Today I received a robocall from the Wasinger campaign. The call tells voters Barbara Comstock voted for Barack Obama. The call says,
“Several news sources, including the Washington Post, have reported this week that liberal lobbyist Barbara Comstock voted for Barack Obama. Her vote helped elect the most liberal President in modern history. How can we possibly trust her to represent conservative voters when she doesn’t even vote republican?
The call goes on to say we should vote for the real conservative (the elusive) Rob Wasinger. It is true that several news sources reported that Barbara voted for Obama in the 2008 PRIMARY! From the Washington Post editorial, referring to Mrs. Comstock,
She said she voted for Mr. Obama because she thought he’d be the easiest candidate for a Republican to beat in the general election.
Yes, Barbara Comstock has admitted to voting for Barack Obama in the 2008 primary when he was running against Hillary Clinton. She thought her vote would help the republican candidate because Obama would be easier to beat than Hillary. Comstock has been solidly opposed to Obama and everything’s he has done as President, particularly Obamacare. She never, ever, supported Obama for President.
Recently I actually met a staffer for the elusive Mr. Wasinger. (Supporters of Wasinger are as elusive as the candidate himself, nearly impossible to find. This staffer was the only person I have met who supports the elusive Mr. Wasinger.) When I asked the staffer why Mr.Wasinger was running for Congress, this was the response, “Rob Wasinger worked with Barbara Comstock on Capitol Hill and he can’t stand her”. I waited for more. Surely Wasinger had other reasons for running for office? Nope. No other reasons were forthcoming. Apparently Rob Wasinger doesn’t like Barbara Comstock and that’s he needs to mount a run for Congress.
I am angry, furious, at the Wasinger campaign for lying to voters. I came home this evening to messages from two republican friends asking me about the elusive Wasinger’s robocall. Both wanted to know if it was true that Barbara Comstock had voted for Obama. They were both quite concerned and they have many family members who will be voting next week. They had NO idea that her vote was in a PRIMARY and Barbara has never supported or voted for Obama in any general election. They had no way of knowing that this robocall was a lie, a purposeful attempt to deceive 10th district voters one week prior to the Firehouse primary. Disgusting.
73 comments
What exactly is the lie here?
She didn’t vote for him for President in the 2008 general election, she voted for him in the Democratic primary to be the democratic presidential candidate, 2 very different things!
She didn’t vote for him in the general is such a weak argument. You have no idea if she did or not, firstly. Secondly, when it came time to vote in the primary, in a year where everyone thought the Dems would win, she went with the most liberal senator she could go with.
Obama winning Virginia was huge for his campaign. He’d just won Nebraska and Louisiana the week before and Hillary viewed it as a stopgap. There’s no way around it: Barbara Comstock helped Obama win the presidency.
your funny. If you were active in the GOP and conservative circles you would know Barbara has been supporting pro-life conservatives for years.
Comstock should be ashamed of voting for Barack Obama – at all. Look at the cloud she has drawn over herself. In the spirit of fairness, we have a pledge we are signing at the primary. It certifies that we will vote and only support republican candidates. Did Barbara sign the democratic pledge to only vote for Democrats and then go to vote for republicans? She has brought this on herself. Pointing to Rob’s half truths is ELUSIVE and detracts from the fact that Barbara Comstock is not reliable and is pandering to corporate and special interests. Congressmen represent “the people” not the Corporate fiction. Btw – I have no desire to vote for a Rob either. I’m just drawing attention to the obvious.
There is no half truth. Obama was in a tight primary race. Her vote helped nominate and elect the most liberal senator in the Senate and, as you pointed out, she pledged to vote for him in the general election.
In terms of his robo caller misleading the people that it called into believing that comstock – voted for Obama in the presidential election. There maybe a difference in severity if you place weight on the styled voting venues but ithis article presumes that one is ok and the other is not. This speaks to Barbara Comstocks elusiveness much Moreso than Wassinger.
BS. In the 2012 GOP presidential primary we only had Romney and Paul on the ballot. MANY conservatives (40%) voted for Paul as a protest vote though they may have never voted for him if they had other choices. Does their action mean they are dishonest? Their strategy was to try to limit the delegates Romney could get to weaken him against either Santorum or Gingrich. Likewise, some conservatives have voted in Dem primaries to get the weaker opponent for their guy/gal in the fall. It is strategy. I don’t agree with that mindset but I can’t condemn folks who do it because I would be condemning a lot of people (especially MANY in the TEA party and liberty movements).
