Ed Gillespie didn’t cost us this election, Donald Trump did. Mick Staton wrote about this earlier in the week and he has been proven right over and over.
People who worked the polls tell me, voter after voter came out in a pouring rain, often dragging small children with them, to vote against Republicans. They weren’t voting FOR anyone but they were voting against Trump. Now the Washington Post is quoting many voters who are saying the same thing. When asked to name a single policy of Ralph Northam, voters drew a blank. The fact that he had a ‘D’ next to his name was all they needed to know.
“It could have been Dr. Seuss or the Berenstain Bears on the ballot and I would have voted for them if they were a Democrat,” Toren Beasley, 60, a marketing executive, said as he left a Starbucks in Lorton. “I might do more analyses in other years. But in this case, no. No one else gets any consideration because what’s going on with the Republicans — I’m talking about Trump and his cast of characters — is stupid, stupid, stupid. I can’t say ‘stupid’ enough times.”
There’s scant evidence that Northam’s win, and the massive wins in the House of Delegates, had anything to do with our candidates or our policies. The majority of voters couldn’t name their Delegate if you held a gun to their heads. This time they didn’t need to know. Voters were determined to vote against Trump by voting straight Democrat all the way down the ballot.
“I don’t like Trump and I don’t like where our politics are going,” said Patty Potts, 48, an education programmer who lives in Lorton. Her husband, Mike Potts, 51, a software process engineer, regards himself as a fiscal conservative and a loyal Republican who researches candidates before voting. But he chose only Democrats on Tuesday, and said he didn’t need to study the candidates’ biographies or positions.
The fact that they weren’t Republicans was all he needed to know.
From the Post:
Ask them (voters) to identify an issue championed by Gov.-elect Ralph Northam (D), and they may fumble for an answer. Ask them the name of the man who was elected lieutenant governor and they might have to think for a moment. Ask them to identify who they chose for the House of Delegates, and they were likely to reply with a blank stare.
This election was not about Republican policies or Republican candidates. There is nothing our candidates could have done to overcome how the voters view the man in the White House.
If Democrats can sustain their anger, and Trump continues with his idiotic tweets spurring more anger, next year will be a bloodbath. Republicans will lose the House and the Senate. (It doesn’t help that the Republicans on Capitol Hill can’t get anything done.)
This is all making Rep. Comstock’s move to distance herself from Trump look brilliant. But that may not be enough to save her in 2018 because she will still have an “R” next to her name on the ballot.
Trump may or may not make America great again, but he certainly will make it Blue again. Virginia was just the beginning.
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Wrong again Jeanine, same as Micky boy Staton, the voters dont want the establishment and we will prevail again! Keep up the rhetoric, it only proves our point and wait you will see! Gillespie didnt try to win, and neither did the others. You establishment Publicans are same old same old.
Mick Staton is wrong as usual! Poor Republican leadership lost us the election! If Mick Staton wants to be in la la land about how Republicans got their asses kicked by the Democrats who out performed in every single category that is his business! I would rather stay I the real word and not blame our President for the failures and incompetence of leadership in not only recognizing what came at them on Election Day but the failure to counter when forewarned with plenty of warning!
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Long term, the only hope is in turning the culture away from moral relativism, etc and back to an understanding that there exists a foundation where individual liberty makes sense and without that foundation individual individual liberty will not survive. But that is much easier said than done. The starting place is in our own homes and families. Don’t let fraudulent ideas just walk into your home (in the form of music, TV, movies, magazines, books), nor into your children’s education. It is fine and healthy to discuss and debate these ideas, but don’t just let them come in without discussion.
Yes, this means mean pulling children from the “free” government school system. No option. Tough financial choices, but it is your money or your children. Clearly if we want the direction to change, we have to get creative and encourage less costly education options that build upon the only worldview where individual liberty make any sense … the worldview that demonstrated infinite value in every individual. That is where I am putting my energy, because I see nothing else that can do anything but simply slow the decline. I still hope, but not is some middle solution. We must shape a generation with ideas that allow consistency and fit the reality we experience and that history reports … because the ideas are true. No more 1+1= whatever you feel. That only feels good until you wake up. This election is what waking up feels like.
