I read that this morning as I was making the rounds, then returned here.
My summary: They [the establishment] kind-of blew it because they didn’t realize how close it would be. In that case, they would’ve contributed more money that might’ve made the difference.

(BTW, there’s no link to Ace’s article in this post…it’s in your most recent post)

This race was close enough that the establishment should’ve contributed. That is, if they were more interested in have a Republican in the governor’s seat than in seeing the Tea Party discredited; which I don’t believe for a second.

Here’s a link to a Protein Wisdom article that accurately sums up my thinking: http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=51854

You’re welcome, but that Frogman post was written after the 2012 presidential election.

It is still relevant to the libertarian conundrum in Virginia and elsewhere, though.

Doesn’t take much to fabricate enough to get a minor lead there.

Did you read Ace’s post?

But, the fact of the matter is that, despite what was reported to be McAuliff’s “commanding” 17 point lead of a week or so ago, by election day the fallout from Obamacare had whittled that double digit lead down to a couple of points. Moreover, despite only token support from the Republican Party (reportedly $3 mil. and that only early on vs. the $9 mil spent and continuing support for the last Republican candidate) and despite whatever flaws Cucinnelli or his campaign might have had, they got within two points (45,000 votes out of more than 2,200,000 total votes cast) of beating McAuliff.

So, if a wealthy Democrat contributor and Obama bundler had not supplied to money to pay professionals to gather enough signatures to put Sarvis, the supposed “Libertarian” candidate, on the ballot, the 145,000 votes cast for him that were siphoned off from the conservative Cucinnelli would have been more than three times the number of votes it would have taken to have given the election to Cucinnelli, who lost by only 45,000 votes.

Thus, it was pretty clearly the siphoning off of those 145,000 votes from conservative voters to faux Libertarian candidate Sarvis that was the decisive factor that caused Cucinnelli’s loss.

I do blame the GOP establishment. They have drawn their line; they would rather have a Democrat elected than support a genuine Conservative. I used to say that we had to support the GOP because they were the only viable alternative to the committed Statists; now I must rethink.

There are reports that Christie turned down a request to come to Virginia for just one rally to offset all of the high powered Democrats pouring into the Old Dominion. Reportedly, and as always these reports must be evaluated on their merits, he did not want to compromise his own brand of “self proclaimed” Conservatism. It will be interesting to see if he denies, or tries to explain any of the reports.

Kit, you lucky soul. We moved from Fauquier County to SoCal last year to be near family. Grand children are fun, and the winter weather is nice, but, oh, how we miss Fauquier– election day being no exception. I handed out GOP propaganda at the polling place, and greeted all of those lovely, reliable Fauquier voters.

Did you read the post of Ace’s I linked to?

http://www.redstate.com/2013/11/06/virginia/

And one on the perfidy of the NRSC: http://www.redstate.com/2013/11/06/the-national-republican-senatorial-committee-torches-its-credibility/