Everyone has a take on what happened last night fromn New Jersey to Virginia and elsewhere.

Most public polls leading up to Election Day had Democrat Terry McAuliffe coasting to victory, some by double digits, in the Virginia governor’s race. Instead he squeaked by, beating Republican Ken Cuccinelli by less than 3 percentage points.

via 2013 Virginia election results: Why Terry McAuliffe barely won – POLITICO.com.

Michael Barone offers his always insightful take here.

2. The government shutdown didn’t much hurt Republicans.

With Cuccinelli ultimately losing by only 2.5%, just imagine if these treachersous Beltway Republicans like Jen Rubin at the Washington Post and Eric Cantor’s Young Guns, now become Mitch McConnell’s Young Punks at the NRSC hadn’t spent the last month running down more conservative elements of their own party in a media read fairly broadly in Northern Virginia.

I don’t care if you want to blame the RNC, the RGA, the NRSC, the media and young dumb Republicans like a Josh Holmes, Brian Walsh and Brad Dayspring who live to run to it to get their names in print bashing their own base.

The fact is, the establishment GOP cost, not just conservatives, but its own damned party the governorship in Virginia.

Someone, or some few people need to be held to account and yes, some heads should roll. Now, all they want to talk about is ObamaCare. As far as I’m concerned, there’s a little unfinished business to address before we get there.

If we’re to have this battle, the time is now, so we can come together after the first of the year in time for the mid-terms. But if the base doesn’t come together and fight it now, the usual suspects will only slink away and live to undermine us another day – in and around the primaries and elections of 2014 and 2016.

Enough. It should be clear to anyone, Mitch McConnell and the establishment GOP decided to go to war with conservatives and the so called Tea Party over six months ago.

The Republican conservative base is either going to come together and fight back, as much as it can, as one now – or it won’t be here in two years to fight for itself, or anything else it purportedly believes in in political terms.

http://riehlworldview.com/2013/11/republ...se-answers.html

Are you going to pull your Ted Cruz strawman defense--get a new strawman ced

So you are a status-quo gop fan-boy

Do you like what is happening in washington on the gop side

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With Cuccinelli ultimately losing by only 2.5%, just imagine if these treachersous Beltway Republicans like Jen Rubin at the Washington Post and Eric Cantor’s Young Guns, now become Mitch McConnell’s Young Punks at the NRSC hadn’t spent the last month running down more conservative elements of their own party in a media read fairly broadly in Northern Virginia.

I don’t care if you want to blame the RNC, the RGA, the NRSC, the media and young dumb Republicans like a Josh Holmes, Brian Walsh and Brad Dayspring who live to run to it to get their names in print bashing their own base.

The fact is, the establishment GOP cost, not just conservatives, but its own damned party the governorship in Virginia.

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Just as I thought--your not interested in change--you like a big slavish government so long as the gop run it--you truly are self-deluded moron