Posted on 07/27/2008 5:22:40 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
Based on the lines currently, both the VA House and Senate should have commanding GOP majorities, but the Dems managed to keep picking off the seats to the point that they reclaimed the Senate (helped in no small measure to legislative RINOs). At best, it may end up being an “incumbent protection” plan with the next GOP Governor if both parties control one body or the other. If the Dems reclaim both and a Dem wins the Governorship, they might end up reducing the number of Republicans down to what the Dems were at at the beginning of this decade... 1/3rd of the membership.
Ouch!
Well, in Delaware’s case, if Helen Thomas’s twin sister Governor of yours were to depart, you’d still have a rodent succeeding her. It’s a shame the DE GOP has decided to take a permanent nap. A far cry from the Pete DuPont/Bill Roth days. I’m just surprised Mike Castle hasn’t made his party switch official, yet. He’s already sailed off into liberalland.
I liked this line from the article:
**Governor Bolling also could thwart Kaine’s unfinished business: kicking out the House Republican majority. Bolling could finesse the 2011 redistricting, extending GOP legislative power for another decade.**
One up side to Obama being president perhaps is that VA has elected GOP governors when a Democrat is president in recent decades. So if a Republican wins in ‘09 he would have some influence over redistricting.
As Repubs hold the 2 other statewide offices and Kaine can’t run again, who might the Dems put up next year?
Depending upon the Dem primary outcome, it might end up a rematch of the Atty General race in ‘05. State Sen. Creigh Deeds is the more rural candidate, but he faces State Del. Brian Moran, the little brother of our favorite liberal psychotic racist and anti-Semite Congressman, Jim, who would be the urban choice. Deeds and Moran are supposedly friends, and Moran deferred to Deeds when he ran for Atty Gen in ‘05 against Bob McDonnell, the latter of whom only narrowly won.
There is also a wild-card entry of Congressman Rick Boucher, who could run without giving up his House seat (but Boucher, being another rural candidate, would probably harm Deeds and hand the nomination to Moran). Yet another possible wild card is former Congressman L.F. Payne, but Payne is probably too Conservative to win the nomination and he lost what was considered a “sure bet” in ‘97 for Lt Governor against the unknown John Hager (now a Bush in-law).
Have you seen the latest SUSA poll? When the question was simply who would you vote for, McCain or Obama, Obama got 49%. They then added Kaine to Obama’s ticket three times (with McCain having three different VP choices).
Each time, Obama’s share went down to 46%.
Sometimes, one has no idea what Bill Kristol is smokin’.
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=b3aa039f-ad80-42e9-b384-e37f124f51d5
I called Kaine a while back.
BTW Webb would say yes and Warner would say “oh thank you MASTER” and kiss Obama’s feet if offered the VP nod. Not a single rat senator would say no.
That’s the LT Governor is for. However Kaine would not resign early. He’d only leave if Obama wins.
The Dems are heading to a nasty primary for Governor between State Senator Creigh Deeds and Delegate Brian Moran (brother of Congressman Jim Moran). It's already ugly.
Deeds ran a very close race against Bob McDonnell for AG in 2005. He's good on the 2nd Amendment and less liberal than most of the statewide rats (mostly). Moran is a textbook liberal and hopefully shares his brothers tendency to put his foot in his mouth then punch you in the face if you point it out.
I agree with you wholeheartedly in regard to the DE GOP, which is why I had washed my hands of them well before I moved to Virginia. The mold was broken after Pete and Bill, there is no one to even clome close to filling the shoes of either.
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