Could former Rep. Tom Perriello beat Ken Cuccinelli? UPDATED
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (left) and former Rep. Tom Perriello.
OK, so this morning Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling essentially handed the GOP gubernatorial nomination on a silver platter to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
That left it appearing as if the matchup for the governor’s race would be Cooch against Terry McAuliffe, who ran third in the Democratic primary the last time around.
Now, however, there are rumblings that former Rep. Tom Perriello may be mulling a gubernatorial bid. Perriello has declined so far to squelch those, but he’s not confirming them, either.
Which makes it seem like someone is floating a classic political trial balloon.
The questions of the day are:
1. Do you believe Perriello could wrest the nomination away from Terry McAuliffe?
2. And if Perriello did, could he beat Ken Cuccinelli?
or
UPDATE
3. Will Bolling run as an independent — and bigtime spoiler to the Cooch?
November 28, 2012 - 4:52 PM
Well, at least in bars...
Yes and hell Yes!
And if Perriello did, could he beat Ken Cuccinelli?
Of course he could. Didn’t 2012 prove even the most inept unqualified dupe could beat the best most able candidate? Anything is possible when you can steal precincts by the hundreds.
Don’t you people understand> 90% of the debates we used to have are now moot. The issues just don’t matter.
Wow, that would be 2 terrible candidates. Cuccinelli is a psycho and the folks will never forgive Perriello for voting for Obamacare. A huge percentage of the people he represented were against the new HC law. And we are seeing why he should have listened to his constituients right now!
dave said it best:
YES and HELL YES.
Run Tom Run!!!
(And thanks for being here dave. Your POTD was a great summary of the common sense steps to restore fiscal sanity. Step away as needed, but please let us know that the headphones still work now and then.)
Yes, and Yes, and thank heavens there might be a decent candidate to support. From an independent voter.
Who cares. None of these people give a second thought to you, me or anyone else that can’t help them earn income and garner power in the system. If you vote on party lines your as responsible for the issues in the political arena today as the candidates are. Someone puts a D or an R beside thier name and people quit listening. Look at what your getting; I’ll work at this level of gov’t for a few years rub elbows and work at the next level for a few years rub some elbows and eventually get to the top in the state. Then we’ll run for a us office work there a couple of years rub some elbows and then start EATIN THE PORK everyday. Are you really thinking that the state will be in better shape if one of these guys is elected?
NS, I agree with your post for the most part especially on the federal level. There are way to many special interests, voting blocks and money driving congress and the president regardless of party.
Suzie, you don’t get much love on this board, but your post was right on the money regarding Perriello’s chances of being elected. Well done v
Oops…suzie, I agree with most of your earlier post. Not so sure about the conspiratory voter fraud line of thought.
l”And we are seeing why he should have listened to his constituients right now!”
Why. You mean Obama’s dominating reelection?
Another Chuck, Suzie has to say that Obama won because of fraud, because he/she will not admit that his/her predictions of Romney winning were wrong. Suzie will never admit to being wrong about anything. Thus Romney didn’t lose, rendering Suzie wrong, the election was stolen from him.
No Kristen, I mean the mess that is Obamacare. Obviously, Obama won, but his victory was in spite of his signature piece of legislation. He sure didn’t emphasize it in his campaign. As accurately describeded in Dan’s blog earlier, Obama won due to the huge margin of households making under $50k. That demographic is increasing every year due to his policies.
I guess Bill Bolling got thrown under the bus. Looks like the Republican leadership wants the Cooch to run, so they changed from a primary to nominating convention. The old boy network is alive and well.
1. Yes, Perriello could very well get the nomination.
2. Northern Va. just might put ole Perriello in the governor’s chair.
“As accurately describeded in Dan’s blog earlier, Obama won due to the huge margin of households making under $50k”
I know, AC, we let them vote too. It’s a crime.
Just for kicks, explain to me how ACA is such a giant mess. Specific, not apocryphal “job creators” sniveling about firing non existent employees.
“He sure didn’t emphasize it in his campaign.”
Which campaign were you watching? Americans are now evenly split on Obamacare, but polls don’t measure those who are opposed because the law didn’t go far enough. IMHO Perriello would win comfortably.
Many people oppose Obamacare because of the wharrgarbl from the Right.
From CSM, How health care will change as Obamacare enters a crucial 12 month period.
This is the same Perriello who couldn’t beat Hurt, right?
Perriello in an epic Landslide. Virginians will not vote for a man that does not appreciate the female figure. Sic Semper Tyrannis!
I certainly hope so, but it would concern me. Tom would inspire the Obama campaign machine though which might give him a real chance.
Perriello in an epic Landslide.
Why not? I’m thinking he could get 100% of the vote in Tidewater and Richmond.
Kristen, specifically, OC is the largest tax in the history of the country. There are not enough primary care docs to see the new influx of patients so they will still have to go to the ER. Due to OC, med school docs are choosing other medical specialties to avoid the lower pay that is already occurring in the family doctor business. Businesses with over 50 employees are having to make tough choices that WILL affect take home pay for their employes one way or another. OC is another government debacle that will add more to our debt.
Art H, remove head from Obama bum. I said he did not emphasize OC, and I am correct. He emphasized class warfare, big government and the destruction of Romney. As opposed to Kristen, very few to none of your posts are positive.
Perriello rode into office on the referrendum on Bush that got Obama elected and fell out of office via the referrendum on Obama that got several Republicans (including Morgan Griffith) elected. Easy come, easy go. He’s a flash in the pan, but a likeable one.
Cooch should beat him barring any major gaffes or successful enough media assault.
