A Blunderer to the End

 The past few days in the DC area have had unusual weather.  Christmas was surprisingly warm, along with New Year's weekend.  On Sunday, temperatures were in the mid-60s for a good part of the day.  But then overnight, the weather shifted drastically and by Monday, we had at least 5 inches of snow on the ground and freezing temperatures.

This usually doesn't happen here.  For snow like that to occur, it usually takes a few days of freezing temperatures.  But this was quick and the shift very drastic.

But the weathermen actually foresaw this scenario playing out.  In anticipation of the snow, schools were closed.  They still are as I write this.  So we all knew this was coming.

Except for Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia and whoever he has running VDOT.  Because nobody bothered to pretreat the roads for snow and ice and have the plows ready and waiting and this effectively caused several crashes on most major highways.

And so several people were left stranded on Interstate 95 for several hours.

This man has just a few days left in his term before Glenn Youngkin is sworn in and this is how that baby-murdering black-faced moron decides to end it.

As a failure.

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised by all this.  The level of competence the Democrat party has shown in recent years has gone to shockingly absurd depths.  At this point, I can't tell if they're really that incompetent or just plain evil.  Probably both.

The only reason they win anything is because they're allowed to cheat.

Not that Republicans are much better, but there is a definite difference in the level of competency between both parties.  Usually, a Republican governor makes better choices when managing the State he's supposed to manage.

Governor-elect Youngkin should take note of Northam's term as an example of how not to do things.

One aspect of wisdom is learning from other people's mistakes, after all.

Sweet, Sweet Irony

Talk about unintended consequences:

An Augusta County woman faces a misdemeanor charge under Virginia's new revenge pornography law.

Waynesboro police tell media outlets that 28-year-old Rachel Lynn Craig is accused of posting a nude photograph of another woman on Facebook.

The law went into effect July 1. It makes it illegal to distribute a sexually explicit image of others without their permission. The phenomenon is called "revenge porn."

Police Sgt. Brian Edwards says the 22-year-old victim told police that Craig took the photograph from a cell phone belonging to the woman's boyfriend and posted the image on Facebook. The woman says she had taken the photograph of herself and sent it to her boyfriend's cell phone.

I opposed the revenge porn law personally because I believed it was meant to punish men who get sexually explicit images from their girlfriends/wives.  I think that women shouldn’t do that to begin with because it is uncouth and that the only way to resolve that is to allow women to face the consequences of their stupidity.

Now it appears that the law is being applied equally, regardless of gender.  I don’t know the backstory behind all this (my guess is it was a lover spurned or something), but it is refreshing to see a law clearly biased against men being applied appropriately.

I still don’t support this law as it is backwards and will only cause more government overreach, especially if it is made into a Federal law.  We’ve already had a case in Virginia where an underage kid was being coerced into having a picture taken of his erect penis for comparison with a sext his girlfriend got.  That would be considered child porn in any other circle.

So I shudder to think how this law will be applied and if it will be applied fairly in the future.  I doubt it will and there will probably be some overzealous prosecutor or police officer who will take things too far.  And then get away with it because they are the government after all.

Traitor Congressman Deposed

Yesterday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary race against Dave Brat, a relative unknown.  This means that Eric Cantor will not be returning to Congress after this year’s mid-term election, for those of you outside of the United States (or Americans who are plain stupid).

Eric Cantor lost because he has lost touch with his base.  He seems to have confused his base with Mexicans, many of which cannot vote for him legally and if they could vote, would have voted Democrat.  On top of that, Cantor has always been a big military-industrial complex guy, having wasted millions of tax dollars on projects that were later scrapped.

Besides all that, he proposed a budget plan that did not eliminate the national debt, but increased it to over 20 trillion by 2020.  While the Democrats did not pass a budget during this period, no budget was better than a bad one.

Now, conservative pundits are focusing Dave Brat’s victory on immigration and how Cantor supported immigration reform.  And they are mostly right that this is the single issue that sent people over the deep end.  In most cases, people vote with their gut and, like it or not, most American citizens are tired of poor, dependent collectivists crossing the borders into the country and having their children vote the government into bankruptcy.

Every issue is linked however.  You cannot compartmentalize any political or social issue and assume a victory in one means it is settled.  This is why I believe that ending the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs will go a long way to ending illegal immigration.

