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No to Terry McAuliffe

by BooMan
Sun Jan 4th, 2009 at 09:29:01 AM EST

Terry McAuliffe has made it official, he's running for governor of Virginia. I ordinarily am not much interested in who runs states that I don't live in, although I obviously prefer Democrats to Republicans. Mr. McAuliffe is an exception. He represents everything that I see as being wrong with the Democratic Party over the last 16 years. I would actually prefer that a Republican run Virginia than to see McAuliffe raise his profile and influence within the party.

Everyone acknowledges that McAuliffe's main qualification is his prolific fundraising prowess. He's a glorified bagman...the nuts-and-bolts-guy of the DLC's corporatocracy. If he holds a progressive idea anywhere in his head, it is merely a branding decision that makes him distinct from George Allen-Republicanism. It's little more than a charade. McAuliffe is every bit the Economic Hit Man. He's a James Carville 'D' to Mary Matalin's 'R'. They are so in bed with each other that they're raising each other's kids. That kind of branding is no branding at all. It's just a deceit.

The health of the Democratic Party depends on it ridding itself of the soulless moneygrubbers, like McAuliffe, that stole its soul during the 1990's and delivered one devastating defeat after another. But McAuliffe prospered anyway. That's how that game is set up. Mark Penn made a killing last year, too.



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I totally agree with you, BooMan.  But I prefer his nickname of "Terry McAwful".  Fits him better.
by SusanD on Sun Jan 4th, 2009 at 11:04:09 AM EST
I keep experiencing these mood swings-- jubiliation at the great success we enjoyed on Nov. 4, then depression as I remember just how fucked up the Democratic Party is.  We got a lot of fixin' to do...
by eagleye on Sun Jan 4th, 2009 at 12:40:36 PM EST
Have you seen the other candidates?!  The Republican is so bad that Raising Kaine called him "Taliban Bob".  "Taliban Bob" McDonnell went to Regent Law School, and we know what that means.

Brian Moran voted to repeal the estate tax and to greatly expand the use of the death penalty in Virginia (so that we could be like Texas).  Anyone who voted for those two bills should never win a Democratic primary.

And Creigh Deeds voted to put the evil anti-gay Marshall-Newman Amendment on the ballot that took away civil rights for gay couples.  He sucks too.

McAuliffe isn't perfect, but he's by far the best we've got in VA running for governor.  And I'm a strong Obama/Dean supporter.

Overall I agree with the Macker's vision for VA and I think he'll make a great governor.

by econlibVA on Sun Jan 4th, 2009 at 06:58:48 PM EST


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