The panic spreading across the social mediaverse I've been watching the last 24 hours is frightening if you hope to support Bill Bolling. The Bolling people clearly were not ready for this to happen this early and have been caught flat-footed and have not thought before expressing their reactions. Instead of the "I welcome him into the debate" kind of standard reaction, they are going crazy about Ken breaking some deal that he was never apart of. And when your in a primary where there isn't much difference between the candidates, you don't want to be the one getting negative first.
Just as a little history lesson for those out there who don't know. The deal brokered by McDonnell and Bolling in late 2008 was between them and nobody else. Ken wasn't part of that . . . in fact, he has reason to hold it against them. It was McDonnell and Bolling that got John Brownlee in the race for AG to *keep* Ken off the ticket because they thought he would be a drag. For proof I point to both logic and Phil Cox was Brownlee's consultant throughout the campaign. So for these guys to suddenly express "regret" that Cuccinelli has changed his mind is laughable. Secondly, for the line of McDonnell and Bolling showed us how to win is only a half-truth. Ken was a key to that sweep, and he got more votes than Bolling statewide, by about 15,000.
Bolling comes out of the Richmond machine of Tom Bliley that has given us Jim Gilmore, Eric Cantor and a plethora of state legislators and I would expect better from them. They need to take a deep breath, inhale . . . exhale . . . inhale . . . exhale. Its a long way away and I can't believe they weren't ready for this because it was always going to happen. They've had six years of preparation for this run, if not one person ever gave thought and had a plan in place for a primary challenger then they all need to be fired.
Thank God Ken has announced now before big donors piss their money away donating to Bolling. In 2009 Bill had 3 choices, lead, follow or get out of the way and he exposed his weakness by choosing the last 2 options. KC4G!
Posted by: Martin M. McMartin | December 01, 2011 at 11:08 PM
You go Cooch! Show them how it is done.
Nothing wrong with Bolling. But the Cooch is destined for bigger things.
Posted by: Mario Manelli | December 02, 2011 at 12:42 AM
The beauty of this for Cuccinelli is that the Democrats are likely to nominate someone even he can beat. For Bolling, it's bad Karma coming home. He'll be made out to be the "liberal" in the nominating process. He's played that game himself, now it will come back to bite him.
Posted by: NoVA Scout | December 02, 2011 at 07:50 AM
Bolling's endorsement of Romney may go down as one of the biggest political blunders of the last ten years in Virginia. It was the opening Cuccinelli needed to make his move.
Posted by: Tom | December 02, 2011 at 11:54 AM
The only thing that has been self-serving about this contest so far is Bill Bolling's pathetic attack on Ken Cucinelli. Bill Bolling is Ronald Reagan's George Christopher. Go Cooch!
Posted by: Let's Be Free | December 02, 2011 at 08:21 PM