Let me be blunt.
This whole debate is UTTERLY. RIDICULOUS. PERIOD.
There is no such thing as endorsing a candidate any more. You don't vote for candidates, you vote for party ideologies. ESPECIALLY if you vote for a Democrat - OR you vote for a candidate who cannot win.
Sarvis is more than a waste of a vote. You can jump up and down and scream all you want, a vote for Sarvis is the same as a vote for Warner, and EITHER is a vote to CONFIRM the next Obama Supreme Court nominee, who WILL one day vote to gut the Second Amendment. How many of you have read the dissenting opinions in
Heller and
McDonald? If you have ANY thought towards voting for anyone other than the Republican candidate, you really need to go read those opinions, and UNDERSTAND that your vote for Warner OR Sarvis is a vote that will help those lunatic opinions become the law of the land in the next significant court case.
We are fighting a war of the culture here, and we do not have the luxury to waste a vote on a candidate who has absolutely NO CHANCE to win the election.
I strongly disagree with prior comments that a refusal to answer a VCDL survey is some ominous sign. I really wish VCDL would stop issuing surveys. Individual candidate surveys are worthless. If you are too stupid to figure out the party line on an affiliated candidate, you need to find something more productive - and less damaging to the country - to do on Election Day. One of the MOST Pro-Gun Delegates in the State never returns his surveys, and over the years he has probably carried dozens of bills for VCDL. Go ahead and tell him that he's not pro-gun, or a friend to VCDL. I DARE YOU.
Our political culture has changed. Individual candidate positions are meaningless, ESPECIALLY on the Democrat side. Just look at any of the recent legislative efforts.
Dennis Prager wrote an excellent column about this last week. It would do us all good to read it and alter our behavior accordingly.
We're fighting for the very life of our Nation here. We cannot afford to vote "feel good." We'll be "feeling good" all the way to our own destruction.
TFred