Thanks for the comments on my blog site. Once you start a blog site you realize how much work people like Greg L put into sites like this. Whether you agree with Greg or not - he’s providing a valuable free service that encourages debate on a critical issue. Now, if I could manage to write and publish one post for every 50 on this site I’d be doing a lot better.

My head’s not in the sand. We need a new political party, short of that we’ll be run by crooks and liars. Obama doesn’t make me shudder so much - but Pelosi and Reid do.

Obama has yet to prove himself to be a wild-eyed socialist. I’m hoping he won’t. I hoping he’ll be a moderate, like Clinton. I do believe that Clinton’s budgets and tax policy and general governance were a big factor in how great the 90’s were for America.

That presupposes that we have an Executive Branch that actually believes in enforcing the laws that they have been directed to enforce by the Legislative Branch…such as the Sherman Antitrust Act. Just as they have chosen to disregard our immigration laws for at least the past decade, if not longer, the Executive has taken it upon itself to pursue an agenda through lack of enforcement which has made the Legislative irrelevant, except insofar as the pursuit of the agenda of the Chief Executive. Coincidence that the last President had a solid Party block in the Legislature as does the current? I think not.

Don’t think for a moment that imbuing our Executive Branch with MORE power is going to solve any problems for the average citizen. Don’t bury your head in the sand…take a REAL look at what’s going on. Then get back to me when you’ve realized that you’ve supported government control of every element of our lives…our health, our wealth, our freedom, our very existence!

But neither do I believe in unchecked capitalism - history shows that government regulation and intervention are necessary to keep it going

America at its best is a combination of the two

How about the last 4 chairmen?

As long as RPV continues chewing up and spitting out chairmen, well…

I never said that I voted for Obama. However, I would say he is charting a different course than Bush was. Rather than a blank check to the ruling class, he is insisting on some level of new regulation and governance on the bailed out companies. I do approve of this, for the current situation.

This party needs someone who can do the job and hopefully will make the right decisions going forward. Judge our leaders based on facts, not emotions and a sense of geographical pride.

Yeah, we may need to go door to door, but why did we ever stop going door to door in the first place? What do the majority of the centrist public really know about us? We know each other quite well, but I daresay that the majority of the voting public really don’t know us at all as of late. We do a whole lot of finger pointing at the democraps, but what are we holding up to the public? I daresay it’s mostly finger pointing and a paranoid sounding platform. The message is not wrong, but the delivery of it is.

Glad you liked the site. I have to tip my hat to Greg L - it’s hard work keeping a blog site going. Anyway, this should be a very interesting race. McDonnell is going be a real tough candidate to beat. He lives in Tidewater, he’s part of the Richmond establishment and he grew up in Northern Virginia. He’s Republican so he’ll do well in the western part of the state. He’ll lose in the urban areas in southern Virginia - places like Petersburg and the City of Richmond have become “no go” zones for Republican candidates. He sweep the western counties although there aren’t that many votes there. He’ll take Tidewater with ease. Which brings us back to two key areas - Northern Virginia and suburban Richmond. If the Dems have either Moran or McAulliffe - I think they will struggle against McDonnell. He’s going to get enough votes in NoVA to win (even though he’ll lose NoVA to either of them). Deeds has a better chance. He’ll get votes in NoVA just by being a Democrat (and a genuinely good guy). He’ll do well in suburban Richmond and will wim nore votes than people thing in the western counties (He’s from Bath County).

Of course, all of this will change if McAulliffe runs up a campaign war chest that is 2X - 3X the nearest competitor. His relentless “I will create jobs” might play better than expected outside NoVA.

As I told someone recently BPCAU, Bush started the slalom run, and Obama is finishing the country off. So, in effect, you did vote for Bush.

But enough of the past.

Here is my first analysis of the upcoming governor’s race (11/09):

http://grovetonsvirginia.wordpress.com/

I am trying to keep it even-handed. Let me know if I succeeded.

or, one could argue, moving towards paying for what we spend, and trying in some responsible fashion to clean up the cluster-**** that was made for him.

Everyone who voted for Bush should just have the ***damn sense to just never vote again. Just withhold your opinion.