Act – Link won’t bring up article.

There is plenty out there on Bolling’s possible third party run, to include a recent WashPost article (below). FWIW, McDonnell stands behind Cuccinelli as the nominee and is aggressively fundraising with him throughout the state. He dropped Bolling like a hot potato after he started the 3rd party run rumors and did a 180 on uranium mining.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/bolling-testing-waters-for-independent-run/2013/01/02/302ce002-5550-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html

DD – I don’t know if the developer and/or other monied interests money is being thrown at Bolling still, he hasn’t provided any indication that any industry or large portion of our party is still backing him. My concern right now is his tie breaking vote in the Senate on any legislation.

Hahaha, like a poll from VV is of any value. What a joke.

I don’t go there enough to keep up. Their content is usually stale. Last I was there they were conducting the poll as a side window on their blog. What a joke.

BO, Are you drinking?

I’m grandfathered. Ain’t NOBODY changing rules on my concealed.

Hahahahahahaaa… CMAC, you have to specify that it can’t be “his” percieved problems…but actual, factual and proven problems. Hey– Everybody grab a beer and watch THIS!!

This debate is beyond you CMac and Monk. Unless you can give me one credible idea of how to control the access to guns and get behind it, I wouldn’t expect you to consider the analysis of any regulation as being credible. Move aside and let the adults figure it out.

The party problem in this control right now is now one wants to consider middle ground.

Hey lets talk about the deficiet and taxes. How are we going to fix that? “Well, says the hard core, we can talk about that but no way in hell we are going to raise taxes”

Hey lets talk about the terrible problem with gun murders. How are we going to fix that?? “Well, say the hard core, we can talk about that but now way in hell are we going to talk about any changes to the access to guns and ammo.”"

For a bunch of so called patriots you have no idea what has made this country work through it’s history.

Patriots don’t give away rights and freedoms owned and fought for. You’re living in the wrong country for your brand of ideology, BE.

“I don’t go there enough to keep up.”

But that certainly does not keep BO from loading up the blog with his uninformed insults. Now, I must say, if that isn’t just a key problem in this whole conversation.

Hmmm, might actually be a BO confessional slipup in this. We should mark it down and throw it back at him from time to time.

Further Wolverine, I do give your intellect some leeway based on your age, but I don’t always buy into the old adage that old dogs can’t learn new tricks.

“..a gaggle of baboons is called a congress…” No kidding?!! And I always thought a “gaggle of baboons” was called a “troop.”

Poor guy cannot even repeat an old blog joke correctly.

BO continues to cast more bait than a reality TV fisherman. He follows by flinging poo with his baboon posts, and the coup degrace is insulting Wolv with stabs on his age.

Read through some of that Quinnipiac survey CMac so graciously highlighted. Boy, folks should read through the opinions gathered on gun control:

_58 percent supported a national ban on assault weapons.

_59 percent supported banning high-capacity ammunition magazines.

_62 percent said that allowing people to own assault weapons makes the nation more dangerous.

_66 percent opposed letting teachers carry concealed weapons into their classrooms.

CMac, a mere 24 hours ago you propped up the political survey. Get my point?

So are you saying the survey is valid, or are you saying it isn’t?

Then if that was your intent I guess we were both doing the same thing.

You didn’t answer my question. You apparently saw some merit in the survey our you would not have highlighted it to support your statement. Do you think the survey is vaild?

There you go again CMac making it about me and not the issue.

Do you think the survey is valid?

Oh my god Monk, do you get that blinded by my posts that you don’t get what is happening?

Let’s review, I said the polls of contemporary politics are shit. even laughed out loud at them. This right after CMac props up her post with a reference to the Quinnipiac poll which was used to highlight the Bolling support.

Then, not changing my view of polls, I post the details from the SAME pole CMac highlighted, that are extremely supportive of gun control.

My point is: If CMac, and apparently you, put credence into the Quin poll then why wouldn’t you also say “damn” we’re f-ed in public opinion on the gun issue?

So my question is still valid and apparently bristling to CMac: Do you think the poll is accurate?

But hey how am I supposed to penetrate the large belt buckle of protection with logic? I just state my case for all those lurkers out there. I am not here nor do I expect to change the mind of someone like you. Or CMac for that matter.

