Former DNC chief announces Virginia governor run [Terry McAuliffe]

WTOP-TV / The Associated Press ^ | January 4, 2009 | Michael Felberbaum

[2ndDivisionVet]

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe said on Saturday he intends to run for governor of Virginia.

After months of speculation over his plans, McAuliffe announced his intentions in a video posted on his Web site. In the video, McAuliffe said he will make his intention to run official on Wednesday as part of a week-long campaign kickoff.

The stops include town hall meetings in Hampton Roads, Bristol, Richmond and others, where McAuliffe will unveil plans for job creation, education and renewable energy.

"Over the coming months we will travel to every corner of the commonwealth to ask all Virginians to join our campaign to get the economy moving again," McAuliffe said in the video.

In November, the 51-year-old established his campaign committee, Friends of Terry McAuliffe, with the State Board of Elections, secured the services of strategist Mike Henry and began touring Virginia, but had not made his candidacy certain.

McAuliffe faces two other Democrats who have been active for nearly a year in an already contentious nomination fight to succeed Democratic Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.

State Sen. Creigh Deeds narrowly lost the attorney general's race in 2005, and former House Democratic Caucus chairman Brian Moran is also in the race.

"We welcome Terry McAuliffe to the race and we're looking forward to an open and honest discussion of how we keep Virginia moving forward," said Peter Jackson, a spokesman for Deeds.

In a statement, Moran also welcomed McAuliffe to the campaign.

"I am more convinced than ever that Virginians want a governor with a proven record of fighting for Virginia families and a vision for the commonwealth," Moran said.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Can there be any more corrupt Clintonistas in government?

[AliVeritas]

Oh brother.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ping!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Related.....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158270/posts

[freekitty]

More corruption. I hope the voters realize this ain’t gonna be pretty.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Virginia has elected Jim Webb, and Mark Warner, not to mention a Dem to replace Tom Davis. Will they continue their march to the left by electing a disgusting Clintonista like Terry “The Punk” McAuliffe??!?!??!

[Always Independent]

So he’ll have to answer how he got so luck with those stock transactions.

[edh]

While US politics has shocked me over the past 4 years (well, more, but let’s just focus on recent times), I cannot see how this thug can get elected in a relatively conservative state. I know VA has undergone a shift these past two election cycles, but McAuliffe doesn’t have the charisma to overshadow the thuggery. Webb won by a gnat’s eyelash and the others on Obama coattails if I am not mistaken.

If Terry does in fact run, I think that could be an advantage for the Republicans to bring the state back under control. He’s a loser and incapable of managing anything short of Global Crossing deals. After all, this is the guy that was head of the DNC during the virtual slaughters of 2000, 2002, and 2004.

[nathanbedford]

If the president of the United States fetes the Clintons in the White House, presents them with portraits, declines ever to criticize them, appoints the disgraced, impeached president to world relief missions, he tells the world that the Clinton regime was not corrupt!

He tells the world that his own party was worse than mistaken, it was driven by partisan ambition in its opposition to Clinton. It says that the impeachment put the country at risk for petty party advantage. It utterly cut the legs out from the conservative position.

Bush might have softened some of the left-wing criticism against him, and prepared the way for his presentation by the historians as a peacemaker and statesman, someone above petty party politics, but he has ruined the party which he parasitically occupied.

Now comes Terry McAuliffe from whom no rational man would buy a used car after hearing him speak for five minutes, and he is, thanks to Bush, a perfectly acceptable candidate for the governorship of the Old Dominion. He will win too if he can get past the primary. No one will have more money to spend. No one will have a better organization in place. His governorship is virtually guaranteed.

So far has the Republican party sunk by the selfishness of its leader and the fecklessness and corruption of its elected representatives, that an absurd mouthpiece for a disgraced impeached president is a virtual shoo-in for the governorship of a state in the old Confederacy. We are now in a place where we cannot defend Virginia and North Carolina. We cannot convince the electorate that Magic Negro, a loudmouth tax cheating comedian, and a wheeler dealer who fronted for the Clintons are all unworthy of national or statewide office.

No need to look to the stars, the fault is our own.

[junkman_106]

I don’t think I can stand any more...I’m gonna vacate this state as soon as I can, Even Wisconsin is looking better now. Terry McAuliffe is a bag of SH!T and should be viewed as one would view sewage...to be sterilized as soon as possible.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ever wonder who sponsored Bill Clinton for membership in the elite Council On Foreign Relations? You get three guesses and the first 2 don't count. *

.

. *George H.W. Bush

[angkor]

>>>Virginia has elected Jim Webb, and Mark Warner.....<<<<<

And Rat governor Tim Kaine.

Simply put, if McAuliffe runs and wins I’ll move to another state.

[mkjessup]

McAwful must have figured that if Blago in Illinois can get away with all the crap he’s pulling, that it must be safe to try some shenanigans in Virginia.

[mkjessup]

"Bush might have softened some of the left-wing criticism against him, and prepared the way for his presentation by the historians as a peacemaker and statesman, someone above petty party politics, but he has ruined the party which he parasitically occupied."


SHOUT
THIS
FROM
THE
ROOFTOPS!

George W. Bush has been to the Republican Party, what Hurricane Katrina was to the City of New Orleans.

[browniexyz]

Goodbye, Virginia, the Old Dominion. You are about to become a laboratory rat in the experiment in Marxism!

[browniexyz]

And, I ask you, where is your Republican Party in Virginia and the RNC while McAuliffe sets his sights Virginia?? Twiddling their thumbs and rearranging the deck chairs, no doubt, as usual.

