VA-GOV: The Virginia G.O.P. Voted on Its Future. The Losers Reject the Results.

[RandySF]

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Republican Party of Virginia has voted four times since December to nominate its candidates for this year’s statewide races at a convention instead of in a primary election. But in a sign of the Trumpian times of denial and dispute in the G.O.P., nearly half of the party’s top officials keep trying to reverse the results and get a primary.

The refusal of these Republicans to admit they have lost, or to agree on a set of nominating rules, has fractured a state party already in upheaval: Republicans haven’t won a statewide election since 2009, and they now find themselves with legislative minorities for the first time in a generation. Even the broken windows at the state party’s Richmond headquarters haven’t been fixed for months.

Just a month after former President Donald J. Trump left office, Virginia’s drama is the first state-level boomerang of his legacy. Some state Republicans have internalized the lesson that there is no benefit to accepting results they don’t like, and the result is a paralyzed party unable to set the date, location and rules for how and when it will pick its 2021 nominees for statewide office, including the race for governor.

The intraparty dispute has scrambled longstanding political alliances and left Virginia Republicans in the awkward position of defending stances that were once anathema to a party that has been redefined by the Trump era.




https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/us/politics/virginia-republicans-governor.html

[rurallib]

1. Gee, too bad

My advice is to continue to fight tooth and nail on every issue!

[yellowcanine]

2. I will stick my neck out and say that of course they should have a primary. But

I fully support their right to fight this issue tooth and nail!

[yellowcanine]

3. I just hope Ken Cuccinelli gets involved. He always makes things more raucous.

And raucous is good.

[Hstch05]

6. Nothing better

than a raucous caucus !

Part of me, the dark, shriveled part, really hopes that Pistol Princess gets the nomination just so they entire party can go down in flames.

[Laelth]

4. Reap what you sow. n/t

-Laelth

[rickyhall]

5. I hope losing is a trend for them.

[gratuitous]

7. "No benefit to accepting results they don't like"

I think the captures the sentiment very well. You win some, you lose some. When you win, start up the steamroller. When you lose, complain, kvetch, whine, and moan over everything, and that means everything. "Majority rules" holds true only when you have the majority. This is the recipe for an atomized party paralyzed by selfishness.

[Phoenix61]

8. Absolutely fight! Let loose the Kraken and keep fighting! nt