Not a single problem you note in comment #19 would be solved by giving a governor two consecutive terms. (Note for non-Va. readers: An individual can serve two terms as governor, just not consecutively.) The issues you discuss could be solved by strong local representation in the state legislature.

One reason for the law is that in the second term, governors tend to lay back and do nothing but tax the people and line the pockets of their friends. Virginians understand that. We see it happen all the time at the national level (see Bush, George W.; Clinton, William J.). Virginia is a strong state economically and educationally and in just about every other way you could name; I believe that giving a governor just one term at a time forces him to actually do something, because he’ll be applying for another job at the end of four years. If he does nothing, he’ll have nothing on his resume. The law actually encourages better performance from our governors.

Oh, and when contronted that he was punked, he defended himself by saying “we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway” (Yeah good try to save face, what a loser)

After so many years of mis-labeling and mis-characterizing others he gets smacked down by the NFL “Not For Limbaugh”. Way to go NFL, great job!

Why thank you! That’s the nicest compliment that anyone’s given me all week.

“In Hampton Roads,where I have lived for 57 years, we don’t have the roads we need because the power is in the backwards-looking General Assembly.”

It wasn’t the fault of the General Assembly that VDOT took 5 years to finish the I-64/West Mercury Blvd interchange, friend.
A simple cloverleaf interchange…they put those up in SoCal over a weekend; like a concrete toadstool after a heavy rain…Jeeze!

You don’t have enough roads because you have too many people in too small a geographical footprint, (that and too many of you are trying to live in VB and Chesapeake and the Peninsula while working in Norfolk). I spent 2 years tied to the Coal Piers at Newport News and another two tied to the pier immediately south of the NOB’s “Destroyer Row”, (yes…on THAT weird, strange rust-bucket! It’s even weirder on the inside, believe me.).

“Hampton Roads is one of only 5 ports in the entire world that can handle deep water cargo ships. We also have the Atlantic fleet. We are strangling because the General Assembly cannot find a solution.”

What the HECK are you babbling about? You know that I’m a seaman right? I can rattle off 12 deepwater ports around the world without breaking a sweat. And FYI, Norfolk, like most East Coast US ports, needs regular dredging to maintain it at the world-standard 42′ depth. (This is a function of our alluvial geography coupled with founding our cities as far up freshwater as we could to escape the effects of the wood-boring worm on wooden ships’ hulls). That dredging is a subsidy that benefits YOUR rice bowl, primarily.

So you’re the homeport of the Atlantic Fleet…this is a problem? I’m sure that Philadelphia and Charleston would have been MORE than happy to keep THEIR Naval Bases, (And then maybe Friday Afternoons on the HRBT or the VB Toll Road would be better, but you might not have a job, so there ye be).

And while you’re dissing Richmond, let me acquaint you with a nifty little facility that’s up in the Valley between Front Royal and Winchester…the Virginia Inland Port. Are you familiar with it?

http://www.portofvirginia.com/facilities/virginia-inland-port.aspx

What it REALLY does is break the Ports of Baltimore and Philly’s “rice bowls”.

See, Richmond, which you seem to take such a dim view of, pays a subsidy to move cargo delivered to and from the VIP to Hampton Roads.

Truckers get to avoid I-95, (always a Good Thing), and shipping companies don’t have to burn the fuel and sail, (under pilotage, which ain’t free), all the way up the dredged shipping channel to Baltimore.

So that right there is a state subsidy that puts money into the Roads’ economy.

You’re Welcome.

“The only reason Virginia seems to score so well in education is because of Northern Virginia. Without that region the rest of Virginia would rank with Mississippi.”

And you think that this is all about the money? There’s absolutely no impediment under Commonwealth law that I’m aware of that would stop a county or city from setting up a local tax district solely to benefit their own schools.

Jack Herrity in dear ole Fairfax set up a special tax district to widen VA Rte 28, so why this couldn’t also be done for schools escapes me.
Unless you’re more interested in having someone ELSE foot the bill to fix YOUR problems.

But it isn’t really about the money.

This nation achieved something like a %96 literacy rate using little more than a McGuffey’s Reader, a blackboard, and one-room schoolhouses,(but that was back in that 19th century of mine that you disparage so), and the homeschooling people are PROVING that it can be done again.

“Don’t change a thing? King George no longer appoints our Governor, we need to empower a modern executive.”

Take a look around at our bordering states, Harry, which one would you prefer living in?

Maryland? Don’t make me laugh! Their motto is: “If YOU can dream it, WE will tax it”…to subsidize the “Baltimore Lifestyle”, no less.

Carolina? There’s some really nice places there, but thanks…no.

West-by Gawd-Vajanya? They only WISH that they had OUR problems, plus they’re ruled by the Byrd political machine,(so to an extent is NoVa, but nothing like the mountain people are).

Kentucky?

We’ve got a pretty good racket going on here in the Commonwealth, even if nobody gets everything they want all of the time, it’s a darn sight better than anyone else’s juke-joint here in the Mid-Atlantic.

Again…don’t mess with success, ESPECIALLY when there’s no good and compelling reason to do so.

You are never going to win a war with the MSM by arguing ‘social’ issues. They easily divert any answers requiring logic with practiced responses. The Constitution takes less time to read then the average Cosmopolitan magazine, learn it inside and out, be ready to quote it verbatim, and push the argument to force the Democratic party to become the anti-American party. I can not believe the GOP can not grasp this simple concept.

Drivel all you want with a ‘health care’ question talking about LOGICAL solutions such as HSA’s, tort reform, interstate policies, etc. Yes they are good ideas. But in the precious little air time the MSM gives GOP members in on-air ‘debates’, the correct ‘Republican’ version of the bill should be that should NOT be any version to start with, that the Federal government does not have the Constitutional authority to force all Americans into health care. You may actually be able to get some of our citizens to Google ‘US Constitution’ and actually READ it. Force them to argue about the Constitution, plain and simple. Push the buzz words Constitutional Conservative at every chance, and be sure to tag the left properly as Liberal-Socialists EVERY SINGLE TIME.

This is a lame excuse for non-performance of VA governors. Take a look at Sarah Palin’s record of accomplishment as governor of Alaska. In two years, Sarah Palin developed a substantial of achievement. The American media has never touted that record, but it’s been in the Canada Free Press; google it.

A governor who can work with people on both sides of the aisle can accomplish much; a governor with a positive agenda for growth (not increased taxation) and an interest in securing the well-being of the people in the state can do much. Palin did wonders for Alaska in her brief tenure, and would have done much more had Democrats not been hell bent on forcing the State of Alaska to waste its money defending frivolous ethics charges against a very productive governor.

So, these jokers masquerading as VA governors have no excuse for non-performance.

“It is in the inherent repulsiveness of Leftists’ collective personalities and the unthinking inanity of their initiatives that conservatives will be reborn.”

They do remind you of the BORG, don’t they?

“Barrack Obama Redistributionist Government”

Soon to be an embarrassing chapter in American history.

The Obamatrons may think resistance is futile, but we ain’t giving up without a fight.