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Youngkin schools McAuliffe.

Most likely to be target of an FBI probe

The news broke just as the workday ended - Gov. Terry McAuliffe is under FBI investigation.
That brightens my Monday.
Sure, you can say everybody does it.
Bernie Sanders says that also.
The system is rigged, and now one of Hillary Clinton's friends has to fight off charges of rigging the system.
When the Democrats nominated McAuliffe, you knew this day would come.

You mean you can't trust McAuliffe?

Blue Virginia continues its whine about Governor McAuliffe's gun control action.
They thought McAuliffe was their ally, and now he's gone against them.
McAuliffe puts his interest ahead of theirs.
Is this a surprise?
Republicans could have told you this was coming.

Money for nothing

Governor McAulifffe got his friends to spend millions in an attempt to turn the State Senate to Democratic control.
Didn't happen.
Welcome to the lame duck part of your term.

Trump and McAuliffe

For all the whining about Donald Trump taking the Republican presidential race by storm, what about another New Yorker with a similar career path.
Governor Terry McAuliffe.
If it's okay for McAuliffe to be governor, why not Trump?
Who's more well-known?
Trump.
Wealthier?
Trump.
McAuliffe rode the Clinton coattails for 20 years.
Trump rides alone - it's the politicians who tried to ride his coattails.
Politicians may not like outsiders jumping into their game.
But if you despise Trump and you're a Democrat, how can you support McAuliffe and be consistent?

From the people who brought you Obamacare

If you like Obamacare, you'll like Terry McAuliffe.
If you want to see how a McAuliffe administration would work, go to healthcare.gov (when it's not down for maintenance).
All talk and few results - it's the Obamacare/McAuliffe way of life.
If you like your life, you can keep it - if you vote for Ken Cuccinelli.

Man up - vote Cuccinelli

Is Virginia the land of wimps?
Terry McAuliffe must think so.
Guns?
They are so scary.
His commercials feature women scared of what they think Ken Cuccinelli might do.
And don't forget the government shutdown.
Our Northern Virginia economy has been built on federal government deficit spending - it would be scary to end that.
Even if we need to for a better future.
Fear seems to be McAuliffe's agenda.
There's no way Cuccinelli's agenda can be worse than McAuliffe's.

Bullies for the class clown

The Northern Virginia Technology Council offers its endorsement to Ken Cuccinelli for governor.
Friends of class clown Terry McAuliffe weren't happy.
They won't invite NVTC to their parties now.
Democratic state Sen. Janet D. Howell of Fairfax County wrote in an email to Young and others that she found the endorsement “incomprehensible” and that the response by Senate Democrats to the NVTC — which has never endorsed a Democrat for governor — “will be frigid and doors will be closed.”
Is this the crew you want running the state?

Why Cuccinelli wins

It's a close race for governor in Virginia.
So many ads - mostly against Ken Cuccinelli - already.
But I think Cuccinelli will win easily.
Why?
Terry McAuliffe will get a better offer from China or Mississippi before Election Day.

Look at the whiffy record

Smitty casts an eye toward the Virginia gubernatorial race.
While it’s likely that McAuliffe will do well amongst the junior Gollums infesting Northern Virginia, who keep re-electing the likes of ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran and ‘Merry’ Gerry Connolly, is the rest of the state so decadent as to send a no-talent clown like McAuliffe to Richmnod? As we research more of McAuliffe’s rather whiffy record, one wonders how he will do at the next debate, in September. One does not expect Cuccinelli to get any less Irish or Italian in his onslaught. One also does not expect McAuliffe to be “packin’ the gear” enough to pick up his end. It would cut into his fundraising time.
Do we want a class clown leading our state?

I build cars. Really.

Bearing Drift offers a report from a Memphis TV station - trying to find life at Terry McAuliffe's green car company in Mississippi.
And he plans to do the same for areas of Virginia looking for jobs.