ACT, I think you are pretty close to accurate. I am not a Bolling fan, and frankly think he’s taking big advantage of the fragmented and leaderless GOP. He’s raising a ruckus to get something.

I do think it’s a little bizarre of people calling Bolling a RINO. The dude is as conservative as they come.

I also think he’s being realistic. Cuccinelli is unelectable in the general. He’ll easily pass a closed door convention but after that he’s toast.

What’s this “my” crap? I just made the point it ain’t about you…and here you are trying to squirm back into the lime light. You are so predictable, I chuckle.

ACT, consider this an opportunity to clarify yourself.

Your post starts by saying RINO’s switch sides when the don’t win their party’s nomination. They you start talking about Bolling. Now most will read that as saying you called Bolling a RINO.

Feel free to clarify.

There seems to be a lot of ADD going around here. Focus, guys, focus. We’re talking about the viability of Bolling as an independent and whether this is a serious enterprise on his part or simply a positioning tactic.

As I stated, Bolling feels slighted. He didn’t want the party fight for nominee because he probably wouldn’t have gotten it. Rather then looking like a sore loser and switching sides if he was not nominated, he just went another route. He had already bowed out once. If this is a positioning tactic, it would only achieve a sour grapes personna for him and further show lack of unity within the GOP. Bad form.

I didn’t prop anything BO. Your “review” means nothing, you flip and flop so much it is impossible to maintain a conversation with you. Since you really wanted to make a point on the same poll about gun control (thus your repeated questions after posting the gun control questions), and it went nowhere now you are pivoting like a ballerina to the Bolling topic. Typical.

I don’t want confuse the excitable BO but there is another poll on the upcoming, there might be 3 or 4 out already (imagine if there were 5?????). Strangely he thinks just mentioning of a poll is “propping”. I won’t post them all as it will just invite more comments that need to be backtracked, then turned over, then agreed with – to support whatever position comes to mind.

“I don’t think Blackout could say that the sun will rise in the East tomorrow without
a bunch of you going nuts.”

“Of course we would go nuts — it would be the first time he has posted a Truth here!”

Actually – he’d change his mind in 24 hours and say the sun rises in the West, and we were all lunatics for disagreeing with him.

For someone as rabid, rude and full of hate as you to take anyone to task on how they comment – is ridiculous.

Now go argue that the sun rises in the west, as that argument has as much validity as your suggestions for the Republican Party.

DD, are you denying that a problem exists within the current republican ranks? If so, that’s a big reason why folks like Bolling are walking through the cracks in the foundation. Without recognizing the need to change things will not change. Further, evidence is a knee jerk reaction to blame others. A little introspection is needed here before things will get better.

Denial is a big problem. Hard not to notice a very conservative party loyalist like Bolling is being accused of being a RINO. How many islands are there within the current republican party?

No denying that squiddy, add in the Loudoun delegation and what is also evident to my observations is a ineffective democratic party in Virginia.

On the national level, different story.

“DD, are you denying that a problem exists within the current republican ranks?”

The problem is establishment republicans that aren’t conservative. That is being rectified with each successive election, and is why the establishment is scared.

As Squiddy said, though, you’re the pot calling the kettle blackout.

” Not sure why you have to deploy little man status toys such as big trucks, big guns, big talk and big belt buckles to compensate.”

Tell you what I’m dead sure about. You’ve lost so many arguments here that you’re now launching personal attribute attacks on individuals. It is the last bastion of the desperate dumbass.

Monk, just because you challenged my every argument doesn’t mean I lost the argument. I am not sure you’re capable of evaluating an alternative view. Nor able to admit you could possibly be wrong about anything. Tends to be a trait of a little man.

Napolean also thought he won every argument due to just being him, even with all his physical inadequacies, but we all know what ended up happening to him.

” the big tent of the GOP invited folks like me to be part of it.” Thanks for the laugh, squatter. So we can offer absolutely no alternative to taxers and spenders and people who have NO clue that there is no more money, huh? It’ll be socialists and socialist-lite?

“The dude is an uncompromising one trick pony. ” Second chuckle. Thanks again. Ever look in the mirror, dunce. There’s an “uncompromising one trick pony ” in there.

