RSS Feed MenuThis weekend, delegates to the Republican Party of Virginia convention have two important decisions to make: who will be the nominee for Attorney General, and who will serve the remainder of the term as Chairman of the RPV. We’ve had a very healthy AG debate, and I’d be comfortable with any of the candidates.
For Chairman, however, the choice is clear: Pat Mullins. Pat has done a great job getting the party back on track after former Chairman Jeff Fredericks was removed in a vote of the State Central Committee. But let’s focus on Pat’s past and the party’s future: Pat has served as Chairman in two quite different counties (Fairfax and Louisa). We’re going to need both, and the types of voters who live in both, to win this fall.
Pat believes in the importance of grassroots development to win elections. He is a conservative and committed to the party’s conservative values. But at the same time, he has a history and a record of reaching out in honest conversation to every Republican who seeks our party’s success, conservative or moderate. Pat understands what it takes to be a viable party in Northern Virginia – and how to make that appeal without giving up our core values. He is the best choice for a Virginia that stretches from Arlington to Appalachia to the Tidewater.
We have crucial elections to win this fall, and we can’t be divided by another argument over who should be the Chairman. Let’s elect Pat and get on with the more important work of winning real elections.
jjv // May 31, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I was a delegate and did not know who I was going to vote for when the time came. His speach got my vote.
LibertyLover // Sep 24, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Catherine Crabill gave a stirring stump speech this summer in her
pursuit of getting elected as a Republican to the Virginia House of
Delegates. She addressed a July Tea Party in Northumberland County and eloquently
affirmed the need to reassert the Tenth Amendment, and if need be, the
Second Amendment. Not very unusual, you might think, for a state whose motto “Sic Semper
Tyrannis” (Thus Always to Tyrants) is emblazoned on the state shield
which depicts Lady Liberty standing with her foot on the neck of a
vanquished tyrant. The Lady is holding her spear with one hand and a
sword with the other. Crabill quoted from Patrick Henry’s famous St. John’s Church speech in
which he proclaimed: “Give me liberty or give me death.” Henry was a
Virginian, and a member of the same House of Delegates (then called
House of Burgesses) that Crabill is seeking to join.
Who would object to that besides an anti-gunner? Well, for openers,
the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, Pat Mullins. Here
is what he said: “We do not condone or support the comments Catherine
Crabill has made. That kind of talk has no place in civil political
discourse. She has received no assistance from the state party, nor
will she in the future.” He is not the kind of leader the GOP needs
an sounds like a RHINO to me. I see the New Majority banner at the
top of the page uses Teddy Roosevelt another progressive? We
just had the worst republican president (BUSH) since Roosevelt and lost
the majority to the democrats. This party to succeed with need to rid itself
of the progressives like Mullins and others or we divide the party and create
a party of choice. You guys don’t have a clue. We the people do!