“I have been approached to consider an appointment to the Virginia Supreme Court,” Cuccinelli said in a statement Tuesday evening. “I am humbled and honored to be considered for such a position, but it is not something that my wife and I have previously contemplated
http://www.richmond.com/news/virgin...cle_f1708a66-ab2c-5693-9926-ebab0b9f995c.html ^^
WE SHOULD HAVE ASKED HIM FIRST ????!!
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Looks like we don't even have second-string for Republican politicians in this state. Looks like third-string or junior varsity.
They should take a few lessons from the giants of political history: find or create the leverage, and then offer your opponent one of three choices, all of which you engineered and benefit you. They need to read up on Julius Caesar,* Pompey, Crassus, Octavian, Cicero, Mark Antony. (Well, maybe not Mark Antony.)
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* Do you remember something from high school history class called The First Triumvirate? Julius Caesar approached four men about forming an alliance. The fourth was Rome's greatest orator, a senator named Cicero. Cicero believed in republican government, and turned Caesar down. Of the other two, Pompey was a successful general and had a very large number of troops at his command. Crassus was the a hugely successful businessman, perhaps the richest man in Rome. Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus formed the First Triumvirate--an agreement whereby each agreed not to oppose the other in government. They supported each other in the senate. They worked together. Basically, the three of them ruled Rome by way of their previously agreed cooperation.
Here's the amazing part. Caesar--the architect of the alliance--totally subverted the Roman constitution. In secret, Caesar subverted the Roman constitution, seized the reigns of power, and three men essentially ruled Rome, all while leaving the Roman constitution in place!! To the common people, the Roman constitution was still operational. Of course, the senate figured out what was going on. But, Caesar pulled it off and achieved several of his highest-priority goals.
Now
that was a master politician scumbag.
This bunch we've got ruling us today are rank amateurs by comparison.
Oh, I want liberty and freedom. But, if I'm gonna be ruled by suppressive, repressive, self-interested, power-hungry, arrogant slime, I insist on the best. Insist on the best, I always say.
And, this current bunch ain't cutting it. Not at the VA state level. And, certainly not at the national level. Hillary? Pathetic. She wouldn't last ten seconds against Caesar or Cicero. Jeezus! Cicero out-maneuvered an attempt to prosecute him for the deaths of revolutionaries trying to take over Rome. And, Caesar out-maneuvered a concerted attempt to prosecute him for a number of corruption charges. Hillary can't even out-maneuver a simple question of emails at the State Department. Trump? Puh-leeeze. His tactic seems to be bombast.
No, no, no. This will never do. I insist on being suppressed and repressed by the very best. Not this ham-handed crowd we've got today. They're only slightly better than Kim Jong Il of North Korea. Anybody can tell lies and make assertions. How well can they maneuver? How well can they "set up" their opponent, leaving him only the choices they themselves engineered? That's what I want to know.