Back in the days of the American Revolution through the end of the Napoleonic Era, when an army won a great victory and the other army had to surrender, the winning army always allowed the vanquished to play a marching tune of their choice. When the British lost at Yorktown, the band struck up a popular song of the day, The World Turned Upside Down. This courtesy was given to the losing side as a show of respect. An acknowledgment that the losing side fought hard, and that it while you may have lost – the losing army could march off the field with their heads held high.
With those words being said, I would like to take this time to honor the supporters of Corey Stewart and their champion, Corey himself, for the hard work they put in on behalf of their candidate. Losing is never a fun thing, but in politics there is always a winner and always one or more who do not win. So to the Dean Peterson’s and Corey Crabill’s, and Susan Frise Hathaway’s and so many others of you who really put in a tremendous amount of effort on behalf of Corey Stewart, I want to take this time to acknowledge all the hard work that you did on behalf of your candidate, and to remind you of these words from Teddy Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
I would also like to take this time to remind my fellow Ed Gillespie supporters that the supporters of Corey Stewart are our friends, and must be treated as such. They worked hard, and we should be inspired by their passion. Sadly I’ve seen a bit of sore winning coming from people on our side. Having run for public office before and lost, the last thing I would have ever wanted to deal with is being taunted by the winning side. And having managed or helped to manage winning campaigns before, the last thing I’d ever consider doing is rubbing someone else’s face into the dirt. There hasn’t been much of it, but some. Whether you like it or not – we need a unified party to ensure a victory in November. And rubbing someone’s nose in their defeat is not the way to get them on board. To the supporters of Ed, those Corey supporters who are upset now, are entitled to some respect. The same respect that victorious armies showed to the vanquished.
For supporters of Ed and Corey, like it or not, we both need each other. Everyone can agree that Corey has a great future ahead of him in Virginia politics. And for you who support Corey, you will need the supporters of Ed Gillespie to ensure that Corey can take out Tim Kaine in 2018. So to both sides, let’s remember we are friends at the end of the day. And that means we who supported Ed are not your enemies, but are your friends.
I look forward to your support for Ed Gillespie as we get closer to November. And I look forward to personally supporting Corey for some future run for higher office.
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Personally I’d rather eat crumbs with bums in the “gutter” then steaks with snakes in Richmond but regardless Corey supporters don’t concern yourself with the state’s self appointed political elite that openly attack you, or the fake friend that offers the open hand of friendship while the other is attached to the knife protruding from your back. Best advice in my opinion on Corey Stewart’s loss is not to take things too personally, the vote people want from you now based on their rants and accusations in the past is a reflection on them, not you. They have spent so much effort carefully crafting who they pretend to be they have forgotten who they really are so resist the fruitless effort to engage in useless dialogue with individuals whose only desire is to judge your choices without understanding your reasons. If you hate being lied to your best recourse is your most powerful weapon, the ballot box, and employing it to change the nature of the Virginia political environment and this will be a long term effort irrespective of what party wins a single given election. Let others make a political career out of making excuses about today. Real voter change agents need to focus on the responsibility of selecting the future candidates for tomorrow. It’s a big job ahead and it’s just beginning.
Mr. Corey Stewart,
There is a better road to that Senate seat than with the “help” of the untrustworthy Republican ticket.
Blaze right through them and take the seat. You are a lawyer?
1) bring forth a lawsuit against the Commonwealth because the Va. Employment Commission for classifying unlicensed contractors AND illegal aliens as “bona-fide independent contractors “.
2) at this point ALIPAC and FAIR will be on board, Major help.
3) call out (similar to Brat) Senator Kaine, he facilitated the position of Va. AFLCIO President to Doris Mays.
Va. DOLI Commissioner Davenport was a AFLCIO lobbyist ( Ed was a lobbyist ).
Does the AFLCIO articulate to it’s membership that the weak gain in wages is due to employee misclassification? A golden opportunity to display their shortcommings.
