Yes, but Republicans needed to be taught a lesson this year.
Psst ... Pay no attention to that war, those judges and all the taxes.
Thank you Virginia.
Now you have a Chuck Schumer.
No we have a Dik Durban.
George Allen would still be senator if George Bush and the RINOs were not obsessed with this amnesty crap. Many areas of Virginia are being overwhelmed with the illegal alien invasion, especially northern Virginia where Webb won big (with the help of a lot of illegally registered alien voters who made the 8000 vote difference).
The conservatives in Virginia did turn out and did vote for a strong border enforcement candidate, Allen. It was all the swingers and the Reagan Democrats who are losing thier jobs to the illegals and watching the crime rate explode while their neighborhoods spiral downwards that said "Enough" to their perceived notion that the White House and Republican Senate just didn't give a damn about them anymore.
Webb, boorish big mouth that he is, actually campaigned on "strengthening our borders" - meaningless words that sounded good enough and which he would never have to deliver on. He even wrote a WSJ column on the problem, with, of course, no solutions.
Reminds me of what my mom used to say about these kinds of actions--something about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. This is what the "lesson teachers" have done, but they've done it to all of us.
he was elected with a bare handful over half, of the voters of VA. do not blame me for him, i despise the hubristic punk.
As a Virginian, I would find it hard to believe that any conservative in Virginia could have voted for Webb. There are plenty of "establishment" Republicans in VA (John Warner's base), and a sizable, growing, democrat population in Northern VA. These groups went for Webb, not the conservative VA republicans who frequent FR.
To make matters worse, I predict that two years from now John Warner will retire, and Mark Warner will run for his seat. Idiot voters will vote for Mark, thinking it's John Warner, or maybe his brother, and we'll be saddled with Mark Warner as Senator for years to come.