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As Virginia’s statewide campaign winds down, it’s a time for reflection . . . what’s been your favorite gaffe moment? There are many, to be sure. But we took the painstaking task of narrowing it down to seven. Creigh Deeds and Jody Wagner star in three each. All but one are below in video or audio form, and there’s a link to our original report for the other. If you need a refresher, feel free to review them again — or watch/listen/read them again for old times sake and a good laugh. Or, if they are burned indelibly into your mind, vote straightaway. If you have another nominee, feel free to cast a write-in vote in our comments section. However, as tempting as it is, votes for the Deeds, Wagner or Shannon campaigns as a whole are not allowed. It’s just not fair. Feel free to forward or share this link (especially to undecided voters).

The Deeds Dodge on taxes.

Marriage should be between a man and a woman except you shouldn’t discriminate against same-sex couples.

I feel strongly both ways on the public option.

Steve Shannon’s “Jeopardy!” moment. Where’s Alex to make him answer?

Jody Wagner will have a lot of time to spend looking for the Lt. Governor’s Mansion.

AUDIO CLIP (8:34): Jody Wagner’s Rambling “Let’s Be Clear” Interview With WRVA’s Jimmy Barrett (click here).

BLOG POST: Jody Wagner Sticking With A VEA Accusation Against Bill Bolling That Even The VEA Retracted And Apologized For (read here).

U.S. Representative Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) tells Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) what’s in his bill, reading from the precise page, to prove the chairman did not know what’s in his own legislation!

Nothing like the federal government, without reason, yanking you from your private insurance plan — even entire employer benefit plans — and sticking you on the post office, errr, “public option” plan. 

This is reassuring! Congressman Mike Rogers had to give a remedial bill reading lesson to the committee chairman on what’s in his own bill!

It is perplexing that voters don’t want to believe what the extreme left admits about their own policies. Of course, they will, when necessary, obfuscate what they believe to appear “moderate.” But during the campaign last year, Barack Obama said he wanted “to spread the wealth around,” yet no one wanted to believe that he wanted to “transform America” into a socialist economic model, even though those phrases are right of the socialist playbook.

He even wrote in his autobiography that in college he chose as his friends Marxist students and professors. We all know about his adult friends in Chicago. But still, there were those who insisted he was a “moderate” who wanted to cut government spending.

Now, we have the ultra-left winger, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of one of the most powerful committees in Congress, telling a supporter of the single payer health care system — that is, government-run health care — he wants single payer but doesn’t have the votes for it. Instead, he says, let’s fool America with a “public option,” let it grow, then go for single payer later.

Earlier this week we posted a statement from Rep. Frank, again, right from the extremists’ redistributionist lexicon. Now we have the video of him speaking plain and clear. Warning: Believe what he says they will do!

First things first. Barney Frank elaborates on the virtues of incrementalism needed to achieve socialized medicine to a leftist zealot who wants it all now. Warning: Believe what these guys say they will do.