That will probably guarantee the loss of well over 100,000 Conservative Republican votes to Virgil Goode ~ and that will probably swing Virginia to the Obama column again.
Agreed... and McDonnell has become extremely unpopular here in Hampton Roads with his tollbooths.
My guess is that if McDonnell had chosen to run for President he would have carried Virginia in the primary. So conservative Republicans are supposed to be so angry over not having a chance to vote for Gingrich or Santorum in the spring that they would help Obama get four more years even with a governor they like as the VP nominee? Maybe some will but I doubt it will be 100,000.
Goode's main hope of making an impact is if the Obama campaign funnels money to his campaign.
Speaking as a Virginian, he would cause more harm than gain to the willard ticket in VA. “Tollbooth Bob” as he’s come to be known is generally competent but dull. And picking him would effectively kiss-off Hampton Roads which is actually the swing region of the Commonwealth. West and central VA are conservative, north is hard left, and east (Hampton Roads) goes whichever way the wind is blowing. And they are heap PO’d at him right now over the tolls.
(For the VA challenged, Hampton Roads is surrounded by water. It lives and dies by it’s bridges and tunnels. Tollbooth Bob cut a deal that will result in tolls on almost all of them. It was a major screw over for the region).
Then there is that little issue of having only 2 names on the VA presidential primary ballot.
All that said, I hope willard picks him. It will increase Virgil Goode’s share of the vote.
In other words, intraparty frictions in VA make McDonnell less than the ideal choice for VP??