Virgil Goode campaign touts ‘real America and real Virginia.’
Virgil Goode campaign touts ‘real America and real Virginia.’
Yesterday at a campaign rally, Virginia Del. Don Merricks (R) spoke about his support for Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA), echoing recent remarks by McCain campaign surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer that “real Virginia” is only where McCain is winning. Both Merricks and Goode implied that the “real Virginia” is where people are “philosophically in-tune” with Republicans:
Merricks: There’s a lot in the national headlines about real America. Folks, this is real Virginia, right where we are. And Virgil represents real America and real Virginia.
Goode: “I can’t tell you how important it is to have a philosophically in-tune group representing you in the Virginia General Assembly. They work together well. You can go up to Fairfax County and they probably got 4 or 5 different factions up there.
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While running for the Senate in 2006, Republican George Allen told a man of Indian descent, “Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia.” In recent weeks, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has also been claiming that only some parts of the country are “pro-America.”
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Virgil, ‘real’ Americans don’t buy in to your bullshit and racist views.
Go join Uncle George in making racist remarks or just STFU.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:49 amIt’s a new day, Virgil, wake up & smell the liberal votes!
Don’t rats typically jump off a sinking ship?
October 24th, 2008 at 9:52 amAnd how much money has been funnelled into the campaign of Goode’s opposition since these statements?
October 24th, 2008 at 9:55 am“Virgil Goode campaign touts ‘real America and real Virginia.’”
– - Unfortunately, the UNAmerican part of Virginia is home to CIA Hdqtrs. in Langley, McCain’s residence and McCain’s national campaign headquarters.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:59 amDividing the country wasn’t enough, now they want to ideologically split the individual states?
There’s a recipe for congressional success.
If I were an democratic congressperson in the state, I wouldn’t lift a finger to help Goode’s constituents by supporting anything he authored.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:59 amWe bring you now to our live feed at the local KKK rally….
October 24th, 2008 at 10:00 amDon’t they know that the pendulum also swings back? And that it’s already reached its peak?
This kind of rhetoric is nothing but preaching to the choir. Wanted to piss off the independent or undecided voters? Just keep talking.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:03 amYeah, I mean, you wouldn’t want anyone breaking away from the herd and actually THINKING for themselves. Groupthink is definitely the way to go.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:03 amDoes ‘real America and real Virginia’ also include ‘real white’ and ‘real christian’???
October 24th, 2008 at 10:12 amceltic cynic Says:
Does ‘real America and real Virginia’ also include ‘real white’ and ‘real christian’???
If they re-elect him, into what looks to be an overwhelmingly democratic House, there’s another to add to the list: real dumb.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:16 amWhat is the real America?: more war, make the rich more rich, ship more jobs over seas and gut the Constitution and The Bill of Rights even more, and hate anyone that’s not white and heterosexual?
October 24th, 2008 at 10:21 amVirgil can host a reality show after he’s turned out to pasture in November…
October 24th, 2008 at 10:22 amSurvivor: Tobacco Road.
He and his fellow losers can sit around in a broken down tobacco barn, shivering and plotting against each other.
The winner gets a million packs of cigarettes.
I love my country.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:25 amI fear my government.
I love my country IN SPITE OF people like Virgil Goode, not because of them. It’s bigots like Goode who aren’t “real” Americans — they do NOT represent “real” America, a country that stands for freedom, liberty, escape from oppression, opportunity, diversity, and equality (well, my hope is it will stand for these things again soon).
October 24th, 2008 at 10:25 amSorry Virgil, Americans are ready to sack the Republican Party and their corporate Trojan Horse in the White House.
Jump on your ship and go sailing on real Virginia’s Smith Mountain Lake.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:26 amSo Virgil advocates an exclusive form of groupthink hostile to fellow Americans as the tonic for what ails our government. This is how lynch mobs form, not to mention packs of lemmings. Good grief central VA, vote this clown out.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:26 amThis is turning out so great, it’s making me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. They don’t have a national message anymore. They don’t have a cohesive set of talking points, so they’ve got to actually speak their minds and show us all the ugly.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:32 ama little help for the geographically challenged:
Real America =
The area of continental North America circumscribed by Canada to the North, Mexico to the South … the states of Alaska and Hawaii … the territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Midway Islands, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands, Kingman Reef, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll- … US Embassies and military bases.
Please let me (and those who define Real America as people who define themselves as Cultural Conservatives) know if I missed anything.
Next I’d like to define “Real Stupid.”
October 24th, 2008 at 10:32 amAs a native Virginian, I can tell you that this “real Virginia” crap doesn’t fly here at all. Look what happened to our little “Macaca”. These people are delusional.
There are disparities between different parts of Virginia to be sure and I was embarrassed to find out that the rodeo scene from Borat was filmed here, but this appeal to the lowest denominator stuff does not work on a broad scale.
