The discussion of Governor Kaine's blanket moratorium on the death penalty in Virginia is already making its way around the internet. While many may focus on the legal arguments for and against the death penalty, of which there are many, I think Mason Conservative has done the best job of succinctly summarizing the political aspect of this decision.

He writes:

Time and time again, the Governor has gone back on campaign promises and not one member of the media has called him out. The budget is in tatters, he's tried to illegally use lottery money for other expenses, he was the author of the unconstitutional amendments in the Transportation Bill (not even given to the AG's office for proper vetting) that killed all the money coming to Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads, he's proposed raising taxes over and over after campaigning that he wouldn't, and lastly promised not fool around with the death penalty. On every plank that Kaine ran on, he's backtracked and he hasn't been called to the burner once.

MC is absolutely right. The level of cynicism, dishonesty and hypocrisy that has been front and center in the campaigns and administrations of Mark Warner and his flunkie Tim Kaine is truly astounding. Even more shocking is the fact that nobody, not even Republicans, have effectively called them out for it.

Basically, Kaine and Warner believe that the voters of Virginia are not smart enough to listen to whatever their actual positions are, evaluate them, and decide whether or not those policies are what they desire from their leaders. Instead, Warner and Kaine believe that the voters of Virginia must be lied to, for their own good mind you, deceived and placated since they clearly don't know what is best for them.

This elitist liberal attitude comes as no shock to many of us conservatives, as we've witnessed it time and again. But it should come as a shock to the voters of Virginia who were made promise after promise by Warner and Kaine only to have the old switcheroo played on them once these two snake-oil salesmen had actually taken the oath of office.

Today's decision by Governor Kaine is just another in the long line of broken promises that, sadly, will receive little scrutiny. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, Virginia. You can't handle the truth.