Great balls of fire. You really have to be kidding me. I had to see it for myself.
I had read that Jackson also suggested that “enhanced interrogation” be codified and that members of the CIA and Military would be protected from prosecution if they should use this method of questioning. I think that he suggested legalized torture. Have I misread something here?
Pardon me. This candidate is simply unacceptable. What WERE they thinking?
Did he compare Planned Parenthood to the KKK?
I think I’ll tiptoe on off and vote for Dr. Ralph Northam, thank you very much!
I wonder if this Pastor’s congregation is a 501c3 or 501c4 organization? Seriously, do we not think he is going to campaign for himself from the pulpit?
No, he said Planned Parenthood was worse than the KKK. This is amazing.
It really is amazing….and very awkwardly transparent.
Say what you will, but if he peels off ~20% of the black vote ya’ll are in trouble.
I don’t think that will happen. Or if it has an impact then the female vote will easily offset. That is if women still have the vote in Virginia in November.
The only people voting in this election are the 8,000 that showed up in Richmond and really angry people. Heck of a democratic process. Polls might require military presence …..
@Cato the Elder
I expect that Ralph Northam will win the Democratic primary. He is a pediatric neurologist and a sharp guy.
20% of the black vote….maybe, maybe not. I doubt that it will have much impact. You are aware of how many republicans are going for McAuliffe? they won’t vote for Cuccinelli.
If I had to bet on a candidate to lose, it would be Jackson.
@Lyssa
Good point, IF women still have the vote. 8,000 really isn’t representative of the state.
I suppose this is the big tent the REpublicans have resurrected?
I have a lot of respect for Northam, which is why I’ll be voting Chopra in the primary 😉
Both are strong candidates. Either would be good. I am just calling Northam the primary winner.
Meanwhile, the Democrats have been accused of licking their chops over the outcome of the Republican Convention.
At least one local blogger has gone off the deep end with mis-information, lies and historical inaccuracies. 🙄 People who aren’t scared don’t do that.
@Moon-howler
Chopra is a zero and Obama flunky, which is why he’s favored by the moonbat base.
Northam is quite accomplished and much, much more difficult to beat.
I’m not scared of Chopra in the least.
Chopra’s base is mostly Northern Virginia.
Lafayette is correct about moonbat–especially given my nom de plume.
I don’t know why you would criticize Chopra. With the newly processed GOP candidate for Lt. Gov., I would be real careful about who I was calling a zero. This is truly tin foil hate time with the flat earth society.
I am supporting Northam because of his accomplishments in the senate, even one I don’t particularly approve of.
Moonbat base…Isn’t that another local’s blogs term. Hate seeing it here.
@Cato the Elder
That 20% will probably be cancelled out by the racists in the Republican party who won’t pull the lever for Jackson.
It’ll be an interesting election for sure.
Hi Censored.
All elections in the Commonwealth/Prince Willy are interesting. Not always good.
@Lafayette
Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see what new issue Corey S. pulls out of his derriere for the next Board Chairman race now that he’s lost the LG race.
Oh God, I had forgotten about the surprise a minute aspect of Corey. Let’s see what he hasn’t thought through thoroughly this time.
Why is there a segment of the Republican base that can’t manage that whole separation of church and state thing?
I listened to a lot of G-d talk and little on fact based policy.
OY VEY!
I will vote for Northam too, I”ve even heard good things about him from republican friends!
He was almost a defector at one point not too long ago. I think that is why he has Rep. cred.
This ticket had best tread lightly when it addresses women’s right to choose. Approximately one third of US women will have had an abortion by the time they’re 45. Religiously affiliated women are as likely as the non-affilated to have had an abortion and Catholics are as likely to have had them as other women. Poor women now comprise a disproportionate number of women seeking abortions because they generally have less education and less access to health care/contraception. How is harping about abortion and genocide going to win elections when 1/3 of US women have had them? Spouses know this and practically every person knows someone who has had one – or doesn’t realize that they know someone (or several someones) who has had one.
