Will the National GOP learn from Virginia?

[Redfish]

Opinion: What GOP can learn from Cuccinelli's tanking bid in Virginia - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Virginia is a cautionary tale for conservatives this year. And those Republicans who always argue that their party wins when it moves further to the right are going to have a lot of explaining to do after Election Day.

This was written before the election, but I doubt the GOP will learn a lesson. Their call now is, "But the margin wasn't as big as......"

Actually, the GOP should have kept the Governor's mansion from all historical accounts. And they could have if they had nominated Bill Bolling the moderate Lt Gov. But the TP fanatics and the untra-right out of state money pushed for Coooooch.

This is just a small lesson for the national GOP. Will they heed the warning or continue their march to the right?

They have more to learn from New Jersey than VA.

the lesson of NJ---------put an R behind the name of a liberal and he will win in a blue state, BFD.

 

[Redfish]

The main lesson - vet the 'independent' candidates from day one, so dimocrap shills as this'libertarian' can be uncovered sooner, not the day of the election.

Sarvis was a "none of the Above" vote.

Please don't blame him for why Cuch lost.

Cuch lost because women turned on him with his radical views on abortion and family...

Cuch should have lost by 12 points.

He lost by 1 point because of the weakness of Obamacare to the Dems.

Do you really think that anyone that voted for the 3rd party would have voted for the dem if the 3rd party candidate was not on the ballot?

Just like when Perot elected Clinton the first time, third party candidates always help liberals and dems.

Until the right learns that, the dems will continue to destroy this country with their socialist agenda.

 

[manifold]

...third party candidates always help liberals and dems.

Yup, just like when Ralph Nader cost Gore the presidency.

 

[Redfish]

...third party candidates always help liberals and dems.

Yup, just like when Ralph Nader cost Gore the presidency.

LOL, how many votes did Nader get? how many did Perot get? not even a close comparison.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Sarvis was a "none of the Above" vote.

Please don't blame him for why Cuch lost.

Cuch lost because women turned on him with his radical views on abortion and family...

Cuch should have lost by 12 points.

He lost by 1 point because of the weakness of Obamacare to the Dems.

Do you really think that anyone that voted for the 3rd party would have voted for the dem if the 3rd party candidate was not on the ballot?

Just like when Perot elected Clinton the first time, third party candidates always help liberals and dems.

Until the right learns that, the dems will continue to destroy this country with their socialist agenda.

Perot's vote split left and right. And the libertarians hate the TPM movement as much as the Dems.

Your radical far right positions, Redfish, only guarantee GOP losses.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Opinion: What GOP can learn from Cuccinelli's tanking bid in Virginia - CNN.com



This was written before the election, but I doubt the GOP will learn a lesson. Their call now is, "But the margin wasn't as big as......"

Actually, the GOP should have kept the Governor's mansion from all historical accounts. And they could have if they had nominated Bill Bolling the moderate Lt Gov. But the TP fanatics and the untra-right out of state money pushed for Coooooch.

This is just a small lesson for the national GOP. Will they heed the warning or continue their march to the right?

They have more to learn from New Jersey than VA.

the lesson of NJ---------put an R behind the name of a liberal and he will win in a blue state, BFD.

Christiie is only liberal to you because you are so reactionary, Redfish

We in the GOP are going to overwhelmingly support Christie over the reactionary candidates to the extreme right.

Better get used to it.

 

[JimH52]

Some of us old timers remember that Obenshain's dad died in a plane crash years ago. This may have helped him.

Richard D. Obenshain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Stephanie]

You think we'd be seeing crap like this is Mcauliffe had lost?

articles asking will the Democrat party learn any damn thing ever blaa blaa blaa

pathetic

 

[ScienceRocks]

If the republicans would of chosen someone that wasn't against birth control and gays. He or she would be governor now....

Republicans seems to be for big government.

 

[manifold]

...third party candidates always help liberals and dems.

Yup, just like when Ralph Nader cost Gore the presidency.

LOL, how many votes did Nader get? how many did Perot get? not even a close comparison.

If you're LOL'ng at your own ignorance then I'm right there with you.

Nader received over 97,000 votes in Florida, Bush won Florida by 543 votes.

If Gore won Florida he would have been president. It was so close there was a recount and everything, I'm surprised you already forgot.

 

[Darkwind]

Learn what?

That dimocraps out-spent Republicans almost two to one?

That dimocraps brought in dozens of National figures to campaign for McAuliffe?

That Cuccinelli closed a 12 point gap in a matter of days with NO MONEY?

That Cuccinelli only had 2 weeks to campaign against obamacare and the rest of the Republican party has a year until the mid-terms?

That a dimocrap scumbag and MAJOR dimocrap bundler financed a PHONY FUCKING LIBERTARIAN to siphon votes away from Cuccinelli?
.....

dimocraps put everything they had in this race, complete with the usual cheating and lying. McAuliffe is a former Party Chairman and for him to lose in a Purple State would have been crippling to dimocraps.

That he BARELY won speaks volumes. Yeah, we learned a lot.

How'd we do in New Jersey? One of THE bluest of blue States in the Country.....

look, a win is a win, no matter how much cash the other side spends, voters eventually decide ... sometimes inspite of all the backing by the sugar daddies.

At some point you just have to conceed the inevitable - republicans are losing ground due to tactical errors; not their message.

Their message has become a side-bar to attacking the dems and firing them up to vote against republicans.

Actually, no.


However, the GOP should take a lesson and start running candidates that will siphon off liberal and progressive votes. I'd run a few wack job progressive extremists in each district and siphon off at least 15% of the vote away from the Democrat.

 

[manifold]

However, the GOP should take a lesson and start running candidates that will siphon off liberal and progressive votes. I'd run a few wack job progressive extremists in each district and siphon off at least 15% of the vote away from the Democrat.

