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Kevbo, I can see where you are coming from. Va has recently had several social upheavals. Those imho energized the local dem base. Northams shitty ad did not help, it probably did not hurt as much as we think. Honestly, what hurt our side, was letting the virginia reupublican and vthe national republican part dictate dickhead ed to us. We should have stood firm, and not allowed such a sponge of a candidate. He had lost consistently. He reflected 0 values of the current administration. He was tried and true a flop of a republican. As for the delegates, well now that may be a bit different. I did not pay attention to out side my county. | |||
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Actually, since 1952 Virginia voted strictly Republican except in 1964. It's been a solid Republican state up until 2008. Now it is a solid blue state with no signs of it changing...At all.  Also, since 2002 VA has had Dem governors with the exception of McDonnell 2010-2014. It's a definite change and swing to the democrats since 2000. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Of course you are correct that it goes deeper than this but it has nothing to do with the amount of money the Dems pour into campaigns or anything else we usually blame. NoVa, Tidewater, Richmond,Charlottesville,and Roanoke these are all points that the cancer spreads from but we are doing nothing to stem the tide. Simply motivating voters or pouring money into campaigns will do nothing. This isn't just a Virginia thing. This is happening everywhere. We(conservatives) have surrendered our educational system to progressives and allow these influences to go unchecked. When I was young you would be hard pressed to find a progressive teacher in my school. They stuck out so much that I can still name them today. Now you'd be lucky to find 10% of the teachers conservative. We send our children, and therefore our money, to Colleges that are dominated by leftists. I taught at a private school for several years. Most of the kids were from conservative families who were fed up with public education. I taught 10th, 11th, and 12th graders who were astoundingly bright in math, science, and language arts but were completely clueless with regards to Civics and Economics. In one class I mentioned in passing writing my congressman and had to abandon my planned lesson to explain to these kids who were taking AP Chemistry, Calculus, and Latin that yes one really can write to their congressman. They seriously didn't think we were "allowed" to do that. I had many friends in High School who came from conservative families and are now teachers in this area. All have become staunch liberal Dems due to two interconnected things: 1)Their Education by the state. 2)Parents surrendering their children's education to the state. Until this cycle is broken the cancer will continue to spread. I have the heart of a lion.......and a lifetime ban from the Toronto Zoo.- Unknown | |||
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Another sucky thing is the wall to wall "GOP Night of Horrors" meme the msm is running wall to wall. This don't mean nothing about 2018 heartland elections. Gillespie was a rino pos MbConnell selected candidate so this isn't as much about PDJT as it is the rino disaster of a congress. ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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Wash Post exit survey of VA voters yesterday https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.5da83009ee7c 67 % of voters White 33 % of voters Nonwhite White voters: 42% Northam, 57% Gillespie NonWhite voters: 80% Northam, 19% Gillespie not enough whites voted the election was basically won in Northern VA (DC suburbs) where Northam had a 260,000 vote advantage Northam won by 220,000 votes | |||
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Each and every time, since 2008, after an election that didn't go our way, I see the same posts. "man, it is over" or "I no longer recognize my country" blah, blah, blah. And I have said the exact same thing since 2008 each time in response- Well fuck, I guess we should just go ahead and surrender. That's right. We should just surrender. Remember when Obama got elected a second term. Man, the woe is me crowd came out in force, in a near suicidal state. We were done, they said. Everything is going to stripped from us. We are soon to be sold into slavery. And we recovered. Why did we recover? Because people didn't give up like the surrender that always comes in these threads. The woe is me crowd. And if me pointing out your whining bothers you? I don't care. Get your pride to kick up, chin up and fight. But, but, but there's nothing I can do. There is always things to do. Everybody can contribute in their small way. Find something. Don't ask me what you can do. I don't live there. And if you just don't know what you can do, you are part of the problem because you aren't involved enough. Get involved. We are far from fucked if you do that. | |||
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one thing that angers me is the total failure of the McConnell / Ryan congress to support the President's campaign agenda They could have had people really excited about REP candidates. - obamacare repeal failure - tax reform lack of progress - no support for border wall - still pushing DACA - allowing Senate DEMs to slow appointments to a crawl - allowing DEMs to push the ridiculous Russian interference investigation - total lack of pursuing DEM corruption - Senate working 2.5 days per week | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
It is my opinion that this is by design. They want Trump and anyone who supports him gone. They are willing to take massive losses in the states, the house, and the senate, to achieve this. Their one goal is to restore the Uniparty to power. | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else |
I'm not sure I can buy into that. They are smart enough to realize that the results of this election is a definite wake up call to both the house and senate and could easily result in loosing their majorities in 2018... Let's face it we got our asses handed to us last night. The races weren't even close... The question is what are we going to do going forward?? I don't have that answer yet. ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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There is an upside to these minor democrat victories last night. It could be a wake up call for the GOP next year. Emphasis on "could be." That's if they're paying attention. I don't think they really care. | |||
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| Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. |
Yup. Because it's not really democrats vs republicans. It's globalists vs anti-globalists. | |||
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http://www.washingtonexaminer....port/article/2639991 Steve Bannon offered to stump for Republican candidate for Virginia governor, Ed Gillespie, but Gillespie's campaign declined, according to multiple reports. “Gillespie campaigned with George W. Bush, [but] ran from President Trump.” | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
I hope republicans running in 2018 have been paying attention. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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To reiterate the ideas of Evan Sayet: All the things that you and I use to try to be "better" people....to distinguish what is right and move towards what is right...that is exactly what Liberals believe is "evil". The effort to be right, in itself, is branded as evil. "Crom is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, 'What is the riddle of steel?' If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me." | |||
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...tory-speech-n2406438 Gov.-elect Ralph Northam decisively won Tuesday’s hotly contested gubernatorial election in Virginia, but not everything went quite as planned for the Democrat. While Northam was giving his victory speech, talking about how he “received a gracious call” from his Republican opponent Ed Gillespie, his security detail yanked him off stage when protests started to get a bit rowdy. One protester yelled "Sanctuary for all," while several others carried signs that said the same. The protests were in reference to Northam’s recent flip-flop on the issue of sanctuary cities. He once broke a tie in the state Senate to block a ban on sanctuary cities in the commonwealth, but days before the election announced he’d ban sanctuary cities in the state. video at link really wasn't much of a protest, but security guy wasn't taking chances Northam returned to the stage and finished his speech after the protesters were removed. | |||
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Won't be long before you and I are paying Bloomberg's money back. Virginia gunstores will be getting back some of their Trump-slump money starting today. | |||
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delicately calloused |
This. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
^^^^^^^^^^^^ Quote of the week right there. Man the fuck up people - Remember bringing the whining regressive left to the KNEES last November? That can happen again and again, if we make it so. | |||
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Bad dog! |
^^^ I agree. We have a sense of the enormity of the corruption in DC, but I think it's still just the tip of the iceberg. Not only do we need to fight, we need to understand that it is a life-or-death fight. ______________________________________________________ "You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone." | |||
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Along those lines... (TFW is shorthand for That Face When):  “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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