The GOP Dream (Nightmare) Ticket

I keep starting this blog in fits and starts.  Nothing keeps me riled up enough to  continue to devote good time to it's upkeep.  I'd much rather be working in my yard, reading for pleasure, spending time with my family....almost anything than the daily work of the upkeep of a blog.  Unfortunately events keep happening that drag me back to the idea of blogging and blogging seriously.  The GOP faithful selected their ticket this past weekend.  At the top is Ken Cuccenelli - to no one's surprise.  We'll talk about him in other posts.  For Luitentent Goverenor we have E. W. Jackson, the man who got 5% of the vote in his 2012 run for the post eventually claimed by Tim Kaine.  Attorney General is Mark Obenschain.   This ticket leaves no doubt about the conservative direction of the Virginia GOP.  While some thought the GOP might moderate their views after the 2012 Presidential election, the Virginia GOP didn't get that memo.  This ticket is unabashedly conservative and not inclined toward inclusiveness.  It is a small tent.

  

E. W. Jackson was out of the GOP mainstream in 2012.  Now the stream has shifted course and he is right in the middle. The Reverend Jackson is not shy about his thoughts on gays And Democrats.

Here are some of the most alarming facts you need to know about E. W. Jackson:

He has said that gays and lesbians are "very sick people" whose minds are perverted.  According to Reverend Jackson homosexuality "poinsons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies."

He says that blacks who join the Democratic Party are voluntarily selling themselves into slavery

Planned Parenthood is "more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was.

He claims Democrats are engaged in a concerted effort to do away with all symbols of our Judeo-Christian culture - full disclosure - I am a liberal Christian....haven't tried to do away with any symbols that I know of.

He opposed hate crime legislation as a "virulent strain of Anti-Christian bigotry and hatred....I don't even know what that means.

Bottom line: the most Reverend E. W. Jackson embodies some of the most extreme beliefs of the Teapublican party.  He ascribed to the belief system that you are either on my side or you are evil personified.  There is no room for compromise in his system of beliefs.  

The GOP must be comfortable in their small tent, because nominating Reverend Jackson will not get them the black vote and it certainly won't get them independent voters.  

I don't want to spend my time blogging, but the introduction of the GOP ticket means I must speak out for Virginia.  Virginians aren't crazy enough to elect these people......are they?