I will not be a sore winner!
I will not be a sore winner!
I will not be a sore winner!
That is my version of clicking me heels three times and not ending up in Oz.
I don’t feel like thanking everyone for running. They all ran for some sort of self-aggrandizement. There was a lot of ego involved.
I don’t feel like saying good race to anyone. All of the races were obnoxious and I grew tired of the stuffed mailbox and the stupid phone calls.
I never want to see another political ad.
Now that’s out of my system, I have a lot of things to say. My favorite candidate didn’t win. Sorry Mark Herring. I liked you.
Terry McAuliffe, I hope you do well. You got the “Thank goodness you aren’t Cuccinelli vote. ” Don’t let us down. The bar is low. ABC.
Ken Cuccinelli, please don’t blame anyone but yourself. Also, the Virginia election was not a referendum on Obamacare. Not even close. That was your problem. You took federal issues and tried to Virginia-ize them. We Virginians wanted to know what plans you had for Virginia, not the federal government over which you have no control.
Ken Cuccinelli, this is 2013. Women aren’t going to allow you to throw them back into the early part of the 20th century. We won’t let it happen.
Ralph Northam, You were elected to be the tie breaker. Don’t forget to dance with the ones who brung ya.
I don’t know who all won delegate races. I would have been happy to throw most of the incumbents out. (maybe all) They all have pack mentality and don’t seem to think for themselves. At least one has been served notice that his time has come.
I find it interesting that many of the people who contribute to the blog who are the strongest states rights people had very little to say about the state election.
Winners, please see to it that Virginia isn’t the butt of all the jokes on the late night comedy shows. Give some other state a turn.
one more thing–to the BOCS:
The eyes of a nation were on this county. We still looked sort of bo-hick even in the glaze and glitz of being the “Bellwhether County.”
There is crummy support for our resources. All the major national news outlets were focused on PWC and we’re still
bumpkins. Why? Because Corey wanted to run for governor by shooing illegal aliens from PWC and pillaging county government. We still have failing infrastructure and not enough resources, state of the art technology and bodies to get the job done. We have supervisors who compete with each other as to who can be the cheapest. Cheapest isn’t always best. Check out the crime report sometime for some real staggering facts.
Now I am going to bed. Today was exhausting and tonight I nearly became unglued.
@Moon-howler
Progressives LOVE businesses, especially big business. They love each other. Progressives write laws to control businesses to advance the progressive agenda. Big business gets laws that kill competition due to over regulation preventing smaller companies from competing.
McAuliffe is a typical progressive politician.
Cronyism is the life blood for people like him. They just call it Gov’t-private partnerships.
There needs to be a post-election therapy for ideologues.
Just out of curiosity, it probably isn’t a good time for republicans to be pointing fingers about someone else and cronyism….let’s let McDonnell squeak out of the mess he is in first so we don’t jinx him. Trips here, loans there, junk stocks, tobacco is a medicine, blah blah blah. $18,000 worth of sacrificial turkey dinner at Smith Lake…..
Not to go all Michael Jackson on anyone, but time to look at the Man in the Mirror.
The Koch Bros funded an anti incumbent campaign for city council in Coralville Iowa. City council!! Their involvement angered and frightened residents to the point that the election became a referendum on Koch. The city council does have problems with accrued debt, local citizens groups for responsible growth and taxation are frustrated because their work of the past two years became associated with Koch and their intrusion into Coralville, Iowa.
Guess the Koch Bros plan to buy America for their personal use is not going so well in Iowa. Hopefully their overt disgusting and insulting actions in Wisconsin two years ago revealed to Americans that their efforts at appearing altruistic we’re fake and a terrible attempt to cover up their selfish mercenary intent.
George Soros, the oft tossed out response to Koch Bros, doesn’t come close to the Koch bros malignant plan to benefit Koch at any cost.
It really is like Pavlov’s dog. If the Koch brother’s name comes up, the far right says “George Soros.” Too much Glenn Beck if you ask me!!
Meanwhile, what’s Soros up to these days? Being an ancient old man running his hedge fund I think.
The grapes are indeed sour in some places around here.
Meanwhile, the number of states that have successfully implemented Obamacare is mounting, the ACA website is working better by the day, a candidate thumbed his nose at the NRA in Virginia and WON, the tea party was defeated in ALABAMA, of all places, and the beat goes on.
