By Scott Lee
I’m a pretty straight-forward guy. And here, for your consideration, is my list of reasons why Tim Kaine’s political career should come to a screeching halt on election day. I’ll be adding to this list between now and Election Day and you can hear that both on Bearing Drift’s own radio show, “The Score,” as well as “The Lee Brothers” on Richmond’s WRVA. Drum roll, please:
1. Because we only need one Barack Obama
2. Supporting a Cap and Trade energy policy
3. He believes in manmade global warming
4. Advocated for Obamacare
5. For claiming that Obamacare isn’t perfect
6. Left final budget with a tax increase
7. For admitting on WRVA’s “Ask the Governor” segment that cap-and-trade would cause Virginia to lose jobs
8. For trying to raise taxes the first three months as Governor after saying he would not
9. Because he mocked Jerry Kilgore for claiming he would raise taxes
10. Because Kilgore was vindicated
11. For saying we need a “balanced approach”
12. Closing down rest stops
13. The “found” $1 Billion at VDOT
14. Because he told people to “get off the roads” if they wouldn’t support a gas tax increase
15. For saying “Old Virginny is dead” after Obama won in 2008
16. Because Kaine thought Virginia was racist before 2008
17. Letting convicted murder Jens Soering out of prison
18. For wanting to raise taxes even as he runs for the US Senate
19. Because we have enough Senators that want to raise taxes
20. Because the NRA endorsed George Allen
21. Because his final budget lost 97-0 in the House
22. 120 million dollars in cuts to Northern VA schools
23. He called the abuser fees “a significant improvement”
24. For saying “goose pimples”
25. Because he is “doing what the President wants”
26. For claiming he created 2500 coal plant jobs in southwest VA that today only employees 60 people
27. Because he was at a fundraiser in NYC with Planned Parenthood
28. Because he thought “one hand gun a month” was a good idea
29. For supporting unconstitutional “Regional Transportation Authorities” in NOVA
30. Because as DNC Chairman he said, “I am trying to juggle two pretty challenging jobs; it’s not an easy time to be Governor.”
31. Because he has no legacy as a Governor
32. Because he lost Apple’s 1000 job and $1 billion to NC
33. Because in his final weeks of Governor he extended health care benefits to Gays
34. Proposed 1% income tax increase – 5.75% to 6.75%
35. Did I mention his last budget lost 97-0?
36. Attempted to raise taxes on those making as little as $17,000 per year
37. Because Virginia Pilot said Kaine failed at “consensus building”
38. Because “consensus building” isn’t why he failed
39. His left eyebrow
40. Because he told the “Daily Show” that Democrats are underdogs because “they speak for the underdogs”
41. Because he is silent on the National Labor Relations Board lawsuit against Boeing
42. Because he is silent on the Keystone Pipeline
43. Because George Allen was a better Governor
44. He claims to be fiscally conservative
45. Because he doesn’t know what it means to be fiscally conservative
46. He thinks the problem in Washington is lack of civility
47. Because the problem in Washington is spending
48. Because an ad on his Facebook page says “Stop voter suppression in VA”
49. Because claiming voter suppression in Virginia without facts is pandering
50. Because he is a Democrat
51. Because he is not Mark Warner
52. Because is he is like Mark Warner
53. Because cutting your pay by less than $7000 after two years in office isn’t something to brag about
54. Proposing a “house tax”
55. Proposing a “house tax” to pay for mass transit buses
56. Attempting to raise the car titling tax
57. Attempting to raise registration fees
58. Commuting death sentence for Percy Walton
59. Because Percy Walton murdered 3 people: an 81-year-old, 80-year-old, and 33-year-old
60. For rejecting a plan to drill off Virginia’s coast
61. For being a VP option for Obama
62. For being the first to endorse Obama
63. DNC Chairman
64. Because he keeps using the word “invest”
65. Because he running for Senate promising to raise taxes
66. Because admits, this time, to wanting to raise taxes
67. Because when running for governor he said, “We have to learn to live within our means”
68. Because “living within our means” equals raising taxes.
69. Because raising taxes is the same thing as blaming the taxpayer for a spending problem
70. Because he thinks Delaware borders Virginia
71. Doubling the cigarette taxes
72. For proposing diverting $80 million of lottery profits from schools to other programs
73. Proposing to release non-violent FELONS three months early
74. Because FELONIES are serious crimes
75. Signing a smoking ban in restaurants
76. Because restaurants know how to run their own businesses
77. For criticizing Limbaugh for wanting the President to fail
78. For mentioning Limbaugh
79. For bragging in 2009 that the stimulus is working because “7,100 people are going to have jobs in state government.”
80. Because government jobs don’t count
81. Because he thinks government jobs count
