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Radical xenophobe and former Congressman Virgil Goode campaigns Friday for Bob McDonnell in Stuart, Virginia.

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Thank You, John Barnhart

John, it would be enough for you to spew a lot of drivel about how global warming or climate change is not real, but you insisted on doing it in a way that is passive-aggressive and rude. I realize that you might be feeling down because the people you had come to count on, like Virgil Goode and George W. Bush, are not in office anymore.

Your editorial in the Bedford Bulletin News was not a shock to me, as it might have been to more sensitive readers. In fact, I had to chuckle as you ran down a laundry list of items that we will face due to this country’s interest in getting off foreign oil and conserving energy, as well as improving the environment. Frankly, I kind of expected you to foreshadow any number of occurrences that might take place if this effort were to go forward. What, you didn’t mention that the sun will be blocked from view? Or that the Earth will stop spinning on it’s axis?

Those things are almost as likely as the laughable scenario put forth in your editorial. It reads more like a bedtime story for Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity, but I digress.

I must quote you, because your words are so vapid and naive, I doubt anyone would believe me if I didn’t reproduce them here, in part:

I happened to meet a fellow from Erie, Pa., shortly after the middle of last month. I was up on the Parkway and we got to talking. He mentioned that he had just lost a job he had had for years when the plant he worked at closed. The company had moved the production line to Asia. He was on a trip visiting his adult children and keeping an eye open for areas that could provide job opportunities.

He also talked about the weather. Even into the middle of June, nights were still dropping down into the 40s. The days were chilly.

A few days later, I was looking on Facebook. Some folks, who live in the northeastern part of the county wrote on a Facebook friend’s wall that, in their part of the country, it still felt like April. In June, it was still raw and wet.

Locally, this has not been a hot summer. In fact, last Friday felt more like late September than early July. Sunday felt more like early fall, complete with an autumn rain, than mid-summer.

All this is quite interesting, seeing as how I love to discuss the weather too, but what does it really have to do with either climate change or my Congressman, Tom Perriello?

See, the thing is John, you blather on about how cold it is in Michigan or wherever, deny that there is a problem with the climate and pollution, and you do it all without presenting any facts.

This part is really priceless:

The climate change “crisis” that this legislation is supposed to address doesn’t exist. Global temperatures have dropped, rather than risen, since the beginning of this decade. Science has also shown that the alleged linkage between warmer sea water and a rise in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes doesn’t exist.

The problem with this is that extraordinary claims such as what you have presented require extraordinary evidence, something which you have failed to do. ‘Science’ hasn’t proven anything, ‘scientists’ have. There will always be a scientist that is hungry, and will say or do almost anything for a paycheck. These ‘scientists’ you talk about (unknown to all of us since you neglected to refer to them) are in that category. I ask you to consider the ‘scientists’ that said tobacco was not deadly all those years as but one example of this phenomenon.

You seem to think that Tom Perriello, my Congressman, is somehow wrong to vote for this and that he has ‘stabbed in the back’ the middle class workers of his district. I absolutely stand by your right to hyperbole on this.

The truth is, many in this district were tired of seeing absolutely nothing being done by Virgil Goode about anything concerning people in this district except ‘Muslims are bad’, we need English as the official language of the United States, and bringing a clock tower or two to a few of the places in the district, or a water project to those who have supported him. This is not the support we need in this district, and I would challenge you to tell me what about Tom Perriello you do like.

So, in closing, you may use all the funny ‘Man of La Mancha’ references you want to. As I said, I stand behind your right to make a fool of yourself.

However, I just don’t understand why you think that the weight of overwhelming evidence to the contrary about climate change (which you wrote your editorial around) is bunk and what ever ‘science’ you are quoting is more right. Frankly I wouldn’t know, because you didn’t grace us with those facts.

Tom Perriello is doing an exemplary job of representing us in the 5th District, and more people than read your editorial think that. Try impressing us with rational thought next time. You would be surprised where it will get you, maybe even a decent discussion about the issues.

Thanks, John Barnhart.

Virgil Goode’s Defenders Insult Tom Perriello

Freedom’s Defense Fund is bragging that it is the first to ‘hit’ freshman Democrat, Tom Perriello (D-Albemarle). In what has to be embarrassing to anyone who considers democracy the ideal we try to live up to, this organization is now, only a little over a month after Tom Perriello was sworn in, choosing to call names and deride the efforts to save the economy in this country.

