Tim Kaine could not win Virginia for Obama in most of the house seats in this past November election.
Virginia is definitely a red state now. If the Dems want to invest a lot of money here they will be taking a huge chance.
Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched.
Kaine couldn’t lift the rat candidates last year because nobody could lift them. The rats centered their resources in states they had a chance of holding onto, VA not being one of them. Remember, they already had the results of the VA gubernatorial race as a reference. If Kaine runs, the rat machine will be churning powerfully for him, and it’ll be more than the state machine. The DC machine will be deployed for him as well. And don’t forget that there are a lot of blacks in VA, and the rats will get a huge turnout. He has the heft within the party to demand it. The fact that Webb is out means it’s highly likely that Kaine has already been selected and the machine is revving up as we speak.
George Allen cannot put together a fulsome enough base to beat him. It will take someone fresh and powerful to beat Kaine.
Anybody who thinks ‘12 will be a repeat of ‘10 for us is either hallucinating or simply doesn’t understand politics. There will be many defensive contests to fight. We may run the table if we do everything right every step of the way starting NOW, but a sitting prez is very hard to beat and 60 seats in the Senate will prove a bridge too far. We’ll get 54-55 and it will be a very divided Senate philosophically. We’ll hold the House but it will be tough to maintain this large a majority. If we don’t nominate an absolutely superb candidate, we will not take the WH. Obama has a tremendous amount of money and astonishingly powerful people and entities backing him. In fact, if they don’t pull it together within the next 6 weeks, they may have already damned us for ‘12 and, therefore, forevermore.
We are in the fight of our lives NOW. So far, the pubs we worked so hard to elect last year are proving unequal to the task we gave them. That bodes very poorly for success in ‘12. If we lose that election and Obama is given four years of free reign over this country, we’re done. Finito. Stick a fork in America.
The fight is on NOW. We should have armies doing opposition research and devising methods of defeating rat vote fraud NOW. We should be beating the bushes looking for the best candidates and vetting, vetting, vetting NOW. Most of all, we should be laying down the law to Boehner, Cantor, Ryan and the rest of them and bugging them night and day relentlessly.