Well, not really to arms, but rather to your local polling place for the Democratic primary to be held here on 10 February 2004.

According to Tim Graham at NRO, the campaign of Governor Howard Dean, M.D. , is looking at our beloved Commonwealth as a place to demonstrate that he can win in the South.

Undoubtedly, some traitor to the Commonwealth has gone and told the Doctor that Virginia "isn't really one of those Southern States, and is a good place to show that you're the man". Initial reports indicate that the rogue in question is former Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Beyer, who was defeated by Attorney General James S. Gilmore, III, in the 1997 governor's campaign.¹ Mr. Beyer has disgraced the long and proud tradition of Democrats in Virginia by associating himself with Governor Dean, and hopefully will come to regret this on a political level.

What do all right-thinking Virginians do? GO TO THE POLLS.

Our glorious Commonwealth in its wisdom does not maintain a partisan register of voters, and the various polling organizations may not require your oath to support the Democratic nominee. If you can find out the truth of the matter, and you can honorably vote for a Democrat in a primary, then I urge you to go to the polls and vote for anyone other than Dr. Dean.

Since I'd like the Commonwealth to preserve its image as a bastion of civilization, sanity, and wise choices for government, I'd prefer that we go overwhelmingly for say Representative Richard Gephardt. Mr. Gephardt is talked about as being the possible alternative for the Democrats, and that is fine. He will, I think, lose regardless, because Virginia, like many other States, will vote to re-elect the President.

General Clark's staff thinks that their campaign in Virginia will come to a good end---this cannot be allowed. Virginia's choice for someone other than Dr. Dean or General Clark will demonstrate that we are an inhospitable place for those who sneer at our Southern heritage or who try to use the military as a smokescreen for a hodge-podge of leftist ideas.

The fevered dreams of Dr. Dean's unwashed legions can be thwarted and the entire Democratic field can be thrown into turmoil if Virginia will reject the candidate of the sordid Northeast. Virginians have a history of causing trouble in the campaigns of those who are ill-suited for government, be they various incompetent governors appointed by George III or sundry officials throughout the history of the Republic.

Our mission is clear, and our cause is just: Send Howard Dean back home with the proverbial bloody nose, bloody mouth, and blacked eyes as the reward for his slurs and the national Democratic Party's slurs against the good and decent people of the Commonwealth. History must demonstrate conclusively that the South is ignored, cast off, insulted, and sneered at by the coastal urban elites at their electoral peril.

1 Sources at the University of Virginia's Cavalier Daily have confirmed the identity of the foul traitor.

This exercise in old-style political bombast brought to you by remembering the kind of florid rhetoric practiced by orators in the 19th century, along with a deep-seating feeling of disgust at Howard Dean hoping to further his ridiculous campaign on the backs of Virginia Democrats. And yes, I'm at least half-serious about people going to vote for Gephardt or whoever's a competitor to Dean. I'd suggest John Edwards as a regional favorite son, but this vote has to count. Hang the national strategy; we've got Virginia's honor to think of.

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