Fighting the urge to vomit, last on Tuesday, I watched Creigh Deeds concede to Taliban
Bob McDonnell (Pat Robertson's anointed candidate) in the race for Virginia's next governor. Obviously, there are a number of lessons to be learned from Deeds' defeat, including:
- the Democrats need to avoid contested primaries that allow the GOP opposition several months of unopposed campaigning,
- Virginia voters are too stupid to discern a slick but completely disingenuous and dishonest campaign by far right cultural warriors like McDonnell,
- andidates from Southwest Virginia are DOA in a statewide general election - Deeds is the third to crash and burn as a candidate for governor,
- Deeds ran one of the worse campaigns in memory and dragged the rest of the Democrat ticket down with him,
- DNC chair Tim Kaine should have spent more time at home minding Virginia, and
- Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats' inability to pass major legislation even when given a mandate suggests to many - at least it would seem in Virginia - that a vote for Democrats is a vote for contemplating one's navel rather than getting the job done.
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