Mr. Stewart,
a lawyer gets 20 to 30% of a lawsuit.
Then the book along with the Senate Seat , wow that is capitalism while committing a hostile takeover of Conservatism and kicking liberalism to the “gutter”.
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Folks,
Mr. Massoud does not know the war we are fighting. He wants us to surrender. Did we cave and surrender when the Country went haywire and elected the Half American Pres.?
HELL NO .
I say look at Ed , look at him speak with his hands as to be compassionate, watch him move right to left. It is often said about different races they may not look like you but they desire the same things as you.
Well Ed doesn’t look like Marco Rubio but he wants the same things as Marco Rubio, Amnesty, Asylum, “guest workers”.
Ed claims to be a Lincoln Republican , I haven’t heard him speak of Labor exploitation, He is NO Lincoln Republican.
He claims to be a Regan Republican, what?
Regan said of Democrats ” if it moves tax it ,if it moves again tax it again , if it stops subsidize it.
Well folks, there are some Republicans that don’t be at all and they want you to subsidize them and their laziness with illegal immigrants 364 days a year, the other day they are an illegal voter.
Ed wants the blue collar vote , come to the job site unannounced the one with Virginians/Americans.
I know this might be tough for you don’t know any Americans that want to work.
Say no to dope , Say no Marco,
say no to Ed.
We just lost a battle , the war still rages on.
Come to Santurary , Va. ( lynchburg)
http://watchdog.org/202012/subcontractors-shadow-economy
Is Ed educated in current Va. policy,
Executive order 24? NO
F all you ya’ll. I voted for Stewart but he lost. I don’t care how bad the alternative is. It is better than a Democrat period. Any one here still bitching about Ed winning and saying you aren’t supporting his is as good as a Democrat. You are probably plants posting in these forums laughing at all the a-s wipes not supporting the candidate vs Dem. Dividing us so they can continue to keep our state blue. Shame on you.
Yes indeed. At times, this forum reminds me of all the precious snowflakes at Evergreen State College who live in a such a progressive bubble that they have turned on each other. They now denounce those among them who aren’t as progressive as the most extreme among them. They want their own progressive professor fired because he isn’t quite extreme enough, so they have branded him a “white supremacist”. They want the college president fired, who is as extreme a liberal squish as you’ll ever find in the real world, because he hasn’t yet fired another liberal squish professor. They are eating each other alive with unchecked hatred of each other. They can’t even see how ridiculous they are because they live in an isolated bubble totally divorced from the real world.
Virginia Republicans who refuse to support the Republican nominee are just as ridiculous as these Evergreen idiots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cMYfxOFBBM
Well said Frank. But sadly, some are in the business of trying to destroy the party in the name of conservatism. Actually what they’re trying to do is to make themselves look good at the expense of Virginia and the cause of conservatism.
I like how you think. You are of course correct. The infighting is so bad it almost seems like some of these people are trained/paid agitators. We know the Democrats have done that in the past so why wouldn’t they be doing it now. They are laughing as Virginia Republicans tear each other apart. We will never win statewide again unless we unite. Fight your fights in the primary and then unite when it’s over. Only way.
Thank you Jeff! You are exactly right.
Gillespie STILL won’t support our GOP President. Nothing else matters. He’s a gutless, unpatriotic #NeverTrump and so deserves to lose.
Governor Northam thanks you for your support 🙂
Seriously though, its all about choices. No one ever said we had to like our choices, unfortunately.
^ Wait, is that cat serious?
And you fella ‘ s had the Xander to protest the illegal employment of illegal aliens in Va. instead you chose to protest minimal numbers of immigrant children on a bridge.
NOT ONE once of concern for job loss.
Perhaps if Corey did the right thing, and called Ed to concede, things might be different but Corey is too much a wimp to do what real men do, concede and support the winning candidate.
Corey did concede on Social media – and said he’d support the Republican ticket.
