Today at the Homestead Resort in Warm Springs Virginia the State Bar Association held it’s annual candidate’s debate. This year’s debate was between candidates for Senator, Tim Kaine and Corey Stewart. Rick Sincere covered the debate live, his observations are here. Much of the debate centered around President Trump. Kaine got in some good jabs at Stewart around Trump and the Russians causing laughter in the audience. It doesn’t appear this debate helped Stewart to close the nearly 20 point lead that Kaine currently enjoys.
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The guy who covered the race is not a Republican. He is a left-wing “Libertarian.” This site has become a joke.
As have your comments.
I watched the full debate and thought Stewart actually did pretty good. Unforntunately I also think the Confederate flag, KKK (and other racist) people he took pictures with and Roy Moore will sink him when the commercials start coming out. Only time will tell whether or not he can overcome these public perceptions.
At the very end, Kaine quickly walked off the stage without shaking hands with Stewart, the moderator or the host guy. That says volumes.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!
Loved how Stewart pinned Kaine to the wall about Leslie Cockburn the anti-Semite. Kaine couldn’t wiggle free of the facts that A. she is a certifiable liberal nut job and B. Kaine continues to endorse her. This smart play by Stewart weakened Kaine’s attacks on Stewart over the asinine Charlottesville phony baloney rally organizer.
I thought Stewart did quite well overall. Clearly stated positions and good summaries of Kaine’s record. Kaine never did say what he has accomplished other than he kept saying he voted for additional ships, etc. Stewart said Kaine eventually voted against the ships, etc. I don’t know who is right. I don’t recall anything else that Kaine claimed as a major accomplishment. Kaine is a sad man. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Kaine did shake hands with both Stewart and Woodruff.
Nope. Not in the video above which looks to be from the PBS News Hour sponsor.
Kaine bolts off the stage immediately when the debate is adjourned at the 1 hour 46 minute mark.
That’s odd. I watched it Saturday. I remember them shaking hands because after they shook, they both walked over to Woodruff and stopped her in the middle of talking. There must be different videos out there.
It is very clear Kaine left the stage immediately. Watch the video. If he returned to the stage, the PBS doesn’t show it.
Ok…dont take my word for it…look for yourself. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9c0997b9cb11a759f09c1d43aaa473d05689ad78e8e4515bb93193ce951cee82.jpg
OK now I see it. I was looking at when the debate was adjourned. Kaine left the stage and Stewart went over to the moderators.
Hey thanks for setting me straight.
Corey was stellar! What planet is Jeannine on?
Planet Freitas.
For those who honor the Constitution, that’s the best planet to be on!
It’s too bad Matt Waters wasn’t allowed to debate. Sad.
Who’s that?
As I’m quite sure you know, he’s the third candidate on the ballot for US Senate.
http://mattwaters.com/
Ah, the indirect Kaine vote.
Bingo!^ aka the spoiler.
A spoiler vote is voting against your values, that is spoiling your conscience.
No, a spoiler vote is squandering a vote on a candidate that cannot win in order to facilitate a win for the candidate who could not win without the spoiler in the race.
The candidate who ‘spoils’ an actual contest.
Aw, isn’t that high minded and completely impractical.
It certainly is high minded.
Nope, the direct Waters vote.
Let me help you with this:
Waters will not win.
People throwing away their vote for him will:
A) Allow them to have good feefees while wasting their opportunity to help choose a Senator.
B) Give them an opportunity to express disgust by voting ‘none of the above.’
C) Help them to vote against the incumbent without voting for the viable challenger.
D) Facilitate democrat party voter suppression operations to be ‘independently’ sourced, funded, and executed.
E) All of the above.
You want Kaine again? Vote for Kaine or throw-away for Waters.
You want to dump Kaine and monkey-wrench the swamp, vote for Corey.
I appreciate your passion, but that wasn’t helpful.
A) I don’t want Kaine again
B) Throwing away your vote is voting against your conscience
C) Corey can’t win, with or without my vote.
