When Jeff Schapiro with the Richmond Times Dispatch throws in the towel, you know it’s bad for the Dems. On the Republican ticket, Schapiro seems almost… well… envious:
They are committed to ideas. They vote their hearts. They have — in Cuccinelli, Jackson and Obenshain — candidates who speak to both. They have seen effective conservative governance in Richmond, despite Gov. Bob McDonnell’s betrayal of the Republican no-new-taxes creed. And they have stacked the deck, carving legislative districts that literally and figuratively keep Virginia — in the aggregate, a centrist state — on the right course.
They have something worth defending.
That is the Democrats’ principal argument for replacing it: that Virginians should be frightened by what the GOP might do if Cuccinelli becomes governor.
Worth a read [1].
Say what you will about “Good Copy” but there are few people who can master the well placed literary incision like Jeff Schapiro.