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Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?

Posted on | July 24, 2013 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

Virginia is for lovers of elections, but it’s not clear whether Terry McAuliffe is the kind of Anthony Weiner that Virginia needs in the Governor’s Mansion. His main claim to fame, or wealth, was Global Crossing, right?

In 1997, McAuliffe invested $100,000 in Global Crossing, a telecommunications company providing fiber-optic networking services worldwide. After the company went public in 1998, McAuliffe sold his shares for a large profit. The company later filed for bankruptcy on January 28, 2002. Global Crossing reemerged from bankruptcy in late 2003 and in 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission, after a four-year investigation, ruled that no wrongdoing occurred at Global Crossing and no enforcement action was necessary.

Oh, and then there is his whole GreenTech boondoggle, detailed over at Fairfax Free Citizen.
What is it that keeps this zombie fop twitching, then?

McAuliffe has had a prolific fundraising career within the Democratic Party, and has used his political career to make a personal fortune. McAuliffe has had a long personal and political relationship with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

Ah, the Aristocracy of Pull. While not seeming to be any more effective than, say, President Barack Obama, one can say that McAuliffe has at least done a better job of faking showing up to work, to look at Global Crossing and GreenTech. But what is the point of running for Governor of Virginia, then? Does Terry think that there is enough media artillery available to blow away Ken Cuccinelli? Even if you don’t fancy Ken’s conservative slant on issues, nobody with at leas one good eye would deny that Cuccinelli’s résumé is a full essay, compared to McAuliffe’s sad little tweet to #UniteBlue.

Then there is the debate drubbing McAuliffe took from Cuccinelli last Saturday. 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.

This is not to say that Cuccinelli can afford complacency. One turns one’s back on a friend of the Clintons at one’s peril. Just ask Ambassador Stevens. Oh, wait.

No, the real point of Terry McAuliffe’s candidacy seems to be an attempt to blunt the rise of Cuccinelli, who, while by no means perfect, does seem to play a solid, methodical hand.

Cuccinelli for Governor

Let McAuliffe take his carpetbagging ways back to New York

Category: Democrats, Virginia

Comments

29 Responses to “Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?”

  1. MrEvilMatt
    July 24th, 2013 @ 8:41 am

    Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?: by Smitty Virginia is for love… http://t.co/OJk1IIKKbY

  2. Lockestep1776
    July 24th, 2013 @ 8:41 am

    Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?: by Smitty Virginia is for love… http://t.co/x9qtjYrsxK

  3. CHideout
    July 24th, 2013 @ 8:41 am

    Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?: by Smitty Virginia is for love… http://t.co/DqgluiE4DC

  4. Citzcom
    July 24th, 2013 @ 8:41 am

    Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?: by Smitty Virginia is for love… http://t.co/N47wfy6qAq

  5. jwbrown1969
    July 24th, 2013 @ 8:41 am

    Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?: by Smitty Virginia is for love… http://t.co/N1Mi4iVB4C

  6. Finrod Felagund
    July 24th, 2013 @ 8:47 am

    Well, Virginia was dumb enough to vote for Obama, twice.

  7. preciseBlogs
    July 24th, 2013 @ 8:56 am

    Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid http://t.co/b0dVrRe1SR #news #conservative #democrats

  8. Richard McEnroe
    July 24th, 2013 @ 9:35 am

    At what point since the election of Reagan have the Dems overestimated the stupidity of East Coast voters, a stupidity they have carefully inculcated in every undereducated, overindoctrinated school child they turn out?

  9. Want2BNTexas
    July 24th, 2013 @ 9:42 am

    @smitty_one_each They think VA that stupid. They did vote for Kaine but @GOP really didn’t give them a choice with retread, washed up Allen.

  10. Finrod Felagund
    July 24th, 2013 @ 10:22 am

    Personally I want to take the part of Virginia that was given to DC then given back to Virginia and give it back to DC again. It alone is probably responsible for turning Virginia from red to purple.

  11. Mm
    July 24th, 2013 @ 10:26 am

    They are that stupid. You answered your own question by noting Moran and Connelly. NOVA is the most population dense area of the Commonwealth, and liberal, so if there is a large turnout, Cuccinelli could lose.

  12. RS
    July 24th, 2013 @ 11:28 am

    I know bubkus about Virgina politics. Do the areas around DC have the votes to crow the will of outstate Virginians?

  13. Mm
    July 24th, 2013 @ 11:53 am

    Yes, unless there is a massive turnout in the rest of the state. In my opinion, the Virginia situation is trending toward the west coast: very liberal towards the coast, conservative in the interior.

  14. paulzummo
    July 24th, 2013 @ 12:04 pm

    Yeah, that’s what is keeping me from moving across the Potomac. As bad as Montgomery County is – and they seem to be doing something stupid every day – NoVa isn’t any better. If I’m gonna live in a liberal hellhole, might as well live in the one where the roads weren’t designed by someone seemingly on a coke binge.

  15. joethefatman1
    July 24th, 2013 @ 12:24 pm

    Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid? http://t.co/hKJu28XpZo

  16. RS
    July 24th, 2013 @ 12:34 pm

    Sounds like my state, though our “coasts” exist on the rivers at either end, with the interior being very conservative. Fortunately, the metro areas are thinning out so they cannot be the tail which wags the conservative dog.

  17. StarCoreOne02
    July 24th, 2013 @ 1:03 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid? http://t.co/E4zeivnjLE #TCOT

  18. WooHooYoo
    July 24th, 2013 @ 3:37 pm

    Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?http://t.co/iRfgvRpPGw via @smitty_one_each

  19. Physics Geek
    July 24th, 2013 @ 4:52 pm

    Right now, the WaPo is looking into Cucinelli’s kindergarten finger painting to see if they can find “macaca” somewhere in it. My guess that they will, reality be damned.

    I live in VA. The thought that the crookedest Clinton crony could become governor of this state makes me ill and would normally be laughable. However, the state GOP has mastered the art of inserting its foot into its mouth and then shooting itself in the foot. I will not rest easy until all of the votes of ACTUAL people have been counted in Cucinelli’s favor.

  20. smitty_one_each
    July 24th, 2013 @ 5:31 pm

    “Right now, the WaPo is looking into Cucinelli’s kindergarten finger painting to see if they can…” — Physics Geek http://t.co/fqh84z724R

  21. smitty_one_each
    July 24th, 2013 @ 5:34 pm

    RT @WooHooYoo: Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?http://t.co/iRfgvRpPGw via @smitty_one_each

  22. hankpannell
    July 24th, 2013 @ 5:36 pm

    RT @WooHooYoo: Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid?http://t.co/iRfgvRpPGw via @smitty_one_each

  23. BobBelvedere
    July 24th, 2013 @ 5:37 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: “Right now, the WaPo is looking into Cucinelli’s kindergarten finger painting to see if they can…” — Physics Geek http…

  24. Susan Valentine
    July 24th, 2013 @ 5:42 pm

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  25. thatMrGguy
    July 24th, 2013 @ 6:00 pm

    Is McAuliffe Taking One For The Team, Or Do Dems Think Virginians That Stupid? http://t.co/qQM3EIZQGs

  26. K-Bob
    July 24th, 2013 @ 6:51 pm

    You Virginia guys know those three counties full of Government Party voters are going to turn in 106% poll returns.

    So get on board and make sure all the red counties turn in 110%.

  27. Ralph Hubbard
    July 25th, 2013 @ 7:10 am

    This question must be asked. Has Terry EVER earned an honest dollar in his life?

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