Kaine verses Kilgore: ads no comparison

From the campaign ads for the Governor of Virginia, you'd think that Jerry Kilgore was as mean-spirited and unconscionable as Karl Rove. Not even for Hitler? I've seen the anti-death penalty commercials. There are several reasons I have a problem with the Hitler commercial. The first is the obvious reference to making Tim Kaine seem worse than Hitler for opposing killing as a punishment for killing. The second one is expecting him to make exceptions to his moral belief that the death penalty is wrong. So, he doesn't believe in the death penalty, but he's supposed to make exceptions to it based on popular opinion? Do these people even know what principles are? You don't "believe" something only part of the time.

What makes people so ignorant as to believe that the death penalty is justice? The death penalty is REVENGE, pure and simple. Revenge is not justice. Killing someone to show that killing is wrong is absurd. Most of you death penalty folks are the ones who are bitching about taking down Ten Commandments displays in courthouses. What part of "Thou shalt not kill" don't you understand? It doesn't say, "Thou shalt not kill except..." You are not Christians. Real Christians don't pick and choose what parts of the Bible to believe. Is Virginia a state full of hypocrites? Only an election will tell.

Kaine's response ads are pretty good. He simply says that he will uphold the death penalty because it's the law. Have we lost faith in the rule of law? Kilgore's campaign must believe the populous is so stupid as to think that the Governor makes laws. People who don't understand the separation of powers shouldn't vote, because they obviously have no clue what they are voting for.

I don't feel sorry for that woman in the ad whose husband was murdered. She is using his death for political gain. I don't feel sorry for that guy who lost his son and is doing the same. These ads are offensive and appalling. Virginians would be foolish to vote for Kilgore, who apparently has fewer scruples than anyone had realized.