Citizen Tom

Whenever I need to exercise my eyeball muscles, I visit Too Conservative. Invariably, I begin rolling my eyes. Such was the case when I read this post on Faisal Gill’s candidacy.

The fun at Too Conservative revolves around the comments. Except as a means for starting and perpetuating controversies, the posts on Too Conservative do not seem to serve much purpose. So I always read the comments.

Loudoun Insider set the stage for the comments with his last remark.

I really can’t believe this guy (i.e., Faisal Gill) is still being taken seriously as a candidate.

That, of course, aroused the omniscience of NoVA Scout. Consider how he began.

The persistence of the Gill candidacy is easily understood in terms of internal PWRC politics among a core group of about a dozen people, lavish donations by Gill to a few dubious personages in that wing of the Party, and the magical mind-fogging incantation of the anti-tax mantras that put virtually everyone with hands on the nominating levers in an IQ 80 trance over there.

NoVA Scout (also of Too Conservative) then goes on to list most of the top figures in the PWC GOP plus Lt Gov Bill Bolling and accuses them of being bought off by Faisal Gill. So begins another episode at Too Conservative, that website that describes itself as providing “A Northern Virginia Republican Viewpoint.”

Charles, of Two Conservatives, then adds his own comment. He patiently explains that if all it takes is “guilt by association” to disqualify someone from running for public office, then none of our candidates are any good. Though well-intended, Charle’s effort is futile. Loudoun Insider will have none of it, and he refers Charles to Black Velvet Bruce Li. Black Velvet Bruce Li has provided proof of Faisal Gill’s guilt.

At the very least this guy has shown an extremely bad knack for hanging out consistently with questionable characters.

Then outsidethebeltway adds this incomprehensible thought.

There is no doubt Gill worked for and is associated with organizations supporting terror. It doesn’t matter if he didn’t know anything about their activities, for one, he’s an idiot if he didn’t know his boss was a terrorist, and further, the GOP shouldn’t stand for anyone even smelling of terrorist association (at any level) running on the Republican ticket for elective office. PERIOD.

It doesn’t matter if Gill knew? Don’t terrorists who are actually in the United States hide their associations with terrorists organizations? Otherwise, would not our government arrest them?

Charles then tries again to patiently explain the logical conundrum posed by “guilt by association,” but it is hopeless. Effectively, Loudoun Insider avoids the issue; he responds that Faisal Gill is guilty because Loudoun Insider does not like his associations.

Gill associated then, and does till this day, people who are intimately tied to designated terrorist supporting groups.

Of course, by defending Faisal Gill, Charles also associates himself with Faisal Gill. Hence the origin of our last remark by outsidethebeltway.

I’ll be interested to see how many actual GOP voters show up for Gill at the convention… my guess is very few- word is he’s getting a bunch of “voter registration ballots,” which doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand those aren’t active Republicans supporting him. But don’t worry about it LI  Charles is a Gill sycophant, and hence, should be held very close to any GBA Gill is associated with, since he refuses to “read between the tea leaves.”

In spite of evidence to the contrary, some people will believe what they want to believe, and that is truly scary. That is why we require hard proof and why we should not be satisfied by something so intangible as “guilt by association.”