“I’d love to see Ken Cuccinelli run.”
The lesson of 2010 is clear: we can successfully run solidly conservative candidates in just about every state or district (and VA is no exception), but we can’t run a bad candidate and expect to win. (Well, sometimes the district is so Republican and the wave is so strong that even a bad candidate like Joe Walsh can eke out a win in IL-08, but for the most part candidates without the proper profile, experience or skills lose.
In VA, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is as conservative as they come, and he certainly has the right profile, experience and skills to beat Webb or whomever the Democrats nominate (maybe Senator Webb will opt not to run and former Gov. Kaine will run instead). Cuccinelli is a former state legislator from NoVA, so he knows how to frame the issues so as not to repel less conservative voters, and would certainly be able to get conservatives from across the state to come out to vote for him, as he proved in his 2009 victory. If Cuccinelli runs, he should be nominated by acclamation, will surely win the general election, and will become a principled conservative Senator.
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Cuccinelli has indicated he has no interest in running for the Senate. At least not in 2012. I think he’d rather be Governor.
Cuccinelli should run for President in 2010.
George Allen for Governor in ‘13