They are basically linked.  The Mexican government is far more corrupt than the United States, although lately the United States has been catching up with it’s War on Terror (terror now broadly defined as anyone we don’t like).  The War on Drugs maintains that corruption.  Hell, just legalizing marijuana will eliminating 70% of the drug lord’s revenues.

So in order for real immigration reform to take place, we need to scale back the Federal government.  If Federal government exceeds $1 billion, we’re doing it wrong.  This is because doing that will decrease the likelihood of interference with progress in all sectors of the economy.  It will also allow the Mexicans to prosper as much as they are able because most of the resources won’t be spent on anti-drug lord policies.

I don’t know if Dave Brat will come to the same conclusions as I have.  Few rarely do.  Instead, I think we will see more bills to create more walls and place more armed guards on the border.  Unfortunately, this will not work in the long run because more government intervention only creates more problems.

Still, this is another small victory and one that does not bode well for incumbent Republicans.  For if the American people are upset enough to get rid of Eric Cantor, they may not be voting for establishment Republicans in the general election.

Stupid Party Losses to the Evil Party…Again

By now everyone knows that Terry McAuliffe has won the race for governor in Virginia.  If you cared about such things anyway.  There are going to be a lot of people analyzing the result and I’m just going to be a drop in the bucket, but here goes.

For one thing, Republicans are very bad at handling the abortion debate.  Often times, the Democrats make good on this by painting the Republicans as anti-women because of their pro-life stance.  McAuliffe played the abortion card early on and it got him ahead.  All Cuccinelli had to do was counter by stating that he believes abortion is murder and as such he cannot in good conscience support murder.  But Republicans lack the balls to do this.

Another thing this election shows is that liberty-minded voters are sick and tired of being taken for granted by the Republicans.  The 7% of those who voted for the Libertarian Robert Sarvis demonstrate this.  Many liberty-minded voters are still sore over all the injustices they suffered during last year’s primary season at the hands of the Republican party bosses.

This is the key reason why Cuccinelli lost.  He himself had a pretty good platform and indeed a good track record of liberty, seeing that VA was the first state to nullify Obamacare with his backing as Attorney General.  But because of the behavior of the Republicans with regards to Ron Paul, the Republicans suffered a loss of support from among a large group of voter who have clearly tipped the scales.

Single women, blacks, and Hispanics will always vote for Democrats.  There is no point in trying to win them over without diluting your political message to the point where you are indistinguishable from your Democratic opponent.  Essentially, you’d have to make concessions which Democrats generally do in order to win favor with those groups.

But it is not hard to make concessions with libertarians.  They are for smaller government, so any conservative Republican can easily appeal to them.  All it takes is a little more leaning to the right and you might capture a large voting base.  For one thing, you are going to have to abandon many social issues that win over the mainstream conservative, but since most Republicans don’t care about such issues anyway, it isn’t difficult.

Thirdly, the only surprise in the results was how close it was between McAuliffe and Cuccinelli.  Earlier polls had Terry Mac winning by a wide range, mostly because of Sarvis being included in those polls.  But somehow, Cuccinelli managed to close in that gap fairly well in spite of losing a huge voter base.

And lastly, don’t fret over the Democrats winning.  They have essentially won control of the growing police state, the impending economic collapse, and the beginning of the end of the American Empire.  Any leader worth his salt would not want to be the one who oversees the coming mess.  This is largely why I laugh at Obama’s own machinations, as I know they will all be a chasing after the wind in a few short years.

Future VA Governor Caught In Financial Fraud

I say future because Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe is most likely to win in the Virginia governorship.  Anyway, he’s been caught in annuity fraud:

Terence McAuliffe, the former chairman of the national Democratic Party, was one of hundreds of people who invested in variable annuities that used terminally ill patients as the annuitants.

McAuliffe and others became owners of the investment instruments through Cranston estate planner Joseph Caramadre. Caramadre pleaded guilty to stealing the identities of terminally ill patients and using that information to falsely apply for annuities and bonds with death puts.

Prosecutors said Caramadre cost insurance companies between $37 million and $48 million from the scheme.

Caramadre, with the help of a partner, would use personal information from terminally ill patients on investment applications that contained death benefits. The actual owners of the annuity would be Caramadre or hundreds of investors. In exchange for the personal information, Caramadre often times would help the families of the terminally ill to pay for funeral expenses.

So basically, Terry McAuliffe was taking advantage of dead people for personal gain.  It is immoral and deranged for any individual to do this, yet here we have a politician engaging in this behavior.

