Folks, the race for the Republican nomination in the 9th District is beginning to get a little silly. It's clear Morgan Griffith is the best candidate and it's also clear he's going to win. That of course, isn't stopping some of the other candidates from embarrassing themselves along the way. Case in point, their thoughts on Marco Rubio, Scott Brown, Doug Hoffman and Morgan Griffith.
There's been a bunch of praise of Rubio, Brown and Hoffman. At the same time, Morgan has been constantly attacked by a few of his opponents. Attack number 1? Morgan Griffith is a career politician.
First of all, this is just silly and shows a complete lack of understanding of what it means to be in the General Assembly. However, since they're all new to politics, I'll give them a pass on that one. What I won't give them a pass on is hypocrisy. Morgan Griffith was first elected in 1993. Do you know when Scott Brown was first elected? 1992. Do you know when Marco Rubio was first elected? 2000. So apparently Morgan's 17 years of elected service is unacceptable but Brown's 18 and Rubio's 10 are great.
Next they attack Morgan for being "just a party guy." Putting aside the irony of someone running for a party's nomination to attack someone this way...what do they say about Marco Rubio? Morgan is House Majority Leader. Rubio was Speaker of the House. It's okay for Rubio to have a party leadership position but not Morgan?
Finally, they attack Morgan on his residence. They say "how presumptuous for someone who literally lives on the district line to run?" Maybe someone should let them know that Doug Hoffman did not live in NY-23 when he ran in the special election. It's okay for Hoffman to live on the line but not Morgan.
Anyway, I suppose this is the sort of thing you should expect from political newcomers who are willing to burn the party down to get the nomination. These are the same people who are attacking Morgan on life issues when he has consistently been endorsed by the Virginia Society for Human Life. The same people questioning his conservative bona fides when he consistently receives A+ NRA ratings, NFIB endorsements, etc. etc.
Frankly, it's too bad because a couple of these guys actually bring a good perspective to the race and could be important voices in the party going forward. Hopefully they, and their supporters, will familiarize themselves with Reagan's 11th Commandment and, now that they're calling themselves Republicans, actually start acting like Republicans.
On a positive note, as Morgan gets closer to wrapping up the nomination, the desperation from the Boucher camp is becoming palpable. This is gonna be a fun summer/fall.
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5 comments:
Boy-it really looks like the Griffith boosters are getting nervous.
This Griffith "booster" is terrified. Can't sleep at night.
Good luck to you and your candidate.
Your logic is clear - and makes the attacks on griffith obviously flawed - and desperate.
Great post.
@Anon #1: Trolling the comments section of a blog with less than a dozen readers looks desperate...
Hey now, I take great offense at that last comment :). We almost always break 20 readers a day and you should immediately rescind that defamatory post.
Seriously, and FWIW, during election season, we'll have hundreds of readers a day. As of this moment today, we've had 75 unique visitors. Not much but, frankly, this blog has never set out to maximize our readers. Just serve as an outlet. Thanks for stopping by and helping our numbers though.
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