Jamie Radtke is No Rubio, Fischer or Cruz

An election disaster just waiting to happen. “Even though he was [Florida House] speaker, he had virtually no name identification and he was taking on the Republican governor. So we’re in a very similar position,” Radtke said, when comparing herself to Marco Rubio. (Tea Party’s Radtke Taking on Allen in US Senate Race,  Washington Times) [...]

Are Democrats Encouraging Cross Over Voting in the VASEN Primary?

Seems like it. All Politics is Local blogger Vivian Paige’s recent op-ed in the Virginia Pilot appears to offer subtle encouragement for ALL registered voters, regardless of party, to vote in the upcoming Republican primary: One of the concerns of those supporting conventions in our open primary state is crossover voting, whereby members of the [...]

Scarlett Takes Pleasure in Savaging Ashley

#GoneWiththeWrenn. “I can’t think of anything bad enough to call you!” Ashley: “Oh Scarlett….You are so young and unthinking….you have all the passion for life that I lack.” Scarlett: “You led me on!….I will hate you until I die!” Smack! The VA GOP primary date edges closer — what dear Scarlett now refers to as the [...]

Remembering Our Heroes

Tribute. From US Senate candidate Bob Marshall: Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) introduced HR 2070 directing the Secretary of the Interior to install at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. a plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the nation on June 6, 1944, D-Day, the invasion [...]

Obama Health Care Directive Raises First Amendment Concerns

“Contemptible” You will write what I say! The Times Dispatch editorial staff NAILS it, calling the Obama administration’s latest heavyhanded tactics in Obamacare implementation “contemptible”: The Wall Street Journal reports that “health insurance companies must tell customers who get a premium rebate this summer that the check is the result of the Obama administration’s health-care [...]

Ted Cruz Fires Back at Dewhurst’s Lies

From Red State: A couple of the commenters at Red State don’t “get” the ad.  What’s not to get?  I think it’s right for the times, has the feel of the best Ron Paul ads that are really effective particularly with the younger generation. Go Cruz.

The Final RPV Debate

Bishop Jackson knows how to create a visual I can’t believe I just sat through the RPV senate debate on the Friday jump-start to Memorial Day weekend. But I did. (My twitter feed will back me up.) The overall impression I got was that (with the exception of a mis-statement about war authorization that he [...]

Jamie Radtke’s Weird Libertarianism

Social Issues. Radtke’s Rise and an Election Disaster Just Waiting to Happen The Washington Post asked the four GOP US Senate candidates in VA their opinions on the General Assembly’s recent decision to reject the nomination of an openly gay prosecutor for a federal judgeship.  Marshall, Jackson and Allen responded, but Jamie Radtke did not: [...]

Jamie Radtke, the Tool

#Gone with the Wrenn. Radtke took the bullhorn from another activist, spoke for the media cameras, then left As anticipated, Jamie Radtke (dear Scarlett) is taking her flailing campaign out of state in a last ditch effort to try to get support from people who don’t know any better. Mrs. Radtke is a political tool [...]

More Deep Digging into Barack’s Past

Blessed by his Thereness. Forward The Obama loving media knows that the public resents it for not digging deep into Barack Obama’s past the last go around.  So, this is how it plans to engage our attention and push the President’s likeability in 2012.  Deep throat level reporting? Not hardly. Seems Barack’s old girlfriend has [...]