Posted on 04/05/2011 10:54:44 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
Bob Marshall is better. The first thing the Tea Party must do is to vet the various candidates and back just one so the support is not diluted between multiple candidates. George Allen will not receive the Tea Party endorsement.
Where will the Democrats find someone as incompetent as Kaine? Oops, uh well . . . never mind.
Exactly. Plus he's old news & frankly, he politically smells like 'macaca' ..... the left will never allow him to clean that particular gaffe off his cowboy boots. We need a candidate who can move forward & with courage & boldness, address the critical issues facing the country rather than being on the defensive about old baggage.
Is Wittman considering a run?
Yes
I have seen his name bandied about.
Then why have the Rats been having major problems in the state? Why has Webb decided to pack up his tent if the Rats are so popular in VA? Nothing about the ‘08 election can be translated to today. The ‘10 midterms demonstrated that. Here is one flawed weekend poll that shows Obummer is not liked in VA and that Kaine is even, but the poll is BS. Read the last line. There is no evidence the Rats have any shot at winning in VA in ‘12 at this time.
This is the guy that, while he was the governor of Virginia, said in a speech that Delaware was a state that boardered his. Did he miss out on his 5th grade geography???
Maybe we could tell them that Michael Steele is looking for a job. He could screw them up as badly as he did the Republicans.
Why has Webb decided to pack up his tent if the Rats are so popular in VA?
Webb really doesn't like pressing the flesh and raising money. He is not your typical politician. He is not a people person. And the prospect of being in a Rep controlled Senate is not that appealing to him. A number of prominent Senate Dems are not running in 2012.
Nothing about the ‘08 election can be translated to today. The ‘10 midterms demonstrated that.
The 2010 election did not have Obama at the top of the ticket. The Reps [read Tea Party] were more movitated to turnout than the Dems and they were building on their 2009 success sweeping the Gov, LtGov, and AG offices by large margins.
We have 2011 state elections coming up in November with every seat in the General Assembly in play. This will be a better reflection of where things stand politically in VA. The Dems hold the Senate and have been blocking legislation for serveral years. We need to flip at least three seats in the Senate. It will not be easy because of the demographic changes. NoVA has become a Dem bastion. It contains one-third of the voters and is growing faster than any other part of the state. A few years ago Loudon County was the fastest growing in the US.
Due to redistricting, more seats are being created in the North and eliminated in the Southern part of the state. Fairfax County, the largest county in the state, went for Kerry over Bush in 2004, the first time that had happened in 40 years, and by even greater margins for Obama in 2008. McDonnell considered it a victory when he broke even in Fairfax County during the governor's race, which he won by 18 points.
There is a sizeable and growing minority population in VA. Blacks are about 20% of the population, Hispanics about 7%, and Asians 5%. The vote for Dems along with the many thousands of government workers who reside in the state. Kaine was a governor. He has name recognition and he speaks fluent Spanish. He will be a formidable and well funded opponent, which is why Obama wants him on the ticket. And unlike 2009, 2010, and the upcoming 2011 elections, the turnout in 2012 will be enormous. I expect Obama to play the race and ethnic card big time. FYI: Virginia has the tenth largest population of illegal immigrants in the nation--about 300,000.
Thanks to the proximity to Washington, Virginia's unemployment rate is 6.5% and in NoVa, it is under 5%. We really have two states. In the North, there is prosperity and high employment. In the South, there is poverty and unemployment. The advantage goes to the Dems due to numbers.
There is no evidence the Rats have any shot at winning in VA in ‘12 at this time.
I remember having similar kinds of discussions in 2008 when people couldn't believe that Obama couldn't win in VA. After all, no Dem Presidential candidate had done that since 1964. I tried to warn people that Obama had an excellent chance to win. Obama had established an office in every county in VA. He had set up a huge and well-funded grassroots organization. Well, demography is destiny. I can tell you that the Rep establishment in VA expects a very tough race in VA to put it in the Rep column in 2012.
The 2011 elections will be a better gauge as to where we stand politically in the run up to 2012. The Dems are pouring in money. I think we will hang on to the House of Delegates, but I am doubtful that we can take the Senate. If we do, then we are in better shape than I think we are.
The 2010 Census revealed that in the past decade the adult Latino population has nearly doubled in Nevada, Virginia, and North Carolina. Also, it's increased by 60 percent or more in two Midwestern battleground states, Indiana and Ohio.
North Carolina will be a big battleground state in 2012. It will be the next Southern state to go purple in Presidential elections.
Politician, lawyer, Virginia governor. Timothy Michael Kaine was born Feb. 26, 1958, in St. Paul, Minnesota, the eldest son of an ironworker and a home economics teacher. Kaine grew up in the Kansas City area, graduating from Rockhurst High School, an all-boys Jesuit high school, in 1976. Kaine attended the University of Missouri, where he completed his bachelor's degree in economics in three years. He then entered Harvard Law School, but took a year off to work with the Jesuit order as a Romanic Catholic missionary.
Living in Honduras, Kaine ran a small vocational school for teenage boys while honing his Spanish.
Corey Stewart is a one-trick pony - - illegal immigrants. Not likely to win the primary.
IIRC, the R’s picked primary this year. They did it because they think it will help Allen. He has better name recognition than any of the other potentials.
The establishment Republicans and the Tea Party have to figure out how to get along with each other. The real enemy is not the establishment R’s or the Tea Party - the real enemy is Obama and the rest of the libs/progressives/communists/dems.
It is imperative that the Tea Party and the establishment R’s figure this out or the only one who wins is Obama.
“The 2010 election did not have Obama at the top of the ticket.”
The anti-Obozo vote in our state was real strong in 2010 and he has a 57% disapproval rating in VA. The current economic pattern will be one of stagflation for the next couple of years due to the many market uncertainities that exist due to this government’s disastrous policies. This is not going to be favorable to an incumbent president. It is going to downright difficult or impossible for Obotulism to recapture his 2008 mojo as he will bear the blame.
I hope you are right, but we have a long way to go until November 2012. Obama has the money, the MSM, and a highly organized grassroots operation plus the power of incumbency that give him some powerful tools to get reelected. Let’s see how the 2011 elections work out in VA and hope that the GOP doesn’t shoot itself in the foot again by nominating another loser as a candidate. McCain was a disaster.
His grassroots organization has weeds and will be physically thrown off people’s property, people hate him in VA with a passion. He will have weak incumbency factors which will be to his detriment. He is one more mess-up from total melt-down.
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