Oh, did you know that he lives in Mclean, VA?  If you have ever been to that area, which is very close to Washington, DC, you’d note that all of the residential homes there are million-dollar mansions.

And here he is attacking his rival over birth control.  Republicans are really bad at running campaigns as they seem to never go for the throat, instead aiming for the ear lope and letting their rivals frame the debate.

And you wonder why I write my own name into the ballots..

Abortion: One More Reason Women Shouldn’t Vote

Judy Morris, of the Judy Morris Report, posted a piece yesterday about how Virginia GOP candidate for governor Ken Cuccinelli is losing to Terry McAuliffe, largely in part due to the women vote.  In this piece, which I encourage people to read, she basically states that it is largely because of abortion that the GOP is losing the female vote.

Towards the end, she makes the following statement:

Respecting human life starts with Americans doing some serious soul searching on the millions of folks our foreign policy has murdered and it also involves acknowledging that government by its very definition is immoral and anti-human life.

While I agree with her sentiment, I think she has her values in the wrong place.  While I do not think abortion will never be outlawed again, so long as the women are allowed to vote, that doesn’t mean that I don’t think there should be justice concerning the matter of murder.  Should a murderer go free because our culture doesn’t value human life?

The implication is, however, that in order for Republicans to win, they need to be pro-choice.  This is largely because of women who want to have the “right” to legally murder their unborn children and thus avoid the consequences of their slutty behavior.

I’m sure that last sentence was offensive.  I’m sure that many women out there are collectively demanding that I apologize for the above statement because it hurt their feelings.  I will not.  If you believe that abortion is murder (and after seeing my son smile at 12 weeks in the womb, I do), then you must accept that what women voters are demanding is the legal right to murder their unborn children because they are incapable of keeping their damn legs closed.

And please, don’t cite rape.  Aggravated rape rarely results in pregnancy and abortions performed as a result of rape are less than 1% of all abortions performed.  So let’s put away those romantic notions of abortion doctors saving women from the burden of remembering the bad shit that happened to them.  No amount of baby-brain scrambling is going to help you forget that you were raped.  I’m sorry that it happened to you, but the child you bear is not responsible.

If this is what it takes for any politician to win, that is to advocate legal murder of the most precious and innocent of our society, then perhaps it is better that women be denied the right to vote in the first place.  If murdering the unborn child is what it takes, then it is better to either not run for office or deny women the privilege of voting.

This probably comes across as misogynist.  I realize that.  Understand that I harbor no ill-will to women as a whole.  But the fundamental fact is, that if women’s rights are all about murder, then it is high time we stop them from engaging in the political process.

We have already witnessed the decimation of entire generations of Americans since Roe v. Wade.  And all because women didn’t want to be inconvenienced with the burden of children.  I shudder to think at what will happen should we continue to allow such a group of murders the right to vote, especially since they clearly have a large political influence.

Questions for Virginia Governor's Candidates

In the state of Virginia, there is currently a governor's race largely between former Clinton lackey Terry McAuliffe for the Democrats, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for the Republicans, and Robert Sarvis for the Libertarian party. Here's a list of questions I would ask each of the candidates in a debate if I was ever allowed to be in the same room with these men:

1. In spite of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Healthcare Act, will you as Governor put a stop to the implementation of the fines imposed on people who do not have health insurance?
2. Will you no longer accept Federal grant money for any reason? This includes money allocated to military-grade weapons, vehicles, and other miscellaneous equipment for law enforcement in various localities.
3. In early July of 2013, Adam Kokesh's residence was searched by the National Park authority and local Fairfax police. The raid utilized helicopters, an armored vehicle, and roughly 100 law enforcement personnel. The search netted an alleged stash of hallucinogenic mushrooms. The search warrant was issued based on a video that Adam Kokesh did on July 4th in Freedom Plaza where he loaded a shotgun, an act of civil disobedience in response to DC's harsh stance on guns. Was this raid justified by local authorities?
4. In August of 2012, former marine Brandon Raub was involuntarily detained and placed in a mental institution following comments he made on Facebook. Were Federal authorities right to do so or would you prevent such actions being taken against American citizens as outlined in the NDAA?
5. Will you advocate a law that abolishes the car tax completely?
6. Do you advocate abolishing the state income tax, considering that other states who have no state income tax tend to do better in down economic times?
7. Are property taxes a legitimate function of local government or do they violate a person's right to property?
8. Given the horrors seen lately involving Child Protective Services, will you perform an extensive audit of the current system in the state of Virginia to find any potential flaws or corruption?
9. Will you present a balanced budget?
10. Will you begin a program to have the police officers be investigated by third-party organizations when there are allegations of criminal wrongdoing on the part of a particular district?
11. Is it lawful for the State of Virginia to refuse to enforce any unconstitutional laws passed by the United States Federal government?
12. Is it lawful for the State of Virginia to secede from the United States?
13. When should a SWAT team be utilized by law enforcement?
14. What is the basic definition of a crime?
15. Should justice be implemented to enforce restitution to the victims of crimes?
16. Should the state of Virginia issue marriage licenses given its past history with racial discrimination in this matter?
17. In your words, can you describe exactly how the GDP is calculated?
18. What are the two of the three categories of products that are excluded from the CPI-U calculation?
19. What is the non-aggression principle?
20. Given that all people are innocent until proven guilty, should people be able to purchase over the counter drugs without having to show valid driver's license?
21. Should we have less schooling or more?
22. Should we encourage homeschooling more or seek to improve public schools?
23. Given that tuition rates are still rising, should more money go to public universities or less?
24. Should everyone get a college education?
25. Will you make an effort to seriously investigate voter fraud?
26. What laws will you encourage the Virginia legislature to abolish or repeal?
27. Do speeding tickets encourage safety or are they just another source of revenue for the state or locality from which they are issued?
28. Are sobriety checkpoints constitutional under the 4th Amendment?
29. Should marijuana be legalized?
30. Should the ABC chains be privatized?

I Love My State

This past weekend I nearly got trapped in the Northern Neck of Virginia due to the snowstorm that slammed the entire state.  Fortunately, I was staying in a cozy “summer” home owned by a certain state delegate, who shall remain nameless for now.  Being on the leadership board at my church, we were having a retreat.  The delegate wasn’t a part of the leadership, just a member of our congregation, but he generously offered his little retreat as a place for us.

During breakfast on Sunday morning, he was discussing some of his more recent activities in the House of Delegates.  He is behind a bill that would remove the restriction in Virginia that would prevent citizens from buying more than one a gun a month.  He is working to free up our second amendment rights here in this state.

Naturally, he’s had this Washington Post reporter follow him around, because guns is always a wonderful hot-button issue.  Especially following the Virginia Tech massacre where a deranged killer decided that instead of graduating with a worthless degree, he’d shoot a bunch of people and then blow his brains out (frankly, I’m shocked English majors don’t do that more often).  He’s been having to deal not only with a reporter watching his every move, but a ton of gun control activists, many of whom are trotting out the families of the victims of that terrible tragedy.

He brought up some wonderful points, though, that highlight the whole farce of gun control:

• There is no such thing as a “gun show loophole” to the background checks.  A licensed dealer in Virginia is required to do a background check on everyone he or she sells a gun to, even at a gun show.  The so-called loophole really occurs when a private seller sells his or her gun to another private individual.
• Despite the above “loophole”, the VA Tech shooter did not purchase his guns through a private seller.  He bought his from a licensed dealer.
• The VA Tech shooter bought both of his guns a month apart.
• The sellers did the proper background checks on the shooter.  Any mental instability that was supposed to have been reported was not recorded in the correct database.
• Most of the gun violence that occurs in this state is, by the best estimates, done by legally owned firearms.  A top law enforcement official begrudgingly claimed that it was 50%, but a state trooper corrected him and said it was at most 3% during a hearing with this state delegate.

I am quite proud of this delegate and his efforts to secure citizens like myself from being harassed by government at every turn.  While I believe that we should be allowed to purchase any number of guns from any source without any background checks, this certainly is a step in the right direction.

Now if only I can get him to push a bill that allows me to buy Claritin-D without having to show my driver’s license, we might have something.  I am not a freakin’ meth dealer, I just have nasty allergies and I really need that stuff to clear my head out damnit!!

Creigh Deeds is Losing Because of Deeds, not Obama

Here in Virginia, the governor’s race seems to be about over.  Republican candidate Bob McDonnell is ahead of Creigh Deeds by double digits in polls, which means that even if the samples are way off, McDonnell is still likely to win the race.  I personally do not trust polls, but I do not get a strong sense of pro-Deeds support here in Virginia.

