Comments on: Bob Goodlatte ignores fringe

By: Scott Barrios

Scott Barrios — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:08:41 +0000

With respect to “fringe,” what – really – is more .. fringy than a Cal Thomas column? Yes, I know he’s popular, but what’s popular isn’t always what’s *good* for us (Mr. Hitler, after all, won a free election in 1933). In his column published today, he bolsters his argument (the usual anti-Islamic sentiment associated with the likes of Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller) with a discredited conspiracy theory by Bernard Lewis. To wit, based on a strange misreading of Shia Islam, Prof. Lewis became convinced that Iran was going to launch a nuclear strike against Israel on .. Aug. 22, 2006. This is the nuclear weapons program that our CIA says doesn’t exist (yet grandstanding Congresspersons insist is going forward). As for the *date*, who knows what Lewis was thinking? His feat of number-juggling is worthy of Louis Farrakhan’s weird mystical pronouncements. .. In any case, for all of Thomas’ Iran obsession, he remains largely silent about the Saudi-sponsored Wahhabi hate cult. Birds of a feather?

By: dave

dave — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:37:02 +0000

When you belong to something it’s hard to ignore it. Goodlatte has been bought asnd paid for by the “fringe” and he will keep supporting it except when he becomes wishy washy because he thinks it will help him get reelected. It’s past time for us to retire him in 2014.

By: alan

alan — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:58:43 +0000

I stopped voting for Goodlatte when he arrogantly broke his promise to serve a maximum of 6 terms (or 12 years). He has become a part of the political establishment – the very thing he campaigned against in 1992. When he announced that he was breaking his promise he told me that “Democrats don’t keep their promises so why should I?” What a standard of integrity!

By: Ken Wilburn

Ken Wilburn — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:31:40 +0000

Good ole Bob has never met a war he wouldn’t fund. He also ran on “term limits”, which now he doesn’t seem to recognize the term. He voted the straight George Bush line. I think he is ill equipped to help America move forward.