Posted on 11/07/2014 11:09:40 AM PST by smoothsailing
Not correct. This was all Sarvis’ fault. He accepted Democrat money knowing this would throw the race. He is a despicable piece of excrement willing to take a payoff and a dive.
D Winner M. Warner (i) 49.2% 1,071,283
R E. Gillespie 48.4% 1,054,556
L R. Sarvis 2.5% 53,396
I’ve been ruminating about the issue of federal employees working in DC but voting in Va and Md.There oughta be a law agin it.
I suggest that we enlarge the District of Columbia by a few miles on the side . . .
I’ve never bought the theory that Libertarians take votes from Republicans and not Democrats. Libertarians are nothing more than Democrats who pretend to have a few conservative principles at election time.
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In the 2013 race for governor of Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe beat Republican Ken Cuccinelli by 2 percentage points, 48 percent to 46 percent. Libertarian Robert Sarvis pulled almost 7 percent. Exit polls showed that Sarvis actually gave Cuccinelli a fighting chance: “An exit poll of Sarvis voters showed that they would have voted for McAuliffe by a two-to-one margin over Cucinelli.”
http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/13/do-libertarian-party-candidates-always-p
who do paultardz caucus with?
read thomas sowell - unfortunately, paultardz live in the right side of the fence - much to the right’s humiliation
Sowell is one of my favorites.
Here’s an interesting read from a different perspective...
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/libertarian-left/
“...taking the high road...”
Nobel, but that gets you killed in a street fight.
But I hear you, brother.
“...However, where does one find the funds?...”
Same place the Dems find them. Wherever possible, however possible, and whomever possible.
Did not realize it was that wide a gap...
I’m from Old School, though. You keep punching, even when your eyes are swollen shut, your nose is broken, and your teeth are loosen.
Then you headbutt...
“..Gillespie is positioning himself for a run at governor and doesn’t want the probable negative publicity..”
Got it; ExnewsExspook made that point too.
Still... it rankles to concede anything to those f***ing mongrels on the left.
The bitchslapping they took Tuesday was amazing. I kinda of just want it to keep going on and on...
Roger that. Makes sense from that perspective, if the Governor’s house is reachable.
I suppose we should be pretty glad with Tuesday’s results and move on from there.
Still... one more poke in their mongrel eyes would NOT be a bad thing, would it...
They bring a Thompson to a knife fight.
It’s the ONLY way TO fight.
the anointed want control of the minutia of everyone’s life
no way to say a paultard is closer to a democrap
I'm with you. The Gillespie race was the only less than stellar news of the day; however, nobody expected him to be anywhere close, so it was a bit of a win in that regard. The important thing is that Warner is now in the minority. He's not going to like that very much and I will relish that thought.
I spent a couple of hours in the presence of John Warner a couple of weekends ago. Trust me when I tell you that there's nobody home there.
They lost this one on purpose.
Has anyone ever won a count AFTER conceding?
Yes, Sarvis the LINO has now won two consecutive statewide elections for the Democrats. I hope they’re paying him well.
Does Thad even know he was running, let alone that he won?
Mark Obenshain might have a little something to say about that.
BTW, neither Warner would likely have ever won this seat had Obenshain's dad not been killed in a plane crash.
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