I see that an African-American poster has had to set the local blogger straight on what he can expect from his community. The blogger must have thought that all women would jump on the Sarah Palin bandwagon because she too had a vagina. Ah, the perils of an old white guy trying to expand the party without offering a change in menu.
The local blogger ought to feel ashamed of himself for playing so fast and furious with basic facts. He is entitled to his own opinions. He is not entitled to make up his own facts. It isn’t the first time and I doubt if it will be the last.
The reality is, the male politicians have not just stopped with abortion, they have drifted over into contraception and other reproductive rights. The chickens will come home to roost with them on this issue. This is 2013, not 1950.
Love some of the quotes in this article!
“We’re in a deep [expletive],” said one Virginia Republican strategist. “The only good news is that the Democrats have Terry McAuliffe. It’s the only thing keeping us glued to a chance of victory.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/05/20/e-w-jackson-complicates-cuccinelli-bid/?hpid=z2
The Republican strategist is overlooking one core element: exposure. Part of Terry’s problem is that Virginians don’t really know him. He isn’t part of their good ole boy network. He is to some degree, an unknown to those who haven’t been immersed in Democratic politics.
Throw in Cuccinelli and being an unknown is not a bad thing. Cuccinelli is very known….from making a big deal over the breast of Lady Victory on the State Seal to his lousing law suits over national issues. He attracts attention like a magnet and most of it isn’t good–most of it is making Virginia a laughing stock.
Terry McAuliffe is actually a nice guy and a moderate democrat, at least by my standards. Once Virginians get to know him better, his changes of election increase rather than decrease.
Cuccinelli has made such a name for himself, he can’t back pedal off the uber-con path. He is what he is and that appeals to very few people here in Virginia. Mississippi maybe. Virginia, NO.
I used to think Virginia and North Carolina were immune from producing the looniest of the loony. I’ve changed my mind. I’d like to be able to change it again when Virginia shows me it’s more Jeffersonian and less like Mississippi. I’d appreciate a return to normalcy on Virginia’s part. Or at least a nod to the twenty-first century.
Agreed! Agreed!
More Jefferson, less Mississippi!
Never thought I’d think that Corey could look good. But next to those three he appears sane.
Thus proving the point that everything ultimately is relative.
Very spatial….
E.W. Jackson: a man of strong principles and unafraid to say so.
But Wolverine, his priniciples don’t necessarily represent Virginians. He is very far to the right.
That describes a lot of people….
So let him continue to minister to his flock, keep his zealotry brand of religion out of politics. I always find it interesting that when you see the Muslim Brotherhood take over, people start pointing their fingers at “their Islamic run fanatical government”, yet here it’s perfectly fine if its cloaked in Christianity?
E.W. Jackson fights for his principles. He has the same right to do battle for those principles in the public forum as any one of us. He may win. He may lose. But you cannot suggest his exclusion from that fight without violating in spirit a First Principle of the Nation.
@Elena
The problem is that Sharia is also a form of government. That is why fingers are pointed. Islamic principles of politicians…while still adhering to American law and principles would be fine. They have every right to convince people to vote for them.
Advising a person that he should not run for office because we have ascertained somehow in some unspecified way that his principles are not acceptable to Virginians? Hmmm. That is probably what he was told before the convention by certain people “in the know.” But the man fought for and won the nod of his party in a fair match. He earned a shot at the brass ring. In a sense he is a relative rookie who will likely work very hard to make a mark. That could be a bit of a refreshing note in a country where too many politicos hang on so long that they seem to have adopted the theory of divine right.
Re Wolve at 2252: I am mighty tired of candidates who are said to “fight” for this or that. It seems every 22 year old copywriter who churns out our disgusting flow of direct mail has to work that verb into every piece of lit that goes into my mailbox. I’ve come to regard it as as much of a disqualifier as pledge signing.
