Warner wins VA

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[VaBthang4]

Pray for us....

[christine]

MM~ you are so right. i was hoping our country was moving to the right in the wake of the 2000 election and the most recent events. i thought the 'sheeple' were waking up! this is distressing, to say the least. :(

[johnfl61]

Another Socialist DEMONRAT who will support extremism and Osama bin Hitlery for president

[KQQL]

Now W is a Bi-Partisan president, he has a RAT on both sides as Governors.

[Dengar01]

Bush has over an 88% approval rating, I don't think it could hurt the republican candidates if Bush gave an endorsement.

[NCRepublican]

"Now W is a Bi-Partisan president, he has a RAT on both sides as Governors."

Ha! That's a clever way to put it! I personally think Bush is more conservative than some give him credit for...I think he's sneaky and wants people to underestimate him. I look at where we were a year ago today...and where we are now...and I think he's even surprised me a little! He's been great and will continue to be.

[bushfamfan]

I'm shocked. And disgusted. How does Bush win the state overwhelmingly, but this Demonrat scum wins this governorship?? Everything's changed since 9/11, so if the Demonrats want to continue to play their slimy games-it's much different. The presidency-everything. They can have it if they want it and this country is stupid enough to support such garbage.

[nvcdl]

Warner ran as a moderate Republican. Earley tried to run as a moderate Republican but the NoVa RINOs decided to support Earely because he would let them raise taxes. Warner did a good job of keeping the NRA out of the campaign, Earely has supported the Doug Wilder one gun a month bill and refused to disavow it. He also refused to answer surveys from Virginia's leading pro gun group, http://www.vcdl.org . Kilgore, the Republican won the AG job because the Democrat ran as a proud NRA F rated gun grabber.

[HP8753]

WOW...2 Gun Grabbers ran for Governor and 1 of them won....
and the difference is?????

[rw4site]

Forget about STOPDEMOCRATS.COM. The Democrats still remain very angry that they failed to steal enough votes last year to get their Goreboy into office. They're not likely to allow their shortfall of vote stealing to happen again.

They are using the state and local elections to perfect their skills at winning elections by using every tactic available. I hear they are planning to have election precincts placed in most large cemeteries so the dead won't have any trouble finding the polls.

Prepare for a dreary future of Dems controlling (or taking) your life. </sarcasm> </anger>

[Alissa]

So are you telling me the NRA endorsed Warner?

[KQQL]

Looks like Earley is going to lose by 5% and drag katzen with him, he is losing by 2%.
W could have made a difference here.

[KQQL]

Taxes, will go up in VA

[doctor noe]

Look at it as a trade...VA traded one limpdick (Robb) for another (Warner). Next time, run your best candidate for governor.

[writmeister]

Hey, it looks like Katzen is narrowing the gap -- down to 8500 votes.

[COURAGE]

Sorry, he just ran with a bad campaign. Also too much infighting in the Republican party and got too lazy.

[MississippiMan]

Please can the doom and gloom.

I'm not a doom-and-gloomer. I am, however, a realist. Suggest removing head from sand and taking a look around. All we manage to do every now and then is stick a finger in a dam (couldn't bring myself to use the standard expression) but the direction is exactly the same.

MM

[COURAGE]

Also, you just can not be only against something and not have somthing for you to support.

[billhilly]

I love how everyone assumes Bush will expose himself in public to the nut jobs that are out there in the country, who would love to take a shot at him. In addition, what makes you think bush is the guy that would matter. Either the state likes the candidate or they don't. You would also have to have proof through polling that public appearances by Bush would make a difference. Do you know that? I am sure the Earley campaign did/does. What have they said about Bush's absence on the stump? Are they complaining? Could it be that Earley ran a bad campaign...had ideas that didn't sell?

Good points. Virginians, of whom I am proud to be (recently )counted[1958]) only got around to electing republicans in the late sixties. Since then they have pretty much evenly split their vote for Governor between the two parties. Since Virginia's Governors may not succeed themselves, it works pretty well. One Governor during that time, and the last one before the first Republican in 88 years (Linwood Holton) was elected, was Miles Godwin. He got around the four year term limit by running the second time (after Holton's term) as a republican. He was elected, and as most Virginians will recall, he was the same conservative Virginian the second time around.

We got J. Sargeant Reynolds, Scion of the Reynolds Tobacco family, and Chuck Robb, husband of the daughter of Lyndon Johnson, as Lt. Governors, both Democrats. Reynolds died before becoming Governor, but Robb did become Governor, then Senator. Someone named Baylillse(as unremarkable as my spelling of his name), and Douglas Wilder, the nations first black Governor. These are the Democrats that I remember as Governors of Virginia.

We republicans had Holton, then Godwin, then Dalton and Allen. Gilmore, our most recent, is now the chairman of the RNC.

[sneakypete]

I sadly believe that the fall of our nation is a foregone conclusion.

Yup,and this really hammered into my mind yesterday as I traveled through West Virginia. A whole damn state full of radical rednecks who claim they vote Dim because the "Dims are for the working man.". Yet these same retards elected Rockefeller twice to Governor,and to the Senate for as long as he wants. Somebody ought to ask these cretins if there is any family on the planet more responsible for the misery of the working-class West Virginian than the Rockefellers. The Rockefellers used political connections and strong-arm methods to steal timber and mining land from their ancestors,and even hired murderers to kill them during the union protests of the 30's. None of this bothers the average West Virginian voting Dim in the slightest. They elect the grandson and son because he's a "Dim and has our best interests at heart".