What a pathetic excuse not to reach out to all of us and ask for the Stewart supporters vote. Instead Eds minions do it for him. Looking at the turn out from the primary and based on what I hear when I speak to voters, they have no faith in the GOP. Republicans need to start acting like Republicans and restore the faith that is now lost. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/611d4be901f7761d40bbb86b9bc7f3b5d6f4db6db038ad1ca47d4d6e1467d928.jpg
lol, hope your petty pride was worth destroying Virginia as conservative southern state… But, hey, now it’s like your native Maryland… so so so sick of yankees and come-heres……
Jeanine is from Maryland? Well, that explains a lot.
So in honour to prove this fraternal bond of kinship and republicanism what policy is Ed prepared to state on the record that he would support to win over Corey supporters? Not just bs words and platitudes but real policies and action to prove that vote for Ed is not just a vote for another rhino. You want Corey supporters to vote for Ed then let him prove he is worth the vote.
There was name calling on both sides. Me being the head of the Shenandoah County Tea party didn’t appreciate being called a RINO, but it happened. I never publicly complained. Do I think Stewart supporters are racists? Of course not. Time for us to work together to defeat Ralph Northam.
The vitriol hurled at Rick Buchanan a major Tea Party figure was ridiculous. But he never whined.
Thanks for the post Mr. Massoud.
I would frame the issue a bit differently
The results of the primary , the numbers tell the tale.
Here in Charlottesville // Albemarle more than 14,000
For the total Democratic Governor vote , 4000 total
Republican votes …not good
If you want to build a bigger tent …whatever that might mean
Time is very short.
Of course in the general election things will tighten up
However Mr Gillespie has been on the meet and greet tour
Since he began his run against Warner …that’s quite a bit of time
To have such a weak , ineffectual turnout against what might be
Considered a polarizing figure like Stewart .
Gillespie could not get people to the middle …and now time is
Slipping away .
Not a Gillespie Stewart or a Wagner supporter …I will support
Gillespie in the general election…just realistic and don’t think
He has the horses ..with or without Stewart’s support to pass
50% …needs to shake up his campaign …and he seems
Very comfortable the way things are…that’s not a recipe for success.
If I barely came across the finish line against Stewart
I would clean up my campaign a bit….haven’t heard or read
Anything to that effect.
Again ..don’t think it’s about Stewart , or his supporters or his concession
On social media …it’s all about Gillespie ..and this droning, moaning
Campaign on a journey to 48% in November …
And that is disappointing.
For what it’s worth those are my thoughts
Richard, thanks for the kind words, and that’s why we have elections. And I will grant you that the team needs to step it up or else we will have Governor Northam.
Amen Matthew, Amen. Why doesn’t Ed need to earn votes? Remember he wants to be governor for all Virginians or was he just referring to moderates?
Last Friday evening, at the Fairfax County Republican Committee “Meet the Ticket” event, I spoke with Ed Gillespie and asked him if he had been in contact with Corey Stewart. No, he had not … but he stumbled around and came up with the excuse that they’re reaching out to Stewart voters for their support. He cited ONE example: someone from the Stewart campaign was at an event earlier that day and they’re going to find ways to work together. I not only was surprised at Gillespie’s lame answer, I was dismayed. After all, he won by ONE PERCENTAGE POINT! The first thing he should have done was to call Corey Stewart and enlist his and his voters’ support for the battle ahead. Gillespie will need all the support he can get to win the Governorship. He’ll need Corey Stewart’s voters. And isn’t Gillespie always touting the fact that he takes the high road? If he doesn’t win the affection of Corey Stewart’s supporters, the race in November will be tougher than he could ever imagine.
Agree that Gillespie needs to be making entreaties to Stewart. Also agree that Gillespie is likely having a hard time swallowing his pride after many of Stewart’s unjust attacks. But casting all that aside, everyone needs to pull up their big boy britches.
