Creigh Deeds, the disastrous and incompetent Democratic nominee for governor in Virginia, is about to receive a good thumping at the polls if pre-election numbers are any indication. Obama and his team have expressed “frustration” with how the Deeds campaign has been run, and are basically turning their backs on the whole Deeds crew.
Deeds, however, is undeterred.
Democrats and the president have turned their backs on Virginia’s gubernatorial election next week because candidate Creigh Deeds has been all but written off, but Deeds isn’t giving up.
“Four days — four days, that’s all we’re asking,” Deeds said at a rally Friday.
Deeds needs a miracle to win. Polls in the last 24 hours show his position hasn’t budged — he has been down by a double-digit percentage for the past several weeks.
“I know the polls don’t look good, but if I got discouraged every time, I’d probably be shoveling manure,” he said.
Obama insiders began complaining about the Deeds campaign more than a month ago. The president has no plans to return to Virginia to campaign.
Barring a disastrous turn of events for Republicans, Bob McDonnell is expected to be elected the next governor of Virginia.
What’s funny is that earlier, when Deeds was leading in the polls, Obama was stumping for him, running rallies for him and trying to use his “star power” to get the tax-obsessed Deeds into office. If he WERE to be elected, you can be sure Obama’s marketing team would take credit and claim it was an ‘affirmation of Obama’s plan for America’ or something similarly insane.
My question is that if he’s NOT elected, will Obama’s team claim it’s a ‘protest to Obama’s plan for America?’ Somehow I seriously doubt it.
You have to love the hypocrisy from this administration. If things go well, it’s all due to Obama. If things go bad, it’s all someone else’s fault (the best is when the market goes up it’s due to the Obama administration’s policies but when it goes down, it’s due to Bush. Of course, that isn’t even plausible at this point but the 5% of people in this country who are radically liberal believe it and screech about it on all the cable networks).
