Conservative Virginia Paper Won’t Endorse Anyone For Governor

The Richmond Times-Dispatch was never going to endorse Democrat Terry McAuliffe. But it won’t endorse Republican Ken Cuccinelli, either.

The major-party candidates have earned the citizenry’s derision. The third-party alternative has run a more exemplary race yet does not qualify as a suitable option. We cannot in good conscience endorse a candidate for governor.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli rigged the process for the Republican nomination when his minions changed the system from a primary to a convention, which they considered more likely to produce their desired outcome. The switch mocked Cuccinelli’s advertised fealty to first principles. The expression of raw power would have delighted sachems of Tammany Hall. Virginia does not welcome an in-your-face governor.

 

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.