An open letter to naive Virginia Voters

Dear Virginia,

Do you have any clue who you just voted in as the next Senator of Virginia?

Now, I know the results are not quite official, but I feel sure they will stand as is.

Jim Webb is not the moderate Democrat he has painted himself to be during the campaign. Virginia meet your version of Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton rolled into one. He is not a Mark Warner Democrat; he is a LIBERAL way to the left of center. What, you didn’t know that? Well let’s see. Why would he tell you who he really is in a campaign where his competitor became more interested in personal attacks than domestic policy? George Allen and his campaign could have torn this man apart by just focusing on the issues at hand. But they felt as though they had to attack the man instead. If they had just pointed out the differences in domestic strategy the result would have been a different one. This was a strategy that leads to political death for Mr. Allen. No more is the talk of Allen in ’08. He will go off to the land of politicians who fail in what appeared to be certain victory. He will join those who “had presidential potential” but fell short. He will probably form a new golf foursome with Dan Quayle, Jack Kemp, and Bob Dole.

Now, why do I say Jim Webb is like Bill Clinton and the others? Well, let’s take some quotes from Mr. Webb’s web site (or is it Webb site?) and then I’ll give my little commentary afterward. You must first understand that the new wave of Clinton Democrat (or socialist for my money) speaks in code words. I will highlight the code words and give you the real meaning.

• “We must reexamine our tax and trade policies and reinstitute notions of fairness, and also enforce our existing trade laws so that free trade becomes fair trade.”

Fair/Fairness – Give away taxpayers money to their base most of whom do not pay taxes and raise taxes on those of us who actually pay them.

• “Jim believes that all Americans deserve access to some form of quality health care. Health care legislation should focus on providing people access to health care, not simply on corporate profits.”

Deserve – Look it only took a moment to get to my favorite Liberal code word. Deserve means giving their base anything they want by raising spending to new heights. Tax and spend it is, YEA!

Access – OOH! Another good one. This means don’t worry about going to work, we the all powerful government will take care of you.

Corporate Profits – This is a way of making sure the base knows that they think badly of that evil corporate tycoon who dares to use the capitalistic system to their own profit. That bad man should be made to give money to the “poor” like you, now go vote for us and we’ll punish the horrible greedy corporate bad guy.

• “It is vital that Congress fully fund the mandates of No Child Left Behind.”

Fully Fund – Goody, Goody more tax and spend. The higher the spending goes the better.

• As Virginia's junior Senator I will work with Gov. Kaine and the legislature to implement their transportation priorities by fighting for greater federal funding.

Greater Federal Funding – Look he actually slipped out of the sheep skin for a moment and showed his real colors. There is no code here. Plain old “Mo Money!”

You see, the M.O. of the basic liberal or socialist is to throw more and more money and any and all issues. If it requires raising taxes; who cares. Their base doesn’t typically pay any taxes; so they are cool with it.

So, Virginia buckle up and prepare for the bumpy ride. You are about to get what you asked for! Thanks a lot! Next time do your research. Next time the campaign must be about the issues, not whether the other candidate writes dirty books or not!

That’s my disgusted 2.3 cents. So there!