Graven Craig, Desperate for Any Endorsement, Accepts One From Tom Garrett.

Never-Trumper Lawyer Scrapes The Barrel's Bottom OPINION

Given the clientele the Lawyer from Louisa works to put back out on the street, I suppose this endorsement isn’t a surprise.

If I were a desperate fibbin' Never-Trump lawyah from Louisa grubbing for an endorsement, I still wouldn't look to this fellow. Of course, I am not a lying lawyer from Louisa, so there’s that.

When all the endorsements go to your opponent, and you scraped bottom for an old VCDL endorsement from 2017 and printed it prominently on a mailer to mislead people into thinking it was for this cycle, this is what is left.

Nobody is perfect, but one of the reasons our country is in trouble is we tend to hand power to people with serious flaws. Issues like dependency, personality disorders, lying, obsessiveness, sexual misconduct, cronyism, graft, etc., plague our ranks. These issues generally begin with well-meaning rank and file who tend to personalities rather than principles, so much so that they often overlook serious deficiencies in their candidate. “He may be a _________FIB, but he’s my _________FIB! Fill in the blank. I am not suggesting these men have all these issues, what I am driving at is that we tend to ignore these issues because they are unpleasant. Ignoring them, however, often results in serious loss of right representation.

People with serious character flaws will eventually become liabilities when those flaws become scandal or exploited by our enemies. We have to stop setting up the opposition with opportunities to defeat our conservative agenda by sending weak and problematic elected servants with liabilities that become easy targets to be compromised. It is not good for the candidates, it is not good for us.

Garrett seems to be making a comeback; maybe he has a grip on his professed alcoholism, I sure hope so, but dependencies generally do not go away and return to manifest in other ways. Putting such people back in positions of authority and responsibility is unwise and has been seen to be so for millennia and with good cause. This is not to say such people have nothing to contribute, but I believe we must stop conflating good intentions with acceptable outcomes as a society and as a party. This notion is a favorite of the Left; ‘I believe I can change my sex, I can employ a political system that murdered 100 million people and impoverished millions more, and it will positively impact society. Or we could look at our household where we say we are for small government, remove the gold standard (Nixon), and hand over the fiat monetary system to the monstrous Fed. Or, create new and ever more intrusive bureaucracy like Homeland Security, and then, when power is lost to the other side, it uses that good intention to grab more power for itself and take liberty from us. We never seem to learn this lesson to the glee of the Commies.

The only way to break this pattern is to nip it in the bud, here, now, and at the local and State level. The only way to do that is to stop voting for personalities and vote for principles and a person’s accomplishments and record. None are perfect, but do you want yet another lawyer in the Swamp, one who works to put rapists and child pornographers back on the street, will lie and misrepresent his opponent’s voting record, such as citing legislation that never got enacted and takes endorsements from men who acknowledge their dependencies that put us all at risk, or do you go with a man, Buddy Fowler, who has earned endorsements from the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and many other elected conservatives?

Is this a primary or a crap shoot?

Do you have a gambling dependency? Are you going to gamble away a senior Delegate who sits on essential committees and has a stable and known conservative record for one of two lawyers that will start from scratch against the Leftist juggernaut in the State Legislature? Is voting a crap shoot? Is it wise to base one’s choice on personality? If we engage in these behaviors, should we wonder about our own compulsive behavior issues?

Do your voting habits betray some compulsive behavioral issue? If your candidates have such issues, is it a fair question?

https://oce.house.gov/reports/investigations/oce-referral-regarding-rep-thomas-garrett

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Endorsements earned by Buddy Fowler:

-Governor Glenn Youngkin -Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears

-Attorney General Jason Miyares -National Rifle Association

-Virginia Citizens Defense League -Senator Siobhan Dunnavant

-Delegate Michael Webert

-Delegate Scott Wyatt

-Senate Candidate and current Delegate John McGuire

-Hanover County South Anna District Supervisor Susan Dibble

-Hanover County Sheriff Dave Hines

-Hanover Clerk of the Circuit Court Frank D Hargrove Jr -Hanover Commissioner of the Revenue T. Scott Harris

-Louis County Commonwealth’s Attorney Rusty McGuire

-American Conservative Union Foundation

-American Veterans Vote -Gaydonna Vandergriff

-Virginia Society for Human Life

-Virginia Manufacturers Association 2021 Legislator of the Year