Robert Sarvis, the Fake Libertarian Candidate for Virginia Governor

[Draggingtree]

Ace of Spades:

October 31, 2013

Robert Sarvis, the Fake Libertarian Candidate for Virginia Governor —Ace

Oh, he's libertarian enough as regards the standard policy preferences of the Democratic Mandarin Class.

 

But as Charles C. W. Cooke notes, that doesn't make one a libertarian. You'd expect a libertarian to also speak up in favor of some limits of government power over the individual in areas apart from sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

 

But not this Robert Sarvis character:

 

In a recent Reason interview, Sarvis explained that he was “not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics,” preferring “more mainstream economics” instead. The candidate expanded on this during an oddly defensive interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, in which he seemed put off not so much by “strongly libertarian economics” as by libertarian economics per se. As governor, Sarvis told Todd, he would be hesitant to cut taxes, unsure as to how he might “reduce spending,” and open to indulging the largest piece of federal social policy since 1965 by expanding Virginia’s Medicaid program. I am generally a critic of the tendency of small-government types to try to purge their ranks of those deemed sufficiently impure, but I must confess that this interview left even me wondering whether Sarvis is in need of a dictionary.

 

[SrWoodchuck]

May we call Bobby Sarvis a "stalking horse?"

 

Maybe even a "hobby horse"....if by hobby you mean, making a hobby of drawing votes away from progressive challengers.

 

Who supports this clown.....Soros?

 

For his best buddy.....vile, unethical Terry McAuliffe....

Edited November 1, 2013 by SrWoodchuck

[SrWoodchuck]

More on Terry M:

 

Terry McAuliffe – Do You Believe How Bad This Guy Is? http://www.independentsentinel.com/terry-mcauliffe-do-you-believe-how-bad-this-guy-is/

 

George Soros-backed millionaire, Terry McAuliffe knows how to fundraise and he does it well. He’s the used car salesman who stops by the broken down funeral procession to sell them an overpriced car.

 

He has never held public office and has no appropriate experience to be Governor unless fundraising is now the most important role of a governor.

 

McAuliffe is known to be perennially hyperactive. He watches action movies to wind down at bedtime. When his wife Dorothy was in labor, she ordered him out of the hospital room because he was driving her crazy.

 

He fundraised for Hillary Clinton and once gave her a $1.5 million loan for a house. Being a Democratic loyalist, she is dutifully campaigning for him. Barack Obama, Joe Biden and other like-minded Democrats are campaigning for McAuliffe.

He is the ultimate party insider but he’s not well-liked. John Edwards and other Democrats have come out for Cuccinelli but Cuccinelli trails in the polls. He has a third party faux-Libertarian candidate taking votes away.

 

McAuliffe has played a careful campaign and does not let people know what he stands for while at the same time lying about what Cuccinelli stands for.

 

Millions of dollars are flowing into McAuliffe’s campaign chest from around the country.

 

McAuliffe recently bragged that 72% of his campaign contributors are Virginians. It was a lie. Campaign finance reports show nearly $4 of every $5 McAuliffe raised actually came from outside Virginia. He is greatly outpacing Cuccinelli and using the money on attack ads and flyers. In January through March, McAuliffe raised $5.1 million while Cuccinelli took in $2.4 million.

 

Money and negative campaigning could give McAuliffe the election and Virginia will be the poorer for it, literally – he believes in big spend and tax packages.

In 1997, when he was being probed by the Department of Labor and the US Attorney’s office for sweetheart deals he received, he said, “I’m honest as the day is long,” McAuliffe said in response to the accusations. “The worst thing I’ve ever gotten is a speeding ticket.”

 

Is that true?

 

McAuliffe sold $8 million worth of stock in a Bermuda-based telecom company before it went bankrupt while other investors lost $54 billion.

 

Nothing suspicious there!

 

He runs around with the elite, making deals and loads of money through mysterious investments and machinations.

 

He is an expert at leveraging political favors through business connections, and leveraging business favors through political connections.

 

He founded a bank that loaned money to politicians and when the bank was discovered to be engaging in unsound business practices in 1991, he merged the bank with another and became the vice chairman of the new entity.

 

When his business partner and father-in-law Jack Swann’s bank was seized by the feds, he got an IBEW pension fund to buy up the bank’s $38 million in real estate holdings, receiving a 50% equity stake for $100.

 

During one debate, Cuccinelli said, “It’s pretty rich to have the guy who rented out the Lincoln Bedroom, sold seats on Air Force One, was an unindicted co-conspirator in a Teamsters election law money laundering case be talking about ethics now.”