I would respectfully disagree Jeanine. I think it’s our party, not our President. To be honest with you, Trump was number 17 on my list in the Primary. However, when he became the nominee, the choice was simple. I also am happily surprised that he is doing a pretty good job; putting aside some of his childish tweets. President Trump would NOT have been elected if it weren’t for conservatives who held thier noses and voted for him. We came through for the betterment of the country. Now fast forward to last Tuesday. Most of the hard core Trumpers didn’t have the illectual capacity and/or decency to do the same thing. The quote in your article from the folks from Lorton makes me want to puke. The husband voted for a baby killer and 2nd Amendment hating evil doer over Gillespie. He says he is a “loyal Republican”. I would like to know his definition of loyalty. Gillespie was far from my perfect candidate, but he was way better than Stewart and night & day from Northam. Hard core Trumpers can blame themselves for the evil that will take place in the next 4 years. Northam and the rest may have still won, but it sickens me that people would put their petty disagreements over the good of our nation. Sorry for any mispellings.
Hard core Trumpers are far more motivated to vote for the Republican party than your typical casual Republican voter or swing voter. Hard core Trumpers always vote, and they don’t vote for Democrats. They were not the problem. It was swing voters, e.g., the typical homemaker who is too busy taking care of her kids, and trying to make ends meet, to pay any attention to intra-party Republican squabbles.
It was the corrosive effect of Never Trumpers who joined Democrats in demonizing the Republican president. The ill informed voter is most susceptible to this social pressure, and often votes on superficial impressions. In this election, the apolitical housewife who normally shares Republican values, saw all her Democrat friends and many of her Republican friends and everybody on TV bashing Republicans everyday. We all know friends and family who are susceptible to this. Hard core Trumpers were not the problem.
You are likely correct that Trump’s base votes (and did in this election). He certainly whips them up into a frenzy easily enough. But at what cost? He motivates the (larger in VA) Democratic base and drives away the Republican mainstream – which is what really lost this election for you.
I would submit that there about an equal number of Trump lovers and haters, and a vast varying population in between.
The issue is which party worked best at getting theirs to the polls — the incredibly well-funded, well-propogandized, well-organized Democrat-industrial media complex or our gang-that-can’t-shoot-straight dysfunctional party??
Wait, I’m getting away from celebrating our win last Tuesday. Can we please have a parade for Chairman Whitbeck, the RPV SCC, and our NOVA Unit committees???
Yep, I think I might have seen something like that corrosion in this very blog and it’s comments. I guess that is the Republican version of diversity and conservative virtue-signaling.
This is total bull……VA went for Hillary by 14 points….we are a blue state. Don’t throw this on Trump as a referendum….had Gillespie embraced Trump and his agenda….the economy under Trump and all his other achievements…..he MIGHT have had a chance. VA will end up like MD….not because of Trump (more because of this ignorant attitude toward American voters) so get off that train, I’m particularly sick of it.
Hilary won by 5.4%
Think she meant Nova
There is clearly a problem of major proportions within the Republican Party and I suggest it goes back decades. There are the Rockefeller globalist Republicans (GOPe/RINOs) who have generally held sway for about 50 years, and a resurgent conservative element who threatens the Rockefeller power structure.
One of the examples is Judge Moore. Look who attacked him – Romney, McCain, McConnell, Collins, Murkowski, Flake, and I suspect the Bushes as well. Why is he so hated – because he is a white fundamentalist Christian (were he a white fundamentalist muslim he would be defended.) What we are now finding out is that one of his accusers is a Democrat who worked for Hillary. We are also finding out that the WAPO apparently decided to spread some money around to get these accusers to make their statements (which go back nearly 40 years ago).
The GOPe are proving themselves to be more Democrat socialists than Republican America Firsters, and that is a great shame and disgrace. I could care less if Trump is the best, he is our president – and he is miles away better than Obama, Clinton, and to be truthful the Bushes. We haven’t had a Republican president since Reagan and it has been so long that we have forgotten what one looks like.
The Republicans lost because they continually put up cuck candidates that suck the Globalist policy teat. People have caught on to this, and if there no material difference between the R&D Uni-Party candidates put up for office, why bother to vote? In short, you lost because people stayed at home, lots of them.
And then again, what was the size of the illegal vote? We won’t know that because the Republicans do not have the spine to seek out and prosecute voter fraud in any substantive way. This is another massive Republican failure which comes with devastating consequences.
Also, there is the immigration thing. How can Republicans wail crocodile tears about losing elections when they never lifted a finger in the last fifty-some years to stop the intentional demographic subversion of the American Republic? This gets back to putting up cuck fool-the-people ‘conservatives,’ and for decades on end. It would appear that causation does come to effect after all!
