I want someone tough on illegal immigration, someone who I will actually believe. However I’m also for stem cell research and other thing s that the far right does not like. It’s going to be tough this year for me to vote for the one candidate that addresses all the issues I think are important.

Josh

I too would like to see a centrist candidate for president. Right now, the closest you get to a centrist is Hillary or Rudi. Tell me it isn’t true. Talk about going to the polls, holding your nose and voting!

Now compare the situation to Prince William County. Many defenders of illegals say most of the outrage is not about law breakers, but about the changing face of the County.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070903/METRO/109030050/1004/metro

However, Turn PW Blue has made some good points and used some facts to boot.

So, here’s the real skinny:

Howell knows the republicans are going to get thir butts kicked in November. He knows it’s because they’ve done a lousy job of running the state. He also knows that President Bubba has done a lousy job of running the country and some of that will “rub off” on Republican candidates for stae office this November.

However, Howell is a slimy state politician so he can’t just admit that his party is going to lose because the voters want them out. No, no… Instead, he’s trying to pre-excuse the losses on some demographic fiction about new arrivals into Northern Virginia. First, Northern Virginia has a minority of state’s population. It can only determine a minority of the state races. Second, newcomers to NOVA were as much a fact of life when the Republicans ascended to power as they are now that the Republicans are going to lose that power. Finally, the newcomers come from all over the US including places like Utah which are much more conservative than Virginia. They are not universally Democratic or liberal.

Instead, Howlin’ Howell II wants you to believe that Republican losses this November will be “becuz of all them damn Yankees movin’ into Northern Virginia with their liberal ideas”.

The Republicans will lose this November because the voters are sick of them, their poor record of governance and their endless lies and double talk. They will not lose because hoardes of liberal New Yorkers have moved to Northern Virginia.

Unfortunately, the old school Democrats running against the old school Republicans will be no better for the Commonwealth. But voters want a change and they will increasingly vote for Democrats.

For the record - I am a life-long Republican and a life-long resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Under Clinton, the actual size of the Federal government shrank (reversing the trend toward double-digit growth under Reagan and GHW Bush). Under GW Bush, government has again gotten bigger. Nixon created the EPA and OSHA. GW Bush created the monstrosity with call the Department of Homeland Security. Reagan pledged to eliminate the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the BATF, and Selective Service. All grew larger during his terms in office.

It was Carter who began deregulating business and Clinton who worked out free trade agreements.

It was Reagan who started the “War on Drugs,” putting the government further into our business, and it is typically Republicans that want to legislate personal reproductive rights. It was GHW Bush who signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. It is GHW Bush who is tapping your phones without a warrant and undermining the due process of law by creating a classification called “illegal combatant” (which he even tried to apply to US citizens).

So if you want to talk about who is spending your dough (whether they’re taking it our of your pockets right now or putting the burden on your kids and grandkids) on “cockamamie social programs” and who is creating the “all powerful government” better start looking in the mirror, my friend. Me thinks the pot is calling the kettle black. Either that or the darkness under that rock has finally gotten to you.