As noted in prior blog posts, I had seriously hoped for a major GOP defeat ere in Virginia, believing it is perhaps the only thing that might discredit the Christofascist and Tea Party elements of the GOP base, both in Virginia and nationally. As
Politico observes, the fact that Cuccinelli was not horrifically defeated has opened the door for the Kool-Aid drinkers to try to shift blame for the defeat from the toxicity of Cuccinelli, Jackson and Obenshain themselves to numerous other excuses. Here are highlights from
Politico:
Anyone expecting Ken Cuccinelli and the conservative wing of the
Virginia GOP to lie down and admit defeat was disappointed Tuesday
night.
After Cuccinelli’s closer-than-expected loss, the defiant
candidate and his supporters said the election results were only a blip
on the radar of the larger conservative struggle as they blamed the
defeat on Obamacare and a deluge of Democratic attack ads. Some
Cuccinelli backers privately steamed that the national party did not do
more to shore up Cuccinelli against Democrat Terry McAuliffe and his
enormous war chest.
The Republican candidate’s surprise showing touched off a round of
recriminations among the GOP’s conservative and moderate wings — between
Republicans who say Cuccinelli’s strict profile on social issues
antagonized critical middle-of-the-road voters and those who say a good
conservative candidate was tossed overboard by his party leadership. A
lopsided Democratic victory might have given moderates a clear leg up in
that debate; instead, the battle between the two factions over what –
if anything – needs to change is bound to rage on.
Mullins blasted out-of-state Democratic money and media bias as the major sources of Cuccinelli’s problems in the race. “Our candidates are decent, honest family men. They love their
families, they love their God, they love their country and this
commonwealth but for the last six months they’ve been nonstop demonized
by Democrats,”
There's more, but North Carolina blogger
Bob Felton suns it all up well:
Though sane people everywhere are doubtless rejoicing that Ken
Cuccinelli lost yesterday’s gubernatorial race in Virginia, he lost by
too little to decisively end his ‘public service’ career. . . . . Tea Partiers will fail to understand that Cuccinelli is probably the
only human being on earth that McAuliffe could have beat — he, also, is a
slimy character — and probably conclude they just need to be more
rigidly and unapologetically crazy in the future. This narrow defeat
will energize, rather than demoralize, the crazies.
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