Ryan… With all due respect. Ron Paul is registered republican. Barack Obama is a registered democrat. Your argument is irrelevant and makes absolutely no sense in the scope of what I said. Who do you campaign for?
Ron Paul is a libertarian and ran as that party’s nominee in 1988. He ran for Congress, and again as president, as a Republican but for all intent and purposes he is a libertarian. My comment makes perfect sense but your ability to comprehend it is lacking.
No it doesn’t make sense at all. Comstock claims to be a Republican and voted in the Democratic primary to elect one of the most liberal presidents ever. Ron Paul was in the Republican primary. You’re trying to obfuscate because there’s no way to spin her vote for Obama.
No, I am trying to explain political strategy. The basic message is that sometimes people do things they would not ordinarily do in order to further a cause (e.g. sacrafice bunt to advance a runner). In 2008 NO LOYALTY PLEDGE EXISTED for either party.
So you’re saying that she thought nominating the most liberal person in the primary, in a general election race where almost everyone assumed the Democrat would win, would help the conservative movement somehow?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html#polls
Marist2/12 – 2/15 978 RV- 41-44 McCain +3
USA Today/Gallup 2/9 – 2/11 936 RV- 48-48 Tie
Rasmussen 2/7 – 2/8 800 LV 44-44 Tie
At the point of the VA primary, the Obama vs McCain polls had McCain tied or slightly up.
Compared to Clinton, McCain was slightly behind or tied.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_clinton-224.html
Marist02/12 – 02/15 978 RV 46-46 Tie
USA Today/Gallup 02/09 – 02/11 936 RV 50- 47 Clinton +3.0
Siena 02/06 – 02/09 1120 RV 45-44 Clinton +1.0
At least from the polls close to the VA primary, it was apparent that McCain looked a little stronger against Obama than Hillary. At that point the “experience” factor was helping McCain against Obama more than it was against Hillary (where it was even).
You’re grasping at straws to justify her going against the conservative movement that wanted people to vote FOR Hillary in order to weaken them both. Comstock’s never liked Hillary, she spent her entire career fighting her. She most likely voted for Obama because of that, but of course, she could never say that. She probably gave her vote to the most liberal person to contend for the presidency because she put personal animosity ahead of the conservative movement.
I have to confess that I too thought long and hard about voting for Obama in the 2008 primary for precisely the same reason. I’d been waiting 15 years to cast a vote against that witch.
When the election official asked me which primary I’d be voting in that year, I made her laugh. I said it was a tough choice because I really wanted to vote against candidates in both parties.
But when it came down to it, there was finally a candidate on the ballot worth voting for – not merely against – and as that was the first time in my life that ever happened in a Presidential primary that was still contested that I could vote in, I cast my ballot for Ron Paul.
Operation Chaos started after Obama’s February run – LONG after the VA primary. How could she go against a movement that had not even started. You now refer to Operation Chaos was a conservative movement. Are you implying that movement was good? If so, that contridicts EVERY argument you and Randy made.
Pointing out facts and context is not grasping straws. It is pointing out reality. Facts, as John Adams is attributed to saying, “are stubborn things.” I am sorry you and Randy’s personal animosity for Comstock allow you to deny those things, but I have provided references to the polling and election history. I have backed up everything I said. That is called presenting an argument. You can try to revise history and ignore facts all you want, but doing so makes you guilty of the same things you accuse Comstock of.
If you have a favorite candidate, then make an argument of why people should be voting for him (only one female) other than he is not Barbara Comstock. If you like Marshall, Hollingshead, Lind, or Savitt, make your case for them. I have not attacked ONE of those four on Bull Elephant. I have attacked Wasinger, but there was cause. Whoever the nominee is I will support. I just hope you are as gracious.
some people simply don’t have the mental capability to comprehend the facts presented here, and act in a very juvenile way simply to continue an absurd smear against Barbara for exercising her constitutional right as a VA voter to participate in an open primary. I would argue those trying to condemn her for doing that are not very conservative themselves, but perhaps tools of the progressive left. In any event, an intelligent and informed voter is perfectly capable of discerning the facts presented here.