[ScottinVA]

“Virginia has elected Jim Webb, and Mark Warner, not to mention a Dem to replace Tom Davis. Will they continue their march to the left by electing a disgusting Clintonista like Terry “The Punk” McAuliffe??!?!??!”

Yes.

[Trajan88]

The RNC needs to nail this piece of garbage to the wall regarding his dealings with Gary Winnick's Global Crossing vapor of a company.

I still do not know why John Ashcroft's Dept. of Justice did not make all/some of GX's white collar thugs in $3,000 suits do nickle-plated hand cuff wearing perp walks to a federal prison.

Terry McAuliffe... it is just capitalism right... where you got to turn $100,000 into +16,000,000 where in my case my 3,000 investment in GX turned to worthless toilet paper?

[rod1]

Oh my. Virginia, we don’t really want him bact. But please do send Terrible Terry back here to his home in central NY. He is no more a real Virginian than Hillary was a New Yorker. Additionally, he has caused enough troble across the country and has no business inflicting misery on your state.

[ScottinVA]

“Virginia has elected Jim Webb, and Mark Warner, not to mention a Dem to replace Tom Davis. Will they continue their march to the left by electing a disgusting Clintonista like Terry “The Punk” McAuliffe??!?!??!”

It will because the northern section of the state has been infested by liberal imports from Maryland, DC and Delaware, who ran from their lib states and converted VA to what it is they ran from. This time 8 years ago, we had a GOP Governor and two GOP Senators. And now it’s turned so hard to the left we can’t even keep Virgil Goode in office. VA is deep blue now.

[ScottinVA]

“The RNC needs to nail this piece of garbage to the wall regarding his dealings with Gary Winnick’s Global Crossing vapor of a company.”

It won’t matter. Democrats are “in” in VA, now. The only way McAuliffe won’t be elected is to lose in the primary.

[Northern Yankee]

The punk is running?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Goode’s district didn’t vote for the False Messiah. Goode lost because he overreacted to his Dem opponent and ran some ads that rubbed the folks in his district the wrong way. A lighter touch, and he would’ve won again. The seat should come back to us in ‘10.

[Rebelbase]

Reading this makes me think I woke up to an alternate universe this morning.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

ping

[PurpleMan]

25 posts and no viable GOP alternative is mentioned. The problem isn’t that MAuliffe is a “punk,” it’s that the GOP is devoid of any leadership within the state.

[LibLieSlayer]

I predict he will win bigtime in the new and liberal dim stronghold of Virginia.

LLS

[HokieMom]

The Republican candidate has been decided already. He’s the current Attorney General, Bob McDonnell.

http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/

[PurpleMan]

A candidate with great name recognition that is sure to galvanize the electorate. //sarc//

[HokieMom]

He has been elected state-wide and very few Virginia Republicans can say that today. I’m hoping Peter Pace will run against Jim Webb for Senate next time.

[Theodore R.]

I would not have thought in 1999 that within ten years, VA would be among the most heavily Democrat states in the country, but the pendulum has swung, and Virginians are too conservative, too informed, and too-Washingtonian, to move it back.

[Theodore R.]

Virginians are “conservative” in that they are slow to change directions. If the train is headed left, most simply hop on board for the ride and waiting for the “freebies”.

[Theodore R.]

WV is still liberal too, but it is competitive at the presidential level but hardly anywhere else. I did not think I would live to see the day that WV went Republican for president and VA went Democrat, but it happened with the popular Oprah’s Choice. People are awaiting “change”, they think.

[Theodore R.]

Sounds like Goode erred the way Mrs. EDole did in NC.

[theDentist]

He gets in, I’m moving outta this state.

[RetiredArmy]

If Virginia elects this scum, that state is lost forever! I will even vote to kick the state out of Dixie. Come on VA, get back in the program!!! George Washington and Robert E. Lee could not imagine this happening to their beloved state.

[oldironsides]

Global Crossings LTD and Terry. He is another Blago. Virginia votes for him? They deserve what they get.

[MIT-Elephant]

VA is becoming like Illinois - top-heavy in its northern urban area, run by increasingly corrupt politicos known for their proximity to DC. Ugh.

[brwnsuga]

OMG! I hope we Virginians are smart enough to send this CARPETBAGGER packing. If my fellow Virginians vote this dude in, we have truly bumped our heads.

[brwnsuga]

I prediction that McDonnell will win.

[NormsRevenge]

You know the old Jell-O syaing.

same goes for corrupt dems.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Apparently so. Oh my heaven.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Thievery.

[Enchante]

Terry M. should be campaigning for appointment to the open US Senate seat from NY. He IS a New Yorker, IIRC. Guess he realized he can’t compete with Caroline Kennedy for Gov. Paterson’s support......

If a corrupt liberal Clintonista twit like McAuliffe can get himself elected Gov. of Virginia then the country truly is lost. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen!

[brwnsuga]

Let’s hope it doesn’t happen!

I know this doesn’t sound right, but I can’t even stand to look at his face, there is something icky about him. If we vote him in I’m gonna have to move to a “redder” state.

[Enchante]

McAuliffe’s face is very...... reptilian.

Every time I see it I think of a venomous snake.

[cookcounty]

Oh good....we can talk about politicians and crooked mortgage pay-offs some more.

[PurpleMan]

Sure he’s been elected to a statewide office, but name recognition? Never.

And Pace running? I don’t think he has the “fire in the belly,” the desire to move to Richmond or interested in taking a HUGE pay cut.

[Hoodat]

Global Crossing