Virginia has evolved well beyond these “leaders” and they are the only one’s who don’t know it.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:50 amLoser is as loser does…
October 24th, 2008 at 10:53 amThe whole “real America” and “pro-America” vs “anti-America” theme is simply a variation on the fascist flag waving that Bush rode on. It is an attempt to claim that if you floow these politicians and this political agenda then you are patriotic and show your love for America, and anyone else is simply not “American”. The root of this rhetoric is to build fear and mistrust of anyone around who does not hold the same ideology, and, as has already been noted many times, is part of a divisive approach that intends to directly build up hatred for those who are “different”. At this point, the republican party is trying to incite their base to a level of hatred that erupts in actual violence. Any who fall for it show themselves to be what they are, and it is THEY who end up being anti-American through their actions that show contempt for the Constitution and the principles on which this country was founded (let us note that those priciples were, and are, LIBERAL, which is what the founding fathers called them).
October 24th, 2008 at 10:55 amKay; I love my country, but I HATE my GOP-Nazi government.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:14 amThat’s “pro-Amerikkka,” dahlin…
October 24th, 2008 at 11:15 amHey Virg, are you about to have YOUR ‘macaca’ moment?
October 24th, 2008 at 11:17 am@ 22, Uncle Ho says: Kay; I love my country, but I HATE my GOP-Nazi government.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Ho, I love the country, too. What I hate is the corporate state, to the maintainance of which BOTH parties are inextricably linked, inevitably collusive, and corrosively complicit.
As long as Corporations rule the country, ‘fascism’ is the inevitable result. I do not look to Obama to rein in the power of Corporats to control our destinies…neither should anyone else…His loyalties are bought and paid for, and the folks writing the checks EVERY DAY, EVERY MONTH–not one-time citizen donors, but the BEEEG MONEY–are the ones to whom he (they ALL) owe their fealty…
October 24th, 2008 at 11:19 amit is all part of an old fashion line of political attack. in a time of transition, hearken back to some kind of glorified golden era to play with people’s fears about change. but it also feels so much worse than that to me. what it is … is a whole mess of issues jumbled into one and impossible to extract on a broad scale. what it also is … is unable to provide a realistic vision to extract us from the current great big mess we find ourselves in. if this is going to be the primary direction of the Republican Campaign strategy going into Nov. 4, then they are going to exacerbate a process that will soon confront them with some very harsh realities.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:25 amOh, well when you explain how you’re using the word “real,” “it” makes a whole lot more sense.
Depending on the meaning of “it” anyway.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:27 amtokin librul Says:
I do not look to Obama to rein in the power of Corporats to control our destinies…neither should anyone else…
October 24th, 2008 at 11:19 am
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Nor do I. One election will not affect the corporate-governmental complex. This type of long-term change is something we have to promote as citizens. And I believe we do have the power to change it through what we purchase, where we purchase it, and what we refuse to let these corporations get away with.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:31 amReal America, huh? I guess they’d be talking about the red states here. Hmmm…
Guess they don’t want some liberal, yankee NYC or plastic LA ‘fake Americans’ telling the south and the ‘heartland’ what to do with themselves.
Fair enough. If that’s the case, then stop taking in federal money. Why should the blue staters, the ‘fake’ Americans, keep sending the red states money?
Here’s a link to the US census bureau that shows the amount of federal funds each state gets annually, 2007 being the last year data was available.
Funny, it looks as though we liberal fake Americans are subsidizing these real Americans. How can that be?
http://www.census.gov/govs/www/cffr.html
October 24th, 2008 at 11:53 amSometimes I think Virgil Goode Ol’ Boy is just a character out of Dukes of Hazzard. But, maybe Virg is just another example of where ‘Dukes’ got their characters.
October 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pmThese main-stream Republican talking points about “Real Americans” and the worry over whether liberals harbor “anti-American” views highlight important concerns about how they govern when they are in control. They do not strive for consensus, they freeze out points of view which conflict with their narrow world-view. They justify this in their own minds by dismissing all other ideas as ‘un-American’. Thus Katrina did not call for a massive effort to rescue fellow Americans from a natural disaster, it was seen as (at best) a tedious bail-out for a huge population of ‘others’ (who probably shouldn’t have been living there anyway and certainly shouldn’t expect ‘Real Americans’ to pay for them to put their lives back together ), or (at worst) an opportunity to gain political control over an area which looked as if it might lose enough of its ‘other’ population that it might now be a stronger Republican area. The period from 2000 to 2006 showed exactly how little cooperation they exhibit when they are not forced to work in a bi-partisan way.
When they see some parts of America as ‘Real America’ and others as ‘un-American’, when they consider some Americans as ‘True Americans’ and others as harboring anti-American views, we should understand that they will govern this way and pursue policies which benefit only those who share their views at the expense of the population as a whole.
Democrats understand that Americans WANT the things they offer (Universal Healthcare, Social Security, public amenities, worker protections, environmental protections, civil liberties). Republicans dismiss these ideas as ‘socialist’ and their advocates as ‘anti-American’. It is time to say, loud and clear, that the things that Americans want cannot be un-American if it is Americans that want them. Republicans are not empowered to declare what is or is not American.
October 24th, 2008 at 12:28 pmVirgil needs to tell bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley that he is not a real Virginian.
Doesn’t the name “Virgil Goode” just sound straight out of “Deliverance”?
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