Comments on: GOP Showing Signs of Life in Virginia Governor’s Race

By: myth buster

myth buster — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:20:07 +0000

You guys sure are right about Jersey, which is why my dad works there, but he lives in PA.

By: Ed Wallis

Ed Wallis — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:18:23 +0000

#18 newton – that’s what ALL the other Virginians think of “us”…HEH.

WRONG!

By: newton

newton — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:27:28 +0000

Not Virginia. Not this year.

Why? Two words: Northern VA. Too darned liberal. Too populated – especially with too many liberals from the Northeast and CA. As a result, it is too Democrat. And too filled to the brim with bureaucrats, from head to toe.

Who wants to give up the government gravy train there, really?

By: Ed Wallis

Ed Wallis — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:19:17 +0000

#13 Derek, Don’t forget that Virginians in the recent past have been “informed contrarians.”

Let the rest of F#in’ America continue to drool over Obama at an unnamed burger joint in Arlington.

We tend to look at “checks and balances” (the bright side of the “gridlock” coin) keenly.

The canary is singing Republican here.

Depends on the “Chicago” spending here in the next months….

By: Bob in VA

Bob in VA — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:42:26 +0000

Wake up, Virginians. Would you seriously vote in a political opportunist like Clinton retread McAuliffe? This is a sheer out-and-out power grab. Don’t we have enough of them littered througout Obama’s administration? Change like that we don’t need. I could barely stomach Webb’s opportunism (since he couldn’t butt his way onto the Republican ticket, he switched sympathies, ala Specter, and ran on the Democratic ticket – so much for his thanks to Reagan). Warner was a competent Blue Dog Gov but I’m worrying about him, too, now.

By: Bilgeman

Bilgeman — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:32:47 +0000

#13 Derek:
“Downstate is Hampton Roads and Richmond”

Nope…Norfolk is Tidewater, Richmond is more in the Downstate.

But don’t forget Danville, Roanoke, Bristol, Petersburg and even Charlottesville, (which is an island of Blue in an ocean of Red).

“You want a real dose of history? VA has elected only 5 republican governors in the past 100 years. 23 DEMOCRATS.”

A Virginia Democrat prior to 1985 or so was about the most conservative breed of political critter imaginable…Klansman Robert Byrd, for example,(while from West-by-Gawd, the scion of the Byrd Dynasty), who the hell does he think he’s fooling?

And Kaine, Warner and Webb don’t “fit” well with the Alleged Hawaiian and his O-bots.
THEY won their elections before Obama was even thought of…and they did it by running and governing as moderates. I don’t think Old Dominion Democrat candidates are going to be happy with Obama hanging around their necks.

You?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:16:58 +0000

Donna V wrote: “One really frustrating feeling I have as a conservative is watching the GOP fiddle while the country burns and our rights are assaulted.”

Donna, it sounds like you are ripe for getting involved. Why don’t you start a committee to support Shelia Bair, head of the FDIC, for president? She is able to out-charisma Obama and has the best chance of winning of any other of the commonly mentioned potential candidates.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:34:04 +0000

The Governor’s seat has been blue in VA for the past 2 elections. 5 of the last 7. I wouldn’t count on that “world of difference” or “obama’s not on the ballot” ridiculousness in light of that. The fact is, VA isn’t afraid to vote democrat for governor (including electing the nation’s first black governor), so you can’t take anything for granted. Obama didn’t need to be on the ballot to get Kaine, Warner (as governor), or Webb elected in the first place.

You want a real dose of history? VA has elected only 5 republican governors in the past 100 years. 23 DEMOCRATS.

But outside of that, I actually agree with this assessment. This is a great place for the GOP to look to pick up a seat. Tim Kaine’s popularity is shrinking (and really he rode Warner’s record to office in the first place) and the dem candidate isn’t a strong one. But like NY-20 it’s the type of pickup that you can’t afford to miss. It’s another seat that says “if you can’t win this, then maybe you should give up.”

And @ 9

Downstate is Hampton Roads and Richmond

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:17:51 +0000

Republicans should still be able to win in Virginia, as long as Obama hasn’t added a couple of hundred thousand federal employees by November.

As a former Jersey resident, I say to Republicans “abandon hope all ye who enter here”. Fuggedaboutit. Too many people on the dole. Too many liberals.

By: Donna V.

Donna V. — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:18:53 +0000

We can’t win because the other guy sucks; we have to win because we have good ideas and a good track record, and can overcome the MSM which will NEVER support the GOP over a Democrat.

Hear, hear. The GOP can either try to be Dem-lite (which is what has screwed them); they can sit passively and wait for the Dems to screw up so badly the populace will vote for anybody else out of desperation, or they can step up to the plate, return to first principles and do some damage control.

One really frustrating feeling I have as a conservative is watching the GOP fiddle while the country burns and our rights are assaulted. Yes, I think Americans will wake up. I’d really prefer that America not go to complete hell in a handbasket before they do.