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Enough Talk, Time for Deeds

Author | jack | Posted on | June 7, 2009 | 15 Comments

Creigh Deeds, that is.

Tuesday is primary day, and all registered voters are eligible to vote.  I encourage my fellow conservatives to get out and vote for Deeds.

There are three candidates running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination: Terry McCauliffe, Brian Moran, and Creigh Deeds.

McCauliffe is from Syracuse, NY.  The only reason he is in Virginia at all is that he came here as a political operative — he thinks Democrats should vote for him because he can raise more money than the others.  More than three-quarters of that money is from out-of-state, while more than three-quarters of his opponents contributions have come from Virginia.

Moran is from Massachusetts.  Still, as did many, he came here to work — not as a political operative, but as a court clerk, then as a prosecutor.  Moran was a member of the House of Delegates from 1995 to 2008, when he resigned to run for governor.  He, as with McCauliffe, claims to be Catholic while being vehemently pro-abortion.  He has vowed to work to overturn the Virginia Marriage Amendment.  He is anti-gun-rights, and opposes both off-shore drilling and the new coal-fired power plant.  So much for energy independence.

Deeds is a Virginian, born in Richmond, and raised in Bath County.  He attended college across the border in West Virginia, and went to North Carolina (thank you Kelley) for his law school degree from Wake Forest.  He has been a Commonwealth’s Attorney, State Delegate, and is now a State Senator.  Four years ago, he lost the Attorney General race to McDonnell by fewer than 400 votes. The reason the election was so close was that Deeds was endorsed by the NRA.  He is also less liberal than his opponents on Gay Rights.  In fact, it was his moderate stance on this issue, or rather the radical stance of Roanoke State Senator Edwards, that caused Edwards to drop out of the primary for Attorney General four years ago.  Contrary to their proclaimed Catholicism, McCauliffe and Moran are just as radical as Edwards on this issue.

Deeds is, by far, the least liberal of the candidates on the ballot this Tuesday.   While I do not intend to vote for Deeds in November, I will vote for him Tuesday, and I encourage everyone else to do so also.  There is no guarantee that McDonnell will win in November.  If he loses, I would much prefer a Governor Deeds to a Governor Moran or a Governor McCauliffe.

Category: Campaign 2009, Uncategorized

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15 Responses to “Enough Talk, Time for Deeds”

  1. kelley in virginia
    June 7th, 2009 @ 6:55 pm

    you mean the wake forest in north carolina?

    alot of conservatives will vote for deeds on tuesday.

  2. jack
    June 7th, 2009 @ 7:04 pm

    Yes, my mistake. I was thinking of Longwood, or perhaps Woodberry Forest, for some reason. Brain dead on Sundays!

  3. Had Enough
    June 7th, 2009 @ 11:48 pm

    Anyone that the Washington Post endorses in the spirit of Warner and Kaine is certainly not appealing.

  4. jack
    June 8th, 2009 @ 12:13 am

    Compared to Moran and McCauliffe he is.

  5. jacob
    June 8th, 2009 @ 6:18 am

    Deeds is a Democrat cut from the old cloth. His positions while buying into the ’social safety net’ are not rabidly socialist as are those of McCauliffe, who is an outright Yankee carpet bagger. That his claim to the office revolves around his ability to raise money nationally only goes to show that he is empty of ideas and ideals. It also shows how broken our federal system has become.

    Moran a transplant — at least he lived and worked in VA before running for local office. Sitll, his positions reflect the sensibility’s of Massachusetts not Virginia.

    The only question when it comes to Deeds is will he do as Webb, run as a moderate/conservative and then vote/rule as a liberal and cave into the pressures of the left (socialist) wing of his party once taking office.

  6. Jack
    June 8th, 2009 @ 7:16 am

    My observation is that that does not happen until one moves into the feral government. Gov. Robb was reasonably conservative as governor, and went left as a Senator.

  7. kelley in virginia
    June 8th, 2009 @ 9:07 am

    speaking of Webb: we need to unelect him. he is holding hands with those left wingers.

    and I saw Mark Warner hug Chuckie Schumer on CSPAN after they voted for one of the big bailouts. Mark Warner definitely needs to go.

  8. jacob
    June 8th, 2009 @ 10:26 am

    We wound somehow with TWO Democrat Senators in this state. That should be an easily fixable situation.

  9. squiddy
    June 8th, 2009 @ 11:04 am

    Kelley – I first encountered Webb in the Pentagon in the Reagan admin – I thought he was a bitter, egocentric jerk from day one, and nothing’s really changed my mind about him since.

    So, I never thought I’d see the day when we had a senator I liked less than him, until “we” elected that ferret-faced lapdog Warner. It’s humiliating as a Virginian to see him obediently perform whatever tricks his Democratic party owners demand of him.

    He’s got to be the most overrated politico I’ve ever seen – only thing I recall of his administration was when he slashed services, and closed some state offices – woo hoo!

    I tell myself the only reason he was elected was because people were confused, and thought they were voting for John Warner.

    Subject at hand – it’d be tempting to go out and vote for the weakest candidate – TMac – many people haven’t forgotten what he did to Obama. But I’d never want to run the risk of that carpet-bagging scumbag actually winning. And I could never bring myself to vote for him, no matter how Machiavellian – I just couldn’t bear legitimizing him one bit.

    He may yet win today – a man as crooked and corrupt as him surely has his ways. And lately, every election result has gotten worse and worse – so, Tmac winning would only continue that trend. Next we’d probably elect Ray Nagin for governor …

  10. Cathymac
    June 8th, 2009 @ 12:21 pm

    Squiddy, Richmond the next “chocolate city”?

    We really need a picture of Webb hugging Schmuckie Schumer, that’s as horrifying as Ray Nagin as Governor.

    I have a friend that encountered Webb in the Reagan administration and he said Webb had a raging temper as well. He was predicting Webb having a public or publicized meltdown after he took office but it never materialized. I’d like to think “the forehead” Webb will out himself as the ego centric jerk he is before the next election cycle.

  11. Jack
    June 8th, 2009 @ 12:46 pm

    Well, let me ask you this: did you vote against Webb in the PRIMARY? I did.

    Vote tomorrow.

  12. G. Stone
    June 8th, 2009 @ 12:47 pm

    I disagree. He is only marginally better than the other two yet presents the best shot the Dems have. he is incapable of moving far enough to the center based on the current state of the democrat party and those for which he will have to caucus with in order to get anything passed. Let’s remember the VA gov cannot run for re-election, therefore applying addition pressure to cave from pressure within his own party. That pressure will come from the left.The current Democrat model is left, left left. We were told Obama was going to drift to the center in order to create some consensus. We all see how that worked out.I hope he loses. Bottom line our best bet is to have Moran or Mac win. Preferably Moran however, he is on a downward trend.

  13. Jack
    June 8th, 2009 @ 1:56 pm

    I’d rather take a 50% chance that Deeds will be governor than a 40% chance that Moran or McCauliffe will be governor.

  14. joe budzinski
    June 9th, 2009 @ 4:53 am

    I agree with your assessment of Deeds, Jack, but don’t follow the logic of your last statement. There would be a lot of positives to a McDonnell win in November. 40% for Moran or McCauliffe sounds pretty good to me.

  15. Jack
    June 9th, 2009 @ 8:39 am

    No,that’s a 40% chance of their being elected, not that they would get 40% of the vote.

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