[Twodees]

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.

[Ward Smythe]

Let's make it too hot for the new gov to handle.

Well, while I still disagree with you assessment of Earley, I can agree with you here.

And a good deal of the work is already done. It'll be a little like the budget deal Gerald Baliles left for Doug Wilder in 1985. Gilmore will present a budget that eliminates the car tax, but will only be able to do so by dramatically cutting services and employees. Warner will be faced with going along with the cuts or raising taxes.

And he is such an idiot if he thinks he can "manage" the Virginia General Assembly. I chuckle everytime I think about that.