Romney: Republican Comeback Begins in Virginia

This is exactly why we need to stop the Republicans right here, right now. And this is why we need to nominate the person with the strongest campaign, ready to hit the ground running on June 10 and take on Bob McDonnell full force. That, of course - based on what we've seen the past few months - is Terry McAuliffe.

On another note, check out the snippet from Ben Tribbett on this video. Nice job by Ben!

Ben Tribbett: "I'm so proud to support" Terry McAuliffe for Governor

This is great news. For Ben's full reasoning, see here.

"Throughout this campaign, Terry has had the highest bar of any of our candidates in the primary...and I'm so proud to be standing him today to support him because of the way he's cleared that bar." - Ben Tribbett

"So much of his campaign reminds me of Jim Webb's campaign in 2006 when the netroots drafted him to run for the U.S. Senate. Jim was a grassroots candidate who wasn't afraid to be a little bit outside the mainstream. We need that leadership in Richmond when we look at the type of compromises that come out of the General Assembly, we need a governor who won't ever compromise our principles as Democrats and I think Terry has shown throughout this campaign and throughout his career in politics that he won't ever compromise our principles as Democrats." - Ben Tribbett

"When I get down to Richmond, we'll have done it with the grassroots and the netroots." - Terry McAuliffe

Ben Criticizes "God"

(/begin snark) Now that Ben Tribbett has criticized "God" (as in "Mark Warner is God"), the question is, will "God" smite him? Ha. I don't know, but it's times like this I'm sure glad I'm an atheist. :) (/end snark)

Seriously, though, I'm still waiting for a definition of "radical centrist" from "God," and am looking to see whether "He" ends up more with the "radical" or "centrist" part of that phrase. So far, according to the Washington Post's "Congress Votes" database, "Mark Warner has voted with a majority of his Democratic colleagues 94.4% of the time during the current Congress." I mean, I'm all for Warner voting with the Democrats, since I agree with them on most things, but I'm not sure there's anything "radical" about that. To the contrary, I believe that the Democrats are the "centrist" party in America today, in the sense that they represent the sentiments of the majority of people.

Unfortunately, today's Republicans are both "radical" and "far to the right of center." If "radical centrist" means working with right-wing radicals, I'm definitely not for that. However, if it means working with the few sane Republicans - Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Alren Specter - left in the U.S. Senate, that's fine by me. It will be interesting to see, as Mark Warner settles in to his new job, which direction he goes.