The illegal vote estimate is consistently about 3 to 5 million but both parties find it in their interest to hide this reality from the American citizenry. The truth is that the various businesses love the low cost illegal workforce and the democrats know they get the votes. Thanks to a very generous welfare system, the citizens get stuck with the bill – even the ones who think they can somehow escape the costs. Europe is in very serious trouble because of their illegal immigrants and we are fortunate that ours aren’t Islamic.
I am thinking that there could be up to 200,000 or more fake fraudulent votes cast in Virginia. There seems to be some suggestion of this stemming from the Trump election. But again, how are we to know if there is no political will for honest election enforcement?
Islamic invasion is a problem in America, but it’s in its very, very early stages. It’s the same plan for America as for Europe because the same Globalist Marxist elites are running the show both here and abroad. We be wise to cut the rotten tree at the root early in the game by ending demographic importation and terminating the benefits. I really get ticked that the elites demand that we pay them taxes for the glorious occasion of having our throats slit.
Not yet.
I was in continued contact about 6 years ago with a Va. State Dept Appointed “person”. This man claimed are we going to check every brown man on job sites. I got pissed and in return stated do you mean the little brown men taking American jobs or the little brown men flying planes into our buildings?
I just want our existing laws enforced they have so many Administrative loopholes.
The 9/11 Commission report talks of the contributions to the Mosque then onward to the terrorists.
Crap, with our shadow economy in Va that risk can now be avoided.
Our Representatives from both sides are a true disappointment. To be reactive and not proactive is nothing but burying your head in the political sands of the respective party.
The safer places will soon be the upper rural Midwest.
Might I suggest Madison, WI?….
We desire and to take a long camping trip down through the South West then up north across the northern states then discussed through Iowa and on to Ohio back home.
America is Beautiful with many fine folks to see.
Thanks
I am not the president’s biggest fan nor his loudest critic.
You worry about the entire country turning blue…
Can you imagine what the supreme court would look like today had Hillary won?
Despite our knowledge that the Constitution protects unalienable rights, how safe would our second amendment be in the face of a liberal supreme court?
It’s a lot easier to blame a president than the fools who actually care so little for our state that they willfully vote D because they hate the president, while not being aware of Northam’s policies vs. Gillespie’s.
You are absolutely correct, we’d have a second Warren Court if Clinton selected Scalia’s replacement.
The 2nd Amendment is gone in the future with the coming Democrap demographics. The Supreme Court might derail this for a while, but not for long.
your guns are safe – go ahead and shoot up
Ms. Jeanine,
I have no doubt that there were protest votes in NOVA and that NOVA is turning blue. But…..
Please explain to me why in Campbell County pulled for Ed by better than 70% and we left Rousseau and Zehr with their mouth open? Both with full endorsements from Jerry Falwell Jr.
At last night CC BOS meeting they discussed a $300,000.00 trade jobs training program. The funding came from the Fed and the State.
Out of 4 Republicans;
1 yes, citing economic development in more words, he is older and wiser and a Liberty University Professor.
1 obstained because his wife works with something similar ok for her job but not for the good of the community.
The other 2;
Rousseau had a hissy stating that the Government should not be financially supporting jobs training.
Zehr was in full agreement with Rousseau.
But… niether made a motion to send the funding back.
So some Republicans are just elected and hold onto their seat?
I think Laura Ingraham explains it pretty well in this video clip…
This is pretty good, but just as Team Hillary was out of touch with the American People, Team Ed was out of touch with Virginia voters.
Choosing to distance from Trump but bringing in that famous beloved Bush???
How do these consultants continue to make a living?
Everybody’s got an opinion on the VA election results. Many point their stubby digit north to 1600 Pennsylvania as the reason somehow, or south at RPV headquarters. But usually that’s because it’s convenient, fits their narrative, and they haven’t really looked at the data.
Chad Davis and Larry Sabato are absolutely correct. Data like the historical trend in VA for the party opposite to the prior year’s White House victor to win the VA gubernatorial seats the next year. There is apparently a reaction by the voters to the Presidential election and the pendulum swings back a little in the opposite direction in VA. The trend isn’t perfect, like in 2013 when Cuccinelli should have won following BHO’s 2012 re-election, but it does hold true quite a bit, and did so again this week.
More Larry Sabato data like Hillary carried 17 VA districts last year that had GOP representatives, and 13 of those same districts were ones the Dems won again. Meanwhile there were 8 VA districts Trump carried with GOP representatives, and by the slimmest of margins only 1 of those flipped. So it appears the handwriting was already on the wall as to the trend and this ain’t some huge sign of the Dems being resurrected or a rebuke of Trump.
