Governor: McDonnell over Deeds
1. McDonnell says he supports banning taxpayer funded research that destroy human embryos.
2. He says he supports eliminating state funding for abortions.
3. He says he supports improving our eminent domain law to protect private citizens.
4. He is appears to prefer finding funding options other than tax increases.
5. I don’t want to encourage more liberals and their way of thinking
6. Deeds said something way back during the primary, and now I can’t remember what it was, but I do remember thinking that I couldn’t vote for that.

Lieutenant Governor: Bolling over Wagner
1. Pretty much for the same reasons especially number five, but not number 6.

Attorney General: Cuccinelli over Shannon
1. Ditto above.
2. I like saying his name.
3. He homeschools.

Delegate: Lohr over Hart — This one was the last to be decided. I like Gene. I admire his willingness to answer some “hard” questions on Republitarian and he sounds pretty moderate not to mention honest. I was still on the fence somewhat (but tilting right) until he said this

“I know Bubby and I often agree with him. However, I understand that his role in blogging is usually as a polemicist (sic?). I think you will see and have seen that my views and words are not the same as his; they are my own.”

That put me firmly on the right.

Now, before you start thinking that I’m just saying that, please remember that up until this point I have always voted for Lohr’s opponents. Yeah, you read that right. I voted for Lowell. I thought he was moderate, honest and not really a real Democrat. Not the kind that does things just cause the party says so. Someone who could look past party affiliation and call right right and wrong wrong. A free thinker.

I was wrong.

Or Lowell changed.

Maybe some of both.

But back to the point, I don’t have a history of voting for Lohr. After reading much of what Lowell and Bubby have to say, I realize that it is so very far to the left of what I believe that I can’t vote for someone that wouldn’t distance themselves from that kind of condescending partisan hatefulness. Bubby says it. The party chair agrees. Heh, sometimes the chair comes right out and says it himself. I can’t vote to encourage that kind of thinking. It’s the whole wake up with fleas thing.

Gene, it’s not you; it’s your party.