Virginia Right!

I just got off the phone with a person calling from 804-446-4934 claiming to be conducting a survey about the Virginia Republican Convention. I agreed to answer the three questions on the survey. I am signed up to be a Delegate and assumed this was related to that fact. The first question was “Who do [...]

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Have you already decided which candidate you will be voting for tomorrow in the Virginia Republican Primary? I am fairly sure that if you have not made up your mind yet, you probably don’t plan to vote. Of course this is a Primary and the winner gets the right to represent the Republican Party in [...]

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Artur Davis is a former Democratic Congressman who aspired to be the first African-American Governor of Alabama.  Alas, he lost.  (It is believed that Alabama, by the way, DID elect the first statewide African-American candidate in the USA if you do not count the rigged Reconstruction elections – this justice of the state supreme court.  [...]

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Once again, Bishop E.W. Jackson came away from a Virginia Republican US Senate debate as the winner. His overall performance was perhaps a bit less stellar than the Roanoke Debate, but that was most likely a function of the questions asked, which were so similar that it was not easy to answer without repeating yourself. [...]

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  The date was March 9, 2009. That was the day I officially launched Virginia Right! with my first post Obama Offers Russia Pay for Play With Missiles. Chicago style politics had officially come to Washington. It has been an amazing journey since that first post. As of now, 815 people have read that post, [...]

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Virginian’s only have two choices in tomorrow’s primary. And that is an absolute shame. The “establishment” Democrats and Republicans have stacked the deck to give the best possible chance to the “anointed” candidate of either party and make the bar nearly impossible for anyone else. If Virginia Republicans had their way, Mitt Romney would be [...]

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A Conservative he is not! The Virginia Republican Establishment’s Anointed Candidate Mitt Romney is at it again. According to the Liberal LA Times, which is beginning find more and more reasons to support Romney: “For high-income folks, we are going to cut back on that so we make sure the top 1% keeps paying, paying [...]

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Anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis is well aware that we cover not only Republican politics, but with co-blogger Sandy Sanders we offer a great deal of Ron Paul coverage. And that is intentional because I believe that the Ron Paul sector of the Republican Party has a valid place in the [...]

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It appears we may have already seen the first salvo fired in the 2013 race for the Virginia Republican nomination for Governor in 2013. Or is it the second? Lt. Governor Bill Bolling announced some time ago that he was running for Governor in 2013, and recently, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced his plans to [...]

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Wow! What a year 2011 was! Once again, Virginia has blazed the way in the State Political arena and set the stage for what we anticipate will be another historic Republican victory in Washington in November. Following the Virginia Republican surge in 2009, Republicans took over the US House in 2010 and got a lot [...]

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I don’t plan to participate in the Virginia Republican Presidential Primary in March, 2012. Not because of the requirement that you take an oath to support the eventual Republican nominee, whoever that may eventually be. That’s a given. Any of the Republican candidates will be a far better president than Obama. If you are interested [...]

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This is an open letter to Pat Mullins, Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. Dear Chairman Mullins; When I was initially asked to sign a petition to place Mitt Romney’s name on the Virginia Republican Primary ballot this past summer, I declined. My explanation was that I did not support Mitt Romney at that [...]

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Newt Gingrich was eliminated from the possibility of having his name on the Virginia Republican Presidential Primary ballot for 2012. Virginia requires at least 10,000 signatures which must include 400 from each Congressional District. Mitt Romney and Ron Paul remain as the only candidates whose name will appear on the ballot in the Republican Presidential [...]

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Republican Presidential hopeful Ron Paul and his supporters have complained that the media has been ignoring Paul. And they are correct. Despite fairly high placement throughout the primary debates, Paul has been asked very little and had few moments in the debates in which to answer questions. And Paul and his supporters have rightly criticized [...]

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Well, it’s down to three. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. The rest of the Republicans, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann and now Rick Perry will not be participating in the Virginia Republican Presidential Primary in 2012. All failed to turn in the required signatures to comply with Virginia Electoral laws. From the Republican Party [...]

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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli raised some eyebrows with the announcement that he would run for Governor in 2013. Most in Virginia Republican circles were familiar with the “deal” made between then Attorney General Bob McDonnell and then (and still) Lt. Governor Bill Bolling. Or most had at least heard the rumor. In order to [...]

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How can I help Ron Paul right here in Virginia or wherever you are (assuming you are not in Iowa and/or NH): Buy a Iowa precinct where you can have the supervoters in that precinct be sent the Ron Paul Superbrochure! Pledge to give money to the RP campaign on December 16, 2011 (Boston Tea [...]

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When I read the Press Release from George Allen a while ago announcing the endorsement of a number of Virginia TEA Party Patriots (over 100) that have endorsed Allen for US Senate, I said “WOW”! And when I began reading the list of names that were included in the release, my subconscious began crunching the [...]

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  — “If our economy is to recover, government needs to get out of the way.” –  “Once again, President Obama has demonstrated that he simply has no new ideas for fixing the economy. When presented with a dire situation that calls for original thinking, the President has largely returned to his familiar playbook of [...]

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