Deeds Is Off the Mark...

State elections in Virginia have never hinged on what's going on in Washington. Case in point. Mark Warner, a Democrat, won in November 2001, a time when George W. Bush was riding a 80%+ approval rating because of September 11, a time when Virginia was decidedly a majority Republican state.

Mark did not spend his time trying to curry favor with the people who - at that time - didn't realize that "Emperor Bush" had no clothes on. Instead, he talked about Virginia, about how the state had to correct the terrible mistakes of the Gilmore administration that almost bankrupted the Commonwealth, how he could bring business to Virginia.

Creigh Deeds is no liberal. Virginians know that. What they don't know - because he hasn't told them - is exactly how he can make things better, how he can correct the mistakes of the Republican-controlled House of Delegates regarding transportation, how he can bring jobs to the state.

Surely he can answer McDonnell's ridiculous "Bob for Jobs" mantra that mimics Jim Gilmore's "Ax the Tax."

I feel his biggest mistake was not attacking the "phony-baloney" McDonnell transportation plan from the first day McDonnell put that thing out.

If Bob McDonnell actually thought that cap-and-trade, card check, etc., were the main concerns of the people, he wouldn't have centered his campaign on transportation, jobs, and that old Republican claim to not raise taxes while the Democrat will.

Believe you me...nobody I know of is agonizing over card check or even global warming. They are hoping to hang onto their jobs, to keep their health insurance, wondering how they will get to work if Virginia loses federal transportation matching funds because we can't do the match...

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by: Elaine in Roanoke @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 at 14:55:33 PM CDT

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