Kaine Beats Kilgore

Good. Couldn't have happened to a crappier candidate.

51 - 46 - 2 (with a healthy showing of write in candidates)

I went back and forth on this. Tim Kaine is a crazy out of touch liberal, but Jerry Kilgore was a shitty candidate and ran what is probably the most inept and dishonest campaign I ever had the misfortune to be a part of. This election - in which only 30% of the voters came out - has nothing to do with President Bush and everything to do with Kilgore and sleazeball politics.

I was wavering on my vote, and up to last week thought I would vote for either Russ Potts or write myself in, but am embarrassed to say I was suckered in by Kilgore's false and deceptive and misleading advertising. The Democratic and Progressive Candidate Voter Guide arrived in my mail box and I was sure it came from Potts and that Potts decided to run to the left. It didn't and he didn't. Instead, Kilgore put out one of the most dishonest pieces of campaign literature I ever saw.


I was wavering on my vote, and up to last week thought I would vote for either Russ Potts or write myself in, but am embarrassed to say I was suckered in by Kilgore's false and deceptive and misleading advertising. The Democratic and Progressive Candidate Voter Guide arrived in my mail box and I was sure it came from Potts and that Potts decided to run to the left. It didn't and he didn't. Instead, Kilgore put out one of the most dishonest pieces of campaign literature I ever saw.

I've been an almost lifelong Republican but I have to say Jerry Kilgore and the Virginia Republican Party did long lasting damage to my political allegiances. Will it impact my vote in 2006? In 2008? Its tough to say, but right now my default position is going to be to support whoever the Virginia Republican Party opposes. If a Democrat comes along with a clue*, I would jump into their camp in a second.

*-isn't a communist and rejects everything the crazy moonbat liberal-cum-progressive wing stands for such as banning guns, weakening the military, wasting our revenues, interfering with my life and right to contract, and raising my taxes