Having said that, Bishop Jackson is a Marine, so he comes closer to having really “fought” for something than do the other candidates (Cuccinelli used to say – or at least let people think – he was a Marine, but retreated from that position after he got called on it).
I didn’t realize Cooch faked being a marine. Too funny. in a pathetic sort of way.
E W Jackson’s principles are not acceptable to most normal people. His comments about the KKK and Planned Parenthood have gone viral. He’s a kook – certainly entitled to his principles. But please don’t try to sell them as normal. Everyone from Kubla Kahn to Napoleon to Geo Washington to the Unibomber and to Obama has principles. Some resonate with more than others. There are also a lot of Marines…
Cargo,
Do you even know what “sharia law” entails?
Why don’t you tell me what it means to you.
@Wolverine
I am basing my feelings on his own uttered words, nothing else.
Ha ha….all accusations of “class warfare” and the war on “job creators” should now be denounced as hypocritical if uttered by Virginia Republicans after this convention. Mr. Job Creator was sent packing and the belly-aching about the “establishment” and praise for the “grassroots” were far too loud to ignore. Anyone who complains about Democrats should be prepared to wear the “H” letter.
@Wolverine
I suppose anyone has a right to run for office. The people have the right to soundly reject that person also.
Would the imperial wizard of the kkk have the right to run?
Interesting , Lyssa. It would seem that, when someone’s principles do not match your own, they are a kook and not normal. Is that how it works?
I think expressing such contempt for gays is not normal in today’s times. When a party is trying to welcome minorities, it isn’t normal to insult them. I am with Lyssa on this one. What Jackson said was extremist. Comparing Planned Parenthood to the KKK was not normal. It means that this candidate knows nothing about the Klan.
This is the person Virginia Republicans have nominated as Lieutenant Governor:
First, Jackson on gays and lesbians:
Referred to gays and lesbians as “perverted,” “degenerate,” “spiritually darkened” and “frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally.”
Said regarding homosexuality: “it poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies; it brings the judgment of God unlike very few things that we can think of.”
Argued that gays seek to “sexualize [children] at the earliest possible age” and use “totalitarian” tactics.
Claimed gays are hurting black women: “I’ve heard a lot of young black ladies that a lot of young black men seem to be gay. I’ve heard them complain about it, they say ‘so many of these guys are homosexuals’ and they are frankly frustrated by it.”
Demanded the reinstitution of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell : “The military has been decimated by this lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender policy that has now been implemented. It’s an abomination and it’s only going to weaken us militarily and they need to undo it,” warning that the policy’s repeal is a “disaster of historic proportions.”
Contended that homosexuality is “killing black men by the thousands” and said of gay rights advocates: “what they’re promoting is killing people.”
Called GLSEN founder and anti-bullying activist Kevin Jennings a “radical homosexual activist” who should have been “imprisoned” in a letter demanding he resign as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.
Said there is a “direct connection” between gays and pedophilia.
Jackson on Obama and Democrats:
Wondered how the Democratic Party “managed to hold on to black Christians in spite of an agenda worthy of the Antichrist.”
Proclaimed that “the Democrat Party has shown itself to be anti-Christian, anti-Bible, anti-family, anti-life and anti-God… We’re calling people to come out of the Democrat Party and not support candidates who represent its values and the rebellion that it represents against God. That certainly would include President Barack Obama.”
Claimed that Democratic Party supporters are “insulting their faith and blaspheming their God” by supporting a “coalition of the godless.”
Warned that ministers who support Obama “are going to have to answer to God” if they encourage “their congregations to support this abomination.”
Said Democrats believe “that the Bible is a lie and indeed they are saying that God is a liar.”
Argued that “liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.”
Maintained that Obama “seems to have a lot of sympathy for even radical Islam” and “clearly has Muslim sensibilities,” arguing that Obama “certainly does have a lot of affection and favor for Islam, that seems to be his priority…Christianity, I don’t really think about that with him, I really don’t, that’s a joke.”
