Responding to the Grinch Squad: Virginia Congressman Scott Rigell Says "Merry Christmas!"

Virginia is really the birthplace of liberty despite all the attention given to those Boston yankees. It was two Virginians, George Mason and Thomas Jefferson, who were primarily responsible for our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Jefferson borrowed a lot from Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights in drafting the documents. And among those rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution are freedom of religion and freedom of speech. What gives a politically correct Congressional committee the chutzpah to think they can ban Congressmen from wishin their constituents Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah? Here's my opinion -- they're the Grinch Squad, the descendencts of Scrooge before his conversion.

As for Congressman Rigell, I don't think you will be surprised to learn that he is a completely pro-life conservative who recognizes that the family is the basic building block of society and who wants to strengthn marriage by offering tax credits to parents who stay together. He also opposes tax funding of abortion and wants to cut off funding to the killers at Planned Parenthood.

Let's hear it one more time for the great state of Virginia and all the good leaders raised up here. (This is where I give a plug for state delegate Bob Marshall, state senator Dick Black, and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Go, guys! Now if we could just get rid of those pro-death, politically correct drones like Jim Moran in northern Virginia.)

More on Virginia Politics and Outside Carpetbaggers

Well, I got the answer to the question posed in my earlier post. Yes, Yoni Cohen, spokesman for Common Sense Virginia (CSV) which has nothing to do with common sense and everything to do with slimeball politics is the same political operative who worked for Pete Stark of California. He's originally from Boston and couldn't care less about issues important to Virginians which is why CSV doesn't address them honestly. CSV is nothing but a liberal attack dog funded by big labor. No doubt, we'll see many more Cohens shipped into the state during the next few months, to raise dead voters and register Donald Duck and Peter Pan. What fun!

The CSV website is short on facts and long on attacks. Whenever I visit I have to turn down the sound because of the scary music. (It makes you imagine the evil laughter of the wicked Republicans? Wa-ha-ha-ha! Bob McDonnell the bogeyman is coming to get you, Virginia. Quick, call the Democratic ghost-busters who will tax and spend you into prosperity.)

Actually, the site does a pretty good job of giving me more reasons to support Bob McDonnell. He's pro-life, supports school choice, and opposed mandatory pre-school. He's a fiscal conservative and a right-to-work supporter who opposed some of the grandiose schemes supported by big-government guru Tim Kaine. At any rate, you won't find much information at the CSV website, just manipulation and distortion of Bob McDonnell's positions.

Here are a few articles about CSV. This is all about outsiders coming into Virginia to tell us how to vote (for liberals of course). Personally I think most Virginia voters are too smart for this nonsense.

Show me the $$

Small-minded Big-footing In Va. Governor's Race

Common Sense Virgnia top donors

Va. race takes tone, tactics of national politics

Big Labor Democrats

Democratic Carpetbaggers Target Bob McDonnell

Common Sense Virginia (CSV), a recently established political PAC funded by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), is lobbing molotov cocktails at Bob McDonnell, Virginia's Republican candidate for governor. To date the DGA, has funnelled $100,000 to the group which immediately bought negative ads attacking Bob McDonnell as a "right wing extremist." Their website is replete with scary music (ala horror flicks) and "scary" headlines like McDonnell is "dogmatically conservative." (Does that mean he supports the party platform?) He's also portrayed as having scary friends like Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, George Bush, etc. I actually found the website humorous. Do they really have such a low opinion of Virginia voters?

Since there are only two governors' races this year (the other in New Jersey), the Commonwealth can expect to see carpetbaggers and outsiders doing everything they can to control the election. Common Sense Virginia will not endorse the Democratic candidate because that would require an openness and transparency into their donors and activities. But as an independent election advocacy group, commonly known as "527s," groups can suppress their donor lists. Considering the influence of outside groups flooding swing states in the recent presidential election, and the national benefit of shifting Virginia further to the left, we can expect large numbers of outside community organizers coming into the state to manipulate the vote. How many dead Virginians will attempt to vote for the Democratic candidate? (Sign up to be a poll watcher!)

I recently responded to an on-line article reporting CSV's strategy to portray McDonnell as anti-woman. It was the typical feminist, name-calling rant that he is a "right wing extremist" who wants to suppress women. Here's what I wrote:

These women don't speak for me, my five daughters and daughter-in-laws, nor for my many sisters, sister-in-laws, nieces, and cousins. We are a pro-life family and that means defending unborn babies (including little unborn women) and their mothers. My husband and I offered a shelter home to over a dozen unwed moms over the years who made a decision both they and their children could live with.

Bob McDonnell is no "extremist." Neither are the women of "Silent no more" who regret their abortions and share their stories of men coercing them into abortion, being lied to and mutilated at abortion mills, being abandoned by their partners and "feminist" friends, etc.

There are extremists in the abortion debate; Bob McDonnell isn't one of them. They work at Planned Parenthood clinics where they instruct underage girls to cover up for predatory adult rapists. They champion stabbing near-term babies in the neck with scissors and sucking out their brains. They think it's perfectly fine to leave living breathing infants born alive after abortion in dirty linen baskets to suffocate.

Thank God there are a few politicians with the manly courage to stand up to name-calling liberals and defend the fundamental right to life described in the Declaration of Independence. They are the equivalent of the patriots who fought against tyranny. I'm proud to be a delegate for Bob McDonnell at the Virginia State Convention, a man who recognizes the dignity and worth of women from the very beginning.

Check out articles on Common Sense Virginia here, here, and here. And whenever you see them rear their ugly heads, don't let their lies and name-calling go unanswered.

I'll be posting more on this as the campaign progresses. I'm curious whether the Yoni Cohen who is CSV's press secretary is the same Yoni Cohen who was press secretary for California's liberal Congressman Pete Stark and before that worked for Fox Sports. And I'd be really interested to know who the movers and shakers are behind the establishment of this (dare I say it?) hate group? Haven't seen any media criticism yet of their "negative campaigning" and I'm not holding my breath.