For
years Virginia politics has been marred by an entrenched establishment, chamber of commerce, good ol' boy network. Every time a conservative candidate wins a nomination, the good ol' boy GOP network works to sabotage him.
Oliver North is a good example of a conservative campaign sabotaged by the GOP. Holier than thou sheisskopf former senator John Warner (Mr. Elizabeth Taylor) and his minions put forth a ringer third party candidate who destroyed Oliver North's chances in the general election.
It was pure vindictiveness on Warner's part. If their guy couldn't win the nomination, then they were hell bent on destroying the chances of anyone else. Cucinelli is an even more recent example.
It's the same problem as Mississippi where the entrenched chamber of commerce good ol' boy RINOs led by Haley Barbour and his fellow Thadites actively work to undermine the true conservatives.
I am looking forward to the day when the Roves, Barbours, Warners, and Gillespies move on to their reward.
The current talk among the RINOs in Virginia is to have Ed "The Patsy" Gillespie run for Senate.
For years Virginia politics has been marred by an entrenched establishment, chamber of commerce, good ol' boy network. Every time a conservative candidate wins a nomination, the good ol' boy GOP network works to sabotage him. Not just nominated candidates but those who are elected.
My friend and neighbor won a seat in the VA House of Delegates. He is very conservative and a very good man. When he showed up in Richmond the entrenched GOPe idiots who run everything refused to put him on committees and told him to just shut up as they had ways of doing things that had been around for decades and they were not going to change anything.
Heck, there are many in the VA GOP who were Democrats until the Republican wave hit in the 90s and they just changed parties and kept getting reelected. Nothing changed but the letter after their name.