The Virginia GOP's Alternate Universe

Image via Bearing Drift blog

I often read far right outlets under the theory that one needs to know what the enemy is up to.  The other day, I looked at Bearing Drift, a far right leaning Virginia blog that was shouting that McAuliffe's lead was shrinking and that Ken Cuccinelli would win the day.  The post in question even had an image  - see above - depicting the Democrats eating crow.  The mindset displayed is sadly all too typical of what now is the norm in the Virginia GOP and the national GOP base.  This morning, folks are eating crow, but it's the folks at Bearing Drift.  Here are some of the far right musings from Monday just past:

The questions at this point are simple.  We have 24 hours to go:

(1) Is Cuccinelli within striking distance?  
(2) Will Obama’s appearance in Virginia hurt or help T-Mac?  
(3) Is Sarvis really drawing down T-Mac’s lead?  
(4)  Finally, will turnout be above 35% — and will that turnout actually benefit (rather than harm) Cuccinelli given an irate base?

I think the answers to these questions are (1) yes he is, (2) it’s gonna hurt T-Mac, (3) Sarvis is helping Cuccinelli at this point, and (4) we may see higher than predicted turnout based on outrage over the Obamacare rollout.



I’ll be the first to man-up and admit it.  Cuccinelli’s campaign may very well may have the Governor’s Mansion fall directly into its lap thanks to a $600 million website that doesn’t work and an Obamacare plan that was every bit as awful as a Washington bureaucrat could dream.  Granted, there’s no possible way that Cuccinelli could have planned for it, but given the sandbagging from Bolling, the McDonnell “GiftGate” scandal that took McAuliffe’s dirty dealing off the table, the lack of fundraising, the complete lack of messaging… well, about time Cooch caught a break.

But is it in time?  Now there’s the question.

Monday is Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama.  Depending on which vision of the future you prefer… well, it’s Obamacare vs. Liberty.  How’s that for a setup come Election Day?

In the coming days, I expect that the analysis will shift and Cuccinelli will be deemed a goat and blame will begin to be attached to him rather than the positions espoused by the GOP base, especial the extremists at The Family Foundation.