The RNC chose to spend their donors' money on the New Jersey Fatass instead.
Interesting post by someone yesterday.. It is better to vote for a true conservative and lose then go with the RINO who may win the election but will let you down in the crunch.....
I’m weighing how much faith I should continue to have, if any, in the electoral process.
The Republicans saved a bunch of money here. In 2016 they don’t have to spend anything in Virginia as they delivered it to the Clinton machine last night.
Good luck running those rinos in the primaries GOP.
While I understand the anger and agree somewhat with a new party, a 3rd party will continue to ensure Democratic victory. In the case of VA, where an Obama bundler footed the bill for the “Libertarian” candidate, then you would have the vote split 4 ways. Dems, Rep, Lib and Tea Party....Tell me how this will create a victory for the Tea party candidate?
"The GOP-E doesn't represent us in Washington, it represents Washington to us."
“Moderates” are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum. They’ll happily toss a race to the democrats just to say “We told you so”.
Nothing but Kapos who kiss the asses of their masters while keeping the problem inmates in line.
If I were a Democrat trying to fracture the Conservative movement, I would write this article.
Yep.
I think fundraising was Cuccinelli’s Achilles heel. He was a reluctant fundraiser. A right winger like him should have been fundraising in red states and making pledges of mutual support with like-minded conservatives. Instead, he let McAuliffe outraise him. Cory Booker was a lock for the US Senate, but he raised funds all over the country anyway. Complaining is not a strategy.
I want to know why people think this so called libertarian got votes that "belonged" to the republican. The guy did not have a libertarian bone in his body. He wanted to put GPS trackers in everybody's cars.
Is there any exit polling showing republicans voting LP?
It's a little soon to draw final conclusions about this race. I have a couple of questions for Virginians, since I only got the national media coverage for this one.
1) Was Cuccinelli a real social conservative?
2) Was he a real tax cutter?
3) Did he ever say anything, of any sort, about birth control or insurance coverage of same?
4) Did he ever say anything about illegal drugs, especially about Federal laws about same?
I am a hard-core fusionist, and I believe, maybe wrongly, that most of those Sarvis votes should have been GOP votes. However, we do have a real intra-party disagreement over this question.
Just as there are some voters who absolutely, positively cannot vote for a pro-abortion candidate (and who won't vote if there's no choice) there is also a block of voters who will preferentially vote Libertarian but who will vote for the Democrat over the Republican given certain circumstances.
If we don't abandon the GOP and form an outright pro-liberty party, we have to solve the puzzle of how many "Sarvis voters" we can get. We also, as CNN keeps pointing out, need to recapture Perot voters (a/k/a the white working class) if we have any hope of beating the communists.
The problem with both "Sarvis voters" and "Perot voters" is that they are not voting at all, most of the time. This is entirely a GOP problem to solve.
VA Freepers, please break Cuccinelli down for me by answering the questions above.
Good analysis, except for this. The "libertarian" was a liberal, funded by Liberals, intended to make a difficult situation even more so.
Agree. The GOP is what it is and will never change.
The only thing the GOP is willing to stand up to is the conservative “threat”. The Tea Party will never be embraced.
Do conservative voters that stayed home share at least part of the responsibility?
Priebus and Rove are enabling Democrat victories...
I will actively work against the Republican Party period. No matter who or what.
See Dick.
See Dick vote.
See Dick believe his vote actually means something.
Silly Dick.
Silly, silly Dick.