{"id":6954,"date":"2010-05-27T23:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2010-05-27T23:37:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:37:36","slug":"jim-mckelvey-flings-some-crap-at-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/27\/jim-mckelvey-flings-some-crap-at-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim McKelvey flings some crap at the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent mailer he sent out, Jim McKelvey tries to say that Robert Hurt is sorta like Tom Perriello. Riiiiiiiiight.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I rarely look at anything political that&#8217;s direct-mailed to me. (Who uses the mail anymore?) A good friend of mine tipped me off on this one, and I&#8217;m glad he did.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, let&#8217;s look at the header on this one. &#8220;What do donkeys and rhinos have in common? A lot more than you think.&#8221; Hardy Har Har. RINO! Get it? \ud83d\ude44 Anyway, bear with me and let&#8217;s look at why Jim McKelvey thinks Hurt&#8217;s sorta like Perriello&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom Perriello &amp; Robert Hurt are both lawyers, and Jim McKelvey isn&#8217;t. &#8211; Oh The Horrors! They&#8217;re both LAWYERS! I wonder how many of those evil lawyers McKelvey&#8217;s had to use in his real estate investments. Yeah, I thought so.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Perriello &amp; Robert Hurt aren&#8217;t businessmen, and Jim McKelvey is. &#8211; OK. Thank you for that&#8230; unless you&#8217;re implying that one can&#8217;t run a business practicing law. Anyway, whoopee.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Perriello &amp; Robert Hurt are both &#8220;career politicians&#8221;, and Jim McKelvey isn&#8217;t. &#8211; That&#8217;s right, folks. We&#8217;re guessing that he means anybody that holds public office can&#8217;t be trusted. You must need the &#8220;Angry Man Who&#8217;s Never Been A Politician.&#8221; \ud83d\ude44<\/li>\n<li>Tom Perriello &amp; Robert Hurt voted for record tax increases, and Jim McKelvey hasn&#8217;t. &#8211; There we go! It took us to the fourth entry to get to OMGWTFBBQ ROBERT HURT IS TEH TAXRASIN ENEMY! I&#8217;ll say yet again that others voted for the same budget, and nobody&#8217;s got the guts to say Charlie Hawkins &amp; Danny Marshall are EVIL TAXRASERS! (because none of them are, of course)<\/li>\n<li>Tom Perriello &amp; Robert Hurt aren&#8217;t for the fairtax, and Jim McKelvey is. &#8211; On the fifth line of this mailer, we get to our first total horsecrap statement. Hurt said he&#8217;s still researching the issue and doesn&#8217;t know. Considering there&#8217;s a 0% chance of the fairtax being passed in the next two years, &#8220;I\u2019m interested in it. It\u2019s the kind of bold thinking we have to have. I agree that we need to eliminate the IRS. Taxes must be simpler.&#8221; is an answer I can accept. McKelvey&#8217;s dishonest on this one.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Perriello &amp; Robert Hurt don&#8217;t support term limits, and Jim McKelvey does. &#8211; Term limits will not work for an individual representative unless everybody is subject to the same term limits (and that&#8217;s never going to happen). McKelvey says he&#8217;ll limit himself to six years. So if he gets elected, the 5th District will go right down the seniority crapper. Thanks, Jim. Include me out of that idea.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Perriello &amp; Robert Hurt (support) giving rights and benefits to same-sex couple, and Jim McKelvey doesn&#8217;t &#8211; Listen, Jim. The federal government&#8217;s got a hell of a lot more serious stuff to deal with than nosing around in people&#8217;s private personal lives. I&#8217;ve got friends who are gay and they&#8217;re just as good as any of my other friends. I don&#8217;t give a damn if your moral compass points them straight to your version of hell. Yep, you guessed it. This issue really gets under my skin. By the way, McKelvey happens to be full of horsecrap on this too. Hurt&#8217;s website says that he &#8220;opposes civil unions&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Perriello &amp; Robert Hurt don&#8217;t support &#8220;allowing police to ask if someone is an illegal alien&#8221;, and Jim McKelvey does. &#8211; I have no idea where this came from. There&#8217;s no cites to prove Hurt&#8217;s opinion on this and I couldn&#8217;t find anything on it. Based on the track record of the rest of McKelvey&#8217;s other attempts, I&#8217;m just not believing this either until I get proof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there we have it. The sad part about this direct-mail piece is that some people actually believe that Robert Hurt is really similar to Tom Perriello. But then some people believe that the moon landing was faked, that vaccines cause autism and that the Dave Matthews Band&#8217;s music is good. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>This mailer isn&#8217;t worth the cardboard it&#8217;s printed on. I feel this mailer is probably the last chance that Jim McKelvey has to try and derail Hurt&#8217;s speeding train. To me, it just paints McKelvey as a man who&#8217;ll do anything to energize the far-right 10% (as in teaparty) into voting for him. It&#8217;s not going to work.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent mailer he sent out, Jim McKelvey tries to say that Robert Hurt is sorta like Tom Perriello. 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