Draft Terry McAuliffe?
By: Lowell
Published On: 9/11/2008 9:40:44 PM
Somebody appears to have started a Draft Terry McAuliffe for Virginia Governor website. Does anyone know who did it? There's no identifying information on the site itself, and the domain name registry isn't much help. Now I'm curious...
UPDATE: There's a Facebook page as well. The administrator is listed as Seth Bringman, a 27-year-old graduate of George Washington University whose current job is listed as "Research Director" on the Lunsford for Senate campaign. He also apparently was "West River Deputy Communications Director" in South Dakota for Hillary Clinton for President (also, Hoosiers for Hillary, Deputy Press Secretary; Ohio for Hillary, Press Office; Hillary for President, Research Associate).
UPDATE #2: Recall that Chris Matthews said a few days ago that McAuliffe was running. Also, see the Washington Times story, "Terry McAuliffe eyes Virginia gubernatorial run." It's looking increasingly likely that Democrats will have a 3-way race for the gubernatorial nomination in 2009. It certainly should be interesting!
Comments
Feel that surge.... (Greg - 9/11/2008 10:13:54 PM)
... of genuine grassroots enthusiasm! < /sarcasm>
Draft Beer, Not McAuliffe! (HisRoc - 9/12/2008 12:23:39 AM)
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
:)
This really did sound like a joke in Denver (Randy Klear - 9/12/2008 1:11:19 AM)
I'm guessing someone has no sense of humor.
Facebook site (Sean Holihan - 9/12/2008 8:13:19 AM)
Not sure if you've looked thru the members of that group, but i'm not sure if even half are those who currently live in Virginia. Who are the party faithful that are really pulling for this guy?
I suppose stranger ideas (jeffersonian - 9/12/2008 3:06:37 PM)
have been talked about in this the most surprising political year in my lifetime, but I don't believe anything stranger has actually been publicly floated.
Oops, there was that trial balloon released early on by a few on the right that Dick Cheney would enter the race for president and sweep to the Republican nomination.
What's the opposite of "draft"? (Kindler - 9/12/2008 8:24:26 PM)
Maybe "discourage" or "avoid" or "prevent"?
Just out of curiosity (Lowell - 9/12/2008 8:31:54 PM)
Why do you say that? Personally, my #1 priority in 2009 is beating "Taliban Bob." I'm going to support whoever I think can do that (obviously, if they are progressive that helps, but Taliban Bob is such a nightmare, the top priority by far is winning).