What Happens if Shak Hill Wins the Nomination?

No, YOU don’t understand… yes you will! I will however spring for bar snacks.

Ed’s people just told me he won by 62%. Steve gets his beer on you!

Funny how when people volunteered and went to a Cuccinelli campaign HQ, they were only able to find the standard EW Jackson palmcards and the yard sign with all three candidates listed on it (that Cuccinelli paid for), and that’s it. No lapels, no other materials, no volunteer coordinators, and certainly no walkbooks or other methods to contact voters. Funny how the Cuccinelli and Obenshain campaigns encouraged volunteers to come out and knock doors FOR THE TICKET, while EW Jackson opened up his own campaign HQ and encouraged people to knock doors for EW Jackson.

Funny how EW Jackson supporters were running their mouth as early as August talking about how Ken Cuccinelli, of all people, wasn’t conservative enough.

And funny how EW Jackson ended up as one of the worst performing statewide candidates in the history of embarrassing and pathetic campaigns.

Since you were actually ON Jackson’s campaign, Steven Thomas, do you want to tell me why anybody should think you know a single thing about winning an actual election?

I wonder how many people think Cuccinelli didn’t win because he wasn’t conservative enough.

That shouldn’t take you too long.

Well, unlike you CVA “Patriot”, I support the cause and don’t get hung up on ego. When I support a candidate, I help out however I can, whether its with my time or my money. I don’t need an “invitation” to be motivated to elect a conservative like Ken Cuccinelli to the Governor’s Mansion. I don’t need to be made to feel “special”.

Besides which, it seems like you were willing to jump on any perceived slight as an excuse for why your candidate lost. EW Jackson was a terrible general election candidate–this is plain as day–but the biggest mistake he ran was when he decided that his mission required to separate himself from the ticket.

I don’t doubt that EW Jackson was told some hard truths about what the campaign needed to do. Judging by his vote share, those truths undoubtedly fell on deaf ears, which is a shame because the utlimate goal of the Cuccinelli team was to WIN all three statewide seats and GOVERN.

Meanwhile, the ultimate goal of many of EW Jackson’s supporters (including the multitude here now supporting Shak Hill) is to prove how conservative they are, even if they never get anything done because they can never get elected to office.

Absolutely, he should have run a better campaign. He shouldn’t have surrounded himself with the same good old boys that ran George Allen’s losing 2012 Senate Race, who insisted on neutering the things that made Cuccinelli such an effective politician from back when he first got elected in Fairfax.

But you’re swallowing a load of bull if you believe that EW Jackson was kicked off the campaign trail. The Jackson was campaign was given its marching orders in support of the ticket, and Jackson took it as an insult (and clearly told his supporters his version so folks like you took it the same way) and decided that he was bigger than the ticket.

As a result, a guy who has spend the last 12 years getting elected and being an effective advocate of the conservative cause (Cuccinelli) is a persona non grata among a small segment of grassroots activists, out of loyalty to a newcomer fringe candidate who has no history of impacting anything (Jackson). It’s a shame, really, how many people want to die on the EW Jackson hill, as if that will accomplish anything.

They may not have run a good campaign, but they knew Jackson was running a worse won (and the vote % bears that out).

I wanted the Jackson camp to be a team player, rather than declare himself above the ticket and split the party. As early as August, there were complaints that Ken Cuccinelli wasn’t “conservative enough”, wasn’t “pure enough”.

I put that 100% at the feet of EW Jackson and his supporters, who almost a year later mockingly ask “How’s Governor Cuccinelli” doing, as if it wasn’t a loss for all conservatives.

Stephen,
Perhaps you live in some other America where the Republican Party is Conservative. The GOP began as a Liberal Party and has always been such. Two RiNO’s (A conservative in the GOP is ‘in name only’ not a big government liberal) emerged as anomalies- Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Reagan for a brief time maintained a reasonably conservative grip on the GOP, but as soon as he left office they went feral again.

Your issue here seems to be confusion or wishful thinking- you say you want to defeat liberals and then defend them because they have an R instead of a D even though there is no difference generally speaking. Then you pound your chest about it until someone reminds you that we are where we are because when the GOP held the House, Senate and WH they were every bit the big government spenders as the Dems.

Retake? Retake what? The EPA, IRS, Homeland Security, TARP, running your children’s lifetime tax burden to 1.5 million each the day theuy were born because Republicans like Eric Cantor, Lindsey Graham, etc., gave Obama a blank check?

How’s all that conservatism working for you?

JFK would be considered a radical in today’s GOP.

It’s notable I asked “How’s that working out for you” and you avoided the question. Because we both know- and everyone reading this knows, that compromise and pragmatism from the Republican party is nothing less than complicity in the downfall of the Republic.

When Republicans are merely in securing their own place in the ruling elite and “managing decline” it’s clear that voting for them renders no different outcome.

It’s said Stephen that one who engages repeatedly in the same behavior and expects a different outcome is insane. Meditate on that for a while and get back to me.

Hahahaa! You LIV sucker, keep voting for BobDole. If you had any sense you’d understand Obama and his criminal administration lay at the feet of Rovites like you.

I hear Romney may run again- or Jeb Bush, that should put a tingle down your leg.

Quit whining like a baby.
Answer the question Stephen- “So how’s all that Republican Party working out for you?”

How’s your college loan doing?
How’s your mortgage and Property value doing?
How’s that dollar in your pocket doing compared to when you were 11?
How’s that 1.5 million in debt for that newborn on the way that the GOP passed along with every other Debt Ceiling Increase?

Tell us little boy- How’s that Republican Party doing for you?

C’mon Stephen you are in over your head here-
“Go join a drum circle you f*cking hippie.”
Name calling? Those are your words.

How about that projection? Sweety, if you were a conservative you wouldn’t be defending a liberal Party- one that has moved so far to the Left since you were 11 years old that even Rush Limbaugh comments on it.

You don’t want an end to liberal policies- you want to dress them up in an “R” and play feel good.

What I want- is Republicans to be honest about who they really are. Stop pretending the Party is Conservative- stop ignoring the Constitution; stop blaming others for pointing it all out; stop supporting weasels like Ed Gillespie and his paymaster Karl Rove that lost the last elections by running liberals like Romney- and then you’ll have some cred as a conservative.

Romney is the author of socialized medicine and the godfather of homosexual marriage- he ran at the top of the Republican ticket- a ticket Ed Gillespie was all for- you want me to believe the GOP is a Conservative Party- what are you smoking?

I didn’t call you a name, I called you hippie because you support Democrats, which is what hippies do.

I’m honest about what the Republican Party is–it’s a collection of individuals. You think they all must be opposed. That’s good to know, I just don’t know why you’re posting on a Republican political blog.

Have you checked out http://www.bluevirginia.us? They oppose Republicans almost as much as you do. Perhaps you can talk with them about how much you love Obamacare.