re: #218 Dark_Falcon

He thinks McCain should have appealed to those voters even more, after he had already given them the giant word salad that is Sarah Palin.

But while the McCain family’s 19th and 20th Century roots are in Mississippi, John S. McCain III is not ‘from the South’. He has made clear he was really from the US Navy and expect for his time as a POW he was rarely in one place for long till he retired from it. Thus waving the Confederate flag holds no appeal for Sen. McCain, as he feels no real attachment to it.

It just looks to me that Cuccinelli isn’t even trying to appeal to anyone beyond the TP’ers. Not exactly a recipe for electoral success, unless a pretty clear majority of the entire state’s population consists of that particular core constituency.

I think it was Nixon who said - more or less - “To win the White House, you have to run to the right in the primaries and then run like hell back to center in the general election”. It was something to that effect.

Cuccinelli doesn’t even seem to be trying to “run like hell back to the center”.