The election for Governor is not until Tuesday. However, all you need to know about how the race between the state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAucliffe is going is that the main topic of conversation between GOP operatives is how this has gone so badly. h
"National Republicans agree on this much about the 2013 campaign in Virginia: It wasn’t supposed to go like this.Well before the last votes are cast in the state’s off-year governor’s race, GOP leaders are already engaged in a spirited debate over why, exactly, a fight against a Democrat as flawed as Terry McAuliffe has turned into such a painful slog of a campaign. Even Republicans who haven’t yet counted out their nominee, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, view the governor’s race as a profile in frustration for the GOP – an election that should have leaned toward the Republicans, but where Democrats have held a persistent lead in polling, money and tactical prowess."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/virginia-gubernatorial-election-2013-republican-ken-cuccinelli-99249.html#ixzz2jVcfJt00
Today I wrote a few posts about the ideology of 'states rights' and how this continues to function for an apologia for what it's always been-reactionary state laws that don't pass federal constituional muster.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/11/on-anti-gay-discrimination-chuck-hagel.html
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/11/roger-shuler-in-jail-without-bail-what.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
While the national party is a mess and seems determined not to take any of the steps that might forestall the bleeding, the state races have proven to be the party's Great White Hope-pun intended-as where they can still find a 'social laboratory' for reactionary ideas and policies. However, Virginia, which has been a reliable red state seems like it may be poised to have no state wide Republicans just like California.
"A Cuccinelli defeat, in other words, would have a thousand fathers. But this much is already clear: the GOP’s accumulated problems in Virginia have brought the party to the edge of a historic defeat in a nationally pivotal swing state, potentially producing a Republican shutout of all five statewide offices (governor, attorney general, lieutenant governor and two U.S. senators) for the first time since the Nixon administration.
Meanwhile, we have the Heritage Foundation assuring Republicans that they really don't need the Hispanic vote anyway so why vote for immigration reform? Just increase the White vote to the level it was at in 2008-the fact that they actually lost in 2008 in a landslide being an unimportant detail.
"National Republicans agree on this much about the 2013 campaign in Virginia: It wasn’t supposed to go like this.Well before the last votes are cast in the state’s off-year governor’s race, GOP leaders are already engaged in a spirited debate over why, exactly, a fight against a Democrat as flawed as Terry McAuliffe has turned into such a painful slog of a campaign. Even Republicans who haven’t yet counted out their nominee, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, view the governor’s race as a profile in frustration for the GOP – an election that should have leaned toward the Republicans, but where Democrats have held a persistent lead in polling, money and tactical prowess."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/virginia-gubernatorial-election-2013-republican-ken-cuccinelli-99249.html#ixzz2jVcfJt00
Today I wrote a few posts about the ideology of 'states rights' and how this continues to function for an apologia for what it's always been-reactionary state laws that don't pass federal constituional muster.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/11/on-anti-gay-discrimination-chuck-hagel.html
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/11/roger-shuler-in-jail-without-bail-what.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
While the national party is a mess and seems determined not to take any of the steps that might forestall the bleeding, the state races have proven to be the party's Great White Hope-pun intended-as where they can still find a 'social laboratory' for reactionary ideas and policies. However, Virginia, which has been a reliable red state seems like it may be poised to have no state wide Republicans just like California.
"A Cuccinelli defeat, in other words, would have a thousand fathers. But this much is already clear: the GOP’s accumulated problems in Virginia have brought the party to the edge of a historic defeat in a nationally pivotal swing state, potentially producing a Republican shutout of all five statewide offices (governor, attorney general, lieutenant governor and two U.S. senators) for the first time since the Nixon administration.
Meanwhile, we have the Heritage Foundation assuring Republicans that they really don't need the Hispanic vote anyway so why vote for immigration reform? Just increase the White vote to the level it was at in 2008-the fact that they actually lost in 2008 in a landslide being an unimportant detail.
You wonder what this might bode for 2014. Yes, it may just be an individual case that doesn't reflect the larger electorate in 2014-though even so this would certainly hurt them in 2016 in trying to get Virginia back in the GOP win column-on the other hand, it may not be.
If it isn't then they're really in trouble as what we're seeing in Virginia is not good-actually it's great for us and the people of Virginia but terrible for the GOP. We saw the rich donors get behind McAucliffe who certainly has some baggage. While most analysis of the unhappiness of wealthy donors with the Republicans in the aftermath of Govt Shutdown 2.0 has argued that nevertheless the donors won't turn on the Republicans totally or at least certainly wont go with the Democrats. In Virginia, however, this is exactly what has happened.
"The clearest battle lines will emerge after Tuesday; but the Washington community has groused for months about Cuccinelli’s history of incendiary, ultra-ideological stances, while rank-and-file activists have watched with horror as well-tailored GOP donors have defected to McAuliffe. Everyone in the party – establishment and tea party alike – has fumed over the ongoing ethics controversies that have rocked outgoing Gov. Bob McDonnell’s administration and undercut Cuccinelli’s anticipated advantage over McAuliffe on personal integrity."
Incidentally, McAuliffe has more than just 'moral integrity, he's an obsessed Puritan who wants to poke his nose into your bedroom and if he doesn't like what he sees, send you to jail.
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