Primary Party Crash

Runcible — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:55:23 +0000

Amazingly, Terry McAuliffe is the front runner in next week's Democrat primary for Virginia governor. McAuliffe may be the biggest douchebag on the whole planet, but he's certainly the biggest in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where it turns out he lives. How do people decide, "Yeah, we've got a couple decent candidates running, but I'm going to vote for the sociopath?"

It's not unlike the presidential candidacy of John Edwards, who like McAuliffe is transparently unfit for elected office. Yet millions of people voted for him, and many more were apparently shocked to learn that he was keeping a girlfriend on the side. The guy made a fortune exploiting people with cerebral palsy to steal from obstetricians. Having a mistress is actually small potatoes compared to what he did openly in his career as a trial lawyer.

Which gets me to my point. (Yes, I have a point.) Mike Stollenwerk with the DC Gun Rights Examiner is recommending, because McAuliffe is so strongly anti-gun, that Republican voters crash the Democrat primary next Tuesday and vote for Brian Moran. I don't much care for the Moran family, but I think Stollenwerk is probably right. Creigh Deeds is likely to lose anyway, so a vote for Moran might actually result in a McAuliffe loss.

So if you agree, vote Brian Moran on June 9th, regardless of your party affiliation.