VA Republican offers words of wisom and advice to the GOP

[Rey C.]

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Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, who said his party is becoming “too ideological” and stayed out the governor’s race because of that, said his partisan allies are on the wrong side of change. “If we are going to be the party of ***** ultrasound, then we are going to have problems.”


“One of the challenges the Republican Party faces in Virginia and a lot of other swing states is how do we remain a conservative party but still be able to appeal to these changing demographic patterns,” Bolling said.

“I am a Republican. I am very concerned about the direction of the Republican Party but I believe in the Republican Party. But I’m not a happy Republican,” he said.

Bolling said his colleagues have done a poor job appealing to these emerging voters, and instead have retreated into a party where “you are persona non grata unless you agree with them 100 percent of the way, 100 percent of the time. We’ve got to move beyond that.”

He declined a gubernatorial run after the state party decided to nominate its candidate at a convention rather than in a primary, ensuring that its most ideological partisans dominated the process.

“The organizational structure was taken over by the Tea Party groups and Ron Paul types. They have taken the party in a direction that is very troubling to me,” said Bolling, in a reference to the former Texas U.S. House representative who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012.

“It’s not just the change in demographics, it is the changing issue matrix the party has decided to embrace,” said Tom Davis, a former Republican congressman who represented counties in northern Virginia. “The social and cultural agenda of the party does not play to these educated people.”

“Democrats have been growing support among those with more than a college education. The proportion of folks with post-graduate degrees in Virginia is higher than the nation as a whole. That group has moved most strongly for Democrats,” said McGlennon. Fuller said that in the eight Virginia counties closest to Washington, the unemployment rate is 4 percent, compared to 7.5 percent nationally. Among those eight counties, five are ranked in the top 10 wealthiest in the U.S.

I've already had people calling me to see if I'll give money to and support Ken Cuccinelli. In the politest way that I could, my response has been a simple "no" (with an unspoken "fuck that teabagger!" sentiment attached). We already have that mop-headed criminal, Bob McDonnell, that the FBI is investigating for corruption, as Governor... and the TEA Party was behind getting that fool into office - same with Cockinelli. We don't need their kind in our fine state. I don't go for parties. I go for the best (or better or less bad) candidate. But I will swallow hot coals before I'll ever vote for teabagger scum. Other than neocons, there's nothing that I **** more. The GOP needs to purge these lowlifes from their ranks and then we'll talk again. Follow the advice of Bolling and Davis. They're pretty bright and reasonable guys.