Citizen Tom

Citizen Tom

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12 years ago @ Virginia Right! - DISTURBING STATISTICS ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you for this post.

In the land where the King James Bible originated, most people do not read the Bible. What is doubly sad is that much the same could be said here in this land.

In Britain we once had one of the world's great Christian nations. We had the people that provided the core of the movement that spread Western Civilization and Christian beliefs around the world. Yet when so few know what it means to be Christian, Britain can no longer call itself a Christian people, and neither can we. Instead, we can only beg and work for a revival.

12 years ago @ Virginia Right! - Virginia May Have Impr... · 1 reply · +2 points

Excuse me. I understand the legal niceties cannot be avoided. I understand we all have our favorite candidates, but would you all do me a favor? Just answer a straightforward question. This is Christmas Day in 2011. We are talking about a presidential election in November 2012. When it is so difficult to get a presidential campaign rolling, why are we requiring that the petitions be completed now? All this kind of crap does is make it almost impossible except for the richest candidates to run. I don't care how organized you are. In Prince William County we just filled our seats in the General Assembly, the Sheriff's office, the Commonwealth Attorney, the Board of County Supervisors, the School Board, and the Soil and Water Board. And now we are already being pestered by presidential candidates. My wife is so sick of telephone solicitations from politicians it is not funny. When voters refuse to pay any attention to another political race this soon, the news media is just not that interested.

I follow politics more carefully than most. Until after our elections in November 2011, I had no real interest in the 2012 elections. So the first I heard of that the petitions would be due before Christmas was when the press started saying Gingrich would not have time to get his petitions done. And I just shook my head. We are going to be stuck with a choice between RINO and a Libertarian? Oh SH--! Is it really any surprise the Liberal News media carried that story?

By requiring the primary and the petitions so early, we have unnecessarily eliminated perfectly good candidates (Compared to Obama, it is silly to say otherwise.). If one of us wants to call Gingrich's and Perry's campaigns inept, it's our right, but we have no chance of getting on the ballot. Anyone who can even come close deserve some respect. What the fact only Romney and Paul qualified indicates is that we have set the bar absurdly high.