Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about taxes. While Kilgore had opposed last year’s tax increase, he did not make it a central component of his campaign and refused to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. In failing to make a clear stance against higher taxes, Kilgore allowed Kaine to take the issue away from him and portray himself as the pro-taxpayer candidate.
OKOK, my turn:
Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about monkeys. While Kilgore had opposed last year’s monkey increase, he did not make it a central component of his campaign and refused to sign the Monkey Protection Pledge. In failing to make a clear stance against more monkeys, Kilgore allowed Kaine to take the issue away from him and portray himself as the pro-chimpanzee candidate.
Wait, wait, I’ve got more:
Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about eating babies. While Kilgore had opposed last year’s baby-eating increase, he did not make it a central component of his campaign and refused to sign the Infant Protection Pledge. In failing to make a clear stance against more tasty consumption of children, Kilgore allowed Kaine to take the issue away from him and portray himself as the pro-baby candidate.
One more, I can feel it coming:
Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about fighting off the fanged space aliens. While Kilgore had opposed last year’s alien invasion, he did not make it a central component of his campaign and refused to sign the Earth Protection Pledge. In failing to make a clear stance against more alien attacks, Kilgore allowed Kaine to take the issue away from him and portray himself as the anti-alien candidate.
Totally hypothetical hypotheses are fun!
sort of reminds me of Will Farrell on SNL a few years ago and the “bats” poltical campaign commercial spoofs…
This one’s for *name removed because Josh should know better*:
Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about fighting off the Commies. While Kilgore had opposed last year’s Red Menace effort, he did not make it a central component of his campaign and refused to sign the “Death to all Commies” Pledge. In failing to make a clear stance against more Godless Communists, Kilgore allowed Kaine to take the issue away from him and portray himself as the “Better Dead Than Red” candidate.
We love you *name removed again because Josh should still know better*…. ahem… in a totally non-legally binding, purely heterosexual way that reaffirms all of our devotion to the eratication of labor laws and unions everywhere. word.
Don’t forget the zombies, Waldo. I think that’s the issue that this election really hinged on.
Daily Press Lays a Smack Down on Norquist
The Daily Press out of Hampton Roads recently printed a letter to the editor from Grover Norquist, but felt obligated to print an editorial saying “anti-tax, free-lunch hokum appears to have lost its appeal. That’s a good thing for Virginia.”
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Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about fighting off the less fortunate. While Kilgore had opposed last year’s Give Them More Than Cake effort, he did not make it a central component of his campaign and refused to sign the “Isn’t Minimum Wage Good Enough?” Pledge. In failing to make a clear stance against more hungry people, Kilgore allowed Kaine to take the issue away from him and portray himself as the “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” candidate.
Brother Grover obviously has his focus, as do many of us. Much as I’d like to think that Bill Bolling’s beating of Leslie Byrne about the head and shoulders on Right to Work was decisive, I have no way of knowing. Nor does Grover.
However, it is a core issue that Kilgore failed to exploit. Fun as your nonsense posting (and the comments of your amen chorus) was, Grover’s point about the failure to draw sharp distinctions (maybe there weren’t any) on a core issue could easily be a valid one. Kaine hardly ran on the Warner tax increase as something of which he should be proud, except as concealed by euphemism.
It’s hard to say anything is decisive when the margin of victory is 1.17%
I roll my eyes whenever Grover Norquist opens his mouth.
If Kilgore had won, the Republicans — including George II — would be calling it a landslide and a vindication of all George II’s problems.
Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about male enhancement. While Kilgore had opposed last
year’s male enhancement increase, he did not make it a central component of his campaign and refused to sign the Penis Protection Pledge. In failing to make a clear stance against higher male enhancement use, Kilgore allowed Kaine to take the issue away from him and portray himself as the pro-male enhancement candidate.
Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about Hitler. While Kilgore had opposed last year’s use of Hitler, he did not make it a central component of his campaign and refused to sign the We Won’t Invoke Hitler Pledge. In failing to make a clear stance against Hitler overuse, Kilgore allowed Kaine to take the issue away from him and portray himself as the pro-anti Hitler use candidate.
Democrat Tim Kaine was able to win the Governorship because Republican Jerry Kilgore failed to make the race about “femi-nazis” who want to perform abortions on every Republican woman in Virginia. Kilgore opposed abortion because he understands that it is permissible up to the point of “viability” and his Momma told him that as far as she was concerned he would not be “viable” until he was elected Governor. In failing to make his position distinct from Kaine’s (I disagree, but will follow the law), Kilgore allowed Kaine to remain on high moral ground while he struggled to make people understand that the real reason he opposes abortion is that he didn’t want his Momma to try to take him out of the game permanently.
Uhhh, NoVA Scout, no, it’s not. Particular issues strike different cords in different people. It could easily be — but I am not asserting that it is — the case that Leslie’s idiotic statements on Right to Work were the tipping point for 1, 2, 3, or even 5 or 6%. Just as it’s not difficult to believe that the Clinton Administration’s treatment of the Elian Gonzales situation alienated even more Cuban-Americans from the Democrats and tipped Florida, and hence, the election, to George W. Bush in 2000.
I know you’re still pining away for Chairman Sean, but GET OVER IT! If you’d spent as much time working for the ticket in NoVA as you have taking every last opportunity to belittle one of the GOP’s nominees, Kilgore might’ve picked up a few points in Fairfax.