Tomorrow a three judge panel in Virginia's fifth district will conclude the recount of the votes between Virgil Goode and Tom Perriello. We should have our final House Democrat in there. And he's a Better Democrat, who won in a rural district running against torture on religious grounds. There couldn't be a better capstone to the 2008 House races.
Better Democrat Tom Perriello, who has a big deal of his Catholic centered approach to 'the common good', is now under attack by the lovely Republican Virgil Goode. According to Goode, Tom's a New York lawyer, his skin is dark, he's bearded, and he's a liberal who loves amnesty for illegals and gay marriage.
I'm actually kind of impressed with the lack of subtlety here. Usually you don't get all the bells and whistles in one ad, with Tom being dogwhistled as a terrorist, an evil Jew, a sleazy gay, and a generally subversive character. Here's what he actually looks like (h/t Jason C.):
Censorship may not be a viable or appropriate solution, but do any of us honestly believe that the ready availability of internet porn is not destroying something sacred within us?
There's lots of stuff that undermines women's rights, sexual health and 'the common good', from legal economic penalties to cultural norms to the sick gender bias in politics and the corporate world to creeps in the media like this guy.
I can't quite figure out what annoys me so much about his piece. Perhaps one has to run in a rural district by scolding anonymous straw men who don't think porn is a big deal as Godless. And I hope he wins, since his opponent is Virgile Goode.
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