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spanone

(135,816 posts)
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 05:38 PM Nov 2013

one thing i DO like about terry mcauliffe.....

Last edited Mon Nov 11, 2013, 06:31 PM - Edit history (1)

he got an F rating from the nra and still won.

the media has acted like this win never occurred.

pssss .... virginia is where the NRA is headquartered......

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gopiscrap

(23,736 posts)
3. Yup, you sure don't hear much about that F rating from the gun nut jobs at the fucking NRA
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 05:39 PM
Nov 2013

and even more importantly how he won because of that F rating.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
4. If I got a F from the NRA I would be very happy. I would consider it to mean first class because
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 05:42 PM
Nov 2013

An A must mean Anul.

spanone

(135,816 posts)
7. m$m...honestly, i have hardly heard mcauliffe's name since he won.
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 06:01 PM
Nov 2013

i've heard NOTHING about his win over the nra rating...NO THING.

JI7

(89,244 posts)
8. Democrats won on the CUlture issues, guns, abortion, gays
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 06:04 PM
Nov 2013

Democrats won on pro gay, pro choice, pro gun control.

in fact many actually were happy with the economy and still voted for the Dem based on those issues.

so those issues that republicans always used ,especially in the south against Dems are hurting them now.

spanone

(135,816 posts)
9. from new york mayor michael bloomberg.....virginia is the NRA headquarters.
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 06:20 PM
Nov 2013
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called Terry McAuliffe’s gubernatorial victory in Virginia on Tuesday a loss for the National Rifle Association, which had given Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli an A rating.

“If you think about this, Virginia is the home state of the NRA. That’s where their headquarters are,” Bloomberg told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday. “If I had said to you twenty years ago that that a Democrat that is ‘F’ rated by the NRA…could win governor, you would have laughed me out of the room.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/michael-bloomberg-terry-mcauliffe-nra-99486.html#ixzz2kNVPuLBH

malaise

(268,891 posts)
11. It was a fugging whipping for ReTHUG, bagger and NRA interests
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 07:09 PM
Nov 2013

and for the effin' anti-women fundies among them as well.

spanone

(135,816 posts)
12. chris christie, chris christie, chris christie.....c'mon everybody, chris christie, chris christie,
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 07:12 PM
Nov 2013

the media can't remember who larry mcdonald is

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