(The New Governor of the Old Dominion, God help us.)

The Carpetbagger won down here. The commentators on the media seem reservedly smug about it. It is an off-election, after all with only the two Governorships up for grabs, and the semi-Republican winning up on the Jersey Shore in that reality show they call the Garden State.

I found out around one AM when a need arose to get out of bed. I cracked the iPad to see what had happened, and saw the results. Close, but the race here went as predicted, and Mr. McAuliffe is our next governor. So is the Progressive who was running for Lt. Governor, who now will be casting the deciding vote in ties in the State Senate. Crap, I have no interest in this state going the way of Colorado, the New New York.

And they just elected a freaking Marxist as Mayor of the Big Apple. I wonder how they are going to like that?

I poured a drink, had a smoke out of the patio, and then took two Melatonin pills and crashed back into numbness. When I was able to rouse, I checked the email. One of my oldest buddies had a rant all packaged for me, and I read it with interest.

Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 8:47 am
Subject: FAT MAN

“Glad the Fat Man got the big win in NJ. He could be the face of the 2016 GOP. I could be wrong, but he could be the guy who stops the Tea Party in its tracks.”

“I sure hope so. I don’t want to live under rule by the Tea Party. These idiots say they endorse the US Constitution? Bullshit. They want us to go back to the earlier Articles of Confederacy or live under the rules of the 1861 Confederacy.”

“Glad that the Carpetbagger beat the mean vile asshole. Cuccinelli’s position on actual issues was nauseating; enough to make a cat puke. Enough to make this Northern boy puke too. Just looking at him was sickening.”

“What an asshole that guy is! I just read that 20% of Virginia voters named Abortion as the #1 issue in the race. Outside of the DC area, you must be living in a state of real dumbasses, Vic. Real dumb asses. Abortion/Gay hating? Lack of a Spiritual Compass. And you were supporting this piece of shit as the lessor of 2 evils?”

“I also read that Tea Party Cuccinelli supporters don’t want to pay taxes for roads? Is that true?”

“Maybe the rest of the state of Virginia does need to secede from the smart educated class of Gov’t workers, like my kids, who live in the DC area.”

“45% voted for the piece of crap? And Vic, you calling McAuliffe a carpetbagger tells me that the Tea Party does want rule by the 1861 Confederacy. Tell me I am wrong.”

“Again, the GOP needs Christie to stand up and then body slam Rand Paul and the other jackasses in the extremist wing of the GOP.”

I had to write him back immediately.

“The fact that Terry Mac is a corrupt sleaze-bag Clinton apparatchik who isn’t from here in no way suggests I endorse a Rick Santorum approach to social issues. I am a libertarian and Constitutional absolutist. I am in favor of Gay rights, ending the War on Drugs, not to mention the other wars except the one we ought to win. I am also militantly against the militarization of DHS and our local police forces, and the rest of the New Security State that seems to think limitless searches of our digital presence is OK, the politization of the freaking IRS, and just about everything else.

Oh, I like women, by the way, and respect however they wish to order their lives and take care of their bodies.

But that also means the government can get the hell out of my face.

For the record, I don’t believe in Unicorns or Pixie Dust as economics, Marxism, Socialism or any other mass delusion.

And yes, with the exception of NoVa, the state is filled with rednecks who do not want to pay for roads in NoVa. Theirs are just fine.

That is why the Virginia Welcome Center on I-95 is in Fredericksburg, an hour south of town. It is two states already. Now we are going to see about what happens with that house that Mr. Lincoln talked about.”

“Vic”

Copyright 2013 Vic Socotra
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