But do not trust talk radio when they say that this race is a referendum on Obama and his policies.  The problem is that there have been several factors in the race that have caused Deeds to trail behind:

1. First of all, Deeds came out swinging, only it was below the belt.  You do not resort to such tactics when you are just starting your campaign out.  Deeds produced McDonnell’s thesis which was a very social conservative and would have easily earned him the ire of feminists and several other progressive groups.  But seeing as how McDonnell was a Republican, that already had happened, so there really was no point.  Did Deeds and his campaign staff honestly believe that we would think a Governor would take away women’s equality?  (I personally do not believe in any notions of equality since such a thing is not quantifiable, which is a requirement if it is to mandated by the government)
2. Despite the obvious flop on the attack ads, Deeds has not really campaigned on a single idea.  Eleanor Roosevelt said that great people talk about ideas, average people talk about current events, and stupid people talk about other people.  Well, I am paraphrasing, but you get the idea (incidentally, by that standard this blog is above average, but not great).  By that measurement, McDonnell has run a great campaign and Deeds has run a stupid campaign.  Not a single idea has come out of his campaign for this state.  He has, at best, merely echoed what McDonnell has proposed and not even added his own flavor to it.
3. Deeds has now gone from below the belt attacks to the standard Democrat playbook of campaigning, which is at this tiresome to many I believe.  I now see campaign signs for Deeds attacking McDonnell’s stances on education.  Apparently McDonnell is now bad for education in Virginia.  Frankly, if that was true, and it really is not, I would take that as a good sign of things to come.  Can you honestly think that after decades of dumping money into our children, that they are any smarter, better, or much more responsible than they were when we first started investing in the little crumb crunchers?  Who are the ones who always say that more money will fix it and yet the quality of education only gets worse as teachers become more concerned with putting condoms on bananas in front of children rather than showing them how to balance a checkbook?  Last I checked, condoms come with instructions, checkbooks usually do not.

Deeds is a great example of what not to do in Virginia in order to get voted for.  Many Virginians do not like negative attack ads and they do not respond well to them.  During the 2005 race, Jerry Kilgore ran a campaign where he attack Democrat Tim Kaine on his death penalty stances.  Instead of going through Kaine’s history as mayor of Richmond and maybe citing that, he just pushed an entire campaign towards what Kaine might do when faced with ordering someone’s execution.

Naturally, Kilgore lost and Tim Kaine went on to embarrass our state in the 2006 State of the Union Address rebuttal.  The fact is, Kilgore did not sell himself to the voters as a great potential governor.  Instead, he just ran attack ads and assumed that the people of the state of Virginia would vote for him because he will put murderers to death.

When George Allen lost to Jim Webb, it was largely due to his off-hand comment about one of Webb’s campaign monkeys following him around.  It was stupid and that the media made a big deal out of it and it really demonstrated how much of a hack Larry Sabato is.  Still, Allen lost because in the final weeks of the campaign, he produced a negative attack by citing one of Webb’s fictional books where a man molests his son out in the open in Thailand.  If George Allen had just thrown together an ad where he demonstrated his lack of racism and how the attacks were unfounded, then he might have actually won.

The lesson in all this is that here in Virginia, negative campaigns do not work anymore.  People want solutions and they want to vote for someone who has sold himself and his ideas to the average voter.  Creigh Deeds has not done this and that is why he is behind so much in the polls.  Still, I would rather have another choice when I go vote besides Deeds or McDonnell.  Neither one suits my tastes, but if there are no other options, I may just go with McDonnell only because he is the better choice.

Some Advice for Gubernatorial Candidate Bob McDonnell

So there is a bit of a local controversy here in Virginia about a thesis written by Bob McDonnell 20 years ago.  In it, he “said homosexuality, working women and abortion were detrimental to traditional American families.”  Apparently, this is what passes for controversy these days, which comes as no surprise to me who sees so many Catch-22 situations in these various issues.

However, rather then defending his positions stated 20 years ago, Bob McDonnell has decided to state that he is more “enlightened” now.  That makes me want puke.  I may not be eligible to vote this year because of my recent move from Alexandria to the Fair Oaks area and now I am glad that I may not be legally allowed.  Such cowardice and spineless behavior is not what I am looking for in a governor.  His answer should have been, “yeah, I wrote that, so what?  Did any of you actually read it or just lap up the cliff notes from my opponents camp?” 

For the benefit of any potential readers, here is the full thesis:

The facts are these.  Working women are detrimental to family in that it sacrifices the value you place on the child in order to make money.  While I have no problems with women entering the workforce, they have to acknowledge that there is a give and take when you do this.  Placing your child in daycare in order to allow you to work does not benefit the child or the family.  A stay at home mother adds over $100,000 in value to the household every year.