Wassinger is a flat out liar using campaign tactics dirtier than those the Dems do. He’s the one that has no character nor reliability to speak of! On second thought, we can always count on him to behave as a scumbag, he’s very reliable there! He needs to go back to Kansas, where he’s actually registered to vote, as Steve Albertson very well pointed out a couple of weeks ago!
You assume the dems had a loyalty pledge. The GOP didn’t implement the current one until 2012 and I am not aware of one for the dems.
correct. I was a chief election officer during the 2008 primaries and there was no signed pledge.
The Dems have no loyalty pledge
Wassinger is a low-life that belongs in Kansas, with a beef against Barbara Comstock and willfully running, per his own admission, to smear her and make her life difficult. Shame on him! HIs lack of character is enough for me to wish I could see him in person and give him a piece of my mind, but as Janine points out so well, he avoids voters because he probably knows by now all of us condone his despicable behavior.
that should be condemn, not condone, my mistake 🙂
Good article, Jeanine, thanks.
I was very disappointed to start my Easter with a recorded robocall
from Wasinger’s campaign that started out “liberal lobbyist Barbara
Comstock voted for Barack Obama” and asserted that she was a Barack
Obama supporter. He should seriously be ashamed of himself – he is
setting a terrible example for his children of an angry negative
politician who will say anything to attempt to get attention and an
“adult” who talks about values and principles but finds them disposable
when needed. His daughter in his video is *adorable*; she deserves
better from her Dad.
Fellow traveler secret Obama fans Shawn Hannity, Mark Levine, Rick
Santorum, etc. will all be dismayed to learn he has cracked the code
of their plan to get Barbara Comstock into Congress to support BHO.
There are snarky attack poodles, and there are accomplished
conservatives who get things done. It’s pretty clear who is who in
this primary.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/363441/primer-conservative-winner-mona-charen#!
Joe, she did vote for him due to operation chaos. How has her story changed? It has not changed at all.
Yes, she got caught in a lie because it was pointed out that Operation Chaos happened after the Virginia Primary and changed her story to “well, I thought he was the weaker candidate” even though Obama was rolling, having just one three primaries in a row.
The Wasinger crew knocked on my door even though I had a Comstock sign in plain sight in my yard. Then they were driving at an excessive rate of speed around my residential neighborhood for over a half hour after that.
I don’t see the lie I see uninformed voters who need to get a clue and spend some of their own time vetting candidates.
That is not quite fair, not all voters can do that. Some simply wouldn’t know where to start to prove or disapprove this lie.
Start here, Did Comstock vote for Obama in 2008, yes, goggle works wonders. Maybe if voters would get off the ass and look at the candidates we wouldn’t have this low info inept rock star in the white house.
The premise of this article presumes its ok for Comstock to deceive others and vote in a primary she had no business and support democratic candidates at ANY LEVEL. If you guys allow her to skate on this – and cast it off as political engineering, you still can not reconcile the fact that it was done as a deceptive ploy in order to manipulate the process. No one should vote for that behavior.
Apparently you take no issue with the rampant deceit Wassinger is peddling!
I thought she voted in the dem primary due operation chaos. Seems she has changed her story on the issue.
Also, you have no way of knowing how she voted in the general election.
Her vote for Obama was in the VA primary on Feb 12th 2008. Rush Limbaugh did not announce operation chaos until the end of Feb, well after the VA primary. And the point of op chaos was to vote for Hillary not Obama. Her vote for Obama had absolutely nothing to do w operation chaos. I tend to believe her when she says that she voted for him BC she thought him weaker than Hilary, but even so I don’t think it was prudent of her to vote in a dem primary. Her main guy in 08 Romney had just withdrawn from the race but there was still a contest between McCain and Huchabee (and Ron Paul). Besides, her voting in a dem primary (for whatever reason) would be grounds for kicking her out of her local GOP unit (if she was a member).
Maybe her vote was purely strategic, but I believe it shows a lack of sound judgment on her end. And Whatever her motives, she DID vote for Obama and therefore did help him get elected. Maybe Wasinger is trying to trick people by not mentioning it was in a primary but I don’t think he’s lying. That vote is on her record and its now up to her to defend it.
She saw Hillary as a bigger threat. Understandable given what she dealt with on the Hill.
It’s not an issue of understandability. It’s an issue of character and moral turpitude. She has no one to blame for this other than herself.
