Va shows the way

From The Washington Post:

Conservative Republican challengers prevailed against moderate incumbents in key legislative primary elections across Virginia yesterday, setting the stage for a bruising fall election in which Democrats will try to take over the GOP-controlled state Senate by capturing the political middle.

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Two key moderate Republicans lost their seats in the Virginia Senate yesterday: Martin E. Williams (Newport News), chairman of the influential Senate Transportation Committee, and J. Brandon Bell II (Roanoke). Challengers Patricia B. "Tricia" Stall and Ralph K. Smith accused the incumbents of betraying the Republican Party by siding with Democrats to raise taxes.

"The people have spoken, and it is time for a change," said Robin DeJarnette, executive director of the Virginia Conservative Action PAC, which worked to unseat moderate Republicans who have sided with Democrats. "It is time to stop raising taxes in Virginia."

Notice how in the WaPo's eyes if you are a Republican who raises taxes you are "moderate"? Let's at least use the language correctly and call these RINOs what they are, LIBERALS.

The Virginia Republicans have shown Republican parties in other states the way here. Sitting Republicans whose performance is unacceptable can be unseated in primary elections. Right now South Carolina Republicans should be grooming a conservative challenger for Lindsay Graham (R-John McCain) and the same thing should be happening in every state which has a "Republican" who voted in favor of amnesty or who has voted against tax cuts or for gun control or who has consistently proven himself to be insufficiently conservative in any other way.

As I have said before the United States has gone very far down the wrong path. The Republican Party is the only hope of turning the nation around before it passes the point of no peaceful return. This is because the Republican Party embraces the ideas of small government conservatism and traditional moral values and can actually get politicians elected to the legislature and White House.