Va. GOP wants records on Kaine’s DNC duties

Exactly.  any citizen of Virginia could have requested this info, but Pat Mullins has to grandstand that he is doing it.  well Kaine’s schedule has little bearing on the problems facing Virginians today.  VA GOP is tone-deaf to what is important in these tough times.

Good to see that though the party chairman has changed, the GOP is still following its disasterous tone-deaf and tiresome petty political strategies.  Virginians are struggling in today’s economy and they spend their time settling old scores with a lame duck governor.  How about engaging with the citizenry on realistic solutions to their problems.  Let’s hope that this election will send them the message that their tired politics no longer win elections.

Anon… I’ll give you the poll. But did you review it? First, it doesn’t tell us how many people were surveyed. Second, take out uber-liberal Northern Virginia that would support Kaine if he murdered someone and it’s not favorable. Third, half the people don’t say he’s doing a good job and they like that? Pretty low standard there.

I stand by my assessment. He’s a joke as a governor. He’s done nothing positive in four years.

Bones, your sense of reason is lacking at best. You seem to have the mentality of a school aged child on a playground. “We didn’t go after your guy so leave ours alone”. As someone who supported Gilmore, I was very disappointd in his performance; especially the last six months and it is that performance that has ruined his political career. Now, to say Republicans are taking the “superior tack” because they are investigating possible wrongdoing by our sitting Governor is just stupid. What you’re suggesting is we turn a blind eye to possible criminal activity. If Gilmore committed wrongdoing then he should have been held responsible for it and your Democrat party should have led the way. Republicans are not going to back down because of some foolish protocol. I hope Republicans have learned a lesson after the Clinton fiasco. They didn’t pursue removing him from office thinking the goodwill would be reciprocated and it wasn’t. Crimes are crimes and it doesn’t matter if the perpetrator is an average citizen or a sitting Governor, justice must prevail. Next time tell your party leaders to live by a higher standard. A Republican, Sen. Ensign, is leading the way by properly resigning his post after being caught up in an extramarital affair. Perhaps Kaine will do the same honorable thing if the evidence begins to mount up…we shall see.

Ah, further evidence of Short Memory Syndrome.  Ironic that the GOP is wearing such the high hat, when Jim Gilmore as head of the RNC was nowhere to be found in VA during his final year as Governor. That is until he was fired from that post after his inept handling of the state budget was a major factor in the GOP losing the next Gov’s election.  Then we in VA got to see him a whole lot more, as he came back to “spend more time with his family.“  What a guy.

As a Kaine supporter, I stipulate that he is likely pushing the limits in trying to manage both jobs at once.  But Repubs, please don’t take the superior tack—given your own guy’s doing the same thing in very recent memory, pointing the finger makes you look silly.