Marshall Should Have Won
(Editor's Note: This was written last month and I did not publish it to see if Virginia Republicans would do anything to cause me to revise what I had written. Not surprisingly, no change is necessary almost a month later.)
Despite the amazing lack of news and analysis about this past weekend's past Virginia Republican Convention, the message to take from that event is that white, Christian, conservative state residents are mad and they want to be heard.
Delegate Bob Marshall's 60+ vote loss to former Governor Jim Gilmore demonstrates that the Virginia Republican Party is longer one of moderation, tolerance and live and let live. When I was growing up in Virginia, it was a welcome voice of balance, integration and inclusiveness in contrast to the various conservative Democrats holding office. Those Democrats, including the late Delegate Harry Parrish, eventually went to the Republican Party as it lurched backward, I mean rightward.
But back to the present: Instead, it has become a political party which, at least half of it, wants to dictate to everyone who lives within the Commonwealth's borders how one should live, what we can and can not buy medically, and to set up a class of protection for conservative social objectors who are above Virgina's long standing right to work laws.
I fear for my daughter's right who, in Delegate Marshall's and almost 50% of the Virginia Republican Party's views, would have no say over what happens to her body medically. I am always amused that it is men who want to keep women under their feet and it seems that almost a majority of Virginia Republicans agreed.
Posting on Bloggers4Marshall, I reminded readers not to underestimate him In fact, I would have preferred his victory as the Republican's candidate for the US Senate. His views of intolerance toward privacy and women, and his inability to successfully handle the real issues facing the state despite his years in the General Assembly (just see if you pay lower taxes or if your trip to work is shorter or you pay less for basic necessities) would be amply demonstrated.
Instead, state Republicans choked and went for a sacrificial lamb...Jim Gilmore, the man who left the state in an economic mess.
It is no wonder that if one is intolerant, one votes Republican. But if one wants to solve problems real time, one votes Democratic.
Despite the amazing lack of news and analysis about this past weekend's past Virginia Republican Convention, the message to take from that event is that white, Christian, conservative state residents are mad and they want to be heard.
Delegate Bob Marshall's 60+ vote loss to former Governor Jim Gilmore demonstrates that the Virginia Republican Party is longer one of moderation, tolerance and live and let live. When I was growing up in Virginia, it was a welcome voice of balance, integration and inclusiveness in contrast to the various conservative Democrats holding office. Those Democrats, including the late Delegate Harry Parrish, eventually went to the Republican Party as it lurched backward, I mean rightward.
But back to the present: Instead, it has become a political party which, at least half of it, wants to dictate to everyone who lives within the Commonwealth's borders how one should live, what we can and can not buy medically, and to set up a class of protection for conservative social objectors who are above Virgina's long standing right to work laws.
I fear for my daughter's right who, in Delegate Marshall's and almost 50% of the Virginia Republican Party's views, would have no say over what happens to her body medically. I am always amused that it is men who want to keep women under their feet and it seems that almost a majority of Virginia Republicans agreed.
Posting on Bloggers4Marshall, I reminded readers not to underestimate him In fact, I would have preferred his victory as the Republican's candidate for the US Senate. His views of intolerance toward privacy and women, and his inability to successfully handle the real issues facing the state despite his years in the General Assembly (just see if you pay lower taxes or if your trip to work is shorter or you pay less for basic necessities) would be amply demonstrated.
Instead, state Republicans choked and went for a sacrificial lamb...Jim Gilmore, the man who left the state in an economic mess.
It is no wonder that if one is intolerant, one votes Republican. But if one wants to solve problems real time, one votes Democratic.
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