“Mr. Perriello promised to fight for the Commonwealth of Virginia while running for Congress,” said Todd Zirkle, Executive Director of the Freedom’s Defense Fund. “In his first critical vote, he instead sided with liberals like Nancy Pelosi, sanctioning the wish list long-desired by radical special interests.”

Despite bi-partisan opposition, Perriello voted for the $819 billion “stimulus” package. The package contained billions for wasteful projects including: arts funding; food stamps; television coupons; and sexually transmitted disease education. The ads will air on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC on cable systems throughout Perriello’s Congressional district.

Todd Zirkle is a well-known hack in Republican circles. He was responsible for one of the most disgusting ads of the 2008 political cycle. Remember this ad criticizing Obama? This is the horrible, grainy, negative ‘god damn America’ advertisement. As a bonus when you join the FDF, you get Jerome Corsi’s totally inaccurate hit job on Obama last year. “Obamanation” was instantly derided, and the only reason it was a best seller is that right wing authors like Corsi and Coulter have their books bought up by groups like this. Then they spread the hate by giving the book away as a premium for membership in their hate-filled organization.

The group has an informal cooperative arrangement with Jerome Corsi, author of The Obama Nation, a book criticized for being a largely inaccurate, innuendo-filled anti-Obama hatchet job. F.D.F. donors are rewarded with a copy of the bestseller as a bonus. Source

More press about the ad last year:

From Jim Rutenberg at The New York Times

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Hundreds of times in the past three weeks, cable television viewers here have been the exclusive audience for two of the roughest advertisements of the political season.

One links Senator Barack Obama to the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame M. Kilpatrick, an African-American whose political career unraveled in scandal. The other features Mr. Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A Wright Jr., also black, and his now infamous sermon marked by the words “God damn America.”

The advertisements, from a political action committee that is not connected to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, are running only here, in Macomb County, heavily populated by white, unionized auto workers, once considered “Reagan Democrats,” whose votes could largely determine which candidate wins Michigan, a state vital to both sides.

The advertisements point up the unusual nature of this year’s more potentially pernicious political attacks: They are not coming with the loud, nationally recognized cannon blast of the type launched by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against Senator John Kerry in 2004, but, rather, as more stealthy, narrowly aimed rifle shots from smaller groups armed with incendiary material.

The claim of the FDF is that Tom isn’t being bipartisan enough. I am wondering what someone would call this ad then, a call for more ‘bipatisanship’?

The Rabid Republicans^TM do not want bipartisanship, they want to take the best offers and efforts of the current administration and then spit in the face of the other side. Sounds like schoolyard bully behavior to me.

Someone needs to ask Eric Cantor and/or Bob Goodlatte if they sign off on this kind of Republican message. After all, Eric has himself a leadership post in Congress now, so I imagine people would listen to his pleas for rational, thoughtful discussion of the issues.

Wait a minute….. nah, not going to happen.

Who the hell are you? Get off my blog, liberal.

So began the relationship of a new blog, ‘Cavalcade of Conflictedness’, with me as I commented on Sadie Love’s blog (her real name?) today. I was asking a question about how a well known fact like Virgil Goode taking illegal contributions from MZM, has become alleged, even though Goode himself has admitted it. And how someone could tell if George Soros’ money was used in a political campaign (through Move-On I suppose). Facts are not important, ideology is. The truth isn’t important, the message of the party is. We had seen this non-stop on the campaign trail with John McCain and Sarah Palin.

This doesn’t really bother me, but it is instructive into the brainwashing and groupthink that goes on in the Republican Party. After all, it is not that I am right, it is that I am a liberal.

And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is my sin, and it is the truth.

By the way, Sadie? Thanks so much for the welcome to your blog. It has that smell of idiocy and desperation about it.

Tom Perriello Takes On the NY Lawyer Nonsense

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Virgil Goode’s Press Secretary Linwood Duncan Quits

Virgil Goode (R-Inc.)

Bernard Baker is reporting in the Danville Register and Bee that Linwood Duncan, Virgil Goode’s Press Secretary, has resigned from the Congressman’s staff.

Duncan, whose work for the North Theater Group had recently been questioned due to the ‘thank-you’ credit on the movie “Eden’s Curve”, resigned for health reasons, it was reported.

As this was being written, it was also discovered by another blogger that Linwood Duncan’s name has also disappeared from the Board of Directors of the North Theater Group.

More on this as it develops.

H/T: Waldo Jaquith, Lloyd Snook

Virgil Goode’s Bigotry And Ignorance