Just goes to show how big of a wimp Gillespie is if he’s that butthurt over Stewart’s attacks during the campaign. I’m sure that will be nothing compared to what Democrats have in store for him. Gillespie chose to stay silent and not refute anything; running another lackluster campaign.
I have no idea….I was just offering one potential reason why Gillespie might not be going after Stewart voters.
Could be the “Jeb Bush” tactic of trying to get elected without the conservative base.
Well the establishment and soft “Ds” take turns. Perhaps Gillespie really doesn’t need conservatives, he has ole faithful moderates that just change jerseys.
No Democrat will vote for an R on election day… they are fine with throwing sand in the gears of our primaries but that is all they can be counted on for.
Eric – I’ve been setting up meetings with Corey Stewart supporters with both Ed and Cathy Gillespie. One of these meetings will occur today. So Ed and Cathy are reaching out to Corey Stewart supporters.
No your reaching out. But first mock them, insult them, laugh at disgusting memes, call them cancer, and offer an olive branch. Got it, that’s how it works.
Okay, well, we’re down here in the “gutter”, and according to Shuan Kenney, the party doesn’t need us.
With what? Tyson’s Chicken nuggets?
Milquetoast
Corey was supposed to call Ed to concede. That might have been the time to discuss some of these things. Corey never called him. It’s not up to Ed to call Corey! It works the other way.
Traditionally, yes, Corey calls Ed. But it works both ways, and it is Ed’s best interest to make it happen soon.
Corey has Ed’s number, Ed does not have Coreys. Corey, if you or one of your team mates are reading this, you are welcome to call Ed or to share a number here Ed can call you.
Ed has a lot of numbers but calling us gutter dwellers is beneath him.
Don’t forget racist rednecks.
I do not believe that.
It does not work the other way. It is Ed that has an election before him and who needs votes.
Wait just a damn minute. You were one of the folks in a thread calling me and my kind a cancer. You ridiculed all the Stewart supporters and mocked them profusely. You even mocked my cloths. Do you think “our kind” believes you now. I’ve been sent the screenshots of just how nasty the Gillespie supporters are.
You and “your kind” laughed at a meme where Coreys face was on Kathy Griffin and my face was on our President Donald Trumps severed head.
RPV sends out a fun raiser email blast condemning the democrats for such an act but it’s ok for you and your kind in the GOP. You are no Christian nor are you a conservative. What kind is this GOP that thinks anything like that is funny. You and “your kind” are very sick. No wonder the democrats are winning.
This article by anyone of “your kind” is a lie and a desperate attempt to give #FakeNews you want unity. Are you all afraid you might have to actually get your hands dirty and do all the work us https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/20b68bb768a85ad428bad78e9a3c77ec48ea121c7d270832adab8164075495d0.jpg minions have been doing for years??
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There has also been some other pretty nasty stuff out of Shaun Kenney.
This is not what I would expect from him. Shaun conveyed he wanted harmony. This picture does not reflex his words.
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I’ll agree. Mr. Kenney needs to tone down his enthusiasm.
You need to tone it down as well. I notice you haven’t denied your participation of insulting the Stewart supporters along with thinking that meme is funny. Shall I post your comments that go right along??
Like I said your article is #FakeNews. You consider the Stewart supporters a cancer and think all our heads should be cut off? What a strange Olive branch. No Christian or conservative would mock people in such a way. It’s quite clear the Gillespie supporters are actually democrats themselves. DISGUSTING!
Really Wave? I read that VFC commenters were supporting Northam.
You need to read again. And I read you approve of all of this as well. You are just as much a liar as the rest. You do nothing but pit people against each other and deceive the grassroots. Those days are over. None will trust you again and none will come if you called. So go back to the kitchen and help others cook.
Due to Mr. Kenney and his saying that he doesn’t need us anyway, and several other vicious attack posts in addition to the one above, if the election were held today, I would NOT be voting for Ed. I believe that Shaun Kenney is not an isolated incident and is typical of the disdain the majority of the RPV have for us “peasants”.