Another thing to remember, is that VA is an open primary. You can choose either to vote in the Republican or Democrat primary. But whatever you choose will show up on your voting record and will become public record. So whatever her motives, it makes sense for her to publicly come out with this rather than have this be discovered during her delegate campaign. That being said, in 2008 there were a lot of people duped into the Obama hope and change message. Its public knowledge that she voted in the dem primary and she admits voting for Obama. How I’m I to know she wasn’t one of those duped voters? How do I know she didn’t vote for him in the general?
How do I know who YOU voted for in the general election?
She also signed a pledge that she was voting her conviction which is what everyone should do in an election. On this issue alone – she should fail on 4/26.
The fact that a person voted in a particular primary is not “public record” in that the general public does not have access to those records. In fact only limited categories of political entities are allowed to legally obtain lists of who voted in each state funded voting mechanism in Virginia.
The fact that voting in a particular primary becomes public knowledge is due to a series of loopholes in the laws allowing political entities to gain access to these records in the first place. People affiliated with campaigns and parties then leak (usually due to ineffective oversight) who voted in particular primaries.
Wouldn’t it be reasonable to argue that the democratic opponent may have leaked it. Regardless, it is what it is.
because she has been supporting pro-life conservative Republicans for years. I met her back in 1994 supporting a pro-life republican for Congress.
So one must wait until Rush specifically tells you to vote a certain way. Hmmm…
Sounds like a Paul-bot to me. Oh wait…
I bring up this point because Comstock has described her vote in the VA Primary of 2008 as participating in Op Chaos. Based on the actual historical timeline, this cannot be true. It would be like saying “I voted fro Bush in 2000 so he could fight the war on terror against those who hit the World Trade Center”. There’s inconsistency in her story.
It doesn’t matter because it is an issue of moral turpitude. She has thwarted and attempted to circumvent the democratic process. That speaks volumes to the western side of the 10th.
His sin is outclassed by the one he draws attention to which is a moral turpitude issue that should be outed. Lying about who you are is disgusting and we have empirical evidence that Barbara is a bald face liar.
Voters were able to form their opinions before Rush gave it a name.
Many people in this comment section seem to have selective memory about 2008 (many would rather just forget). However, let us recall some facts. First, after Super Tuesday on Feb 5, 2008, McCain came out as the GOP front runner with the most delegates. McCain had 60% of the delegates needed for the nomination after Super Tuesday and Romney dropped out at CPAC that same week. Heading into the VA primary on February 12, McCain was in the driver’s seat and it was a long shot for Huckabee to catch him.
Clinton and Obama, on the other hand were in a dead heat. Obama had won IA and SC and Clinton won NH, NV (and FL and MI which Obama did not campaign in) during January and essentially split the delegates evenly on Super Tuesday. Clinton, however, held the overall delegate lead (1,056 to 1,036) and was still the favored to win the nomination. On February 12, the day of the VA Primary, Clinton lead Obama in the national polls 45-44 according to the RCP average:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.html
She was running 7-10 points ahead from the second half of January up to Super Tuesday. However, starting on February 9th she went into a month long drought that did not end until her win in Ohio on March 4.
At the point of the VA primary, many Republicans thought Clinton would still be the nominee, and seeing McCain had a commanding lead in the GOP primary, decided to cross over to drag out her primary (like they did in 1988 Michigan Dem Presidential primary by voting for Jackson over Dukakis), which helped Obama start to pull away from her. After the Clinton’s February drought, Rush’s operation emerged to help Clinton out in order to hurt Obama. Many non-democrats were involved with trying to bloody the Dem primary in aims of hurting their nominee.
As a item of record, McCain won VA 50% to Huckabee’s 41%. It was a 45K margin (McCain 243,981 to 198,787 – out of 487,478 voters). VA was NOT close. McCain won all 60 delegates (i.e. he won every Congressional district in the state).
I voted in the 2008 GOP Presidential primary but I had many Republican friends in VA who figured McCain was gonna win the nomination so they decided to mess with the dems by voting for Obama (many thought Clinton would pull away in the end). This is not the first time people have done such a thing and won’t be the last. However, the context of the situation should be remembered here. Comstock did a lot of the legal work in the House during the Clinton impeachment procedings and the Clintons hated her and she hated them. That animosity may have motivated her in her decision to meddle in the dem primary. The media never vetted Obama and conservatives were just starting to discover Obama’s past at that point (and it only got worse the further we dug). When the VA primary took place, Clinton was still the target. You are all free to make your judgements, but context and facts still count when doing so. However, let one record be clear, and that is of Comstock’s voting record in the HOD here in VA. She has been a solid conservative vote since she has been there and has voted pro-life and against tax increases. When it counted, she was a reliable conservative vote.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.html
She was running 7-10 points ahead from the second half of January up to Super Tuesday. However, starting on February 9th she went into a month long drought that did not end until her win in Ohio on March 4.
