POWHATAN: Virgil Goode will never be president of the United States, but that hasn't stopped him from running for the highest office vowing to immediately balance the budget and create millions of jobs.
The former six-term US congressman from Virginia is running for the tiny Constitution Party on a budget so meager he can afford only four staff members. But what he lacks in funds, Goode makes up for in conviction.
"I'm strong pro-life, strong pro-traditional marriage, for a balanced budget now not 10 years down the road and I'm for jobs in America for American citizens," said Goode, 66.
A wiry lawyer with wavy silver hair and a pleasant smile, Goode was at a strip mall in the small town of Powhatan on a recent evening shaking hands and chatting up potential voters.
"I hadn't heard of him. I haven't seen any of his TV ads," said Peter Boss, a Vietnam war veteran, after meeting Goode while dining with his wife Valerie at a local restaurant.
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