Don't mess with Sabato

Blue Virginia doesn't like the moaning about Terry McAuliffe's chances.
Or Larry Sabato saying so.
Terry McAuliffe knows raising money.
That's why he's in trouble.
Larry Sabato knows politics.
That's why you trust his analysis.

Sanford gives them hope

Amazing the spin Terry McAuliffe is getting for his "left my infant and wife in the car to fundraise" story.
In the end, however, what may save McAuliffe is the same thing that saved Mark Sanford this week in the South Carolina special House election. Women—and men for that matter—didn’t like what Sanford did to his wife, his kids, or his state. But their conservative political principles prevailed, just as Virginia’s increasingly moderate-to-liberal tilt could help McAuliffe. Even if he can’t overcome his image as a manic husband out of the Mad Men era.
If T-Mac is better than Sanford, you have to remember that Cuccinelli is much, much better than the comedian's sister.

Stuck with the next guy

It still amazes that Terry McAuliffe is going to be the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor.
Why?
Didn't he learn the lesson of 2009? He could have moved on, but instead the last-place primary finish left him the most famous candidate left this time around.
The whispers are growing - can be blow the opportunity in 2013?
Of course he will.
It will be easy to see why in November.
The signs are there now.

Right to choose McAuliffe

Virginia Right looks at the in-kind contributions for the McAuliffe campaign - and finds Planned Parenthood.
What did they give?
What part of tax-payer funding supported that donation?
Another question for T-Mac to answer.

Release the returns

The Cuccinelli campaign has learned from the Democrats - beat the tax return issue to death.
After six days of touting how their guy released eight years of tax returns, they watch Terry McAuliffe show just the front page of his last three returns.
Nice start, rich guy.
What's behind those numbers?
If the attack was good enough to use on Mitt Romney, it should be used on McAuliffe.

Friends of T-Mac

Watchdog looks at the connections between Terry McAuliffe and the doctor in the middle of the Senator Menendez trouble.
In his failed bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2009, McAuliffe received two $5,000 donations from Melgen’s company, Vitreo-Retinal.
Follow the money. There's sure to be plenty of shady stuff amongst McAuliffe's friends.

The Democrats' Mitt Romney

Reading about Terry McAuliffe's weaknesses - what are the cabinet offices? - I see him stressing his business experience.
McAuliffe says his career of "taking over struggling companies, learning them, fixing them up" is an asset he would bring to the office:
"As it relates to running the government and working with it: I've done it. I've managed many different operations. And I will be up to that."
I remember Mitt Romney talking about that kind of experience.
Experience that could help our struggling economy.
Wonder if McAuliffe sees his business experience as Romney saw his?

Can it help T-Mac?

Democrats want to use data gained during the 2012 campaign to help future candidates.
First up, Terry McAuliffe.
How can it help him?
They asked if you like annoying candidates?

Let's blame T-Mac

Enough blaming Creigh Deeds for his poor showing in the polls. Let's put the blame where it really belongs. Terry McAuliffe.
Why? He's the all-purpose villian. The carpetbagger. His entrance into the Democratic primary upset the plans Deeds and Brian Moran obviously had for the race.
Without McAuliffe, Moran would have been a better candidate. It would have been hard to have been worse.
Moran could have stayed in the House of Delegates instead of thinking he had to match McAuliffe's fundraising. He could have focused on legislating through February, with three months to talk about the gubernatorial nod.
In a two-man race, Deeds could not hang back. His primary strategy of letting the other two beat up on each other doesn't translate to the two-man race he's in. Deeds didn't really have to say who he was in the primary, just who he wasn't.
Then the Washington Post endorsement fell his way. And like the dog chasing the car, what does he do when he catches it?
And how about Democrat attempts to win back the house? Back during the primaries, the thought of McAuliffe's fundraising prowess and connections brought the idea Democrats could do it. Doesn't look likely now, and how much money has T-Mac's connections delivered to Virginia?
I'm looking forward to the many post-mortems from Democrats after the election is over. Hope some take out their frustration on McAuliffe.