I do not know how to speak Russian.  I do know that “Do svidaniya!” means goodbye.  But then they say something else that I really don’t understand.  So I came up with the phrase Do syvidaniya! Virginia Sneaky.  I doubt that this is close to accurate, but it sounds good to me.  Please keep in mind that I am also hard of hearing so my chances of hearing anything correctly are rather marginal.  I do believe that ‘Virginia Sneaky” actually is a pretty good description of the governor’s election in Virginia.

Democrat, Terry McAuliffe will probably win by a big margin.  For one thing he has outspent his opponent by several million dollars.  In addition, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have traveled to Virginia to campaign for him.  Democrats have been running the traditional smear the Republican campaign against his opponent, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.  Democrats are convinced that once again the abortion issue will trump everything else.

Even the Republican Establishment is rooting for Cuccinelli to lose, because it fears a victory by him will inspire Tea Party Candidates to take on RINO Republicans.  The Republican establishment remains convinced that compromise is the pathway to victory.

As recently as this weekend, all the polls showed McAuliffe leading by a big margin.  A couple of recent polls have shown the race tightening “within the margin of error” but that almost always means the Democrat still wins.  So, it would be foolish to predict that Cuccinelli pulls this off.

But, recently, Cuccinelli has been running solely on the issue of ObamaCare.  He points out, correctly, that McAuliffe wants to expand it and as Attorney General Cuccinelli sued the federal government to try and stop it.

He has only been doing this for about six minutes, so this is the ultimate political “Hail Mary” pass and is unlikely to work.  But what if it does work?

This is one election where Republicans have everything to gain and nothing to lose.  If McAuliffe wins it will only show that money and a well-coordinated smear campaign can still win elections.  McAuliffe is the odds on favorite.  He is expected to win.  But if Cuccinelli wins it will send a shock wave throughout the country.  No one really expects Cuccinelli to come close.  It will tell every Democrat who voted for ObamaCare that they are in serious trouble.  It will send the same message to every RINO Republican in congress.

Seismic political events of this magnitude are impossible to predict because they are very rare.  I am hardly predicting it now.  But at soon, the disaster of ObamaCare will be so obvious that no one can ignore it.  At some point every Democrat who voted for this will pay a steep price.  We are not there yet, but we are getting close.  What Virginia will really tell us is “how close.”  It Cuccinelli somehow pulls this off, it will be proof positive that this is already happening and people will be stunned at the speed of the transformation.

TDM