Jeanine, there is more good data like this on this election rather than your wild conjecture available from Larry Sabato, the election analysis expert: http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/
Others doing their homework before bloviating point to data such as this excellent article from two years ago: http://www.breitbart.com/…/new-california-mass-immigration…/ which details the massive influx of immigrants to Virginia and how that has changed our political demographics. For example this article indicates: “Virginia’s demographic changes have also transformed political leanings in the state that, before President Barack Obama’s win of electoral votes in 2008, had not backed a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964.”
With all the immigrants settling in our locale in the last few years is it really a surprise so many districts flipped this time? Why do you think Dems want open borders? The article cites studies, surveys, reports, etc showing immigrants want big government and all it’s freebies, therefore over 60% identify as Dems. Isn’t this election result more an indicator of our immigration policy than a failing Republican party or a big turnaround of the Democratic party?
And let us not forget another piece of data: Governor McAulliffe last year returned voting rights to 200,000 Virginia felons. Of those eligible 120,000 did request and receive their right to vote. Data shows felons lean Democratic. How many former felons voted in this election?
As Rush Limbaugh said on Wednesday: “So if you couple the purposeful flooding of Virginia with illegal immigrants from specific parts of the world with McAuliffe legalizing the vote for felons, convicted felons, 200,000 people — this is what I meant earlier with the various machinations that had been put in place to secure election results even before Election Day hit.”
Perhaps once you look at more of the data you will feel differently about this election, and direct your energies and your rigid digit where it can do more good.
There is more than enough blame to spread around, but failure to consider the political realities by the campaigns and the party doesn’t get them a free pass. Politics is playing the hand dealt, really no excuse to get caught unaware by this slaughter.
Rocinante does exist
Sadly true, or I’m a GOP shill not. Been so damn busy trying to elect the ticket — remember what I said about ‘how we have to work harder for the candidate in the general than we did in the primary?’ Just about killed me this time.
Now it’s time to fix things so I don’t have to do that again.
Jeanne – just set down and have a good cry and get it out of your system! I’ve had it with establishment republicans who have helped the democrats wreak havoc on our country. Having said that – feel free to indulge the never Trumpers who never seemed to become incensed with the establishment and have virtually no expectations for the RINO’s that populate the Republican Party.
Also – never forget that we dump 800 billion dollars on NOVA every year for lucrative government contracts and salaries for bureaucrats. Does anyone think they will willingly step away from the government trough?
So Ed losing bigger means he was Trumpier than Jill and John?
Citing the Washington Post anecdotal appeals of supposed Republicans hardly demonstrates anything more than an argument against universal suffrage — I reread the quoted breakouts a couple of times and translate it as “I’m a conservative Republican but oh my feefees drumpf is the debbil — I’m voting against myself”
I see your anecdotes and raise you the people I saw at the polls and talked to on calls and walks — “Party goes against Trump; party goes against me — f’ em!” Except they used more colorful words for hindquarters, flames, and dining suggestions.
With the efforts of the choice participants on TBE, the conservative Republican counterpart of Trump suppression, no wonder they didn’t turn out for Ed.
Just look to the House of Delegates for your answers.
Because much of TBE has been the conservative equivalent of Share Blue — constantly violating Reagan’s 11th commandment, constantly spouting “It’s ok to be #never”
The drumbeat of REPUBLICAN condemnations, dem narrative nods, concern-trolling, and back-handed compliments is hardly moral support.
The Trump hate emanating from columns and comments right here suppress enthusiasm for President, party, and nominees.
But that’s ok, because so many of them identify as “not cisrepublican.”
We are seeing the results of a weak party, of course attacked from the other side (with the bonus of supposedly formally neutral institutions) but now from within, by ‘friendlies.’
What was that thing said by the Tyrant? ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand?’
Virginia is a former red state that became blue around 2006 with virtually no purple state period. All of this was before Donald Trump. Still, aside from the 2013 election (with a concurrent federal government shutdown and investigation of Bob McDonnell), the party that lost the White House the prior year always won the Governor’s race going back to 1973. Hence why Larry Sabato was relatively confident of a Northam win that materialized.
Now, in this highly polarized political climate, the last three midterm elections have been bloodbaths for the President’s party – George W. Bush in 2006 and Barack Obama is 2010 and 2014.
