If you're a conservative who has earned the ire of Donald Trump, you might be doing something right.
Virgil Goode, presidential candidate for the conservative Constitution Party, unlocked this achievement by getting his name on the ballot in Virginia. Goode served six terms as a Republican House member from that state, and his local popularity has some Republicans running scared.
As The Donald tweeted on September 7:
The Republicans must get Virgil Goode out of the race in Virginia. He will take votes away from
@MittRomney.
In an exclusive interview with Lawrence O'Donnell on Tuesday's The Last Word, Goode issued his reaction: he's "not too scared."
President Obama and Mitt Romney are less than one percentage point apart in Virginia according to the latest Real Clear Politics poll average. If Goode gets "between 3 to 4 percent in his old congressional district alone, he could get more than 1 percent of the vote statewide," said O'Donnell, basing those numbers on a recent Washington Post report. "That's enough to make the difference in this election."
For his part, Goode says, "We will get some votes from Romney voters, but we will get a lot of votes from Obama voters ... [there's] a lot of straight arrow, yellow dog Democrats who would never vote Republican, but will vote for me."
Virginia is a key state in this year's presidential election, with 13 electoral votes. The third party candidate is trying to make waves around the country, though, with rallies in Ohio and Nevada.
"It's time for grassroots citizens to have a president that's focused on them rather than the super PACs," Goode said to O'Donnell. He is not taking any PAC money for his campaign.
Goode also chastised team Romney "for listening to Donald Trump instead of the people on the street."
"[I will] bring in a lot of conservative voters that weren't going to go vote," he said.
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I just rather liked the way that he talked. Wonder if TV gets reception, down where he lives. I truely thought that I was hearing a form of English that I had not believed existed since 1950. Good for him! Also like his #GetMoneyOut attitude. Loved that he is staying in the game.
Virgil is a direct descendant of the lost colony of Roanoke island, and has been sheltered from the modern world all of his childhood and adult life, waiting to emerge into society with handed down English 16th Century principles of conservatism intact (as per the philosophy of Sir Walter Raleigh), along with that charming accent, Fred.
That is a Soutside Virginia accent. Most of the politicians hailing from the Old Dominion in recent years don't talk like that because most of them like Senator George Allen (California), Senator Mark Warner (Conneticutt), Governor Tim Kaine (Minnesota), Senator Jim Webb (missouri), and even Governor Bob McDonnell (Pennsylvania) are not native Virginians.
#I'd vote for him if only to hear that he refuses this PAC money which is going to be seen in the future much as the Volstead Act is 80 years later.
And that voice; I'd be happy to hear him read out the Richmond Phone Book. Is that a specific Virginia accent or general southern?
This guy was thrown in by the Dems to distract them... while they pound the airwaves with more ads... is Virginia not voting Democratic?
As one man told me once politics is mostly about EGO from a man who ran for a local office once. This is about EGO from Goode. Or else he is being paid off. I respected Goode for over 30 years. Been voting for him as a conservative for years but this is a slap in the face of Conservatives who believe we need to get obama out of office or lose the country we love. Goode really cant after his years of faithful service to Va say anything that would make any sense of this. His sly smirk in the paper shows contempt for what needs and should be done. I have talked to a lot of conservatives and they have a hard time with this too....The only thing this is good for is an Obama victory and Goodes ego or his pockets...its really the only thing that makes sense about it. Somebody has swelled his head or made him mad... This is a stab in the back to other Republicans and independents that have called him f