Posted on 11/06/2001 5:27:44 PM PST by VaBthang4
Gilmore set the mandate... get rid of a tax. The GOP torpedoed that popular mandate. Then they anoint Earley. The voters said, "Up your's." At the same time, they voted for more conservatives in the legislature.
Tell me, how did Warner manage to appear more conservative than Earley? Because Earley isn't very conservative. If he was, Warner would not have been able to create that appearance.
Not that the liberals will give him any credit for 'bipartisanship' in a crisis.
I was responding to your comment that "if Gilmore had done what he promised..." He (Gilmore) would argue that he did.
Funny though, your sentence above outlines three factions within the GOP (there are more). But that points to one of the real reasons we lost. We can't have our family squabbles and get over it in time for the general election.
I know that I was, like many others, certainly not at all glad to find out that last night, pseudo-conservative Warner had in fact won. I expect that Governor Warner will take Gilmore's outstanding legacy and put it where only his over-inflated, publically pretentious ego permits it. Looking ahead, the true citizens of Virginia, who are the GOP's worthiest and best representatives, must protect interests that we share. Of these, I think the most important are state programs for education, emphasizing identification of systems that actually work! The kind which are composed of a clearly wrong ideology are those that never determine which student deserves encouragement and incentive to achieve and succeed.
Be vigilant; we are honored for our efforts.
Start planning now for 2002. In Maryland (where I live) there could be major battles brewing.
I'm just afraid that if Ehrlich runs, the same forces that came out against Sauerbrey will reemerge to tar him as "too conservative for Maryland" again. It'd be easy to unite behind a Kennedy to fight the forces of conservatism.
What could really hurt Kennedy-Townsend is a primary fight, against Martin O'Malley or Wayne Curry. Curry could be a real problem, pulling black voter support from Kennedy. She'd have to try and beat him without alienating black voters she would have to have to win the governorship.
You can't have a Commonwealth when there's no wealth held by the commoners.
LOL...yeah, you MUST be right after considering all that compelling evidence. SHEEEESH!!
"Yep, boy did you conservatives get hoodwinked by Bush and the New Republican GOP..."
If only we'd have been smart enuff to nominate a true patriot like Patrick J. Buchanan...LOL!!!!
BTW...my primary candidate--Steve Forbes--wouldda campaigned fer both Schundler and Earley!!
FReegards...MUD
It's very true that we are on a slippery slope and that we will end up something quite different in 50 years than we are today.
The good news is that there isn't any other nation that can take our place as the greatest nation on Earth.
It's actually up to the current generation to correct the misdeeds of the past and make sure things are better for our children.
The 70's crowd has done their damage,when it comes to morality there's no where to go but up.
Hard to figure just where it's all headed, provided the events of Revelation haven't taken place within the next fifty years. I think I need to pray harder. :)
MM
Ditto that. Please add me to your Virginia ping list if you have one. I want to unravel the coverups of Virginia democratics. And I want to be on top of every idiot thing they say. Freegards....
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