I live in Virgina and have had my eyes wide open during the past 3 years. It appers that some of our politicans appear to have observed things that have never happend, according to the majority of Virginians

Tim Kaine decries “violent language” and Jim Moran says “We are at war again”.

What "change"?

Locally, not a whit of change. Statewide, we've probably moved backwards. And the President and Congress have been a huge waste of time, money, and media air time.

Nothing to look at here; move along!

Virginia is moving backwards.Whether it's renewable energy, women's rights, protecting the environment, education. And state government doesn't even try keeping up with population growth. Both parties are responsible.

Guard the change??? How about guard the empty cashbox?

"The degree of extremism, violent language and over-the-top nuttiness in this election might be sharper than it has been in a very long time," said former Gov. Tim Kaine, who is running for U.S. Senate…..
Tim Kaine must be referring to the Occupy Wall Street crowd that has been endorsed by Democrats. Remember Democrat House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi stating: "God bless their hearts"? Or Massachusetts Democrat candidate for Senate, Elizabeth Warren, who declared herself to be the “Mother of the Occupy movement”?
But then maybe Tim Kaine considers Tea Partiers singing the National Anthem or saying the Pledge of Allegiance more violent than Occupiers who poop on police cars.

To a political novice like me, Tim Kaine's saying that Virginia GOP is attacking a woman's freedom to make her own health care decisions without government interference is every bit as incomprehensible and "nutty" (since he wants to talk about "nutty") as a statement made by Jim Moran right after I moved here. Moran was on YouTube saying that "Republicans are under the simplistic notion that they should be allowed to keep what they earn." As far as Gerry Connolly is concerned, he once sent a friend a reply to a letter of concern, leaving out the subject line. Yes, he left out the subject line, that's how concerned he was.

So, I'm not taking the Democrats' race bait or class warfare bait this year, and I'm not buying the Orwellian doublespeak. After what we've been through the last 3 and a half years under Democrat rule, I'm going Republican for the lot.

Aren't these the same democrats who voted in lockstep for Obamacare - a bill which (by their own admission) none of them had read! Just following Queen Nancy's lead: "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it". For this reason alone, none of them should be holding any public office!

Eh, the left is always making up new rights. And, of course, the radical right-wing extremists, like myself, get branded as "racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, heterosexist, polluters, Bible thumpers, anti-science, ignorant, anti-spend-money-on-government-programs-that-never-work, blah blah blah."

I am not against women's rights. (Whatever those are since we ALL have something called "human rights.) But I do not believe an elective abortion is an inherent right. And that is where lazy non-lefties fail to make their stand. They end up on the defensive, trying to prove how they aren't anti-woman or anti-minority or anti-homosexual, when they lost the battle the minute they let the radical leftists define "rights."

To the Arlington Dem at the Dem fest who said: "We're proud of our country. We know our best days are ahead of us. We're not going to give in to the doom and gloom." Hey, good thing. I would just say I hope the Democrats WILL give in to passing a budget and to rationally discuss entitlement reforms, both of which they have steadfastly refused to do to date in the reign of Mr. Obama. I will not vote for Tim Kaine to represent Virginia in the US Senate.

What little difference there is amongst those who play poliitcs. Hot air and bile.

Congress is sitting at a 10% approval rating. Or maybe as high as 20%, depending on what day it is.

To send anyone who has had a role in current politics (i.e. chairman of the DNC) to Washington is to foster more of same ... not moving ahead, but stagnating.

It's time for 3rd party votes. Shake up the place.

Glad to see all the sane comments here. It gives me great hope that Conservatives will take control of the Senate, occupy the Oval Office and retain control of the House. We have many, many years of work ahead of us to undo the damage that Democrats and RINOs have been doing to our freedoms and liberties since FDR's New (i.e. Raw) Deal.

Thank the Democrats for spending money to improve the Fairfax economy. Then send them home. We don't need their big government to control our lives and spend our money.

We need a 3rd party more now than ever.

Jon Huntsman would be that man and would stand a good chance as independants would flock to him. But you have those strong party nuts who vote along party lines rather than vision or the betterment of the country. You look at Huntsman's resume and it trumps both candidates, i.e. he actually has a history of job creation as a governor.

The PWC Democratic Committee fared better than ever with 2 Presidential electors of Virginia's 13 coming from PWC: Anita White (Gainesville0 and Judy Mastrangeli (Potomac) and sending Keith Scarborough, Antia White, Luke Torian and Babu Lateef to Charlotte as Convention Delegates to re-nominate the President.

America has moved so far to the right it's scarey. Read the international news lately? People are now being killed in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen, by airstrikes launched by us, for doing what the Occupy Movement is doing in the United States, opposing corrupt regimes.

Conservatives (or the right) are for fiscally responsible, limited government which is hardly what we have now. If you equate war and killing with conservatism, you need to go look at how many millions where killed by big centralized government types like Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Castro, Pol Pot, etc… And when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the 1980’s they killed untold number of Afghans. Just Google: Soviet Atrocities Afghanistan...

You have to wonder what financial antics J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, etc. would be pulling if Occupy wasn't in their faces.

There are no armies, battles, warfighting, or anything related to warfare in the New Testament. Nor does the New Testament condone bad behavior. So how have our leaders, who profess to be "Christians", become engaged in constant warfighting?

Prior to the French Revolution-- 1789-99- the term liberal as articulated in our founding documents, meant the primacy of the individual over the state. Every single violent regime and mass killing has been carried out by the Left-no exceptions. Fascism, socialism, communism are all statist political philosophies and in the 20th century 100 million died as those systems forced people to be serfs and slaves to the all encompassing centralized government. Obama once opined how operating a democracy is just to hard and restrictive on his power. It is the Obamas of the world that our founding documents were designed to guard against. Last week he promised a couple hundred folks at a rally in Minnesota that if he wins and has the flexibility to promised Putin in Russia, he will give each person $3,000. I understand the appeal he has to the folks who have commented heretofore. Greed and Envy are powerful motivators and that is the basis and the entirety of the Democrat campaign this year. The politically, professionally, and personally reprehensible Jim Moran, the nasty Gerald Connolly, and Timmy Kaine-the man who left absolutely no positive mark on the Commonwealth during his 3 years as governor, are the perfect deliverers of that "green" message of greed and envy.

Just wanted to drop in and say I appreciate that this conversation is progressing in a civil manner! When people get passionate about things, sometimes that's difficult to do. So thanks to everyone for showing that you're above the pettiness that these discussions can turn into.

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Germany, Italy, Japan, and other Fascist states served the interests of huge corporations during WW2.

Hitler was a Socialist AND a Fascist. The two are not mutually exclusive. As far as serving the interests of huge corporations, that's exactly what our Democrat President is doing right now. With vigor. But only he, not free markets, picks the winners and losers. It's called Cronyn Capitalism, or as some might say, more accurately, Crony Socialism.

'Merit' in Germany between 1933 and 1945 was based on membership in the National Socialist Party.