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The Republican national party obviously feels New Jersey and Virginia are expendable. But based on what I read about the Rino the Repubs ran in Virginia, the Democart was the more conservative of the two.

You need to get some facts straight.

The current Chairman of the RNC and the current Governor of Virginia Jim Gilmore would disagree strongly that Virginia is "expendable." Plus the RNC sank well over $3 million (that I'm aware of) into this race and send some consultants down as well.

Ultimately, although I've fought the good PR fight for the last few weeks, the Earley campaign was flawed from the start. They also suffered from Gilmore's negatives concerning the budget.

Where you are most mistaken is in calling Mark Earley a RINO. And saying Mark Warner is "conservative" is just down right ludicrous. Check out Which Warner?

Mark Warner bought himself a new "fiscal conservative" image and the sheeple of Virginia fell for it.

Mike, both of them tried to project a new image. Earley tried to pretend he wasn't a gungrabbing member of a communist front organization, but he's from around here and people have long memories. The carpetbagger doesn't have any conservatives fooled. The scalawag just couldn't fool enough of them. It's over. Let's make it too hot for the new gov to handle. That's the best thing to do. Make your delegate and senator propose tax cut after tax cut, and the abolishment of the VAABC store chain. Insist on cutting services to the bone and stopping spending. If we go on the offensive, Warner will flounder around for four years and run home crying when his term is over.

I'm not from Virginia so not familiar with the details there. I do know as a former Jersey resident and still in touch there that Schundler did not receive the kind of support from the Administration in Washington you would have expected a candidate in an important race to receive. Schundler' campaign was handicapped by a lack of funds which the RNC should have helped alleviate. McGreevey was swimming in dough and ran commercials on TV continuously.

The liberal Republicans in Jersey apparently refused to support their party's candidate - once again, because he was conservative.

What confused me about Virginia was the fact that the NRA supported the Democrat. That indicated to me that the Democrat was more conservative than the Republican. What liberal supports gun rights? None I ever met.

The web site you referred me to indicates the Democrat is a chaemeleon like character who will say anything in order to get himself elected. If that is indeed the case, Virginians got stuck with a bad governor.

It just appears to me that Republicans are really their own worst enemy. True, they have to contend with a hostile media, well-entrenched urban political machines, hostile minority voters, and well-organized union opposition. But the fact remains that their basic political philosophies of strict constitutional interpretation, personal integrity, respect for human life and the right to self-defense and controlling th size of government are logical, morally correct, and more in keeping with the traditional valules and philosophies of our founding fathers.

They just seem to lack the zealousness that all of the aforementioned would seem to justify. Perhaps because they really don't support big government, they are not as comfortable as Democrats in operating in a political arena as are the Democrats.