Guns and the Virginia election

GGReporter · 10-30-2009, 07:32 AM

With just days to go before the election, Virginia Democrats are getting desperate. In the race to become the commonwealth's next attorney general, state Delegate Stephen Shannon is trying to tar his opponent, state Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, for purportedly giving guns to convicted felons.We hate to break it to Mr. Shannon but this isn't going to be his Willie Horton ad. Mr. Shannon's convoluted logic goes this way: Since Mr. Cuccinelli voted against regulating the private sale of guns at gun shows, that means he supports felons having guns. Never mind that it is still illegal for felons to have guns and the senator supports that ban.

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Cyrano · 10-30-2009, 10:54 AM

The Democrats in Virginia are sweating? GOOD.

Midterm elections aren't for another year. Those elections are always seen as the nation passing judgment on how the sitting Administration is doing - whether the people approve or disapprove of the President and his policies.

The obvious example of the verdict of Americans on an Administration is the stinging rebuke that Slick Willy Clinton received from the People in the 1994 midterm elections that handed control of both the House and the Senate to the Republicans for the next twelve years. But off-year elections such as Virginia's and New Jersey's this year, while not seen as rendering a verdict on the performance of a President, can be viewed as being similar to a grand jury deciding whether or not to return a true bill on presidential job performance in the court of public opinion.

Considering the ongoing hemorrhage of job losses; the unbelievable national debt run up by a President less than a year in office; an unemployment rate hovering at 10% by official calculations, and more like 17% if the people whose unemployment benefits have run out or who are no longer seeking work that is not there to be found are included, as they ought to be; the skepticism of the people regarding the flu vaccine program the Obamists would love to make mandatory; the remarkable number of presidential advisers who have been unable to take up offices or who have been forced to quit; the perception of the People that Obama has appointed more 'czars' answerable only to him to run the government; the criminal activities of ACORN (which group is inextricably linked with Obama in the public's mind); the lingering resentment toward an administration that bailed out Wall Street, Big Banking and Big Business while doing nothing for the ordinary citizens; the administration's apparent inability to get the economy moving again in a way that benefits the People and not the rich who make substantial campaign contributions; and a narcissistic president who spends more time seeking adulation around the world while apologizing for the existence of the United States of America than doing his job, if I were a registered Democrat I'd be sweating too!

10-30-2009, 07:32 AM	#1
GGReporter Magazine Staff Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 2,271	Guns and the Virginia election With just days to go before the election, Virginia Democrats are getting desperate. In the race to become the commonwealth's next attorney general, state Delegate Stephen Shannon is trying to tar his opponent, state Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, for purportedly giving guns to convicted felons.We hate to break it to Mr. Shannon but this isn't going to be his Willie Horton ad. Mr. Shannon's convoluted logic goes this way: Since Mr. Cuccinelli voted against regulating the private sale of guns at gun shows, that means he supports felons having guns. Never mind that it is still illegal for felons to have guns and the senator supports that ban. More...

10-30-2009, 10:54 AM	#2
Cyrano Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New York Posts: 6,917	The Democrats in Virginia are sweating? *GOOD.* Midterm elections aren't for another year. Those elections are always seen as the nation passing judgment on how the sitting Administration is doing - whether the people approve or disapprove of the President and his policies. The obvious example of the verdict of Americans on an Administration is the stinging rebuke that Slick Willy Clinton received from the People in the 1994 midterm elections that handed control of both the House and the Senate to the Republicans for the next twelve years. But off-year elections such as Virginia's and New Jersey's this year, while not seen as rendering a verdict on the performance of a President, can be viewed as being similar to a grand jury deciding whether or not to return a true bill on presidential job performance in the court of public opinion. Considering the ongoing hemorrhage of job losses; the unbelievable national debt run up by a President less than a year in office; an unemployment rate hovering at 10% by official calculations, and more like *17%* if the people whose unemployment benefits have run out or who are no longer seeking work that is not there to be found are included, as they ought to be; the skepticism of the people regarding the flu vaccine program the Obamists would love to make mandatory; the remarkable number of presidential advisers who have been unable to take up offices or who have been forced to quit; the perception of the People that Obama has appointed more 'czars' answerable only to him to run the government; the criminal activities of ACORN (which group is inextricably linked with Obama in the public's mind); the lingering resentment toward an administration that bailed out Wall Street, Big Banking and Big Business while doing nothing for the ordinary citizens; the administration's apparent inability to get the economy moving again in a way that benefits the People and not the rich who make substantial campaign contributions; and a narcissistic president who spends more time seeking adulation around the world while apologizing for the existence of the United States of America than doing his job, if I were a registered Democrat I'd be sweating too!