At the point of the VA primary, many Republicans thought Clinton would still be the nominee, and seeing McCain had a commanding lead in the GOP primary, decided to cross over to drag out her primary (like they did in 1988 Michigan Dem Presidential primary by voting for Jackson over Dukakis), which helped Obama start to pull away from her. After the Clinton’s February drought, Rush’s operation emerged to help Clinton out in order to hurt Obama. Many non-democrats were involved with trying to bloody the Dem primary in aims of hurting their nominee. (Let that be a lesson that meddling in another party’s nomination process can come back to haunt you. I don’t like it when they do it to us, so I don’t do it to them.)
As a item of record, McCain won VA 50% to Huckabee’s 41%. It was a 45K margin (McCain 243,981 to 198,787 – out of 487,478 voters). VA was NOT close. McCain won all 60 delegates (i.e. he won every Congressional district in the state).
I voted in the 2008 GOP Presidential primary but I had many Republican friends in VA who figured McCain was gonna win the nomination so they decided to mess with the dems by voting for Obama (many thought Clinton would pull away in the end). This is not the first time people have done such a thing and won’t be the last. However, the context of the situation should be remembered here. Comstock did a lot of the legal work in the House during the Clinton impeachment procedings and the Clintons hated her and she hated them. That animosity may have motivated her in her decision to meddle in the dem primary. The media never vetted Obama and conservatives were just starting to discover Obama’s past at that point (and it only got worse the further we dug). When the VA primary took place, Clinton was still the target. You are all free to make your judgements, but context and facts still count when doing so. However, let one record be clear, and that is of Comstock’s voting record in the HOD here in VA. She has been a solid conservative vote since she has been there and has voted pro-life and against tax increases. When it counted, she was a reliable conservative vote.
Ryan, I think this is the right context and assessment of the 2008 vote. Comstock was CLEARLY not endorsing or trying to elect Obama. That said, am I the only one who finds the idea of “false flagging” in another party’s contest somewhat distasteful? I mean, I get why people do it, but I just don’t think I could ever do it myself.
I agree. It goes to your character. She had to sign a commitment pledge to vote democrat. Then didn’t do it… Its shady and impeachable.
I am not sure the dems had a loyalty pledge. They don’t now and the GOP didn’t have one until 2012.
Assuming you are correct. Does it matter? She signed one in the Republican Party when she joined. It cuts both ways… And speaks to the heart of the issue.
It does matter, there wasn’t one for her to sign in the GOP until 2012. The primary vote was in 2008 when there was no such pledge and she was not even an elected official at that point. Plus there is no party registration. She violated no oaths, pledges, or requirements – NONE existed for her to break. Your point is moot. You have built a strawman argument out of faulty assumptions. You are judging a person ex post facto and refering to them as “trash” is a little harsh. Suppose she wins the nomination, are you going to sit this one out and let Foust win and help Pelosi and Obama implicitly? You have the right to do that, but wouldn’t you be doing the same thing you accuse Comstock of – furthering Obama’s agenda? After all, you note below there is no difference between the primary or General election venue. By that same logic you must concede there is no difference in implicity or explicity helping Obama by giving him another supporter in Congress.
Ryan – are you a registered republican?
If there were party registration in VA, I would be a registered Republican. Your problem is your assumption that moral turpitude remains constant in every situation. For example, it is morally wrong to kill, but would you call killing someone in self defense or in war morally wrong?
Your making fallacious arguments. Killing and murder are legally defined. Are you saying that Barbara has not joined a republican committee somewhere? Just curious.