I fully expect the GOP to do exactly that.

Politics is like sports in that whenever something works, it's sure to get copied.

 

[Edgetho]

Of the 32 Governors that have been elected since we slapped the shit out of dimocrap scum in Virginia during the Civil War, only Six (6) of them have been Republicans.

And that only started in 1970.

And since 1982, of the 9 Governors of Virginia to hold the Office, Six (6) of them were dimocraps.

Only three (3) were Republicans.

dimocraps act like it's a Big Deal™ that a dimocrap with nearly THREE TIMES the money, thousands of Union goons 'volunteering' as foot soldiers, the entire DISGUSTING FILTH in the LSM giving him free, positive air time, the entire dimocrap Party, including the current Stuttering Clusterfuck and the last dimocrap preezy, the rapist and his lesbian OL, the Sasquatch, campaigning like crazy.....

He SQUEAKS out a victory in a fucking Purple State and dimocraps want to do a victory lap?

Wait until next November, boys and girls. You'll be back on the Meds.

Again.

 

[Sarah G]

Opinion: What GOP can learn from Cuccinelli's tanking bid in Virginia - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Virginia is a cautionary tale for conservatives this year. And those Republicans who always argue that their party wins when it moves further to the right are going to have a lot of explaining to do after Election Day.

This was written before the election, but I doubt the GOP will learn a lesson. Their call now is, "But the margin wasn't as big as......"

Actually, the GOP should have kept the Governor's mansion from all historical accounts. And they could have if they had nominated Bill Bolling the moderate Lt Gov. But the TP fanatics and the untra-right out of state money pushed for Coooooch.

This is just a small lesson for the national GOP. Will they heed the warning or continue their march to the right?

No, they won't learn from it. Cuccinelli thinks as he said in his concession speech, he lost by such a small margin because people hate ACA.

VA used to be a red state, Dems swept three big races and he thinks he won something.

 

[candycorn]

Opinion: What GOP can learn from Cuccinelli's tanking bid in Virginia - CNN.com



This was written before the election, but I doubt the GOP will learn a lesson. Their call now is, "But the margin wasn't as big as......"

Actually, the GOP should have kept the Governor's mansion from all historical accounts. And they could have if they had nominated Bill Bolling the moderate Lt Gov. But the TP fanatics and the untra-right out of state money pushed for Coooooch.

This is just a small lesson for the national GOP. Will they heed the warning or continue their march to the right?

They have more to learn from New Jersey than VA.

the lesson of NJ---------put an R behind the name of a liberal and he will win in a blue state, BFD.

Or put an R behind the name of a nutjob and you lose a general election...

 

[Stephanie]

Of the 32 Governors that have been elected since we slapped the shit out of dimocrap scum in Virginia during the Civil War, only Six (6) of them have been Republicans.

And that only started in 1970.

And since 1982, of the 9 Governors of Virginia to hold the Office, Six (6) of them were dimocraps.

Only three (3) were Republicans.

dimocraps act like it's a Big Deal™ that a dimocrap with nearly THREE TIMES the money, thousands of Union goons 'volunteering' as foot soldiers, the entire DISGUSTING FILTH in the LSM giving him free, positive air time, the entire dimocrap Party, including the current Stuttering Clusterfuck and the last dimocrap preezy, the rapist and his lesbian OL, the Sasquatch, campaigning like crazy.....

He SQUEAKS out a victory in a fucking Purple State and dimocraps want to do a victory lap?

Wait until next November, boys and girls. You'll be back on the Meds.

Again.

yep, they are so pathetic to watch

 

[Vox]

What Republicans should learn is what I have said from the start that Libertarians are really just democrat plants to skim off conservative votes so the democrat candidate can win.

Exactly. But that should be uncovered early, not the day of the election.
GOP recently looks like a bunch of amateurs

What do you expect? Beck uncovered it and he a libertarian himself endorsed Romney not a real conservative.

I expect the establishment GOP uncover this and USE it if that is uncovered by somebody else. I expect GOP apply a lie war tactics without any remorse as dimocrap scum does for the last 5 years, I expect GOP plant phony libberhoids to split the dimocrap votes, I expect them finally grow up, man up and play dirty Chicago stule as dimocrap scum does - you don't win a war with the left playing honest.
And while playing according the dimocraps rules GOP might discover to it'ssurprise that the left is actually extremely cowardly and if fit in the teeth with the same weapon as they use, will whine and ran away.

The latter one is known from experience with dealing with this scumbags.

 

[Vox]

He is a dimocrap shill and if that would be known from the beginning he would not siphon votes.
Cuchinelli did not have any support from GOP money and coming at the end with less than 2% difference( with a dimocrap scum stealing 6%) is a pretty good result - much better than last year.

according to the exit polling, the people who voted for the independent, the count came out from the exit polling was 50/50 ... deal with it...

now heres the part that will piss you off particularly ... the party that wins Virginia wins the countries election... in other words can you deal with the lost of the republicans in 2014 ???? I know I can

Complete and utter bullshit. I could say there is zero evidence to support such a partisan conclusion, but that would be too obvious.

Don't even pay attention to this leftard ignoramus. The vast majority of the votes for this 'libertarian' came from western VA and almost none from northern - last nigh watching it live - only ~15K votes for the shill came from the north.

That gives you the picture of whose votes were stolen right away

 

[Contumacious]

Will the National GOP learn from Virginia?

Yes, indeed they will.

They need to fully adopt the Wolf in sheep's clothing technique.

Pretend to be a Republican while actually adopting the democrats' platform.

Exhibit A

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[ScienceRocks]

If the republicans are against infrastructure, science, tech and education. Well, they're not fit to govern.

Gays and birth control are secondary. A real loser but the republicans keep missing the real issues.