Goode made the following promise, which should he win the election, I am sure he will keep:
"I have not been politically correct during my tenure in U.S. House of Representatives. If re-elected, I won't be either."
And while the convention included other moments of similar hilarity, so too was it tinged with sadness as the GOP faces the chickens coming home to roost.
ShaunKenny.com does a wonderful job of live-blogging the convention, and deserves both our thanks and, because he seems sincere, our prayers.
(more on the flip)
Goode touched on a number of other issues, but it seems like it was his anti-immigration stance that really got the crown going. Goode apparently offered a preview of the Republican's election strategy for the fall by offering a robust defense of our participation in the Mexican American War.
According to Kenney, the crowd was on its feet, chanting ""Virgil! Virgil! Virgil!"
It doesn't look, however, like Goode will be able to make too much out of this, as I have subsequently learned from a source close to the Perriello campaign that "Tom has consistently supported the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo," adding, "Tom also celebrates the Alamo and rents his cars from Alamo as a sign of solidarity."
I strongly recommend the entire liveblogging session to everyone. Some of it is just descriptions of party business, but it paints a portrait of the Republican Party in Virginia today.
Here is the link to the page:
http://www.shaunkenney.com/200...
Besides Goode, there were lame speeches from Bob McDonnell ( "I've never understood Obama's "hope and change" message... but now I get it, because you better hope you have change left after he's done." HaHaHaHaHaHa), Jim Gilmore (who unwittingly argued against his own election as Senator by noting, "I've always done what I've said I'm going to do."), and Ken Cuccinelli, who when asked what he stood for, answered, "Drop Virgil Goode in Fairfax County. There you go." (Actually, if anyone can tell what this actually means, I'd appreciate it).
All in all, however, the convention portrays a tired and uncertain party bereft of ideas and aware that it lacks the confidence of the people, trying to hang on by recycling the same old divisive issues and slogans, the same misdirection, that it remembers from its brief, shining moment in the sun.
Kind of sad, actually.