Things are looking up!
Probabilmente non di poco l’uomo
@Moon-howler
So….. there’s no Pavlov involved whenever the phrase Tea Party or any other Right group is mentioned and the Koch Bros. are evoked? According to the left, they are evil super villains. In the mean time, Soros HAS created various political groups to advance his political philosophy.
You just proved my point. YOU can’t even say Koch brothers without the Soros follow up.
I don’t think the tea party are the evil super villains, just misguided and often rude.
As far as dumping cash they’re similar. Intent? Not the same. Remember Koch bros were working with TEPCO to have them build in Texas….the the tsunami hit and the world got a glimpse of how TEPCO runs. Koch backed down at the time. I’m sure they’ll be back with TEPCO soon. That will be Ted Cruz’s problem.
They are absolutely not interchangeable. No party issue here – these are real bad guys and if you want to be ridiculous go ahead. If you want to actually think for a rare moment you’ll see.
Want to know what they are up to?
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/opensecrets-battle—koch-brothers.html
Soros, most recently, is funding Hillary.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/10/25/240768788/ready-for-hillary-superpac-gains-backing-from-soros
I think it’s also important to keep in mind the quality of candidate that we (republicans) lost to. The WSJ describes him as “a carpetbagger and crony capitalist from central casting”. That’s the part that bothers me. We didn’t lose to a centrist businessman democrat like Warner. We lost, by whatever margin, to a party hack. It really was a battle of the terribles.
hmmm…party terribles. That’s a good one. The WSJ is also a very conservative periodical. I think they were a little rough on Terry and could have just as easily been describing Mitt. As for the party hack, I guess he has been called worse things. Interesting, most people do like him as a person and say that he is disciplined. I guess you don’t make that much money without discipline. We shall see.
I don’t think Terry is a carpetbagger and more than Cuccinelli is. In my eyes, both are Yankee boys. I have long since gotten over that. Northern Virginia has corrupted me. Now if I were still living in Charlottesville/Albemarle County, the Yankee party might bother me more. However, I expect I would have still supported Terry.
+1 Andy.
If Pete Snyder, Bill Bolling or a host of other people were the candidate they would have been over 50% in the polls on the first day. We had, once again, two lousy choices., well three lousy choices.
Agreed. Bit it can work as seen elsewhere. Christie wasn’t elected because of party or social issues. In fact he was elected despite the fact that many don’t agree with him. But he appears to be approachable, evaluates issues on there merit, seeks input and respectfully disagrees. So when the corks blows, he’s forgiven. If my Unitarian pal got his vote then…she said she likes how he acts.
So maybe just a return to politeness and general respect for constituents is key. This is not directed toward republicans only.
I don’t agree with Christie on a lot of issues but…the ones I don’t agree on, he doesn’t harp on and those issues aren’t part of his personal agenda.
What I do like about him is the practical approach to problem solving. A hurricane wipes out most of your coast line, it isn’t the time to diss the Prez.
I also love when he really tells someone off, even if I don’t agree with him. I am imagining what his mind is saying…you can take the boy out of NJ but you can’t take the NJ out of the boy.
One of my favorite local Republicans is from the same town as Christie. He knows who he is.
Their…how helpful is autocorrect??
You’re right, they’re now. Soros made most of his money debasing currencies and screwing pensioners out of their purchasing power. Koch just wants to put an oil rig in your back yard.
Soros’s hustle is a little too sophisticated for the average person to understand, where Koch is more in-your-face.
Am I the only one here who thinks McAuliffe isn’t really that bad?
What’s the world coming to…
Should I be afraid? I don’t think he is either. No love fest but I think he’s ok. No worse than the next guy. I guess I like Irish party boys. Sigh.
I think he may be good for the business community too. Now we’ll have to see if the House of Delegates digs in their heels and tries to stifle everything he proposes. The party of nada didn’t win the hearts of those opposed to their tactics on the federal level and it won’t play well closer to home. If they all cooperate, maybe Virginia will come out the winner.
Oh thank you for enlightening me to the subtleties of Soros. Maybe what you can’t distinguish is that Soros may be awful but Koch makes him look like a saint.
Oh and Soros didn’t hijack a bunch of originally well intentioned people and turn them into their pawns through Americans For Prosperity. Anything else?
