Ed Gillespie For Senate In Virginia

[bobabode]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...f19_story.html

"Ed Gillespie has made a name and fortune writing, packaging and peddling the party line. The walls of his new campaign headquarters in a semi-industrial Northern Virginia neighborhood near I-95 are lined with mementos of his glories as a political operative.
There is a poster advertising the 1994 “Contract with America,” which he helped write and which helped the GOP earn its first House majority in four decades; a photo with President George W. Bush, in the White House where Gillespie held the title of counselor; a framed 2004 profile in which this newspaper dubbed the Republican Party’s then-chairman “Ed the Quipper”; and photos from some of his 17 appearances on “Meet the Press.”" WaPo

Democrats in Virginia need to send this slimeball back to his day job...

[bobabode]

'Publicants are dreaming if they think 'Enron Ed' can beat Mark Warner.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by bobabode

'Publicants are dreaming if they think 'Enron Ed' can beat Mark Warner.

Don't be too sure. He's a past master at selling terrible ideas to the voters and at blaming "liberals" when they fail.

The other problem, and this applies to Democrats in general, is that he really doesn't have a record to run on. The "Party of No" has made damn sure of that.

Also, people who didn't live in California at the turn of the century know less and care less about the Enron scandal than you or I, Bob. It won't really make an impression beyond some vague recollection of something involving a Bush buddy.

John

[bobabode]

I dunno John. NoVa and Norfolk have changed the political landscape of the Old Dominion state fairly dramatically as evidenced by the last election. Woulda thunk it just ten years ago ?
The horse fanciers and landed gentry had their asses handed to them when the governor's mansion changed hands.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I dunno John. NoVa and Norfolk have changed the political landscape of the Old Dominion state fairly dramatically as evidenced by the last election. Woulda thunk it just ten years ago ?
The horse fanciers and landed gentry had their asses handed to them when the governor's mansion changed hands.

People here have seen that the red state way is a road to nowhere. That's not to say they are enamored of Democrats, however. The Dems just happen to be the only alternative to the Theocratic whackjobs that have run this place for far too long.

Trust me, the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of this world are determined to run your life even more tightly than Obama could ever dream of.

It reminds me of Critias;

"Religion was a deliberate imposture devised by some cunning man for political ends. In this way one controls the thoughts of men, even in private. "

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Also, people who didn't live in California at the turn of the century know less and care less about the Enron scandal than you or I, Bob. It won't really make an impression beyond some vague recollection of something involving a Bush buddy.
John

Maybe that's my problem? I may not possess an IQ so high only a dog can hear the number, but I have excellent long term memory. I don't forget much at all. I actually consider it a curse, because it must be sweet to live in a world where every event is brand new and every sham foisted upon you takes you by surprise.

I know just how much better my fathers generation had it towards the last half of their lives. As he warned me about the neoconservative movement as early as the mid-'80s; "My generation had it rough when we were young and it got better as we grew old. These guys are here to see to it that you have the other way around."

Dave