If the party wants to send Corey supporters a msg., then Ed or Whitbeck or somebody has to start dealing with this type of stuff. I do not think Ed is going to win anyway.
So that is what you call that… enthusiasm.
Well one could say that Mr. Kenney was acting like an extreme jerkoff.
Deport Shaun Kenny!
This was posted by Rick Canton who is not a paid employee of the Gillespie campaign. The Gillespie campaign asked him to remove the post. Rick should apologize!
Jonathan, I don’t think Rick was just a volunteer. That’s a lot of time spent volunteering unless you live in your moms basement. You are not that naive.
You and Dylan can both piss up a rope if you won’t take the campaigns word for it. In other news Dylan and Waverly agree chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
Real funny Jonathan. You are better equipped and experienced. Enjoy. Furthermore, please tell me how many doors you’ll be knocking for Ed?
Knockers seems to be your department as some of us have faces for radio.
Perhaps you should start practicing. With the numbers in the primary the nominee will need you more than ever. It’s all hands on deck, as they say.
Please, this is a political blog, no one here was born yesterday. That is the typical MO of sleazy campaigns, “not on our payroll, not our problem”. Typical of spineless K Street types…
Shaun should tone it down and stop this stuff.
You do know who made that meme, right? John had nothing to do with it.
I know who made it and I know John jumped right in on it with approval. I’m sure you approve too. As far as Shaun goes…. You should hear what he says about you. Apparently none of “us” are good enough for the Gillespie crowd. Keep it small and control it all. Welcome to the GOP.
This is NOT funny, the heads are reversed!
Yeah no kidding accept you have no problem with all the insults to the Stewart supporters. None of you really want unity. You just want slaves to do all the dirty work. That way your elustist hands don’t get dirty. You only put up signs so the mean girls will talk to you. Then you go and steal signs.
He didn’t speak of or endorse Trump…..till Trump got the nomination and it suited Ed to do so.
He didn’t speak of or embrace Corey supporters……till it suited Ed and he realized he needed them to win.
Or maybe I’m just off-base on the lobbyist who took money from Enron till it didn’t suit him?
When Ed was running against Corey why would embrace Corey supporters? Did Corey embrace Ed supporters? Perhaps I missed that.
It’s an overall theme with Ed. He doesn’t stand up for anything, he never goes out on a limb. He plays everything safe, tries not to offend anyone, he’s just another lame and weak minded politician. In this day in age when the left is calling for murder and McCarthy type witchhunts, a buttkissing pandering politician isn’t the leader we want. Hell, just tonight, a trump supporter got rear ended and stabbed 9 times for having trump bumper stickers in San Francisco. This is the world we live in, and if we want/intend to win, we need real leaders that are ready to stand up for the republic.
The primary is over and the hits keep coming. Many of the Stewart supporters just got pounced by the Gillespie supporters. Telling us we have to support the nominee. Many will but that doesn’t excuse Eds lack of luster or him just asking himself. And if you have to be told……. really Gillespie isn’t that stupid, it’s just beneath him.
Smart candidates dont andorre in primary or conventions, they support the nominees.. Next question please.
The author makes a HUGE assumption that Ed Gillespie supporters would get behind Corey Stewart against Tim Kaine in 2018. I have no faith that establishment Republicans would support someone “not their own”.
Only in a convention, maybe.
I am a Virginian , a Home builder of 32 years in Central Va.
I DO NOT NEED Ed Gillespie for Governor.
He has absolutely no policy to the issues that pertain to my family S – Corp or her employees.
It would be “dumb” of me to irresponsibly throw my vote away to Ed.
Ed and these wordsmiths here at the TBE have a oppurtunity to change my mind but I doubt it you see they are not “dumb” they just don’t know to much about my industry, how we employ OR the issues I and many others like myself face.