Compared Democratic leaders to “slave masters” who make sure that black people who disagree with them are “punished.”
Insisted that Planned Parenthood “has been far more lethal to Black lives than the KKK ever was.”
Predicted that African Americans will “overwhelmingly” vote against Obama as a result of his endorsement of marriage equality and a move of God to “stir the hearts of His people” and push them against the Democrats.
Maintained that the President and First Lady are both Communist sympathizers who dislike America.
If Jackson even said half of it, he is simply not fit for governance in the state of Virginia. Yea, he is a kook alright. That is just sick, insulting thinking.
Give me one good reason why I would want to vote for him.
Scout — Sorry about upsetting your equilibrium with the use of the term “fight.” Actually, I get the same feeling as yourself when I see political ads with some gonzo telling us he will “fight” for jobs or immigration reform or two scoops of ice cream in every cone. However, I would say that Jackson really did have to engage in a battle of sorts to secure the nomination.
Thats leap. I share some similar thoughts regarding morality but I am not cruel about it, don’t say things out loud like Democrats are the anti-Christ and don’t tell people they’re sinners if they don’t share my beliefs. He’s a nut. Some people are simply nuts. Calling him nuts is a far cry from calling me a sinner.
Moon — I believe the Dems did have a former KKK “wizard” in the US Senate for many, many years. The name slips my mind for the moment. I think he was accorded extensive national honors when he passed.
If you are referring to Robert Byrd, he wasn’t even close to a wizard. When he was a young man he was a simple member for a while in a town where it was pretty much required in that day and age. He apologized long before his death. He certainly did not bring a KKK attitude to the Senate. He is really a hero to many from West Virginia.
Would you prefer that he had been tarred and feathered?
What was it Scout said about Present Chauvanism?
For the record, I have seen the KKK in full dress about 10 times in my life and that includes the Imperial Wizard, as well as the dudes who sat around on dog food bags in front of the grocery store so the blacks couldn’t sit there.
There were towns in America where it was an expectation to be a member if you wanted to do business in town.
I have attended meetings of groups I am not especially proud of myself.
Lyssa — “He’s a nut.” Once again. Whose standards of mental health are we using here? Because he doesn’t agree with you? What is so damned hard about saying simply that you do not agree with the man’s social beliefs or with his take on the key issues of the day?
Its a little more over the top than how you are depicting his words, Wolverine. He insults many of us, including the preident of the United States. He insults us on a level that I find incredibly offensive.
Anyone in politics who draws that kind of a sword in most definitely a nut, regardless of whether I agree with him or not.
You are free to like him. Lyssa and I are free to call him a nut. you can even vote for him. Watch him loose.
The GOP nominee for attorney general, Mark Obershain, has been a champion of the effort to restrict voting through voter I.D. laws and proposed legislation that would require women to report miscarriages to police or risk prison time, among many other extremist positions.
Dark days for the GOP in a moderate state like Virginia.
Yea I heard about reporting miscarriages. What an A-hole. Sorry, I call him that because he made a preposterous, extremist suggestion.
Is there a reason why the GOP wanted to loose?
I have Republican friends who really try to be true to the party. This slate of candidates really causes grief for those who try to be good Republicans.
Geez, middleman, you could at least have conceded that E. W. Jackson, the African-American candidate, is “clean” and “articulate” and a “good-looking guy.”
He isn’t a good looking guy. Shemar Moore (Derek Morgan on Criminal Minds) is a good looking guy. As for clean and articulate, how would I know?
Wolverine, a “nut” could be defined in popular usage to mean someone with very little connection to reality, someone who says things any rational person knows are untrue and silly (see above). This is a definition which Mr. Jackson certainly fits by any objective evaluation.
When you let the extremists that comprise less than one percent of your party’s members pick your candidates, you get nuts sometimes.
