Perriellian Wars
Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District had been long disgraced by the racist buffoon Democrat turned Republican Virgil Goode when Tom Perriello was elected as a non-racist buffoon Democrat in 2008. For partisans, just getting elected and doing what President Obama told him was all Perriello needed to do. For national “progressives” he was a star, which was usually explained to me in terms of how awful his district was relative to how limitedly awful he was.
But