Spank That Donkey

 Taking a look at Augusta County's returns there are three overwhelming factors involved in the numbers.  The first is that the local MSM didn't spare any ink letting the local populace know that Senator John Warner, the former Governors, LG, AG, etc endorsed Senator John McCain.

Secondly, beyond numerous phone calls from the candidates, and radio ads condensed into a five day window the electorate really didn't get a decent amount of time to look at the candidates.  I think that if the county had a couple weeks worth of exposure to the candidates, and a couple issue comparison pieces to study you would see a far wider of margin for Gov. Huckabee.

The ballot had six candidates, which fractured the vote further, and Rush Limbaugh pounding the snot out of Gov.  Huckabee for two months straight made a huge difference.  Still the County went Huckabee, plain and simple.  Twenty Six out of Twenty Six precincts. 

In my opinion the largest factor was the Top GOP Leadership giving McCain the 'green light', and they just voted the name, and surely not his positions.

Overall, when I saw that the county was  not 3-1 Huckabee, I knew he was sunk state wide.  Like I said in a previous post, GOP Leadership knew that McCain was going to be vindictive towards our state, and Senate candidate former Gov. Jim Gilmore in particular if they didn't all get behind him, they made the move, and here we are.

The bottom line of course is that if not for all of the above, and Senator John McCain's true voting record were laid out before our electorate,  he would have gotten the three to one trouncing he deserved. 

 Cobalt 6, who maybe the work of  the infamous Mike Stark, is hitting at the 'soft underbelly' of the Republican Party, and the Republican's better start paying attention....

Here is the deal, Rep. Bob Goodelatte holds a Town Hall style meeting, and a bunch of rowdy Dems show up to pepper him with the 'Corporate Greed' and Health Care issues.  One questioner gets into the issue of Health Care executives taking huge bonuses and Goodelatte has to defend the Free Enterprise system..  All well and good, but folks... Let me tell you something:

I am a college educated working class stiff like a whole lot of other people.  I aspire one day to get big fat bonuses through hard work, and supporting the Free Enterprise system itself.. I identify & volunteer my time with the Republican Party...

Another reason I identify with the Pubs is because historically they have been for the little guy, by keeping my taxes low.. You see if you take 15% from $40,000 a year its, $6,000 in taxes, but I am only left with $34,000.  If you take 30% from some one making $100,000 that leaves them with $70,000...   We all know that, and we hope we get to higher income brackets, our efforts to lower them on EVERYBODY, will benefit us...eventually.

The second plank of the Communist Manifesto is a heavy 'graduated tax' that supposedly nails the rich at the top, but most importantly hinders those on the bottom by taxing them, and effectively retarding their ability to accumulate wealth and move to the higher class...  If Commies didn't want to tax the man on the bottom at all they would have credibility.  That said:

But, when the Party that supposedly protects us from higher taxes (Republicans) at the lower end starts raising those taxes, and we still see the excesses of the Free Enterprise system at the top... WE start thinking, SCREW THESE PEOPLE THEY ARE GIVING IT TO US BOTH WAYS!

Here's the deal, We know the Dems are out to grow govt. as large as possible for a couple reasons:

• It creates more voters to vote for larger govt... ask Sen. Hanger, he sent emails out to all local State Employees to 'remind them' to vote... Plus the VEA & Our local elected's worked our local govt. employees, etc.
• Larger govt's mean that you need to continually raise taxes, which retards the ability of people to gain wealth.
• The whole time Democrats create a larger underclass solely dependent on the taxpayers also... You know every time you 'cut taxes', you hurt those at the bottom the worst, the elderly, the children, etc., of course.
• Then the entitlement programs, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, etc..

Essentially, We all know the Dems are out to bankrupt the country so the whole system comes crashing down, and they can get their ultimate prize of communism in place... Yes, the closest we came and when the Socialist Party was at its height was after the great depression...

I so look forward to the screaming about the ultimate intentions of the Democrat Party, but tell me, they are not among you who think like that?  Anyhow, back to bashing the Establishment Pubs...

The bottom line is this, people quit supporting the Republican Party when the Republican Party does not support the people...  Wake up you idiots!  The American People love cars... Gov. Jim Gilmore made it easier for us all to own one, rich and poor, and we elected that man and the Republican Party to the Majority in the General Assembly!  In so doing he has forced the General Assembly to fund that Tax cut each and every year!

The problems started with the damn RINO's that wanted to use those tax dollars to fund their road projects and pander to voting government workers in Northern VA particularly, but also state wide...  Rather than constrain government to pay for infrastructure they invested it in government itself....  Our tax revenues have gone through the roof, more than enough to pay for infrastructure for the people... not the growth of government.... It has been squandered on govt. & entitlement programs like Medicaid, period.

Those are the failings of the Republican Party... You are currently at the threshold of defeat, you better get your act together... The working class people aren't willing to support your ideological change and your miscalculations any further...

 h/t to From On High, reporting on this Washington Times article concerning the retirement of Sen. John Warner..

There is only one RepubliCAN leader who can take this seat for Conservatives in Virginia.. That man is AG Bob McDonnell...  He has:

• State wide name recognition...
• He is a Conservative...
• He has the military credentials necessary for a US Senate Seat...
• Mark Warner sold cell phones...
• His daughter has served in Iraq...
• He is a good debater...
• He would be huge improvement over Jawn Warner....
• He'll get a lot of votes at the Beach and the Valley... (Tom Davis visited the valley, get for real..)
• We wouldn't have a Bolling - McDonnell blood fest... 
• He's married to a former Ms. Virginia...
• His daughter is equally hot...
• Mark Warner is probably going to beat any of the other Republicans named in that article...
• We are all going to be really upset with two...  Democrat Senators representing VA... (arguably the case now)

Any more questions?