I apologize for the boorish behavior. Totally uncalled for.

Second, it is true you do not have to care what I think, or what my opinion is. I would undoubtedly react the same way were I on the other side of the discussion.

Here is an example of you saying basically the same thing. Don’t focus on something that isn’t that important, focus on what people want and need.

Here I might be wrong and you might be right. The only worry I have is the state he is running in. Virginia didn’t go “Blue” by accident. It has been seeing demographic changes just like N.C. and some other formally “country” states. I believe there are a growing number of voting working women in the state, unlike twenty years ago. They will pay attention to this. My wife was a career woman for years, and worried herself silly over daycare and schooling. I decided to work nights my whole career in order to be home with the kids during the day when they were young. Then we decided to homeschool, so we continued the same schedule.

know my wife, as did her sisters and her friends, felt guilty letting a stranger raise her own child. She instinctively knew, even though it was a necessity, it was not the best thing for the child. This is about getting at the subconscious guilt they feel.

If the working women hear about this for weeks on end, which is the plan, they’ll start forming an opinion. They may revolt against him simply for reminding them of their own decision. Nobody, especially women, like getting told they are wrong.

Eventually, he is going to have to address it, and then be done with it.

My approach may be to idealistic, but son of a gun, it has been proven to be true. We have suffered as a nation because kids were left to others to raise. (And as a side note, it is part of that communist/socialist element agenda to do just that. You’ve talked about the deviousness of their ways- this is an example.)

Sure, it will be taxes this year, more importantly the spending and the lies and the economy. But McDonnell shouldn’t run from being right. Just explain it, flip it into something good and move on.

{shrug}

That’s my call.

You talk about “consequences” for the comPost. What consequences? Are you going to shut them down? Are you going to picket outside their headquarters? Are you going to institute a boycott and get the committed liberals/socialists/communists to stop buying their rag?

Just exactly what are these “consequences?”

The limitations of your imagination are not my concern. If you can’t see it at this point, and if you’d notice, everyone else can … and I’d bet everyone who remembers the LA Times’ Schwarzenegger “groping” story just five days before the Recall election can as well, then you’re not going to see it.

I really do not think it necessary to have to spell it out for you.

As far as meeting somewhere and settling it like gentlemen, that is where I will gladly put my bona fides up against yours. So as far as “making the call”, I am in. You name the place and time, and my apologies to Martin for butting in line.

It is apparent that you are one of the clique on this site, so you have no fear of dismissing out-of-hand anyone who disagrees with you, without engaging them in discourse to convince them of your position.

Gee, kind of like the inside the beltway D.C. bunch, don’t you think?

My wife predicted that I would be banned within one week of posting here, because I DO NOT PLAY NICE. Contrary to your stated idiocy about my not wanting to engage. I will engage with anyone, anywhere, any time, on any level they invite.

I will engage with words, fists, knives, or guns. You call it. But don’t run away like a scared little girl.

If you disagree with me that is certainly your prerogative. But don’t you ever again dismiss me with “I don’t care,” because I warn you upfront, I am not as civilized as you think.

I have treated you with respect, even though I disagreed with your opinion. I require the same. If you can’t bring yourself to do that, then perhaps we should meet somewhere and settle it like gentlemen.

As I said, you make the call.

But let’s get to it …

To whom is McDonnell going to tell “his side of the story?” Exactly where are his comments going to be printed? Exatcly what are the outlets that he has not already used?

Show me the elections that were turned by The Ministry of Progaganda? Be specific. Show me their power and punch.

You’ve got a big mouth, let’s see the facts to back it up.

How, exactly, are you going to make McDonnell not seem like he is “defending himself?” How are you going to neutralize the perception that he “did something wrong,” and now has to “explain himself?” How are you going to make it look like he is not “being defensive?”

Read above, and you will see that George Bush was the problem, not The Ministry of Propaganda. He gave them tons of ammunition to use against him. And, after alienating conservatives over and over again, there were no voices raised to defend him.

Also, Bush had the bully pulpit, which he chose not to use. Instead, we got Rush trying to prop him up, and wondering all the while why he wasn’t doing it himself. Now that he is no longer beholden to Bush, Cheney is right out in front, wacking the enemy at every turn.

This “all powerful” Ministry of Propaganda has had their guns trained on Cheney, and Lynn, for months. Both of their popularity ratings have risen. Where are your facts that show otherwise?

McDonnell has no such platform, even in Virginia, should he decide that he wants to look like a cowering wimp.

There are numerous examples above of how the Ministry of Propaganda is failing to sell this administrations policies to the American people, despite their wall-to-wall efforts to do so.

Where are your examples otherwise?

None of you on this site is more of a fire-breathing conservative than I am. Vitriol and bile are wonderful. They provide an adrenalin rush that helps one to accomplish things.

But without being channeled into DOING SOMETHING, something specific, something of substance, they are just wild rantings.

You are certainly entitled to rant, and rave, and I have defended, in REAL war, with REAL guns and REAL bullets, your right to do so, but don’t mistake that for a “strategy” with which to win elections.

I admire someone who is willing to tote a shotgun. I admire more someone who is willing to USE it!

That would be back in 1964. Just how long have you been an activist conservative?

Other than your dopey suggestion that Mr. McDonnell call a press conference and “put it on Youtube,” where are your other suggestions for how he might waste his time?

