Terry McAuliffe To Run For Governor of Virginia?
It just goes to show you that political operatives never fade away, they haunt the Democratic Party forever
WaPo:
The Virginia Democratic State Central Committee voted yesterday to hold a primary next year to choose the party's candidate for governor amid growing indications that there could be a three-way fight for the nomination.
Terry McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee who has been mentioned as a possible candidate for governor, said yesterday that he plans to start a 30-locality tour of the state this month to campaign for Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Senate candidate Mark R. Warner. But the tour could also serve as a test of McAuliffe's appeal with the Democratic activists who play a crucial role in electing the party's nominee for governor.
"Clearly, I won't rule it out," McAuliffe, a McLean resident, said of a bid for governor. "A lot of people have talked to me about it, but I said let's just focus on this year. . . . By Election Day, I will have traveled to every corner of the state for Obama and Mark Warner."
McAuliffe, a retired businessman who has close ties to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), made the comments during an interview at Warner's annual pig roast at his estate on the banks of the Rappahannock River in King George County. About 2,000 Democratic activists attended.
McAuliffe's presence was the latest sign that he is seriously looking at entering Virginia's governor's race.
Oh joy. It's hard for me to think of McAuliffe without being reminded of this Rick Perlstein article from 2007. I can't imagine Virginians being thrilled with a "Washington elite" as their Governor.
and after a year or so he'll be ready to be President!
Damn! I left the Democratic Party because of the arsehole.
If the criminal Haley Barbour can use a state for his personal roll of toilet paper, why not McAuliffe?
Can't he just retire with Bill and take Stephanoplpous and James Carville with him?
No, please, no! He spun so many untruths during the primary, it's hard to imagine voters taking him seriously.
But this does raise the question: Which Democrat should run for Governor of Virginia after Kaine's term ends? (In VA, governors cannot run for reelection.)
goldenjoe @ 4:
Great question.
Any of these characters want to start talking about this? Obviously the “The party that wrecked America” isn't going to.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ruptured U.S. financial system was facing an unprecedented shakeup on Sunday that could lead to the failure of Lehman Brothers , the takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co Inc and big asset sales by big insurer American International Group .
It just goes to show you: you can't put lipstick on a pig and get away with it.
Maybe now would be a great time to rethink this whole "one term" idea they have in VA, eh?
OT but very very important.
These scumbags want to destroy the Internet users anonymity !!!!!!!
Chinese Government, America's NSA and a few other assorted authoritarian power freaks.
War has been declared on the Internet by these people, if they succeed everybody in the world who uses the internet for whistleblowing, commenting, political discussions in hostile climates, or just being annoying to some vested interest.
We all face the prospect of being tracked for speech and ideas, 3am raids by local LE, or foreign / local death squads crossing borders to silence now known critics of regimes.
McAuliffe has a great record of running things into the ground, especially elections.
I am willing to wage he couldn't even manage to get elected dog catcher in a small backwards town.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
if AIG keeps losing there is going to be big trouble. they
are the largest insurer.bank of america will buy merril
lynch.
greenspan says there a better chance than 50% reaching a recession....i think bush administration trying to hold on.. not to have that status during his presidency....i'm being cynical of course
leslie stahl is crapping all over the journalism profession while she interviews scalia.
WEAK!
ferrofluid (fear and loathing 08 :) @ 10:
This would be illegal under our Constitutional First Amendment rights.
Now it's clear
McAuliffe showed up to speak at candidate's night at a Fairfax County Democratic Committee meeting last spring. Since he wasn't, to all appearances, running for anything, and just gave a pep talk for our side in general (rah! rah!), it seemed a bit odd. But apparently he was running for something.
I bet Terry once spent a night in the guest house at house #3 of the McCain's and later flown to have dinner at #5.
Republican wannabees all...the Hillary/McAuliffe lobby are wurkin' fer McCANE!
I hope he doesn't. This man single-handedly did damage to the DNC. His association with Hillary did more.
Jo @ 14:
people could still speak but there could be dire consequences, ie a person would always know that X could easily find out who said anything.
This would change the nature of the Internet for the worse, stilfe creativity, stifle original works if they infringed on big music or big movie. The people with large disposables can afford to tie the small people up in frivolous court cases to disrupt competition.
ferrofluid (fear and loathing 08 :) @ 10:
Ah....
so...
the Internets are vulnerable after all. I wondered when governments would figure out a way around that.