Even looking to off-year elections, can anyone remember a single Democrat who wanted Barack Obama gone in 2009 when Bob McDonnell beat Creigh Deeds here by 17 points. Heck, Nancy Pelosi even stayed on as party leader in 2010 after she lost something like 60 seats in the House of Representatives.
While Tuesday was painful, it does not based on modern history warrant throwing Donald Trump under the bus.
I heard that Northam would have won the election with another 200,000 votes but people are so excited about Trump that he didn’t get them.
As proof I offer .. nothing … which is exactly how much proof anti-Trumpers have for their claim that Northam won because of Trump
Maybe some through Ed under the bus because of his agreement with the gang of eight amnesty bill….Amnesty Ed.
Then let’s add the 3800 fine young men that lost their lives in Iraq fighting for our freedom while Ed and George felt it fine to start to let the border be open.
The generally accepted practice was that conservatives ignore the RINO foibles of the nominee. (No doubt we will pay for that in the afterlife,) but with such a horribly weakened party, undocumented Republicans did not follow that script.
I fully understand this practice…. of the past.
The continued practice of Republicans to go after everyone on illegal immigration from Renting to them to ” Santurary Cities ” , which there are none. When they are in position to do something of merit, they are lacking the same level of attack in leadership themselves.
I am not attacking that just a mere observation.
Then my local Republicans not only are complicit to this but approve these Subdivisions and Developments that employ this illegal activity bit some go as far as to bed down with the employers of this activity.
We can only forgive error once or twice not indiscretions.
Just as the Republican party expects loyalty in supporting the candidate the members expect loyalty in them representing the concerns and the law.
You may look at Campbell County at what they have done to the citizens who once desired to be part of the party yet the party desires not to be involved in the community.
Many time on various issues we would be deemed “not conservative” or even OTR/ Other than Republican. Why? We believe control of a mere election machine for upper ballot elections.
Example;
We expense taxes revenue to teach trades in our schools.
The ran off Charles Falwell a Republican who sat on the Board Of Contractors in favor of Mike Rousseau just because of education.
No let’s look at the BOS
4 out of seven Republicans
under but not one single change to the building permit application requiring to list all Subcontractors license number and VEC account number. Why not? Why not a letter to the Governor and or Attorney General for legal guidance in this. The even went as far as to allow a field house to be built on campus by illegal immigrants who were stopped going out to lunch by a Deputy and not one of them had Identification.
Our budget, every local seems to have budget concerns and issues we have run down busses, run down school and tabled capital improvement? Why?
Then they are all endorsed by Jerry Jr.
Jerry Jr. has said; “I don’t believe the state should be in the alcohol business”, What? Myself as a conservative, we are in the alcohol control business, we keep it out of every store, out of the local shopping store parking lots for sale at a drive up window. We are keeping it of of every street corner for sale in the inner city. Alcoholism destroys families! Control it! It is our freedom to do that , God would approve!
There is to much contradiction of values and policy to fully support a nominee when your party kicks you out.
This party is lacking in the true conservative.
And we do have to work with the other side, we hold our nose at what we don’t agree with and move forward with the issues that make our communities better and are desired by larger businesses to be a part of.
Absolutely, and the only thing that stops bad Republicans voting is good Republicans voting.
That is exactly what happened in Campbell County in particular the Rustburg and Timberlake District on Tuesday.
The Campbell First finally showed some strength.
I currently am sitting in a beautiful brand new school in Lynchburg City for a Robotics Competition of students from 7th to 8th grade. Could we ever get our self absorbed Republican part to fathom the good that comes from something like this?
I look forward to working with the new Board of Supervisors to see that we are giving our students everything available that Region 2000 , Babcock & Wilcox, Areva and the many other fine bussiness that need students seeking engineering studies.
To only and I do kindly mean only be the Rep fighting social issues that have and are already working through our court system shows they are the ones in the Model T.
We do have other concerns and obtainable goals for our childeren as Christians and Conservatives.
Please don’t forget Ed did get the better of 70% here while Delegate Byron stood in the rain at my precinct and watched us ignore the Campbell County Republican Party just as they have us for the past decade.
These Republicans could not even find time in their busy lives to show up to our public schools for Prayer at the Pole day.
I see what was done to NOVA by the pink hats, we don’t want that here by no means but our local bailed on us not us on them.
Jerry Sr. believed in the Christian Coalition, I do too as any others here. We cannot set our children’s future aside for couple of Republicans who just want a check and sell us down the road.