Again, though, I have no problem with women who work, even if they are married.  You do what you want to do, so long as it is honest and peaceful.  But be honest with yourself.  You are sacrificing time with your child in order to satisfy your own selfish desires.  There is no shame in that, as all of us do it on a regular basis, but do not justify it by making some false claim of feminism or being some kind of modern woman.  If you believe any of that, you are a bigger fool then you realize.

Abortion and other contraceptive practices has allowed otherwise decent men and women to behave indecently simply because it disallows them to face the consequences of fornication.  While I do not care about what you do behind closed doors, you need to weigh the consequences of your actions and be willing to accept them.  As Eric Cartman said in a South Park episode, “abortion is the ultimate form of cheating: cheating against nature.”

Finally, homosexual couples are not a family unit.  No legal dictate will say otherwise.  In fact, I think homosexual couples have a much shorter lifespan on average than heterosexual couples, regardless of marital status.  I have no study to back that up, but I am sure that one has been published.  Again, I personally do not care what you do behind closed doors.  But you cannot deny that the dynamics of a homosexual relationship are much, much more different than the dynamics of a heterosexual Christian family.

While I tend to not hold up the family as an institution with some great reverence, did it ever occur to the McDonnell camp to challenge Deeds’ assertion that these ideas are fundamentally wrong?

The Republican party needs better people who will stand firm in their ideals and not suck up to the voters.  That is what Democrats do and their supporters are dumb enough not to recognize it.  If the McDonnell campaign has any common sense, it will vehemently assert the ideas presented in that thesis, instead of cowardly retreating.

Conservatives Are Losing Virginia

I love my state.  I love the forests, the beaches, the rivers, and various cities.  Roanoke is a gem in what is otherwise a bleak area during the winter.  Blacksburg is an awesome college town and the surrounding area has some great camping sites.  Virginia Beach is a great place to vacation during the summer and it is a place I would like to possibly move to eventually.  The Northern Neck is a nice private getaway  location, if you can find a friend willing to lodge you.  Northern Virginia is very historic but also offers many places to work and live.  There are also two really nice theme parks.
But the people are getting crazier and crazier as the years go by.  Already the people of Virginia still have a positive attitude about Obama.  While this is probably true for the rest of America, Virginia used to be a conservative state.  I think that changed in the recent decade largely because of the expansion of government.  You cannot expect government workers to vote conservative because their jobs depend on big government.  In Northern Virginia this is especially true because a huge number of Federal government workers live here.
Northern Virginia was one of the fastest growing areas in the country.  The housing market skyrocketed at an alarming rate during the early Bush years with some double digit percentage increases in prices.  Everyone assumed that housing could not drop in price.  We all know that this is not the case.  I knew that as well and politely told everyone who urged me to buy a home or condo to stuff it.  I was not interested in buying a home until I could afford, the state of the economy be damned.  It looks like my patience will be rewarded once I do go about buying a home.
The influx of immigrants and the mass migration of government workers and people who are fleeing their supposed liberal utopias is probably the largest cause of conservatives losing one of the more traditionally conservative states.  Currently, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell is running as a moderate, or at least he started out as one.  That was a winning strategy for John McCain.  This is especially complicated when it comes to running against someone who is already pro-gun.  The only way for Bob McDonnell to win is to push for the elimination of the state income tax.
Of course, that only works if the people are conservative.  I do not blame the Republicans for losing conservatives in my state any more than I would blame George W. Bush for trusting George Tenet’s advice on the Iraqi Invasion.  The Republicans in this state, like so many other places, are very disorganized and are unable to properly display their conservative values.  I told my parents and brothers not to vote for Frank Wolf because he voted for the banking bailouts, but they all said that the Democrat opponent was more radical than Obama.  The lesser of two evils is still evil.  And death can come by one thousand cuts or just a simple stab to the heart.
The Republicans in my state really need to stand up for the principles of their party.  The Republican party platform is very conservative but the people who claim to be Republican are nothing more than liars.  I am tired of the moral busybodies of both sides telling me how I should live my life.  I just want someone, anyone, to stand up and say that you should live how you think you should, so long as it is honest and peaceful.  Instead we have people who are always tampering with the system in order to fix it.  Take it from a mid-level software developer: sometimes fixing it is much worse than leaving it be, especially when it is unnecessary.