Posted on 06/09/2009 7:28:06 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
Team,
I heard before that Moran was the weakest but now I am hearing from well-placed sources that we should vote for Terry McAuliffe.
Yes, he can raise money BUT he has extremely high negatives and many, many skeletons in the closet.
So, please, hold your nose and vote for Terry in the RAT primary.
I agree. He is too partisan and DNC for a state wide race in VA.
In all reality, I don’t know that “strategic voting” will make a difference. I would predict that Deeds has this all locked up.
Yes, Moran was the weakest. So weak he didn’t even have a real shot in the primary. Rumor has it though that McAuliffe was calling donors last night saying “sorry, we can’t pull this off.” That’s a ~rumor~ though. I haven’t seen it verified.
Plus, there’s a story out today that the McAuliffe campaign gave their email list to a couple of VT “victims” who were protesting Deeds on the “gun show loophole.” That won’t help McAuliffe. Deeds issued a “how dare they exploit this” response.
Bottom line, McDonnell CAN beat Deeds. But we’ll have to work harder for it. Deeds has his flaws.
In all honesty, I cannot vote for a person that I don’t want in office.
I voted for Moran this morning.
McCauliffe’s a carpetbagger form New York to boot.
And it is fundamentally dishonest.
Is that really worthy of American patriots ?
Yeah, that whole “vote for the weakest candidate on the opposition” really worked out well for the presidential elections, didn’t it?
I’ve come to the same conclusion and won’t be voting today. I was just pointing out the realities.
Unless voter turnout is really low and a LOT of conservatives/Republicans show up to vote, Deeds has this wrapped up.
I’ll be surprised if the result is otherwise.
So true.
That's how the Dems and Indys gave us John McCain. Maybe turn about is fair play.
I have to disagree with your “fundamentally dishonest” comment. It’s not illegal. What, in your opinion, is wrong with strategery? Sure, it can backfire, but backfires are part of life.
If on wants to influence politics ,why not influence it towards your views,not away.VOTING FOR THE WACKO IN HOPES THE VOTERS WILL REJECT HIM IN THE GENERAL ELECTION ENDS UP CREATING THE APPEARANCE OF A MUCH LARGER GROUP OF WACKO SUPPORTERS.And all politicians will attempt to cater to this "new" voting bloc.
I’m going to continue railing against the current primary system we have for presidential elections, which essentially knocked out good candidates too early based on things like “momentum”. By the time we got to vote in Virginia, there was no decent field left.
Whenever you have more than two people running, you have a good chance of ending up with a loser, simply because the opposition vote could be split between two better candidates. That’s how we got our last few presidents.
If we say that we are for fair and free elections ,then I think it follows that casting votes in the opposition's primary is neither.It MAY be legal,but is it ethical and moral?
Similar issues are running for election as a Republican for the Senate,and then switching to the Democrat party without resigning the office.
Both are fundamentally acts of fraud.
Sorry, but I don’t want McAuliffe to even have a snowball’s chance in hell to become Governor of Virginia. Eff Him.
Do they still want people to sign a declaration of intent to support the candidate in the general?
thats the way I see it. I don’t want them to do it and I will not do it.
I don’t know that the Democrats have ever required that. The GOP has.
I agree. For starters, I am wondering what his built-in geographic constituency is? Rural Bath county? Charlottesville? How many people is that? What else?
McDonnell has roots in NOVA where his dad still lives and in Virginia Beach. He can also attract the military vote. He's better known now than he was when he ran for AG.
But what may well be most on McDonnell's side is the national economic meltdown. At the rate we are going things will not be better in November and will likely be worse. That doesnt bode well for RAT candidates.
I agree with you 100%!
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