A bunch of other bloggers including BVBL and Scott White have already posted this, but the impact of it is so devastating that it bears repeating as much as possible.

In 2005, Jerry Kilgore ran a series of ads targeting Tim Kaine's opposition to the death penalty and warning Virginia voters that he could not be trusted to uphold the laws of the Commonwealth.

Democrats claimed that these ads were exaggerated and sensationalistic. Kilgore claimed they accurately represented Kaine's views. Kaine even went so far as to compare his oath of office to his wedding vows in claiming that he would do nothing less than uphold the laws of the Commonwealth when it came to death penalty and would not attempt to override the decisions of Virginia's juries.

Well, it turns out that Jerry Kilgore was right after all. You may recall that one of Kilgore's ads featured the widow of Winchester Police Sergeant Rick Timbrook saying she did not trust Tim Kaine to impose the death penalty on the cold-blodded killer who took the life of her husband.

Unfortunately, on Tuesday, Kelly Timbrook's fears were realized when Tim Kaine delayed the execution of Sgt. Timbrook's murderer, Edward Bell.

I urge you to go here and re-watch the ad. It is simply chilling and perhaps the strongest condemnation of the Governor's dishonest and disheartening actions that can be delivered. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Timbrook family and all other families throughout our Commonwealth who must now wait and wonder if justice will ever be served.

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.

You know, it's been so long since we've heard from him that sometimes I forget that we actually have a Governor.

I guess Tim Kaine came back to Virginia from stumping for Obama just long enough this week to deliver the important message to Virginians that he doesn't have a problem with letting capital murderers off the hook but he does have a problem with law-abiding citizens exercising their Constitutional rights.

That unique brand of moral superiority, of course, comes by way of the Governor's vetoes of these two bills, despite bipartisan support in both chambers for these sensible measures.

Maybe Tim Kaine would be a perfect fit for Obama's VP. They've recorded about the same number of achievements in their illustrious careers. Zero.