The R’s may have had their hat handed to the in NOVA but Campbell County is the dying frog in the Republican pond.
Jeanine, Ed Gillespie is the reason Republicans didn’t vote for the ticket. Some people likely stayed home completely and many people didn’t vote for Gillespie but did vote for Vogel and/or Adams. Vogel got 49,584 more votes than Gillespie. Adams got 34,502 more votes than Gillespie.
And anyone who would ever mistake Gillespie for either Trump or a conservative is an uninformed boob or a Democrat (but I repeat myself).
None of that explains why we lost 15 House seats.
First, Trump wasn’t running for any of those offices either.
Second, I have not looked at those races but, if I had to guess, I would be looking for demographics changes and/or seeing if the areas where seats were lost have been inundated with illegal aliens Remember that those seats can be lost or won with relatively few handfuls of votes so it is much easier to cheat your way to victory. Given the number of illegal voters that were already pulled off the voting rolls, it would not shock me at all if illegals were also voting in this election.
Personally I think we lost those races because, well, my right leg has been itching a lot, and correlation is obviously causation.
Well why not?
RPV leadership and the caucus?
How many dem seats were unchallenged? How many contested seats have we lost so far?
This is an interesting question. And I have no complete answer.
But … I do know that Republican elites won’t support with financial backing Republican candidates which are deemed ‘too conservative’ because they are not willing to ride the Globalist bus. They rather that candidate lose just so as to enforce the party line. Hence, a candidate like Bob Marshall was likely to have been left hanging on his own while the opposing candidate, Danny the Tranny, received massive Democrat operative funding. And so here’s another question. How many other people like Bob Marshall get thrown under the bus by the party hacks-in-control without a finger ever having been lifted just because they are too conservative?
True enough, and Bob was always hated by the party establishment because he was the Eugene in the room.
Bob’s opponent had a special twist, bonus outside cash for a guy publicly wearing a dress.
Even with all the money, drama, and perfect storm, the win wasn’t that spectacular.
They won’t be able to do that in every district, every time — but it will be fun to see so many Dems in gingham and calico next cycle.
Bob Marshall was my first example in the GA, by personal contact and knowledge, of how the Republican Party elites hate anything that even remotely approaches the original American thinking with regard to the exercise of law and government. Although no mortal entirely agrees with another, over time I came to have an immense respect for the conduct of the Bob Marshall and his wife in the Assembly. I now have plenty of other examples of how the elites treat people who refuse to line toe the line that perpetuates a corruption that impoverishes the people both mentally and in their material welfare. There is, however, a rising tide of awareness … and I notice that folks are now saying things publicly which could not have been said a scant few years ago. There are some rays of light shining over the horizon.
Plenty of swamp that needs draining… Republican as well as conservative.
Jeanine… with three exceptions, the 15 house seats were lost in Northern Va…. Northern VA is lost forever. The other 3 were anomalies. The bulging Nova population is not an anomaly. It is the GOPs reality. You can run Ronald Reagan in those district or in a state wide election and you are going to lose for the rest of your life…
Your friends at Bearing Drift with their support of mass immigration and forty years of GOP Inc fostering it have done your state in. Add to that you have bureaucrats and lobbyist/contractors all over the place in Nova and then you could also add that you have lost the cultural war. The youth are brainwashed by very leftist liberals form K to college.
Turn out the lights, the GOP party is over in Va… You might want to move. Massive taxes are heading your way.
Part of me wants to get the hell out of Dodge but part of me wants to stay and fight. My family has been in this state since it was a colony. This is my home and it is worth fighting for.
I agree. Nothing goes straight up but VA is finally a Blue state by in large. NC is next. Don’t let the door hit you… The sweetest irony is that it was the Republican-selloff of LC to their developer sponsors that resulted in this demographic change. Karma…
I kindly thank you.
I think Adams and Vogel would represent Va. and my family with the upmost integrity.
I would prefer Adams to knock out Kaine.
I can’t say it enough my wife and I like men like Adams.
The Washington Post doesn’t like Trump ? That’s amazing.
Color me shocked.
I also hear there is gambling, in Casablanca
and there us a fantastic story is going around that Republicans in Virginia might start treating people of color, poor people, gay and transgender people, people with mental illness, homeless, etc with respect and dignity.
Go away, grownups are talking.
But we’ve learned that Republicans don’t like playing with grown ups they prefer little girls (and little boys).
Here is the truth!
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/359858-in-virginia-republican-party-more-to-blame-than-trump