Democratic Misbehavior Par For The Course

BVBL reports the foot soldiers of the party of tolerance are tearing it up in Prince William.

No telling how this will play with the average citizen, but my personal guess is the violators will get away unscathed. Likely as not, the abuses will be painted as conspiratorial GOP dirty tricks.

When liberal activists move on an area, they tend to have an advantage because they are willing to do the underhanded jobs that red-state folks just won't do. My experience is from the past few election cycles spent in the People's Republic of Reston, a sparkling sapphire in the blue bastion of Fairfax County in Northern Virginia.

The weeks before the 2004 election provide a good snapshot. I was working with a guy doing signs and flyers. Campaign signs would be put out in the afternoon and evening, and by the next afternoon nearly all would have disappeared. We occasionally would spot the opposition running reconnaissance behind us: A guy in a car would make a call via cell phone about the areas we were hitting, and sometime later all our signs would be snatched up. The day before election day, there were hardly any Bush-Cheney signs in Reston - at least, only a fraction of the ones that had been posted.

The exact same thing is playing out in Manassas Park this week. More here.

I don't know Prince William politics well enough to hazard a guess as to why the Republicans have come under guerilla attack. In Reston we learned to expect it because being a conservative there was like being a coal miner at a polo tournament. We were kind of thankful just to be allowed to breath the same air.

Let's hope the story grows some legs in the next week and the local press picks it up.