Wolverine, you left out “well spoken” in your sad attempt to tar me with the stain of racism. Unfortunately for you, it won’t work since I made no comment whatsoever on the man other than to directly quote him. His words do more to repel any rational human being than anything I could say.
Totally agree, Middleman. I put up his own words also.
In fact, that is one problem with this candidate. IN the video I put up, there are too many racial references. Is this guy going to run on the race card?
I disagree with Mitch McConnell and Mark Waener sometimes but I don’t think they’re nuts. I’ve read a few things he’s said about various groups of people and I find him offensive. Calling him a nut to me means hes out on a limb and screams at anyone who shakes it and calls them sinners. Now THAT’S presumptuous and nuts.
Why, heck, middleman, I was just using words uttered by your Number Two, Joe Biden, about another African-American political candidate. If you equate Biden’s statement with racism, I suggest we just agree then to use Lyssa’s methodology and call Joe a “nut.”
Speaking of Joe, in your effort at an expose on E.W. Jackson’s public statements, you conveniently left off his claim (early on in the attached video) that the Dems are telling Blacks to vote for them because the Repubs want to put Blacks back into slavery. Now, I seem to recall a speech somewhere down in southern Virginia last year where old Joe told an audience of African-Americans that the Repubs wanted to put them back into “chains.” Well, what the hey, old Joe is just a Dem “nut”…and maybe even a “kook.”
When Biden starts pointing at people and calling them sinners and when he calls gays repugnant, then I will call him a nut also.
Actually, Biden is known for sometimes putting his foot in his mouth. Do you think that is what Jackson was doing? Did he put his foot in his mouth and misspeak or do you think he really meant the words he was saying in the video?
Sorry, middleman, but your stated definition of “nut” would still seem to be based on your own subjective evaluation. Can we not leave expressions about someone else’s mental health to the medical professionals who deal with the real thing?
@Wolverine
Perhaps “crackpot” would be more fitting. Then we won’t have to choose side in the latest kerfuffle about the validity of the latest DSM.
Don’t know, Censored. Someone once told me that “crackpot” was reserved for Dems in the U.S. Congress. I wouldn’t want to muck up the ad hominem dictionary.
@ Moon 0821: The whole Cuccinelli flirtation with Marine-ness was very odd, and it may be a bit strong to use the word “fake”. I never was sure exactly what was going on. It came to a head early in 1009 when he was in a nomination fight with John Brownlee for the AG nomination. Some of KC’s early literature had alluded to Marine Corps service and people were beginning to ask questions about that. Brownlee had a clear, unambiguous military record. As the blogs got hold of it, a very peculiar thing happened – Shawn Kenney, a Cuccinelli partisan at the time (and no doubt still) offered a detailed explanation about how KC had indeed been in the Marine Corps, but due to reductions in force in the early 1990s, had been essentially RIFed while he was in law school. Cuccinelli himself, to my knowledge, never offered any explanation. Some commentators urged KC to produce his DD214 to show his discharge status, but, again to my knowledge, it never happened. Brownlee forced the issue in a debate in Roanoke by describing himself as the “only veteran” in the race, and Cuccinelli let it go by. Since then, no claims of Marine status. My conclusion was that Cuccinelli in his early political days was willing to let people believe he had been a Marine, but as he moved up the visibility ladder, he realized it was a precarious claim, Rather than say anything himself, he put out Kenney to make this fairly elaborate explanation that leaves one wondering exactly what his status was (or what Kenney’s status was vis-a-vis KC and why he was used as the front on this). It was all just weird, frankly. Some of this is preserved in the February 2009 Too Conservative archives, particularly comments on the 16th and 25th of that month. No doubt McAuliffe’s opposition research team will be pawing over it fairly intently. Anyone who has some KC lit from pre-2009 will feel like they just discovered a Honus Wagner baseball card in his attic if there are any references to “2nd Lt., USMC” in it.
Why do people try to fake the military? It is fairly easy to check out, isn’t it?