Cruz+1
Or is Cruz too left wing for the people who nominated Cuccinelli and E.W. Jackson?
The VAGOP is actually surprisingly inept, especially here in Hampton Roads.
All I know is that this convention is probably going to be a sad mess.
Surprising to whom? The Virginia GOP has been a joke since the Baliles administration. They got lucky when Allen turned out to be a good governor, but Gilmore squandered that goodwill, they let Kaine win a governor's race he had no business winning by telling outright lies, and the pyrrhic victory of the 2009 cycle continues to be a debacle. That's just in state politics, remember Oliver North? The re-nomination of Allen for senate after failing to handle the Allen situation properly the first go-around? Gilmore 08?
The only thing keeping the party afloat and in power in the legislature are superb local operations and off-year elections.
Despite all that, John Warner was an exceptional senator.
A 2016 convention couldn't be much stranger than the 2012 primary when Virginians were forced to make a Sophie's Choice between Mittens and Ron Paul, with no other candidates on the ballot.
