mom by God, and fulfilling the privilege for which Mom and only Mom has been uniquely prepared by God Himself?
Dad cannot do it, society cannot do it, government, above all cannot do it!
Only Mom, so why should I not advocate for Moms to be free to rear the next generation of freedom loving, well-rounded, and successful adults?
You'll notice I never advocated Government taking a role in the chosen parental techniques of the family; only that it was my opinion.

#2. Supremes legalizing contraception for unmarried couples;
Outside of wedlock, sex is clearly defined by the Bible, as well as societal understanding, as fornication;
The Federal government has no business officially prohibiting nor condoning such behavior, as legalizing such contraceptives clearly does.
They do, however, have a Constitutional obligation to insure the right to life of ALL American citizens born and unborn; as studies have proven, one often cannot be sure of the exact point at which two living cells merge and become a human being; as such, the Supreme Court was taking a tremendously chancy position legalizing the likely abortion of some American citizens, thereby denying them their God-given, Constitutionally protected right to life; you can argue with me, but don't argue with the Founders.

#3 The purging of religion from government schools;
The constitution clearly prohibits the government from establishing State-run religion, and in the same breath prohibits it from preventing the free exercise thereof.
Therefore, the purging of religion, having undeniably taken place by the Supreme Court over the years is indeed in direct violation of the Constitutional guidelines for the scope of federal power;
Again, if Senator Deeds wishes to argue with the Founders, I welcome that debate.

#4. Judeo-Christian values taught in government schools;
For starters, if we can teach the theory of evolution as fact, we can also teach Christian values that teach us to control ourselves and treat others as we would be treated.
Secondly, the vast majority of the Founders were, by their own admission in writing, Christians.
Thirdy, what about Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor does Senator Deeds find so repulsive?
We fund with taxpayer dollars the government educating your kids about the most intimate private actions a person will ever take, with sex education, but we cannot teach kids not to have sex outside of wedlock for their own protection?
You must be joking!!

If Mr. Deeds really wants to create a time machine and go back to look at all the writings and statement either of us has ever made, fine by me!
Let's do just that!
I am sure he has no skeletons in the closet needing darkness in which to hide, so he can only win by doing so, right?
I far prefer to keep this campaign about the issues facing Virginians today, not personal opinion stated decades ago as a necessity for a good grade in college.
If it's good enough for Patrick Henry, and good enough for Ronald Reagan, it's good enough for me!
Now, can we get back to the things that actually matter here?

HI, it's me, Tim, again;
There is little chance Bob will have the principle and courage to say things like I just said for him, but he would get his campaign right back where he wants it if he would challenge Deeds on the Constitution, rather than ceding ground and backpedalling constantly, as if he said something outrageous way back when;
Most of what he said is mainstream USA, but when you get right down to it, McDonnell is controlled by Ed Gillespie, who seems not to have any principle other than himself, and who is far more concerned with keeping party structure power away from conservative Republicans than he is with actually winning an election here and there.

McDonnell and Bolling; Neo-Statists?

timb5274@gmail.com (Tim Boyer) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:00:00 +0000

In this WaPo article, McDonnell, Bolling, Cuccinelli, and Pat Mullins all call for Catherine Crabill to step aside as the Republican nominee for House of Delegates and publicly disavow her because she committed the extraordinary sin of stating that we must "fight this war at the ballot box so we don't have to resort to the bullet box".

First, she's right, without a doubt;
Secondly, if you read her actual remarks (in the link prvoided in the Wapo story) she advocates fighting the war (political war is the context of her remarks), to AVOID be forced to resort to the bullets.

I remind Bob and Bill that Patrick Henry actually advocated the violent use of bullets to break from despotic, imperial government just 250 short years ago, and was reviled as a lunatic radical, just as Crabill is now being assaulted by those in her own party who should be the first to understand liberty and tyranny.
Crabill has not gone nearly as far as Patrick Henry did, yet they rush out to abuse her.

Now, a Statist is one who believes in the supremacy of the State and it's right to control all aspects of the life of the indivdual; the Neo-Statist is he or she who goes along with the Statist at least to some degree, and who subscribes to at least a significant portion of the radical view of the Statist, or are willing to overlook it for their own political purposes.
The Statist and Neo-version are in direct opposition to the Declaration of Independence, which I quote below;

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

I want to tackle two issues here;
First, the tendency of McDonnell and Bolling to, at the very least, defer and acquiesce to the Statists currently in charge of the nation, and of both major political parties.

Both men supported MANDATORY vaccinations against a non-epidemic disease (HPV) for ALL Virginia school girls twelve years and older in order to enter school (HB2035).
This flies in the face of parental rights and the American value of individual liberty.
This provision is also in Obamacare; Sorry, Barak; Bob and Bill beat you to it.

We are all upset about Cap and Trade, and we should be.
Sadly B and B also beat Obama to the punch on skyrocketing taxation.
They supported, and Bob defended in VA Supreme Court HB 3202, which established Regional Transportation Authorities, UNELECTED bodies with the power to LEVY TAXES!!
This was ruled unconstitutional, as taxation without representation, by the VA Supremes, thanks to Bob Marshalll and Pat McSweeney who challenged the constitutionality in court.

McDonnell's job as AG was NOT to defend Republican legislation; His job was to defend Virginia's constitution, and he was derelict in his duty in defending this egregious legislation.
Bolling also supported it.
Even Obama has not yet directly advocated and defended taxation without representation.
And these guys are supposed to be our fearless conservative leaders!!