But dude...you're surprised that the Chinese want to squash freedom of thought? The same China that buried 40,000 scholars alive and cut their heads off while they were buried, and that later had 100 flowers bloom only to have them pruned with semiautos and tanks? That China?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
We haven't had a fratricidal war here for weeks. Seems like a good topic to get one started.
The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein @ 18:
Hillary would not have been in a dead heat when she should be 20 or 30 points ahead of the opposition. She'dve been 20 or 30 points ahead.
I'm a local chair in VA. Went to our quarterly meeting. Talked to lots of folks. No. NO enthusiasm for Terry to run for governor. Already have two great candidates--Creigh Deeds and Brian Moran. Terry.... don't even think of it.
McCauliffe.
Proof of that assmonkeys populate both parties.
Liberal AND Proud @ 24:
Wow...
you mean that people are people regardless of political afflilation?
my smelling salts, my smelling salts...
If people think I'm serious, I'm gonna show them what a liberal fascist is. Yes, kiddies, that too is a joke. Why so serious>Scumbags like Terry McAuliffe are the reason there NEVER will be any change in federal politics, not just in the US, but other nations as well. They are unelected hacks living off the taxpayer's dole, that hang around and on forever........no matter what election, scumbags like this are there. Over and over and over. Think a candidate represents any kind of change of status quo? Look behind the curtain at WHO is on his/her "team"........
ConcernedCanuck @ 26:
So...
how do you break that spell?
How, seriously, can a system like that get cracked enough, and what would happen if it did?
Wait a minute. Doesn't Virginia ALREADY have a Democratic governor?
If I am right, why doesn't McAuliffe run in a state that needs a "Democratic" governor?
Can't these hacks do something other than Politics? Rove, and all these other guys go from MSM darlings or become consultants. Why can't they take up a hobby? Lord knows they don't need the money. I guess they love the spot-light to much to go away.
General_Rennenkampf @ 27:
Good question. I don't honestly know the answer. We seem to be stuck in a money grabbing rut.
Yellowbird @ 28:
That was snark, right?
P.D. @ 29:
Maybe, but I think it's about all that money. I could be wrong, but, how else to explain people like Rove? It can't be for the spotlight. Porky Pig seems real uncomfortable in the spotlight.
Would Terry McAuliffe really have a chance?
ConcernedCanuck @ 32:
Maybe, but I think it is about power.
ConcernedCanuck @ 32:
Porky Pig is in it for the power. He likes the attention he gets when people say he is good at what he does. And he is a pure and simple scumbag so I can't really try to understand him/them. Terry McAuliffe is probably envious of him.
OT, sorry, but this is big and getting bigger; Lehman declares bankruptcy, Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch in forced sale, AIG asks government for help...
CNBC.
Anonymous@36, This reminds me of the REM song,"It's the End of the World as we know, and I feel fine!"
Anonymous Hussein @ 36:
Now why would the US government and corporate America want these banks to fail? Who is profiting from all this? How much crap are these morons really causing, who is behind it, and why is there not a major federal investigation into all of this? Blaming a housing crisis is pure unadulterated bullcrap. Poor investments? Bull. These are banks. They have made BILLIONS off of screwing average Joe and Jane. They don't go bankrupt unless someone is willing them to go bankrupt. Something smells worse than an economic downturn.
P.D. @ 37:
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose...
Terry McCauliffe is the single reason why Kerry lost.
Anonymous@39, Or better yet, "Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss." My, my.. We could go on and on... Quite prophetic, huh?
Please Lord, no. I can't stand this guy.
ConcernedCanuck @ 38:
Well, it's been brewing for a long time. We've been printing money to pay for the war. Hedge funds are eating their own because they can, due to the recission of a little thing called the uptick rule. Greedy and corrupt banks and mortgage companies handed out insane loans and corrupt middlemen bundled those loans together and resold them to other banks and investment companies. The corrupt agencies that were supposed to rate those bundles gave A's where they should have given B's, C's and D's. Now no one knows HOW much those loans are worth, and hence how much the investment companies are worth. How can you buy something or sell what you have when its value is impossible to trace?
That's just for starters.
Anonymous Hussein @ 43:
Just for starters!!!
Now the insurance companies are going to go down.
Canuck, like Mr. Hussein says, nobody knows what anything is worth so nobody buys. Just like McSame, these banks have no credibility anymore. Just like with Bush, nobody trusts anything they say. Now the can't even give themselves away.
