A totally biased and unreasonable list of blogs that I think you might enjoy reading.
This is the ad that Gary Baise should have run if he could have raised two quarters to rub together, and the ad we should have been seeing about Gerry Connolly for months. It’s what we in the blogosphere already knew about Connolly, but what the residents of Fairfax are blissfully unaware of.
I love the [...]
The DCCC, reaping the spoils of an upcoming wave in 2008, have a lot of money to spend and a lot of places to spend it. The Swing State Project has a good overview of expenditures by Congressional races. There are some eyebrow raising plays here, targeting incumbents in what were once thought to be [...]
Excellent—and surprising—editorial from the desk of the Washington Post, rebutting the claims of those who are only too happy about the financial crisis in order to blame free market ideology for our woes without quite realizing, as the sub-title of the editorial points out: The market that failed was not exactly free.
I don’t always get [...]
Calling, comparing, or associating Barack Obama with Osama bin Laden is distasteful and wrong for any rational person, let alone an elected official and a party leader. Jeff Frederick’s comments should be rebuked by anyone who hears them.
Along the same lines, calling, comparing, or associating Bob McDonnell with the Taliban is as equally distasteful and [...]
The D.C. Examiner takes it to Connolly for his and the DCCC’s rampant Catholic-bashing campaign. What a shameful, un-American campaign this crook has tried to run. Absolutely disgusting.
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A good recap posted here, by Citizen Tom. Much better than the obviously one-sided accounts I’ve seen that could have been written before the debate with how little substance and how much vitriol they’re written with.
Apparently a video is pending. When it’s availible, I’ll make sure to post it or link to it.
Continue reading " Highlights from the Fimian/Connolly Debate "
What the hell is this guy hiding from? Questions how he drove the Fairfax County Budget to a $430 Million shortfall, or questions on why crime in Fairfax increased by 12% under his watch and we haven’t heard a word from him about it? Or maybe he’s scared that someone will ask him, as a Catholic, [...]
I was passed along Sharon Bulova’s latest fundraising letter, along with a donation envelope. Officially, its for her re-election three years from now, but Bulova is looking to run to replace her political mentor, Boss Connolly, as Chairman if Connolly is elected to Congress. At first glance, everything is in order:
But take a closer look [...]
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There are several reasons. First and foremost, a primary encourages the party to seek out beyond it’s narrow parameters and get more people involved. The bigger our party, the bigger our mandate. The smaller our party, the bigger the Democrat’s mandate. We cannot win on the strength of hardcore conservatives alone, and excluding everybody but [...]
Lost in all the kerfuffle over the “lipstick on a pig” comments is something much more interesting.
From Obama’s speech last night:
John McCain says he’s about change too. Exce- and and so I guess his whole angle is - watch out, George Bush - except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, [...]
Not so much.
Obama did not call Sarah Palin a pig, per Marc Ambinder.
And Mike Huckabee as well, per On Call.
Let’s move on, people.
Times must be tough over at the Obama camp. Their brilliant strategy of a 75,000-attended acceptance speech was overshadowed by an even more brilliant strategy of picking Sarah Palin the very next morning. Then Palin turns around and gets as many people to tune into her as Obama. If that wasn’t enough, Palin is helping [...]
It’s not a terrible ad, but Jim Gilmore’s first entry is far, far from a game-changer (let alone the pathetic $80K buy), and facing a 20- to 30-point deficit in the polls, that’s what he needs.
But more to the point, why is the RPV and not Jim Gilmore paying for this? First of all, why [...]
If we’re being honest for a second, I think the USA Today/Gallup poll will be an outlier, like the poll a few months back that showed Obama with a 15 point lead. However, there’s absolutely no doubt that the GOP Convention—and McCain’s pick of Palin—did exactly what they needed to do in shaking up the [...]
Click here for his first ad. Still no word from Gerry Connolly’s phantom campaign.
Going to Connolly’s website, his most recent press release was the release of his internal poll from mid-July. Six weeks ago. Where’s Gerry?
Unlike previous years and other Congressional candidates, Connolly didn’t attend the DNC Convo in Denver. Where’s Gerry?
Fimian has been on TV for a week now, and is increasing his presence when we get [...]
Mark Warner opposes it. Even Brian Moran opposes it. Yet Gerry Connolly, knowing full well his constituents spend countless hours in traffic, fully supports raising the gas tax at a time when working families are facing tough choices due to rising prices.
From the Great Falls Connection, July 2007:
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors chairman Gerald Connolly [...]
Gerry Connolly is in hiding, and he must be scared for his political life if he’s running this sort of campaign.
I just listened to the DCCC’s despicable attack on Keith Fimian, claiming that Fimian is opposed to women because a Catholic organization he belongs to apparently believes (as Ephesians 5:22-33 states) that wives should be [...]
Continue reading " Connolly Aims for “Most Shameful Campaign” Award "
Lowell over at Raising Not-VP Kaine is whining that the RPV quoted Larry Sabato’s in-depth analysis of Governor Kaine’s term and places him firmly in the bottom quarter of chief executives in the last forty years (RPV link here; Sabato link here). Its not really an eyebrow raising judgment. Sabato’s piece goes to provide some more [...]
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