Comments on: Splitter! http://xrlq.com/2006/09/20/splitter/ Politische Kommentare mit Snarkenremarken Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: aphrael http://xrlq.com/2006/09/20/splitter/comment-page-1/#comment-99317 aphrael Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:21:52 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2006/09/20/splitter/#comment-99317 X: the fact that you will vote for the first and against the second is one of the things I like about you. I don't <em>like</em> the first, but it's an acceptable compromise position. The second I find infuriating. X: the fact that you will vote for the first and against the second is one of the things I like about you.

I don’t like the first, but it’s an acceptable compromise position. The second I find infuriating.

]]> By: Xrlq http://xrlq.com/2006/09/20/splitter/comment-page-1/#comment-97877 Xrlq Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:27:35 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2006/09/20/splitter/#comment-97877 JJV: forget what the Attorney General says. You know as well as I do that he's a political figure, not an attorney rendering advice to a paying client. If - no, <i>when</i> the question of what this amendment's gibberish about "the rights, benefits, obligations, qualities or effects of marriage" means, the AG's opinion will be given zero weight, and even if it is ultimately held frivolous, he will face $0 in malpractice liability. If you're going to poll any Virginia attorneys on the issue, poll estate planning attorneys to see how many are willing to bet their law licenses on the possiblity that that legal gibberish won't actually mean anything. They've got skin in the game. The AG doesn't. Not as an attorney, anyway. As a politician, sure. I don't think you need to lose too much sleep over the prospect of my vote "leftizing" Virginia. According to every poll that's been conducted, a solid majority will vote for <i>any</i> marriage amendment whose first sentence says only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid, no matter what the second sentence says. I'm voting a straight Republican ticket on everything else. JJV: forget what the Attorney General says. You know as well as I do that he’s a political figure, not an attorney rendering advice to a paying client. If – no, when the question of what this amendment’s gibberish about “the rights, benefits, obligations, qualities or effects of marriage” means, the AG’s opinion will be given zero weight, and even if it is ultimately held frivolous, he will face $0 in malpractice liability. If you’re going to poll any Virginia attorneys on the issue, poll estate planning attorneys to see how many are willing to bet their law licenses on the possiblity that that legal gibberish won’t actually mean anything. They’ve got skin in the game. The AG doesn’t. Not as an attorney, anyway. As a politician, sure.

I don’t think you need to lose too much sleep over the prospect of my vote “leftizing” Virginia. According to every poll that’s been conducted, a solid majority will vote for any marriage amendment whose first sentence says only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid, no matter what the second sentence says. I’m voting a straight Republican ticket on everything else.

]]> By: jjv http://xrlq.com/2006/09/20/splitter/comment-page-1/#comment-97851 jjv Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:07:45 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2006/09/20/splitter/#comment-97851 I note that the Attorney-General of Virginia has specifically issued an opinion that neither he nor his office will give the amendment the gloss you have given it on this website, and that it does not do what you say it will. I hate to agree with Ryan Sager but these California emigrants are really leftizing otherwise sane states like Virginia. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-sager25sep25,0,3883887.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail I note that the Attorney-General of Virginia has specifically issued an opinion that neither he nor his office will give the amendment the gloss you have given it on this website, and that it does not do what you say it will.

I hate to agree with Ryan Sager but these California emigrants are really leftizing otherwise sane states like Virginia.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-sager25sep25,0,3883887.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

]]> By: Joel B. http://xrlq.com/2006/09/20/splitter/comment-page-1/#comment-96813 Joel B. Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:34:09 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2006/09/20/splitter/#comment-96813 FWIW, it sounds like Pete Knight in keeping it simple got your vote, which maybe there are more like you, so smart move on his part. FWIW, it sounds like Pete Knight in keeping it simple got your vote, which maybe there are more like you, so smart move on his part.

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