McDonnell Backs Tea Party "Repeal Amendment"

Apparently concerned that he is being upstaged in the lunacy department by Ken "Kookinelli" Cuccinelli, Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell has attended at Tea Party coven and has endorsed the Tea Party's so-called repeal amendment. The irony, of course, is that while the loonies claim to worship the U.S. Constitution and say that it "matters," their goal is to amend it and subvert it. The disingenuousness is akin to that of the Christianists who in one breath claim to honor the Constitution while actually working to subvert it and establish a theocracy. As the Daily Progress reports on the gathering, it's clear that some of these folks are rather delusional and scary. They also are fans of the utterly demented Christine O'Donnell, senatorial candidate in Delaware. Once again, I ask myself the question of how one becomes as untethered from reality as these folks seem to be. They must be serving massive doses of laced Kool-Aid. It is also disturbing that the spouse of a Supreme Court justice is involved in partisan politics - federal judges are supposed to remain non-partisan. But so much for following the rules when one is a nutcase. Here are some story highlights:
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Virginia Tea Party groups on Friday proposed a constitutional amendment to scrap both the corporate income tax and the individual income tax in Virginia. . . .
In addition to the tax repeals, the Tea Party will sponsor a proposed constitutional amendment to make it harder for governments to use eminent domain to seize private property.
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Legislative proposals that the Tea Party will get behind include a bill to encourage education tax credits that would make it easier for parents to send their children to a private school, a bill that would bar localities from establishing sanctuaries for illegal immigrants and a bill that would free Virginia products from federal regulation if the products are produced and sold solely within the state.
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Some attendees at the convention wore "Don't Tread On Me" T-shirts. Many more had "Guns Save Lives" lapel stickers. "Virginia Is For Freedom Lovers" was another popular sticker.
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A booth was set up to sign up volunteers to drive to Delaware to help U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who is backed by the Tea Party.
O'Donnell, who won a surprise nomination in Delaware's Sept. 14 GOP primary, has struggled to explain some of her public statements, such as her admission in a 1999 television program that she once "dabbled into witchcraft."
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Virginia Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and the founder of a conservative website, Liberty Central, LLC., implored the attendees to stay focused through the Nov. 2 election. "The hard left is trying to demonize us . . . ," she said. "We have 24 days to push hard against the radical Democratic agenda." She also urged prayer ahead of the election.