And after your speech about the NRA (of which I am a proud member)..you wonder why conservatives don’t want you anywhere near telling us what you think we need to do.

Little man syndrome. Yup, I’ve seen it before.

Haha, Wolverine read back up the chain. It’s Monk who brought it up.

I love CC, some of the best insights available these days! I am there often.

How tall are Bulletproof Monk and Black Out and who would win in ground fight?

Oh Monk, you don’t need all that just use one of your military grade assault rifles. Guess you should thank loco for opening the door for you to brag on yourself again. Can you tell us the story again about how you designed and test flew the SR-71? Please please.

CMac, boy you caught that quick over at TC, still a regular lurker over there I am guessing. Even with the sabbatical LI is taking there is still very good debate over there. Especially after the Clown Juice drinkers stopped polluting the banter. You won’t get any open discussion over here about the Loudoun BOS, or Delgaudio. At least not from the regulars.

Unlike here.

Well you know what they say loco…if you lose the battle of wit and logic you don’t got much left other than to wrassle. I am not compelled take on such a killin fightin machine like the great and wondrous Monk. I don’t see a need.

The days of duels are over dude. At least for most of us.

(btw, BlackOut is trade marked please use it as one word with a capital B and a capital O)

It has been fascinating to see the degree to which BlackOut has some of you folks programmed. Wiggle the cape, the bulls charge. I’m a bit surprised the novelty hasn’t worn off for BO. It’s wearing off for me in this thread. It’s pretty tough to extract the ebb and flow on the Bolling shenanigans from the comments here.

Sorry, Scout, but being a Fairfax guy has apparently and understandably caused you to misread the real intent of these recent Loudoun threads. Bill Bolling we can discuss anytime.

Instead of looking at BlackOut as the “programmer,” you should look at him as a long-time Loudoun blog boy who has worn out his welcome here and who is very likely to be treated like a clay pigeon any time he deigns to put in an appearance. I mean, really, Scout, there are only so many times a feller can show up on a blog and insult both the blogmeister and the regular bloggers, then pose as a “Man for All Seasons” who thinks he is expert on every possible topic and declare that his interlocutors have only “sludge” in their brains. There are limits, even in blogland.

Recently some of us have chosen to play some rounds of “Whack-a-BlackOut” — just to see if this known quantity can be induced to adopt some civility in his blog persona. Make that “personas,” since he blogs under several different handles, apparently believing that he is fooling the unaware — or whatever. Strange case. But with a blog record which provides all kinds of counterattack material. In any case, we have just gone through months and months and months of discussing politics and politicians, with the result being a bit of weariness over who is doing what to whom in the smoke-filled back rooms. Time for a little recreation mixed in with the political. Might even be able to salvage the boy. But probably not.

He strikes me as being fairly civil. I think he sort of enjoys kicking over the beehives. You guys oblige him. The better course is just to keep the threads on point with the posts.

Scout, I would like to know what magic wand you use to make the threads on point with the post. I have little control over where commenters veer from the core. A few do it by habit and others bite. It is what it is and I let it go. Sooner or later someone (many times myself) will steer it back for a comment or two before another round of left field dialogue occurs. It is what it is. Your civil friend Troll is very good at veering away from the initial subject. You may take your comments in any direction you wish and they will be responded to. Staying on track with the post is always appreciated.

Scout, we’re just trying to eliminate the “fairly” from your sentence. It’s a blog experiment, so to speak. Might work. Might not. On many another blog I have visited, the boy would have been fast disappearing toast after insulting the blogmeister and regular bloggers. We keep him around for the entertainment and to, from time to time, get out of this “always so damned serious” mode the current political climate has engendered.

BE is a mainstay. If I was a therapist, I would have burned my diploma long ago and gone to ditch digging. It is quite fascinating and depressing at the same time to “see” what people really believe and how disconnected from reality it is. This is better and much safer than doing LSD. I can escape in this blog while on the couch. I would have never considered 45 years ago that people like BE would be in charge of the asylum and this country. I have been trying to find the fork in the road that got us to this place and this blog has helped me solve that.

Larry…you gotta give me warning or something. I blew Dr. Pepper out my nose laughing so hard!