Not dumb just plain don’t know employment, bless those hearts though it takes all kinds even the out of touch and the unknowing.
EO24 ED , watch got? Is it “dumb”? Let’s roll smarties and talk policy.
I’d prefer an actual conservative for U.S. Senate in 2018. Ken Cuccinelli, Dave Brat, Rob Wittman, Ben Cline… just some of the possibilities. We will not win with a squish or a populist against the Peoples’ Eyebrow.
Those candidates will only be nominated by a convention. Let’s hope the SCC gives us one.
They won’t. The VCN and the Trumpkins are in lockstep on primaries. We need to unite behind one conservative in the primary to have a chance.
I could careless if we ever have another convention. Both sides lie, cheat, and deceive the real conservatives in this state. I am disgusted at their treatment of the Trump supporters and Stewart supporters.
Yup. The Trump supporters’ behavior during the nomination contest was disgusting, as was that of their candidate. The garbage at the national convention ended any chance of my supporting him in the general, not that I was going to support Clinton, but it’s just one more reason he lost Virginia.
Fast forward to now. His term so far is a borderline trainwreck. He’s violated a ton of promises, and actively assisted Paul Ryan and House ‘leadership’ in selling out conservatives on Obamacare ‘repeal’. he’ll do the same on tax reform. Other than his appointments of Neil Gorsuch, Jim Mattis, John Kelly, and (eventually, after his flunky Michael Flynn was exposed) H.R. McMaster, and his withdrawal from the Paris agreement, form a policy standpoint, he’s hardly done a thing right, and his supporters, especially here in Virginia, have proven to be the crude, ignorant, triumphalist, philosophically unmoored populists I knew they’d be, just as Trump is exactly who I said he was nearly a year ago on this blog. Stewart’s campaign was a reflection of that. I don’t condone a lot of the stuff I’ve seen on social media, but that doesn’t excuse the campaign… or the candidate. if you’re not advancing conservative policy, and helping make sure party processes choose our nominees, you’re no good to me. Yes, it really IS that simple.
Robert you are doing nothing to advance conservative causes or candidates. You write negative blogs and run your mouth plenty but you don’t do anything that actually makes a difference.
Go knock doors and make calls. I’ve been talking to you about this for a year and you haven’t moved yet. Either get busy or shut up yourself. It’s this crap that got Trump here in the first place. Either get your hands dirty or stop complaining. Reading your rants with absolutely no action is boring.
Done all that already, many, many times. As to the nomination contest this year, I didn’t really have any candidates I was fired up about, so I largely stayed out. You’re just upset that I didn’t assist Stewart. That was not something that was going to happen.
Oh yeah I forgot I saw your spreadsheet…. wait you never did a spreadsheet. Bam, smacks his hand to his head, I could’ve had a V8.
The only thing disgusting was the sore losers trying to hijack the nomination from the guy who got the most votes, most states won, and most electoral points.
So I support President Trump. Is that the name of those that support our President, Trumpkin?
I like Dave Brat, he’s a true uniter.
Brat would be a great Senator.
Cuccinelli killed his chances of ever getting elected in Virginia politics with his antics at both the state convention and the National Republican Convention. I was there and I will NEVER forget
Cuccinelli didn’t help hisself at the National convention – we can all agree on that.
He fought, along with mike Lee and many other conservatives, against the same sort of cheating on rules fights that Romney’s Ginsberg-led crew pulled in 2012. That’s what ended any chance of my supporting Trump.
Again I remember the whole thing very well. Trump won fair and square. Cuccinelli and some of his buddies tried to hijack the convention. Was a horrible idea on their part. With that being said, I adore Mike Lee and think he’s a principled guy. Just made a bad move there with Cooch was all.
They weren’t trying to deny Trump the nomination, he had it in hand easily. They were trying to stop the Trumpkins and the establishment from reprising 2012. They weren’t able to.
John that is false, it was all about the rules… Not denying Trump.