Got a mailing from Kirk Cox (https://kirkcox.com/) seems he's running for Governor.......anyone have any insight on who else might be running and who might be the most viable candidate?
Republican Canidates for VA Governor
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Several have declared, Amanda Chase is one. Of course, we'll end up with the most unelectable one.
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Watch for a third party candidate to draw votes away from any Republicans.
It will be heavily but quietly financed by the Bloomberg/Soros axis.
fred55
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I don’t think there will be any traction for a third party candidate. I think the majority of VA conservatives know what is needed. I do think the Republican Party needs to stress the Constitution based platform as well as personal freedom. The Democrats need to be given room to fall on their socialist/totalitarian swords. It will be an interesting election year. fred55
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She doesn't have a shot in hell. Kirk Cox so far is the most viable candidate declared so far. Amanda Chase would be a dream opponent for the Dems in VA. She cannot win a state like VA these days, VA of 1994 definitely. The best GOP politician in VA for governor would probably be Nick Freitas, he has relatively high profile in the state, articulate, strong debater, can energize the GOP base, and appeal to moderate voters in Loudoun, Fairfax, and Prince Williams county which is what needs to be done for any Republican to have a shot at winning the governor's office in Richmond.
chujohn
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It's sad, Northern Virginia will always vote Democrat no matter what. If the options were Option A: Republican or Option B: Democrat - Fidel Castro they would gladly pick option B.
So any word on if Freitas will be running? How about Ken Cuccinelli?
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IIRC, Cuccinelli was bushwhacked by a Libertarian 3rd party run. I think he was also a bit too rigid on some conservative religious issue, but I don't really recall.
I'd love a Freitas victory for any office in VA.
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I don't see any official word yet but he may. As for KC, he would not be able to win in VA.
Send Nick a message about running for gov in Va. He has a real shot. Unlike Amanda Chase. A lot will also depend on who the Dems pick. But we've seen Nick Freitas dismantle Dems in debate which gives him an edge with moderate and undecided voters.
https://www.nickforva.com
It's going to take someone with some big backing. The last few statewide contests always had massive airtime advantages for the Dem candidates. And I think McAuliffe is running again so he'll obviously have tons of Big Tech money coming his way.
Could Trump stumping for a candidate help or hurt?
Could Trump stumping for a candidate help or hurt?
Nick would be awesome and he might have a shot at winning. KC worked in the Trump administration and would be vilified - he also has his own baggage. On the Dem side, it's probably going to be Terry Mcauliffe or SJW and rapist Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney. My money is on Stoney simply because his skin is darker in shade - and that's the most important quality a candidate can have in 2021. 
I'm going to make a possibly controversial statement here:
I agree with the words I bolded. Unfortunately, this means making a compromise that many Republicans/conservatives are unwilling to make- Abortion.
It's difficult to sell yourself as the "Party of Individual Freedom" while taking away someone else's freedoms. It's one way that Progressives append the "fascist" label to conservatives.
Make no mistake, I detest abortion. I would still agree with legislation banning these insanely late-term abortions as well as banning legislation allowing minors to obtain abortions without parental informing. I also do NOT support using taxes to fund abortions for low income patients. This prevents religiously devout taxpayers from funding something that is against their faith.
Otherwise, I say let women have it. They'll answer to the Maker on their Reckoning Day for what they've done.
Consider this: Cigarettes are not illegal, but smoking in the US is nearly extinct. We've managed to make it socially unacceptable. Pro-life advocates should turn their focus from totally overturning Roe v. Wade to promoting enough alternatives to abortion as to make it unnecessary and socially unacceptable.
There's all kinds of conservatism- Fiscal, social, religious. In my view, people should be free to sin (within the confines of their own lives) and face the consequences of their actions. I trust God to mete out justice.
If Conservatives can come to terms with the abortion issue, you'd be stunned at how many women would shift their vote.
Perhaps this is a more Libertarian view than Conservative, I dunno.
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fred55
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Some other names I've seen in the running:
Pete Snyder for Governor
Kurt Santini for Governor
Puneet Ahluwali for Lieutenant Governor
Fmr. Delegate Winsome Sears for Lieutenant Governor
Delegate Glenn Davis for Lieutenant Governor
Lance Allen for Lieutenant Governor
fred55
Pete Snyder for Governor
Kurt Santini for Governor
Puneet Ahluwali for Lieutenant Governor
Fmr. Delegate Winsome Sears for Lieutenant Governor
Delegate Glenn Davis for Lieutenant Governor
Lance Allen for Lieutenant Governor
fred55
fred55
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Undoubtedly, but not unexpected fred55
The primary process is where it goes sideways. Because in places like VA, where the concentration of conservative voters is mostly in rural areas, the primaries are a scantly attended affair. The people who bother tend to be heavily oriented around single topics (say, abortion, etc) and that tends to promote candidates who are - in places like rural VA - heavily invested in religiosity as their branding. Those candidates will never get traction in the 'burbs where peeling some soccer moms away from the Dems' clutches is what will make or break it. Remember the post-Sessions senate race in Alabama?
The GOP has a bad habit, in some states, of loading up a Judge Roy Moore in the Election Revolver, pointing it their own heads, and then wondering why middle of the road voters don't vote for them. As critical states lean purple, that is a total show stopper.
It's possible to have a die-hard constitutionalist, small-government, secure-borders, low-taxes, minimal-regulation, pro-2A, law and order, pro-liberty-across-the-board candidate that doesn't also happen to scare people out of the room by making zealous, almost cartoonish religiosity the main thing they actually end up talking about in all their public appearances and interviews. Until the GOP figures that out in places like Virginia, they're going to keep losing to the Dems that otherwise bigly outnumber and outspend them. Trump, in his own frequently ham-fisted way, understood this. He wasn't dismissive, at all, towards his evangelical or otherwise very religious supporters, but nor did he make the deliberate decision to be a theocratic candidate. The ones that do will increasingly - if not entirely, now - never see state-wide, let alone national executive office. To the extent that a given congressional district is largely made up of a particular religious culture, state and federal representatives elected there can and likely will reflect that world view and bearing. But if you wanna be governor, that branding is quickly becoming a losing proposition.
A guy like Freitas, if you listen to him speak, seems to get it. He generally makes it about the constitution and liberty.
The GOP has a bad habit, in some states, of loading up a Judge Roy Moore in the Election Revolver, pointing it their own heads, and then wondering why middle of the road voters don't vote for them. As critical states lean purple, that is a total show stopper.
It's possible to have a die-hard constitutionalist, small-government, secure-borders, low-taxes, minimal-regulation, pro-2A, law and order, pro-liberty-across-the-board candidate that doesn't also happen to scare people out of the room by making zealous, almost cartoonish religiosity the main thing they actually end up talking about in all their public appearances and interviews. Until the GOP figures that out in places like Virginia, they're going to keep losing to the Dems that otherwise bigly outnumber and outspend them. Trump, in his own frequently ham-fisted way, understood this. He wasn't dismissive, at all, towards his evangelical or otherwise very religious supporters, but nor did he make the deliberate decision to be a theocratic candidate. The ones that do will increasingly - if not entirely, now - never see state-wide, let alone national executive office. To the extent that a given congressional district is largely made up of a particular religious culture, state and federal representatives elected there can and likely will reflect that world view and bearing. But if you wanna be governor, that branding is quickly becoming a losing proposition.
A guy like Freitas, if you listen to him speak, seems to get it. He generally makes it about the constitution and liberty.
