Might as well be California.
We didn’t get “shoved” nothing. There was a very competitive Republican primary in VA this year.
Gillespie’s primary opponent, Corey Stewart, is as hard-core conservative as any FReeper. He’s planning to run for the U.S. Senate next year. If he has any hope of being elected, he needs a Republican (of any stripe) in the Governor’s mansion. Politics, as a wise person once said, makes strange bedfellows. VA conservative voters stay home at their own peril.