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Ah, cr@p. I was afraid this would happen if Deeds was the nominee. The RATs nominated the one candidate in the primary who has a decent shot of winning the general election. I was really hoping they would have nominated loser Clintonite Terry McAwful, and I think Brian Moron...er... Moran, would have been even weaker. He's the kid brother of a moonbat Congresman who is really disliked outside his district (plus both Moron and McAwful were born in the northeast -- Mass. and NY -- instead of being native Virginians)

I was on FR eight years ago when it was the Earley vs. Warner race. There were definitely some trolls posting back then who claimed to be Republicans but signed up on FR to claim the Republican was a RINO and the RAT candidate was "more conservative", and I expect the RATs to pull the same stunt this time around to try and sway conservative-leaning voters. Deeds is going to hide his leftist views and run as a common sense pro-business "centrist" type. Remember, Deeds lost the A.G. race by fewer than 350 votes. This will probably be another nail biter.

I'm more optimistic than 2001 and 2005 since the VA GOP seems to have learned from their mistakes of phoning-in the campaign, and Deeds does not have type of massive organization that Warner had (or even Jim Webb for that matter), but he's definitely learned from the other winning VA RATs about how to market himself to swing voters.

However, if it's a worse case scenario and the VA GOP fails to take the Governor's office for a third time in a row, I hope they will rethink their constant strategy of using the A.G. office as automatic stepping stone for Governor four years later (yes I know they're term-limited there, but it wouldn't kill them to nominate a politician with more experience holding a different office)

There were definitely some trolls posting back then who claimed to be Republicans but signed up on FR to claim the Republican was a RINO and the RAT candidate was "more conservative", and I expect the RATs to pull the same stunt this time around to try and sway conservative-leaning voters.

Yep, I fought them in 2001, 2005 and 2006 with Webb.

but it wouldn't kill them to nominate a politician with more experience holding a different office

In all honesty, we don't have anyone in that category unless you pull a Congressman.

McDonnell is a strong candidate. Stronger than either Earley or Kilgore. And I'm a HUGH Jerry Kilgore fan, in spite of his loss.