Cuccinelli speaks

Ken Cuccinelli sat down for his first post-election interview with the Washington Post and had a few very interesting things to say. At the top of the list? The idea of running against Mark Warner next year is “tempting::

…he finds the idea of challenging Warner “tempting” because of the troubled rollout of the federal health-care law, which the Democratic senator supported.

“There is no such thing as an unendangered Democrat who promised, as Mark Warner did, on video, sitting in his Senate office, ‘I would not vote for a health-care plan that doesn’t let you keep health insurance you like,’ ” Cuccinelli said. “Oh, really? You were the tiebreaking vote. .?.?. Mark Warner’s not going to have a cruise in 2014.”

Nor should he. It’s not popular to say, as i have, that Warner is beatable next year because of Obamacare. It’s compounded by the fact that no matter how much Warner tries to deflect attention away from that video of his saying he would never vote for a bill that would take away anyone’s health insurance, his colleague from New York, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, said “they all knew” Obamacare was going to do exactly that:

So yes, Mr. Cuccinelli is right. Mark Warner will not “have a cruise in 2014.” Or he should not — if the GOP can mount a credible challenge to him. Is Ken Cuccinelli the guy to do it? Virginia’s Democrats certainly hope so, and Warner’s campaign is already using the possibility of Cuccinelli run as a fundraising hook.

But back to the man and his interview…

Cuccinelli makes no apologies for refusing to congratulate Terry McAuliffe on his victory. Nor does he publicly share the attitude of his former general consultant, Chris LaCivita, that donors abandoned him late in the campaign:

“I’m not going to dump on my biggest donor,” he said, referring to the RGA.

But he expressed disappointment that contributors lost faith in his prospects despite internal polls that he said showed the race to be tight.

Here’s a bit of news for you, Ken: I asked about your communication shop about the internal poll numbers more than once during the campaign. I never saw them. It leaves me to wonder whether that information was also withheld from possible donors. If so, then the old saying applies: when you point the finger of blame, three fingers point back at you. Or in this case, your campaign.

Overall, this interview leaves a mixed image of Ken Cuccinelli. He’s still got the fire to run for office. But he also enjoys being away from the demands of the campaign trail, and spending time with his family.

But the whole thing brings back the question many of us have been asking for over a year: why did Cuccinelli run for governor and not against Warner? I asked members of his team as early as 2009 what his future plans were and they agreed: run for re-election as attorney general, then take on Warner. Maybe it was the prospect of an easy win over Terry McAuliffe that got him to change his mind. Perhaps, too, it was the animus toward Bill Bolling — real, constant and mutual — that egged him on. Or perhaps he did not wish to run for re-election, then have to immediately turn around and declare his run for Senate.

Maybe it was simple hubris. Only Ken knows for sure and he hasn’t shared that information.

What we do have is this:

“The only one [break] we got was Obamacare, and that was scheduled,” he said. “It was on the calendar for three years.”

Election day, 2014 has been known for even longer. Perfect hindsight makes it easy to see that the Obamacare blow-up would make Warner vulnerable to a high-profile challenger. It still does. The question is whether Ken Cuccinelli has spoiled his chance to be that challenger.

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