Chuck Smith, former Virginia Beach GOP chair, but more importantly, current RPV “Welcoming Committee” Chair, has just endorsed Amit Singh to be the GOP nominee in the 8th Congressional District.
I am proud to support Amit Singh as the Republican candidate for Virginia’s 8th Congressional District. Amit embodies the strength, values, and vibrancy of the Republican Party of Virginia. He has the ability to reach out to the young and diverse population of Virginia and the 8th District.
The “Welcoming Committee” of the RPV is effectively minority outreach. For Smith to endorse Singh, it demonstrates RPV’s commitment to the big tent, but it is also somewhat of an overstep by Smith. Typically, party officials do not get involved in primary battles.
Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. 
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Amit Singh supports Ron Paul.
Amit goes around campaigning calling the Iraq military operation “operation babysitter” and says McCain is running for “baby sitter in-chief”. He has more in common with Barack Obama than with the Republican Party. Who is this nut who endorsed him?
I’m personally not familiar either way with past precedent on central committee endorsements, but just one observation. The fact that a fellow republican is compared to obama in one post (having more in common with him then a “true” republican) simply because he has problems with the current execution of Iraq is quite telling and troubling. This is the problem that the party has had the last 6 years or so. The only issue is towing the party line on the war. Anyone who disagrees is banished, but as long as a candidate passes this litmus test, they are free to do anything else. And in doing so, we don’t care if republicans actually believe in small government anymore. Spending has exploded at the fastest rate since LBJ under Bush and the repub congress’ watch, and now the fact that the dems can even make the claim that they are the fiscally responsible ones shows how much the party has strayed. What does it mean to be republican anymore? Until the party wakes up and starts focusing on limited government principles again, which is what Singh is advocating (by the way this is what made the party successful under Reagan, Gingrich, and Dick Army), we deserve to keep losing, because the democrats will always out promise the republicans on handouts and there is no contrast in voting for a republican if all they offer is watered down democrat social programs. Then the economic problems we have are blamed on the “market” when in reality, they are exacerbated by republican government intervention. But that doesn’t matter, because we just gave the dems the mandate to go ahead and march towards even bigger government.