Why Corrupt Democrat Terry McAuliffe Won the 2013 Virginia Gubenatorial Race

[jordan179]

Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton insider and crooked businesman famous for engaging in corrupt political deals which looted literally hundreds of millions of dollars from various public treasuries between 1990-2013, is now Governor of Virginia, taking the previously Republican-held post.  He won the election with 48.0 percent of the vote

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[maxgoof]

When you have a choice between a leftist and a moderate, you choose between a full step to the left and a half step.

I, for one, am tires of letting the Republican moderates take us slowly to the left, thinking they are saving us from something worse.

They have to learn that they cannot take their base for granted if they want to win.

They have yet to learn that, and frankly, right now, I'm willing to let the leftists have their way to prove two things:

1) The left is NOT good for this country.
1) The Republicans are fools for abandoning their base.

[jordan179]

Cuccinelli isn't a Leftist. The main problem supporters of the Libertarians had with him is that he's something of a religious rightist. The main problem I have with the vote being split like this is that it hands over control of another state to the Democrats.

Understand: the Democrats are no more interested in playing politics even remotely fair than they were after the Civil War when they suppressed the Republican vote by outright violence. Unless the Republicans are able to reform the voting system so as to check the rampant Democratic vote fraud, the popular basis of our Constitutional system of government will be destroyed.

Absent voting reform, a generation from now it will just be accepted that whichever political bosses control whichever cities or counties will control the votes in those cities or counties, the popular will be damned. When this happens, there will be no good reason for military leaders not to make coups if the odds seem good, since the "elected" government won't really have been elected

[maxgoof]

George H W Bush cooperated with Democrats to his downfall. George W Bush outspent Democrats and moved the country to the left by cooperating with Democrats again. The Republicans in the Senate have been playing nice with the Democrats ever since, and claiming that the Republicans in the House are the problem.

I am SICK of the Republicans, because they AREN'T stopping the march to the left. Why should I hold my nose and vote for a slow death rather than a quick one?

[ford_prefect42]

Because any day that you're alive, something can change.

[inverarity]

Losers in tight races always castigate the folks who dared to cast votes for some third party that rightly belonged to them. Hence the Greens being blamed for Gore's loss, which I'm sure you were much happier about. The same advice goes for the Republicans as goes for the Democrats - "What are ya gonna do, vote for the other guy?" is a bad strategy for browbeating your disaffected constituents into supporting you.

[jordan179]

I'm blaming both the Republicans and the Libertarians for this. They've ensured that Terry McAuliffe becomes Governor, and given his track record McAuliffe will almost certainly loot the Virginia treasury right into his various businesses.

[ford_prefect42]

As a libertarian, I have more or less decided to table the areas of disagreement between my position and that of the RNC. Reason being, nothing BAD happens if my areas of disagreement with the republicans comes to pass. OTOH, my areas of disagreement with the democrats are very likely to kill us all.

[jordan179]

Most urgently to my mind is the fact that the Democrats have absurdly-optimistic views regarding the "Will of the People" in the Third World, coupled with hostility toward American allies and defense spending. This is liable to lead to major warfare in our future.

[juliet_winters]

Not sure if you heard, but it came out a couple of days before the election that the Dems funded Sarvis. Clever move.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/363138/libertarian-candidate-va-gubernatorial-contest-bankrolled-obama-bundler-sterling-beard

Also, the old boy Republicans did not back Cuccinelli financially. It wasn't "his turn" for the nomination so they were annoyed and withheld funding.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/363261/why-cuccinelli-lost-and-how-we-might-have-won-ralph-reed

[scottks]

As the old boys abandoned Cuccinelli, let us follow their example and abandon the likes of John Boehner, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove, and all other progressives who mock the constitution and ignore founding principles.

#DefundtheGOP
Not one dime to the RNC
http://www.senateconservatives.com/
http://www.freedomworks.org/

[jordan179]

That'll prove highly effective ... at keeping the country in the hands of the Democrats for another term or two. And when that's happened, given the willingness of the modern Democrats to try to inflict on the whole country the tactics they used to control the South for a century after the American Civil War, the third parties trying to replace them will find that they won't have the chance to run. Their candidates will be excluded from the ballots, organizations supporting them will be harassed or outright disbanded by the bureaucrats, and possibly worse, as the Democrats grow in arrogance and power

[jordan179]

As I said, the infighting between Republican factions right now is stupid, because it leads to them even if they win winning mere empty nominations, rather than political offices.

[typewriterking]

We need preferential voting systems in every state. Assuming Sarvis voters really thought of Cuccinelli as their second choice, their votes would have gone to him in an "instant run-off", sparing them the worst-of-all-worlds scenario that Duverger's Law dictates.