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From: Bearing Drift
Date: Saturday, November 12, 2011
Subject: Democrats: Countdown to Armageddon
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Countdown to Armageddon
Dear bruce,
This past week, the unthinkable happened to Virginia Democrats: they lost
power.
It was a good, ol'-fashioned, behind the wood-shed kind of moment for the
Democratic party.
Oh, sure, they gerrymandered the heck out the senate district lines, and
because of it, they only lost two seats, managing a split in the Senate
20-20 after Edd Houck and Roscoe Reynolds acknowledged defeat in narrow
losses. But in the popular vote across the state, they were soundly
whooped.
In both the House of Delegates and state Senate campaigns, Republicans
captured approximately 60% of the vote.
I don't care if the turnout is 10% or 100% (in this case, it was the
predicted 30%), if 6 of 10 voters think you're out-of-touch with them, you
have a problem.
But Brian Moran of the Democratic Party of Virginia didn't quite see it
that way.
Despite suffering massive defeat for the third straight year, instead of
looking inward and reflecting about candidate recruitment, fundraising,
message, and policy, in his Nov. 10 missive to supporters, he acted as if
the campaign was still on-going. Moran spoke to his base of the "Cantor
machine", withstanding "attacks" by GOP candidates, and how conservatives
attempted to "tear down" such esteemed Virginia leaders as Toddy Puller and
George Barker.
But what Moran said in his post-mortem is nothing compared to what
Democrats and the liberal media said BEFORE the election.
I did a little bit of research, and, according to the left, now that the
right has control of Capitol Square, it's going to be Armageddon come
January 2012.
U.S. Senator Mark Warner thinks: allowing Republicans to take the majority
is akin to turning "the keys of every part of state government over to a
fringe group"
Tim Kaine, the U.S. Senate candidate for the Dems said in 2008, when
Repubilcans lost the presidency and the U.S. Senate, that "Old Virginny is
Dead!" Does this mean that now that the GOP has returned, "Old Virginny is
Alive?" What, are we about to go back to Jim Crow?
According to one Democratic candidate for the House of Delegates, electing
Republicans will result in police investigating women who have miscarriages.
Virginia New Majority, a leftist political organization, said, "We're
certain that these [Republican] candidates favor drastic, frightening cuts
to Virginia's schools, that will hack away at the already diminishing sense
of security that many Virginians work hard to achieve."
Dick Saslaw, the FORMER Senate Majority Leader, is not feeling too good
about the outcome, he said prior to the election, "You can essentially have
Mississippi-type legislation passing very easily....guns on college
campuses, that's a priority with that crowd. Selling the ABC stores, which
would deprive the state government of $200 million - one-third of that
coming out of public schools. I can go on and on."
Moran of the DPVA predicted, according to the Virginian-Pilot, that
"abortion rights will be curtailed, environmental protections gutted, and
government health, public safety and education funding slashed."
And, our friends in the media openly speculated in NEWS articles about the
GOP legislative agenda (as if these ideas were down-right frightening):
easing gun restrictions
limiting access to abortions
giving tax credits to companies that donate to private school scholarships
creating an optional defined-contribution retirement plan for state workers
preventing illegal immigrants from receiving in-state college tuition
making some murder accomplices eligible for capital punishment
extending legal rights to fetuses
granting civil immunity to homeowners who kill intruders
prohibiting compulsory union membership by making "right to work" a state
constitutional amendment
Supporting the repeal amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The bottom-line is that the world is not going to end for Democrats. Some
of the above might get passed, but the biggest issue on everyone's plate is
going to be the biennial budget. The governor has had surpluses for 19 of
20 months, but the state still has to keep it's belt tight, fix the
Virginia Retirement System, and meet all its obligations.
While I am sure the GOP would love to take action on some of the above, and
they likely will, would promoting the 2nd Amendment be such a bad thing?
Would supporting the culture of life cause the Commonwealth to go into a
tail spin? Would allowing private companies to support educational choice
be that sacrilegious? Would promoting doing things legally in this country
be so terrible? Does a person have to pull the trigger to be culpable for
a heinous crime?
The rhetoric from the left certainly isn't helpful, and the enabling from
their friends in the media will certainly not encourage debate.
Unfortunately, for both of them, they're on the outside looking in as
conservatives begin to plan their agenda for a pro-business, pro-jobs,
pro-family Virginia.
Yours in Conservative Victory,
Jim Hoeft
Publisher and Founder
Bearing Drift
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