Am I wrong when I state.. That the T.M. speech tonight was a typical Dem. victory lap..?

[busterbrown]

Nothing new.....a shout out to Coochinelli with some come together crap.. Perhaps he could have pointed out the huge differences between Dems. and repubs. which need to be discussed and resolved before we get to the point of
mutual agreement.....Come shake it up a little dems. This bi-partisan shit does not work any more..

We need new battle strategy..

[gopiscrap]

1. exactly

[RBInMaine]

2. BUT, he knows he has a purple state, he won by a small margin, and ran on working together, so he

had to say what he needed to say. He knows he needs some R help to get things passed there. Sorry, but it is PURPLE, not deep blue like MA.

[busterbrown]

3. I think you turn it into a deep purple state, by clearly repeating the clear message of how

dangerous the repub. agenda is... To everyone..

[RBInMaine]

4. The D party needs to do that going into next year, but reality is that McAuliffe has to lead as gov.

[busterbrown]

5. Coochinelli is a dangerous man who would have brought havoc to the women, poor and elderly

of The Virginia Commonwealth..As soon as he tries to lead from the center left he becomes the same old same old.
We need to take advantage of the situation which never would have happened w/o insane T party crap..
T party winners in 2012 sure did it and it worked... In the end their stupidity killed them.

We are not stupid... Take advantage..and fast..
Only my opinion..

[RBInMaine]

6. Mac attacked him well on his extremism, but also ran on being moderate and practical in his

governance. Look, we all despise the rotten TeaBaggers, but there is a practical balance between camapaigning and actually governing. Like it or not, he has a House of Delegates that is GOP, he had some high profile GOPers endorse him, and has to work within that political reality. VA is purple, and he can't be effective there as a far-right D. Look at Kaine and Warner. Moderates. That is the political reality in that state. Gotta govern, not just campaign once in office. And he has to work with an R House. Sucks, but that's the way it is.

[geek tragedy]

7. He had a weak victory against a terrible opponent.

Under 50% means not much crowing.

[onenote]

8. I think this is a new record for DU

McAuliffe, running as a bi-partisan moderate (with that characterization backed up by campaign appearances by no less than Bill Clinton) with advertisements featuring repubs who supported McAuliffe on that basis, and with folks holding their breath in absolute terror that he might lose to a repulsive tea partier, is thrown under the bus before he finishes his victory speech.

[Arkana]

9. It's Terry McAuliffe.

That he won at all is nothing short of incredible, as he's an awful human being with shitty political instincts. Virginia got a choice between abjectly horrible and less bad.