An insightful email went out yesterday to all the delegates attending the Republican Convention. The 9th District of Virginia – which includes Patrick Muldoon’s hometown – declared their full support for Bill Bolling and called on Muldoon to “stop his slash and burn campaign of distortions against our friend and fellow conservative, Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling.”
These are the folks who know Muldoon best. They’ve watched his failed attempts at elected office time and time again. They know that in the three times he’s run for public office, he’s never even carried a precinct in his home county of Giles in a general election.
And now they’re calling him out on his lies and distortions.
As they put it, “he has allowed himself to be manipulated by a small faction within our party and is now running a personally negative campaign against one of the most reliable conservative voices our party has ever had in Richmond – Bill Bolling.”
I don’t need to recount the list of all the ways Bill Bolling is one of the most genuine conservatives serving in office right now. Virginia knows Bill Bolling. This is why Muldoon’s attacks are so outrageous. Tell me how someone with a 100% pro-family voting record from The Family Foundation could be considered “Planned Parenthood’s Favorite Republican.”
Obviously Muldoon is desperate. He’s scrounging for anything he can throw, and coming up short-handed. So he resorts to making things up. And he has good reason to be panicky. Any guy who can’t even get his own home team to support him has major problems from the get go.
Personally, I don’t blame his home district for making it clear that just because he’s from there, doesn’t mean they support him. I mean, would you want to support a guy who is so backward in his views that he says, “You won’t hear me suggesting that if you’re sexually active, you should try condoms”? So then, if you choose to have sex, I guess Patty boy thinks it should be unprotected.
Convention-goers can watch in amusement as he sends out his pathetic daily rants against Bill Bolling. We’ll see if he can come up with enough garbage to continue having something say each day between now and the convention. But, like the 9th District, most of us just wish he’d knock off his “offensive and dishonest” attacks, grow a little integrity and just sit this one out.