If you don’t want Kaine again, please explain how not voting in practical opposition gets you anything but that?
Throwing your vote away is casting it in such a manner which guarantees that your vote will have no relevance.
Vote for Kaine:
+ 1 for Kaine, -1 for Corey
Vote for Corey:
+1 for Corey, -1 for Kaine
Vote for Waters, Mickey Mouse, John Whitbeck, etc.:
-1 for Corey, If the vote otherwise would be for Conservative/Republican/Corey
-1 for Kaine, If the vote otherwise would be for Liberal/Democrat/Swamp
Not voting at all:
A push
I would submit that there is a higher likelihood of Corey winning then that of Waters/Mouse/Whitbeck winning
I don’t want Kaine to win, but Stewart won’t win and I prefer to vote my values: the best fiscal conservative in the race.
It’s your vote, thank you for voting, and please exercise it however you want. However, your values seem to be that you prefer that Kaine win.
If the final tally reflects that the Corey vote and the Spoiler vote combined would exceed the Kaine vote, you may have the comfort of knowing that your values elected Kaine.
If it does not, you may take pride in the fact that your vote didn’t affect the election and Kaine won. Yay you!
But you will never really know what the outcome would have been if you had values to support the nominee of your party and were active doing so.
Your vote and efforts for Kaine will certainly improve fiscal conservatism, freedom and liberty in Virginia. Again, Yay You!
You start off reasonable, and end weak but I again applaud your passion. The spoiler in the race are those who aren’t fiscally responsible and weak on the Constitution, all other talking points are simply big government rhetoric ones.
I think because Libertarians cannot actually be tired of winning, they must certainly be averse to winning. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3f1dbac643776f1fab12947eded9e0ae6100652ff20ae27e0bd65c2386ee6567.jpg
You miss the point on who the actual spoiler was, to those with actual convictions the spoiler is the one who can’t be trusted to honor their oath of office.
There are multiple ways to win, elections are just one of them.
I see…
I will leave you your winning alternatives, I’m going to stick with my party candidates getting more votes than the others in electoral contests.
To each their own brother, make God proud!
Truly voting your conscience means voting responsibly. First identify
the candidates who have a decent chance of winning, dig into their
resumes, and then vote for the one that most closely matches your
opinions. That is using your only power — your vote — to try to
influence the outcome your way.
Are you planning to throw away your power just for some virtue-signalling,
feel-good moment? Knowing with absolute certainty that your candidate — Waters — cannot win, how is voting for him responsible?
Remember how many were fooled by false Libertarian Sarvis? They gave us McAwful. And then there are the suckers who voted for Evan McMuffin. Fortunately the #NeverTrump efforts with McMuffin failed to split the vote or we would have Hillary.
And if Stewart is currently behind Kaine, so what? The alternative is Kaine. Vote responsibly.
He’s won a lot more elections than you ever will.
You make entirely too many assumption, but even if that was true it doesn’t change the fact that Stewart will lose this election.
I think Corey exceeded expectations and Kaine underperformed. Kaine was often red in the face and looked very uncomfortable at times. Not as bad for Kaine as when he debated Pence but wasn’t a good debate for him. Again and again he had to sugarcoat the true Kaine and pretend that he wasn’t a liberal. I think Corey was for the most part able to clearly articulate who he was and state his positions in a strong and forthright manner. Kaine tried to claim he didn’t attend an anti ICE rally!?! Unbelievable. Wondering how the RTD will try to spin that one?
Perhaps he was red in the face because he was engaging in some pre-debate father son bonding? Those ANTIFA ski masks are probably scorching hot in July after all.
A royal ass kicking was delivered by Stewart so much so that Kaine did not attend the after debate party saying as he left NO MAS!
Do you think any undecided voters (if such people exist this go around) were watching this debate?
No. It’s way to early for them to get engaged.
They’ll watch it later, or just the gag reel.
Others saw it differently.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-corey-stewart-demolishes-tim-kaine-in-first-virginia-senate-debate/
You might want to watch the debate and form your own opinions.