Philip and Sailorcurt have crtainly given our readers a great rundown of all the happenings at the Rally this past Saturday and Matt Gottschalk's professional quality videos and Old Virginian's photography add a great deal of flavor to the vicarious experience of those who could not attend. I'm always kind of struck by the thought when participating in these types of events that I sure do have a good time when I'm mad and indignant!
I have some video footage, taken by the lovely Margie, that I will get loaded onto YouTube and link later tonight.
In the meantime, Greg Stone made a comment in the last entry that deserves some space on the front page.
send Cobb a message:
Dear Chairman Cobb :
You need to take a lesson from Ken Cuccinelli and other Republicans who have the common sense God gave them regarding the Second Amendment and gun rights activists in Virginia.. This Cluster Fox Trot surrounding the 7th District Round-up was a case of Republican leadership being Stuck-On-Stupid.
Lets do the political math shall we ? You had an event where attendance was five hundred people. You held the event at a venue unfriendly to a large section of your base, that being gun owners. Those gun owners showed up in droves, numbering three hundred and fifty, to protest your foolish decision. That means the number of people you pissed off was about 70% of those in attendance at the Round-Up..
I am sure Bob McDonnell and Ken Cuccinelli enjoyed driving past three hundred and fifty of their supporters protesting the selection of a venue in which they were to address five hundred fellow Republican activists. The three hundred and fifty protesters represent thousands more who could not be there in person. Those thousands are now spreading the account of this event all over the commonwealth via email and websites. All of Virginia now knows that some political leaders in the 7th District, have a political tin ear.
So let's review if we can. You pissed off thousands in order to address five hundred.
Political writers for years have been calling the Republican Party, " The Stupid Party " it is decisions such as this, that lend credence to that assertion. Being a lifelong member of the Republican Party , I find it painful to be associated with such massive failures of common sense.
Not only was it a stupid decision, you are doubling down on stupidity and threatening to hold this event at the same venue next year. Amazing ! Stop creating campaign commercials for your opposition.
Might I suggest, you and Congressman Cantor rethink your position, retrieve your testicles from your wives purses and fix this mess.
Sincerely Yours.
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Greg Stone
Lifelong Republican Activist
Member NRA, GOA and VCDL