The loathsome lisper

Hey you know how I said I wanted nothing to do with either gubernatorial candidate? Now I want to have even less to do with one than the other, which kind of makes up my mind.

Yesterday Jerry Kilgore released an ad criticizing Tim Kaine for defending a candidate on death row. Now, I understand Jerry's frustration with due process, and if it were up to me, we'd just liquify evildoers' brains with radiofrequency cannons on arrest (full disclosure: I own stock in a company that manufactures radiofrequency cannons). But seeing as the governor is supposed to, you know, uphold the law, not sneer at it, I guess I'm going to have to go with the candidate who seems to understand that the right to a competent defense--not a particular strong point of Virginia justice--isn't optional.

The Washington Post editorial page calls this what it is: a low-down, dirty smear. Rumors of a principled editorial page in Richmond remain unfounded.

Kilgore is playing to the basest of instincts--first name-calling, now implying Kaine is a friend of murderers. He's an asshole, and as anyone who's seen Team America: World Police can tell you, those don't make for especially dear leaders.