Don't forget that McBush has these guys running his campaign. But stop whining and carry on. Hey do yoiu think these Wall Street guys are whining yet?
Terry would be more liked if it weren't for his face.
#44 "...like Mr. Hussein says..."
That's Ms.Hussein to you, Cap'n! ;)
Something tells me the government is going to step in and get the over supply of distressed properties sold...somehow, someway, it's going to be done, and I doubt that it will be in a maner that lets me and my economic bracket get me some. Wouldn't it be nice if we had something like the old "settle the frontier" incentives? Everyone gets a free house as long as they live in it themselves, don't sell for a number of years, and pay the taxes. Sounds groovy.
Hey, I can dream.
Pffft. McAuliffe doesn't have a rat's chance in hell. People in Northern Virginia know an asshole opportunist when they see. Since there is no opportunity, that just leaves him an asshole.
McAuliffe, the man who oversaw losing after losing election for the Dems since 1994? He's the best shot they have at governor for Virginia?
What's McAuliffe going to do? Tell the voters of Virginia how great the GOP opponent is, and that he's a fine man, and that he'll make an awesome governor, and that Terry agrees with everything he says, and etc., etc....
Ugh.
This scumbag managed Al Gore and John Kerry to defeat. He is a human sphincter spasm. Don't worry. He won't win if he follows his own ways. Terry McAuliffe was born to lose, to lay down and take the Swiftboating, to make Al Gore kiss his wife, to generally enter the electoral competition with the fetid stink of a loser.
God, I hope he runs. What a blast it will be watching this ass clown get his butt kicked.
Biggus Diggus @ 49:
He was also partially to blame behind the fun and games that were the scorched earth campaign by Hillary Clinton.
Terry McAuliffe, you've got to be kidding! He couldn't organize himself out of a wet paper bag.
Yellowbird @ 28:
Virginia governors can't succeed themselves.
I believe Terry McAuliffe will come in a very distant third in a primary in Virginia. He shouldn't even waste his money. Creigh Deeds and Brian Moran are two outstanding candidates, and it's going to be very difficult to choose between the two.
Terry McAuliffe is terrible. His dem leadership handed Bush/Cheney eight years in our executive branch. McAuliffe rolled over for republicans. Hillary Clinton would have won if she didn't have that moron on her staff. He is one bad dem.
Definitely someone I would not mind seeing less of in the world of politics. He would probably have more success with selling cars or real estate.
Terry managed to screw the Dems, Gore, Kerry, and Hillary out of winning.
It also shows how s****y the Dems were under his leadership, and that he was on the job for 12 (!) years before they finally ousted him (but not without a fight).
I think McAuliffe needs a much larger flag pin on his lapel....cuz I ain't getting any patriotic vibes from the one he's wearing!
I met him personally and he was a gracious, kind man. Imagine that. I'm sure that's not enough for the left. He must adopt all your positions ALL of them before he earns your favor? Why is it that most (not all) persons that blog or comment here are so angry and narrow minded and vitriolic? You all turn off a lot of people that are unhappy with this administration, yet encouraged by Obama. I'm not saying that you should abandon your convictions, just realize we don't think that anyone who has a left, center, or right opinion is the Devil. I read this blog everyday and noticed that John and Nicole--the most sarcastic and snarky of them all--have been more serious and thoughtful. If I'm not blind let's follow their example and listen to the debate and try to do what's best for our country.
Joker @ 58:
Sorry, I'm not buying it. People like this loser bear a lot of the responsibility for why we have a completely toothless opposition party at a time when the country desperately needs a vigorous one. Hence, the USA going tits up.
I'm from Virginia. McAuliffe stands no chance at all. He'll come in dead last.
Joker @ 58:
I was thinking of voting for McCain but your concern trollery has turned me off. I am concerned that your concern is not best for our country.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only democrat who doesn't like Terry. I've never seen him take anything seriously. It's all fun and games to him.
Right now, anyone in Washington who dares shares a chuckle out to be bitch slapped from New York to Portland. People are hurting and it's Wall Street getting the government handouts.
Terry should join the McCain campaign.
George Bush - domestic terrorist
Rusty Shackleford @ 61:
Ha! Your concern about my concern makes me want to vote for Bob Bar? Please make some sense. I am not a troll...and not a robot.
I wish Terry was was running for office in my state, Arizona. I wish he was our Senator, in fact. Terry rocks!
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