Posted on 10/14/2013 8:47:37 PM PDT by Kenny
With just three weeks remaining before the election, Republican leaders in Virginia fear that their nominee, Ken Cuccinelli II, is on his way to losing the governor’s race and that the party will squander command of a state that is key to their quest to dominate next year’s midterm elections and the 2016 presidential race.
Distressed over a flurry of recent polls showing Democrat Terry McAuliffe with a solid lead, Virginia Republicans are talking about rebuilding their organization, which is suffering from deep internal rifts similar to those roiling the national party.
It’s a party that is disunited, in flux, in transition and defeated,” said Thomas M. Davis, the former Republican congressman. “We have nominated a ticket that Virginians don’t want to buy.”
While some Republicans say enough time remains for Cuccinelli to recover, Davis said that a defeat would require the party to confront like never before the division between the tea party activists who spurred Cuccinelli’s nomination and the moderates, independents and business leaders turned off by his conservative views on social issues.
That divide echoes the discord within the national GOP, now in full public view as congressional leaders struggle to end a federal shutdown connected to conservative activists seeking to defund the health-care law.
A Cuccinelli defeat in Virginia, Republicans fear, would give Democrats dominance in an important state as the two parties prepare for the 2014 midterm elections and the 2016 presidential race. Democrats would control the state bureaucracy and patronage appointments, which can drive fundraising.
“It sets the tone,” said Ralph Reed, a Republican strategist. “It’s an institutional advantage, no question.”
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With McAuliffe holding a decisive fundraising edge and the federal shutdown fueling voter anger, Republicans are afraid that time is running short for Cuccinelli to alter the race’s dynamics.
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aligning with libertardians only further the causes of illegal alien homosexual child prostitutes on drugs. There is NOTHING of the libertardians worth allying to.
Libertardians are much better at helping the Democrats.
It’s obvious to us the GOPe is losing a little bit more of its base with every passing election, Catherine. And yet they try ever harder to push us away. Do they think that strategy is netting more votes for them?
Hi, Cyber Liberty. It’s my opinion that the GOP thinks we will always come running back, like abused wives, so they can afford to concentrate their efforts on the moderates, the Hispanics, etc.
Makes me glad I’m not a female, and married to them because I bet they treat their real wives like that.
I’m sitting here thinking about being married to Karl Rove or Reince Priebus, and I’m shuddering, LOL.
“Shaddap!” (Whack!) “Look, I have a chart. It shows 45% of the people say I’m right, only 35% say I’m wrong, and the other 20% says you should ‘Shaddap you face!’”
Yeah, pleasant. Bet they wear tank-top t-shirts around the house, too.
LMAO!
Now that’s an image I want stuck in my mind.....Rove’s pudgy little self in a strappy t-shirt. Like Stanley Kowalski, only with a Gerber Baby head.
I think I need to work “Shaddap you face” into my daily vocabulary...
The Song to help get you started....
> “ There is NOTHING of the libertardians worth allying to”
Not true. There are differences and there are similarities. Pay up the similarities and find common ground. Because as it stands now Cuccinelli will lose unless he can pull the substantial libertarian bloc into his organization. Cuccinelli has momentum with the endorsement of Ron Paul but he needs to seal the deal by allowing libertarians to have a stake in the state politics.
Many if not most libertarians identify themselves as such because they identify socially with liberals and fiscally with conservatives.
So what’s needs to be done is to find out what libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis wants and what his 10% to 12% following wants and cut a deal with them.
If they want social safety nets and at the same time want smaller government, then ask them to propose how to make government involvement in the social nets smaller but more efficient and then give them a stake in the state administration for those express purposes, and none other.
LOL
That’s going to be stuck in my head...it’s kind of catchy!
Whatsamatta-u?
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