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The Importance of Virginia
Redstate ^ | 8/15/2013 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 08/15/2013 1:39:03 PM PDT by JSDude1

Yesterday, the AFL-CIO declared it was going all in in Virginia to get Terry McAuliffe elected. The AFL-CIO has massive amounts of money and, should McAuliffe win, as Jim Geraghty, I, and others have noted, the media and liberal Republicans will claim conservatives cannot get elected.

Ken Cuccinelli, as the Attorney General of Virginia, was the first State AG to go to court opposing Obamacare. Ken has also been at the forefront in the fight against Obama’s war on fossil fuels.

Ken is the Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia in this year’s November election and if he loses, it will energize and encourage Obama and the Democrats to fight even harder against America’s energy sources, claim validation for Obamacare, and disillusion and discourage Republican leaders and candidates from continuing to fight. But, if Ken wins, it will send a signal that voters reward principled conservatives who fight.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: biglabor; cuccinelli; governor; teaparty; terrymcauliffe; unionvote; va2013
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With the Governor’s race effectively tied, Terry McAuliffe (the Clinton and Democrat’s number one fundraiser) is out raising Ken 2 to 1. Ken has outraised Terry McAuliffe inside Virgina, but McAuliffe has gotten enormous help from national unions, abortion interests, and recently a California billionaire environmentalist began spending $400,000 per week on T.V. ads on climate change to try to defeat Ken. Then, as I mentioned at top, yesterday the AFL-CIO decided to go all in.

Ken has not had equivalent conservative support. Ken has been outspent in all of his previous races (and won all), so he doesn’t need to out-raise McAuliffe, but he must have enough money to be competitive.

The Virginia Governor’s race is the most important race in America for conservatives in 2013.

It’s a certainty that a Republican victory in Virginia’s 2013 Governor’s race will excite the Republican base and discourage Democrats. What happens in Virginia in 2013 will not stay in Virginia but will set the stage for elections in 2014, just as the Virginia GOP Governor’s victory did in 2009 for the big 2010 Republican wins.

This, my friends, is why you must contribute.

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IMO, WE MUST SUPPORT HIM THE WAY WE DID NY-23 in 2008, and the MA Senate race. MONEY BOMB FOR CUCCINELLI!

http://www.cuccinelli.com/

1 posted on 08/15/2013 1:39:03 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1
...should McAuliffe win, as Jim Geraghty, I, and others have noted, the media and liberal Republicans will claim conservatives cannot get elected.

I hate to say it, but I think you'd better get ready for "the media and liberal Republicans [to] claim conservatives cannot get elected"

2 posted on 08/15/2013 1:49:04 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: WayneS
There's no way to beat the State-Run-Media, Big Money interests, Vote Fraud, and the Progressive Agenda in any Election anymore. We don't even KNOW who is counting the votes, or if they're even COUNTED at all.

Stock up on ammo; it's the only hope to take back the Country, although I fear it's even too late for that, with the faggot/dyke limp military that won't be on America's side, anyway.

3 posted on 08/15/2013 1:59:58 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: JSDude1

Trying to be a good Christian, my “loath and hate list” is very short. Terry McAuliffe is on it. Has been for a long time.


4 posted on 08/15/2013 2:03:11 PM PDT by upchuck (My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that!)
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To: traditional1

“Stock up on ammo; it’s the only hope to take back the Country . . .”

Thomas Jefferson anticipated this time would come:

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Every generation needs a new revolution.


5 posted on 08/15/2013 2:15:28 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: traditional1

Northern Va full of Middle Easterners and other foreign imports. Throw in the transplanted LIEberals and old Virginny is tacking to the left ever increasingly. Sucks to see Va. as the new southern border of the northeast Dem hellhole land mass.


6 posted on 08/15/2013 2:28:15 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: tflabo

maybe they will reabsorb the born again West Virginia and Purge the east


7 posted on 08/15/2013 2:33:29 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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The importance of...

OOppss - forgot to spell check

8 posted on 08/15/2013 2:35:14 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: JSDude1

Genuine good guy versus total scumbag. Very important race.


9 posted on 08/15/2013 2:52:13 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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VA is just overrun with northern liberals in the DC suburbs.


10 posted on 08/15/2013 3:00:30 PM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!")
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To: Theodore R.; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy

NOVA hasn’t been part of the South for some time.

Back in the day it was among the first areas in the State to vote Republican (after the SW where the GOP always had sporadic success) thanks to Northern transplants not raised to hate Republicans like most Southerners were.

More recent immigration has been decidedly negative. The biggest problem is the government workers of course. Unions. Also White collar liberal a-holes in their fancy suburbs.


11 posted on 08/15/2013 3:16:14 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: tflabo

Kind of funny, about 4 years ago, I was ordered to move to the DC area, middle of all of the sh*t hitting the fan. I refused and told management, no way and got promptly fired. Looking back, glad I didn’t make the move ! Kind of sad also, Colorado has been making large left turns as well. I remember the state house was GOP controlled but now the dems control is as hard. Even more tragic is there are some districts in Colorado Springs that are under dem control ! The executive that ordered me to go to the east coast, he is sure happy on the changes ! In fact he ordered all of us to vote his way. Of course I blew him off and told him my vote was none of his business which really p*ssed him off and was given those orders to move east not long afterward !

> Northern Va full of Middle Easterners and other foreign imports. Throw in the transplanted LIEberals and old Virginny is tacking to the left ever increasingly. Sucks to see Va. as the new southern border of the northeast Dem hellhole land mass.


12 posted on 08/15/2013 3:48:19 PM PDT by CORedneck
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To: Impy

If the GOp loses in Va, watch Karl Rove and Co. blame Bishop EW Jackson for dragging down the ticket.


13 posted on 08/15/2013 6:04:54 PM PDT by yongin (You can't have a truce on social issues when the IRS is taking sides.)
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To: Perdogg

Lots and lots of Virginia threads lately!


14 posted on 08/15/2013 7:05:33 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: sleepy_hollow; Mad Dawg; EDINVA; JPG; Hawthorn; Paisan; ConservativeOrBust; VA_Gentleman; ...

ping


15 posted on 08/15/2013 7:17:28 PM PDT by Perdogg (Cruz-Paul 2016)
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To: yongin; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican

I hope Jackson wins but it’ll be tough with the lynch job.


16 posted on 08/15/2013 7:24:55 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy

30 percent of Fairfax County is foreign born.


17 posted on 08/15/2013 8:06:46 PM PDT by kabar
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To: JSDude1
Another way to support Ken Cuccinelli, especially for women in VA is the PAC WOMEN FOR KEN. You know that they are going to make him out to be a woman-hater because he is ardently prolife. My youngest daughter is working with this PAC in NoVA. They are looking for video "selfies" with women stating their name, where they live and a pithy sentence on why they stand with Ken. Click on video contest.
18 posted on 08/16/2013 12:05:15 PM PDT by xsmommy
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Per xsmommy:

Another way to support Ken Cuccinelli, especially for women in VA is the PAC WOMEN FOR KEN. You know that they are going to make him out to be a woman-hater because he is ardently prolife. My youngest daughter is working with this PAC in NoVA. They are looking for video "selfies" with women stating their name, where they live and a pithy sentence on why they stand with Ken. Click on video contest.
19 posted on 08/16/2013 12:13:14 PM PDT by Perdogg (Cruz-Paul 2016)
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To: Perdogg

thanks, Perdogg.


20 posted on 08/16/2013 12:17:30 PM PDT by xsmommy
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