Actually killing is included in the definition of homicide. Black’s law dictionary defines homicide as “the killing of one person by another.” There is “justifiable homicide” and “criminal homicide” (which includes murder and manslaughter). Killing, like voting, is the action. How that action should be interpreted (or defined using the killing analogy) has everything to do with context. I laid out the context that at the point of the VA primary Hillary Clinton was still the front runner. Considering Comstock gave money to McCain in 2008 and supported him in the General election, there is no possible way you can construe she was trying to elect Obama by casting a vote for him in the primary. She was, rather, trying to hurt Clinton by dragging out her primary and thus help the GOP nominee. Her intent was to do damage to the democrats. The democrats never asked her to sign a pledge. She simply walked up to the poll worker, checked in, and asked for the blue card. Nobody ever asked her if she intended support the dem nominee (sign a loyalty pledge) nor ask her if she was a democrat (no party registration). Therefore it was impossible for her to “deceive” because there was an absense of a duty for her to support or be loyal to the democratic party. Now, if you want to argue whether it is right to damage the dems in their nominating process, then that is another debate.
But you did touch on my premise… Intent. Her intent was to deceive and that is lying.
How many times do I need to mention, THERE WAS NO LOYALTY PLEDGE FOR HER TO SIGN. Nor was she an elected official. She had NO obligation, whatsoever to support either party’s nominee. What you are doing is effectively like convicting a person for violating a statute that was implemented years later and was not retroactive. You are manufacturing intent.
Are you aware that there is no party registration at the state level? Are you a Wassinger sock-puppet trolling over here? That is certainly what you soud like with your moronic commentary on VA politics in general. Maybe you came over with the Wizard of Oz crew.
He is not a Wasinpuppet. He supports Bob Marshall based on his comments.
I see! So Randy, what don’t you get a little educated on VA politics 101 before you make stupid pronunciations about what voters should or should not do, when your lack of knowledge is clear by the fact that you weren’t even aware that there is no party Registration at the state level! As a Virginian, in a state with open primaries, every voter is free to participate as they wish. For the 10th time now, prior to 2012 the VA GOP did not have a pledge. The institution of the party pledge was, and continues to be to this day, heavily criticized by the majority of conservatives, Tea Party and Libertarian activists throughout the state. While not “registered” with the party, they do support the Republican ticket and are affiliated with their local GOP units.
I met Barbara back in 1994 during the Kyle McSlarrow for Congress campaign. Barbara was now in the 8th district after the 1990 redistricting plan. She would drive from McLean to the city of Alexandria to help Kyle. What did Bob Marshall do? Was he even around then? Barbara has been a strong supporter of pro-life conservatives for years.
Marta, I’ll make deal with you. Don’t presume that I’m an idiot and I won’t presume that your a liar. Deal?
Sorry, no deal. People know me quite well, so you can go ahead and accuse me of being a liar, I’m not sure about what that would be, but it doesn’t matter to me so go ahead! I’d rather have you attack me if you wish to waste your time doing that, so be my guest!
It appears that the issue was obfuscated in the rhetoric. People’s natural intent vs deception or circumventing the political process is how I see this issue. I find it quite petty and detracting from a republican leader that they would go and vote for Barack Obama at any level and explain it away as “I’m taking one for the team”. For me, it’s not acceptable.
you are wrong AGAIN. Virginia does NOT register voters by party!!
wrong again. I was a chief election judge during the 2008 primary and there was no pledge
Steve, I myself do not do it because I think the grass roots and members of political parties should decide their nominee. With that said, I know MANY grass roots and TEA party activists who HAVE voted in Democratic primaries in the past in order to produce the weaker candidate. Having done so has not made them any less conservative or committed to constitutional principles. I will not condemn those people for doing something they thought would weaken the dems. I don’t agree with it but I will not attack or accuse those people for being liberal for having done so.
We don’t have party identification registration for voters here, so both parties have defacto accepted that the other side can interfer with their primaries. The GOP has implemented a loyalty clause and more conventions, but even that is not a perfect cure (as the slating incidents have clearly proven).
Correct, those of you in this thread that take issue with this, how about you work on having party registration at the state level, and changing the system so primaries are NOT open! Perhaps Wassinger, since he hails from Kansas after all, criticizes this practice completely unaware of the fact that VA primaries are open, and multiple conservative and Tea Party activists do in fact participate regularly in Dems primaries. WASSinger is actually attacking a tactic that’s common practice in VA, specially among the party faction that he’s trying to court. But who could expect less from an unqualified, dishonest, and low-life outsider? Certainly not me!
Exactly. Its ridiculous. She is not a reliable candidate for federal representation… Much less state.