How are you planning to make him NOT look like he “did something wrong” and is now having to “explain himself?”

Because we disagree about the relative power of the Washington comPost, simply means that we advocate different strategies. Did you ever see The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly?

At the end there is a 3-way shootout. The Man With No Name takes out Angel Eyes, without even checking to see what Tuco is going to do. Why? Because he handed Tuco an unloaded gun. He knew who the real enemy was that could do him damage.

You talk about “consequences” for the comPost. What consequences? Are you going to shut them down? Are you going to picket outside their headquarters? Are you going to institute a boycott and get the committed liberals/socialists/communists to stop buying their rag?

Just exactly what are these “consequences?”

If you want to talk about George Bush and his vapid policy of “non-confrontation,” I will email you my telephone number and give you an earful. Not just about that, but also his profligate spending, arm-twisting to get conservatives to go along (thereby causing tremendous losses in the last 2 elections), his absolutely insane “immigration” policies, his “reaching across the aisle” to work out bills with unrepentant socialists/communists, his non-veto of the McLame-Feingold hijack of the 2nd Amendment, his attempt to put Harriet Whats-Her-Name on the Supreme Court, ad infinitum.

Don’t tell me about his stupid policy of “non-confrontation.” That ain’t all that caused his falling numbers. You can’t fathom the number of rock-ribbed conservatives, like myself, who understood by 2002 that “compassionate conservatism” was just another way to say “liberal,” and didn’t like it one damned bit.

And exactly

If my obvious position on all of the above doesn’t speak for my rabid conservatism, then you are someone who just “does not wish to see.” As I stated, I’ll match my bona fides against your every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

You wrote a nice piece. I disagree with how you want McDonnell to spend his time. I gave facts to back up my opinion. Many of them. You, on the other hand, give vitriol, wild ranting, and NO FACTS.

I showed you the ultimate weakness of the Washington comPost, and all the other outlets of The Ministry of Propaganda, example after example. Where are the examples of their power to turn elections? George Allen in 2006? A man who backed-and-filled for weeks on end, showing his weakness, and giving the perception of a cowering cur?

Brobama? Are you of the opinion that if a REAL conservative had been running against him Brobama would not have had his clock cleaned?

If so, my friend, than you are farther to the left than I am!

I hear and see your bile. It is not misplaced. The Ministry of Propaganda is despicable. They have been this way since the turn of the 20th century. Now, though, it is no longer an inside-the-beltway secret. Now, EVERYBODY knows who they are and what they stand for. If you are not a card-carrying liberal/socialist/communist then you give them no credence.

As I stated, I have given example after example above as to why McDonnell should not waste his precious time. You want to punish the Washington comPost, where are your plans. To re-iterate just exactly how are you going to mete out this punishment?

I am more than willing to get behind any plan you have to punish them. In fact, I’ll be the point man. Let’s hear it.

Perhaps you don’t understand; we’re tired of getting hit and not hitting back because people like you have elevated taking abuse into some mark of virtue. I personally do not see the difference between what you’re advocating and the approach Bush took that you claim to abhor.

The WaPo tried (is trying) to conduct a political assassination to benefit their chosen candidate. It is blatant enough and the resources are available to make it beyond easy to tie it all together and present it to the people of Virginia.

Doing this would have repercussions beyond just this race and Virginia. It would put many papers on notice that they can no longer hide behind the mask of objectivity while serving as launchpads for partisan attacks and expect to be treated as non-combatants.

I don’t particularly know why you’re so anxious that the WaPo should escape the consequences of their actions. And quite frankly, I don’t care.

Indeed, I remember George Allen running an ad against Jim Webb condemning an essay or article that Webb where Webb says he was against women serving in combat. Maybe it’s my own “prejudice” that I agree with Webb that women should not serve in combat but to this day I still do not understand why Allen ran that ad. Seriously, whatever your personal thoughts and opinions on the matter, is that the type of ad that a supposedly conservative Republican should run against a supposedly liberal Democrat?

To many, it just increased a sense of uneasibess with George Allen.

The “macaca” comment just seemed to capsulate what was a growing uneasiness that even many Republicans were having with him. I lived right across the border in Maryland at the time and I know quite a few Virginian Republicans who voted for Allen and who were upset and outraged that the GOP had lost the Senate with Allen’s defeat but really didn’t seem to care that Allen was gone. Even among many of my friends who previously were toting him as a Presidential candidate for 2008.

I write this in relation to your diary because I do not think Bob McDonnell has that same type of “unsettling aura” that George Allen has. Thus, I am not the least bit surprised that the big so-called “revelation” about his thesis — which to me really isn’t a big deal at all — is having no effect on his campaign.

The issue really isn’t if more “revelations” about McDonnell arise. The real issue is how well he handles them and if (unlike George Allen) he will display solid core values that people can trust and feel comfortable with, even if they may disagree with him on a particular issue.

Although I am no longer in the area and do not keep up with Virginia politics like I once did, I have no doubt that Bob McDonnell will be fine.

All of your bullet points highlight everything I have said above about the spokes in the Big Wheel of the Ministry of Propaganda.

McDonnell is not running against the Washington comPost. All of the things you want him to say should be said. But not about the comPost. He should be pointing out that his OPPONENT is a PROPONENT of all of Brobama’s communist positions being endorsed by the comPost!

Eye on the ball! The real enemy is Deeds!