Herring 0wnz Staton.
After her recent double-digit victory in the Lynchburg special election, I told Del. Shannon Valentine that winning is one thing, but that winning by so much just seemed mean.
If Shannon is mean, Mark Herring is a right bastard. With 96% of precincts reporting, he’s got 61% of the vote. That’s a 23.36% margin. Mick Staton failed to win a single precinct. Not even his own precinct.
The narrative just writes itself. An overwhelming victory against Mick Staton, a radical Republican in the mold of father-in-law Dick Black, shows yet again how very, very far to the right that Republicans have gone in Virginia, and how very, very tired that voters are of yet more candidates who promote that radical agenda. The lesson that the Republican Party of Virginia will take away from this defeat is the same that they take from every defeat: they have to run still more radical candidates. And they’ll do it, and those candidates will lose, so they’ll become even more radical in response. This will be their undoing. It doesn’t matter how many times that they’re warned, it doesn’t matter who the messenger is. They’re simply unable to stop this death spiral.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the shift is underway. To centrist Republicans, let me be the first to say “welcome.” We’re a big tent party. We’d love to have you. I recommend that those considering joining do so as early as possible, as we’ll feel particularly indebted to those of you who make the jump now, rather than later. We look forward to working with you.
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