That Bill Bolling spoiler thing is perverse. I don’t think it will happen. Bolling gets lost in a crowd of three; he’ll accept this soon enough if he doesn’t already and stay out of the way.
Perriello should still be “hurting” from that last defeat. Please, don’t waste your time and money and especially Virginia’s time,,and everyone elses money, which you spent like a drunken sailor on shore leave while an elected official. Thankfully he was short timer and still labeled a former, never a reformer.Best wishes continuing your disappearing act.
I love Tom, I was proud when he was my representative and I would vote for him, but No and Yes. No, because Tom would not “fight” for it, and yes, because he is a good man and the majority of Virginia knows it.
Maybe what the chap really means is
“Sic Semper Paucis Idiotae”
Re: Update (Question 3)
I initially wondered whether an independent Bolling candidacy might split the MOR vote with Perriello and create daylight for a coochweed to win.
But then I realized that Perriello would do as he had in ’06, when the road he was in the middle of was Rte. 29, effectively uniting northern, central, and southern Va., but this time statewide, leaving spoiler Bolling little reward from either side.
Correction, as Perriello did in 2008, of course.
The background of my mistake: like a beautiful dream, my mind keeps replaying those golden macaca days of 2006, instead of 2008, when Virgil Goode was the misunderstood candidate.
Periello has never won a statewide office. I don’t see either him or McAuliffe beating Cuccinelli. I would expect them to do better than Deeds’ %60 to %40 whipping, but no nailbiter.
“I said he did not emphasize OC, and I am correct.”
You’re in denial, lot of that going around.
Brave for Bolling. He won’t endorse the Cooch.
“I have no intentions to endorse a candidate in the campaign for governor,” Bolling told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in an interview Wednesday.
“I have serious reservations about his ability to effectively and responsibly lead the state,” he said of Cuccinelli. “And given those reservations, I could not in good conscience endorse his candidacy for governor.”
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/bolling-will-not-endorse-cuccinelli/article_3b538d2e-399d-11e2-b86f-0019bb30f31a.html
If Periello could get the Obama ground troops in VA working for him, yes he could win. Cooch is hated and will inspire a lot of people to get out to keep him out of the governor’s mansion.
#29 Make that BRAVO for Bolling.
perriello couldn’t beat Hurt.
perriello can’t beat billary.
perriello can’t beat Cooch.
perriello can’t beat david bowers.
gdad quoting Bolling:
““I have serious reservations about his ability to effectively and responsibly lead the state,” he said of Cuccinelli. “And given those reservations, I could not in good conscience endorse his candidacy for governor.””
Translation = I don’t have the popularity to win, think I would make a much better governor because it was my turn (waaahhh), so I’m taking my ball and going home.
JOhnW, you seriously think Cooch can claim “popularity”? He’s cowed the GOP machine into giving him the nomination, but I don’t know any actual people who can stand him. Including Republicans.
#32 He sure as heck beat Goode.
#33 Well, actually, John W. I was quoting the RTD quoting Bolling, but anyway…
He’s going home because some idiots among the Rethugs saw that he might take Cooch in an actual primary vote so they fixed it for their guy. Depending on the Dem nominee, Bolling is a guy I might have voted for. I’ll NEVER vote for Cooch.
Poor Suzie, its starting to sound like Grover Norquist. Irrelevant.
Sounds like Frank is going all “hook, line and sinker” on the cooch.
#38 Not hook, line, and sinker!!!!
Apparently the Virginia GOP didn’t get the message of Nov. 6 that Americans have no tolerance for anti-intellectual, anti-women, anti-science and anti-reality candidates. Run, Cooch, show everyone why you are single-handedly degrading the prestige of a degree from UVa.
And for the love of Richard Nixon! Suzie: we heard you whine about a stolen election the first 38 times you posted about it. Now would you please Shut The Frack Up!?!?!?
Move on to Canada or retire or whatever your oxygen-deprived brain tells you to do in response to your ideas being resoundingly and clearly rejected in the last election.
Suze seems to have been in a deep, deep depression since the election.
Get some L-deprenyl, baby!
Good article that is tangentially related and says it all about the
http://tinyurl.com/c2kfvmn
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How the Virginia governor’s race just got very interesting
Posted by Chris Cillizza on November 28, 2012 at 11:03 am
Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling’s decision to bow out of the race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination on Wednesday sets up a political junkie’s dream general election next year between former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
Both men are already national figures, are expected to be able to raise tens of millions for the race and are the sort of quotable types that reporters love to cover. McAuliffe and Cuccinelli also have something else in common: Neither man could likely win a general election against anyone other than the person he is going to run against next year.
SNIP
Put another way: If you love McAuliffe — the glib, fast-talking, BFF of Bill Clinton — you really love him. And, if you love Cuccinelli — the conservative warrior, speak truth to power guy who was a leading opponent of President Obama’s health care law – you really love him. And, if you don’t like either man, then you really don’t like them. Both men are no-gray-area politicians; very few people don’t feel strongly about them.
That’s what makes this race so intriguing. Cuccinelli will have rock-solid support bordering on fervor from the Republican base while McAuliffe — now that Sen. Mark Warner (D) has removed himself from consideration — should receive similar treatment from the Democratic base.
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If you agree with the above article, why would you want to introduce Perriello into the mix? How does he change the “Both men are no-gray-area politicians; very few people don’t feel strongly about them”?
Re: my last:
An update to the above cited article includes “Bolling’s statement seems to suggest he could run as an independent.” A couple of other sources comment to the same effect.
If true, would that change your earlier comments?
Truly a great American..
He has a huge flag and tells
the truth..except for maybe the ice
and Reagan part…no religion is perfect.
..it is after all what you believe.
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