Final Word on Virginia

Virginia is winnable. Conservatives and libertarians just keep throwing it away.

by Rod D. Martin
November 7, 2013

Everyone said he'd get blown out.  But in fact, even in what was supposed to be a D+9 state, wherein Clinton fundraiser and hatchet-man Terry McAuliffe was supposed to win by a landslide and in fact outspent him by 3-1, Ken Cuccinelli plus fake Libertarian Robert Sarvis got a combined 53%.

Lessons?

First, Virginia is winnable.  Period.  Those who say otherwise should shut up.

Second, Republicans have to stop eating their own.  There was no reason Cuccinelli had to lose.  There was no reason the Party Bigs, the puditocracy and the consultant class had to abandon him.  Their political biases and their erroneous presuppositions gave McAuliffe, the Clintons and the Democrat's patronage machine a needless victory and a new host/victim for their parasitic agenda, on turf we need to win.  Great job, guys.

And third? The third party crowd -- Constitution, Libertarian, Naderite, whatever -- is a train wreck. While bloviating about "their rights" and "their votes", t…