Yeah, there is actually. You can go shovel that horseshit to someone who actually believes it, or to one of your slobbering fellow travelers in the echo chamber. Soros is ten times worse than Koch. That you’re too thick to understand what he’s doing and/or you just don’t care because he happens to agree and support your deranged worldview is no fault of mine.
Civil behavior. There is simply no excuse for talking to people the way you just spoke to Lyssa. It’s easy to bully from behind a computer. Several other blog do it all the time. That’s not going to happen here.
As for your premise, it makes about as much sense as telling her cats are better than dogs.
For the record, I know Lyssa and I would say she is no follower of Soros. Far from it.
Well, there’s my point about loser behavior. Doesn’t work well. And if you knew me, thick is about the last descriptor that you’d use 🙂
That too, Lyssa.
From Watchdog.org:
The so-called “war on women” thrashed the Grand Old Party. Though married women tended to vote GOP with their Republican husbands, unmarried females overwhelmingly voted for McAuliffe. It’s a mathematical impossibility to win while suffering a double-digit deficit among half the electorate.
From Watchdog.org:
from Huffingtonpost.com:
ACA ends gender rating of health insurance.
Christie is doing a masterful job of deceiving a lot of people in New Jersey when you consider that it’s a majority Democratic state. His veto record shows that he is as extreme as Cruz- he just doesn’t talk about it, and he bullies anyone who tries to call him on it: http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/111064/chris-christie#.UnzO747fLwx
Christie is about as subtle as a train wreck. I don’t think he is deceiving anyone. I just don’t think they care. Maybe its the Soprano-like brusqueness.
Maybe its in everyone’s inner self—that ability to just tell people off when you have had enough of their crap. I have to admit to sitting back and smiling to myself a few times.
But you do make a point, middleman. And yes, I think his behavior could be described as bullying.
One more thing, NJ has been known for crossing over sometimes. Remember Christie Todd Whitman who was one of my all time favorite people. I guess she still is…sorry to use the past tense.
Actually, I kinda like the guy too. His self-deprecating humor is appealing. He’s a master politician, and his cavorting with Obama after Sandy was coldly calculated to serve him well in 2016 with the majority of voters. Now he’s working on weakening the other primary challengers such as Rand Paul (with Rachael Maddow’s help!). It may just work!
I think Christie is acting out everyone else’s fancy. That “screw you” attitude when the heat is on is …oh SO me in my best inner self fantasies. I can’t help myself. Yes, he is likeable in a perverse sort of way.
I didn’t think the Obama stuff was calculated. I think Christie was raised with enough class (unlike Jan Brewer, for example) to be courteous to the President of the United States and to also know to keep the politics out of the plan when you are looking at a natural disaster that is going to cost billions of dollars to fix.
Frankly, it would never occur to me for any smart person to do otherwise. I never forgave Jim Webb for refusing to shake President Bush’s hand. That was just low class and unacceptable. He embarrassed me as a southerner and as a Virginian. Regardless of his opinion of Bush, good manners dictate that when you are in HIS house, you make certain pleasantries.
Webb knew this and simply should not have attended the function if he couldn’t put on his southern/American manners for the duration.
I think Christie’s mannerisms combined with his lack of looks will turn women voters off. That may sound patronizing, but it’s my best guess.
He has a certain charm, Rick. Hopefully we women move past the incredible hunk voting syndrome.
From WaPo
Editorial
Mr. Cuccinelli has himself to blame for his loss
I agree with this assessment!
Hopefully more republicans will realize jobs matter more than gay marriage and more pleasing personalities gain more followers. This was a weird case, he didn’t get the backing of the republican establishment ( he pretty much shoved then aside) and he didn’t get the support from the “not to be named” brothers that have been supporting Tea Party candidates. And Cuccinelli basically rejected Cruz. Christie/Cuccinelli both oppose abortion, gay marriage, ACA….so what was the difference? Cuccinelli supported McDonnells tax increase, Christie has cut taxes Both catholic (possible degree of difference in doctrine) and both from NJ.
Does christie just accept the will of his constituent via referendum and adopt a live and let live approach. Does Christie just appear approachable and reasonable or more focused on things other than social issues?
Christie doesn’t go around bashing people over the head with his personal, culture war agenda.