Virginia Right!

The Libertarian Party of Virginia has not fielded any official candidates since 2007 (see this list for all LP Va candidates since 1976; the most famous of the Virginia Libertarians is Roger McBride, a GOP elector who voted in 1972 for the first LP electoral team and then was the 1976 LP Presidential candidate (The [...]

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I am pleased and excited to report that Del. Rob Bell, our next Attorney General, WON, that’s right WON, a Tea Party straw poll in Hampton Roads according to this report in Virginia Virtucon with 56% of the vote after a forum where BOTH GOP candidates were present! Delegate Rob Bell was victorious over Harrisonburg [...]

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Should all of us interested in true transparency in politics let this go by because it helps my candidate (For those readers of my blog from Mars, that is Ron Paul)?  Igot to speak up. Several of the GOP candidates will not be on the Virginia ballot.  Paul and former Massachusetts Governor Romney are confirmed [...]

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I wrote on this some time ago:  How Newt Gingrich is actually resident of Virginia.  When he set up his campaign, Georgia is his base of operations but he is legally a resident of Virginia.This ought to cause some soul searching among Virginia GOPers.  But it begs the question: Who might be Speaker Gingrich’s running [...]

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Mark Schmitt at The New Republic penned a clever analysis of the debate the other night.  Of course, he piled on the truly awful performance by Texas Governor Rick Perry.  (Of course he was standing next to the candidate who can say FIVE departments to abolish – Cong. Ron Paul!) But he said what is [...]

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Ugh, Ugh, Ugh, Ugh. John King’s most repeated line of the night. Honestly, I have never been so glad to here “up next is Anderson Cooper” in my entire life. King spent the entire night grunting and asking stupid questions like “Coke or Pepsi” and trying to get the GOP candidates to turn on themselves [...]

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While we are at the just at the beginning of what is sure to be a heated GOP primary, a new poll released yesterday gives Herman Cain double digit lead, favored by 24%, over other potential GOP candidates. Coming in second is Mike Huckabee with 12%. The Iowa poll is important because, since 1972 the [...]

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George Monbiot writes a encouraging article for the Guardian (UK) on the crashing and burning of the global warming “crisis”. He does not mean to be encouraging; rather Monbiot laments the fact that nothing will get accomplished other than diplomats might not be able to sleep through the next “climate change” convention in Cancun.  The [...]

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