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.