Both men supported former governor and Council on Foreign Relations Board member Jim Gilmore for the Republican nomination for US Senate, over Delegate Bob Marshall, the most conservative member of the House;
A little background on the CFR will reveal that they are one of the most anti-American institutions in the world, yet Bob and Bill again err on the side of the Statist.

McDonnell led the coup against conservative RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick, using 10 charges all proven to be false, at the State Central Committee meeting where the coup resulted in the libelous overthrow of Frederick from office;
He was elected by Republican delegates and removed by elite powerbrokers in the party, who were unconcerned with fact, not letting it stand in the way of McDonnell's desires.

Why, one might ask, did Bob want Frederick gone so badly that he would actually overturn the will of appx 60% of nearly 4,000 Republican grassroots delegates who elected Frederick at the 2008 Convention, and launch an assault against one of the most basic American values, the right to free and fair elections and to choose our own leaders?

The answer was given by one of McDonnell's staffers to a Republican County Unit Chairman;
He remarked "what Bob wants in an RPV Chairman is a lapdog and a doormat".
Herein lies the answer to the question psed above; Frederick was neither.

McDonnell is a weak man, controlled by people like Bush Mafia member Ed Gillespie, who hate the true conservatives that make up the only legitimate base of the same Republican Party that continues to abuse and cast to the curb the only people that can deliver victory to Republican candidates.
They prefer the new Republican; the Republican that verbally assaults the left-wing agenda of Barak Obama or the socialist agenda of George Bush, while actually doing mostly what the Statists want behind the scenes, and eschewing it publicly to keep their Christian Conservative base in line and on the plantation

I give you two conflicting views of the 2009 Republican;
The McDonnell/Bolling neo-Statist view that limited government and individual freedom are great concepts, but can be traded when "necessary" for political advancement, leaving the door wide open for subtle, but eventual government takeover of the life of the individual;
This Republican will seldom stand up to the Statist or sacrifice his own interests for the sake of Constitutional principle thus rendering the people helpless and foolish to trust any political party to protect their freedom.
This Republican views his role as that of insuring his own interests and secondarily the interests of his political party as paramount to anything else, viewing the primary purpose of government as being to deliver the very best and most government possible as to be able to sell the voter on the politician's ability to govern their lives in a more acceptable manner than that of the outright Statist.

The other viewof the 2009 Republican is that of Catherine Crabill, Patrick Henry, George Washington, and far less importantly, ME!!
Our view of the primary purpose of government is to insure law and order, and to protect the freedom of the individual to utilize and enjoy the blessings of liberty, and the Divine rights granted to him by God.
We understand that our Constitution is designed first and foremost to protect us from our own leaders run amok of their desire for personal power, fortune and advancement.
We believe that the best government is the least government and that the primary purpose for seeking political office should be to serve the people by insuring that government functions as the Constitution mandates, and that alone.

We never believe in sacrificing constitutional principle for political advancement, or trading freedom for possessions or political power.
We understand, unlike Bob and Bill, that if the Republican party leaders refuse to stand up for personal freedom in real, meaningful way, refusing to compromise the Constitution, then not only are they NOT Republicans, as defined by the Creed to which they swear adherence upon joining the party, but that they are not worthy of the vote or support of freedom-loving citizens, who understand that it is our place, right and duty to govern ourselves, not farm it out to greedy politicians.
We believe that the only thing that gives the Republican Party any right to expect support from patriots is a dedicated defense of, adherence to, and articulation of the principles of the Constitutions of the United States and those of all 50 States.
By the way, the Republican Creed itself calls out politicians like McDonnell and Bolling as imposters, not Republicans, as defined by the Creed.

There was a time in our history when the word 'Republican' was used, it automatically was equated with 'conservative'; No more!
Sadly, the Bush family has contributed to the destruction of Reagan's once-great party and rendered it worse than meaningless, as it wanders aimlessly through the political waters, trying to convince Americans that more government is just fine as long as it is done "properly", and steered by Republicans instead of Democrats.

Folks, Neo-Statists like McDonnell and Bolling spout conservative rhetoric, hoping to convince you that they believe what we do, all the while doing everything they can to move this nation and the Republican party "to the center", and hide from the true conservative what they are really doing.
While people like George Allen (hate crimes protection for homosexuals), Bob McDonnell (taxation without representation), and Bill Bolling (usurpation of your right to oversee the healthcare of your 12 year old daughter), run around out there spouting all the right rhetoric, and telling you to support them because they are "better than the Democrats", which may be true, people like Catherine Crabill are adhering to Patrick Henry-style patriotism, instead of constantly comparing themselves to Socialist Democrats, giving that as reason to vote for them, being assaulted all the while by the same political party that claims to be the protector of the Constitution and the Arbitor of Freedom.

McDonnell and Bolling want you to compare them to the Democrats;
Catherine Crabill prefers to be compared to Patrick Henry.

Like Rush Limbaugh, I am through carrying water for fake conservatives and willing Neo-Statists in the Republican Party, and I no longer care "how much worse" the Democrat is;
Both major parties as they currently are behaving will lead this nation to it's eventual death, if we the people do not rise up and put a stop to it.
The only way to do that, is to ensure they lose elections if they do not listen us, and that goes for Republicans too.
I don't care if the Republicans will ensure a slower demise; No demise is OK with me!!. I want to return to Constitutional government, and to regain the freedom lost since Roosevelt's assaults on it.
Go Catherine!!