This guy is the worst politician on the planet. He's losing because Democrats aren't enthused about him. Yet, he's saying and doing shit to make Democrats less enthused.

What a moron.

The funny thing is that back at the beginning of the summer, I'd pretty much written off Corzine and figured Deeds had a shot. Funny how a a few months and a few incompetent campaigns can change things.

However, I also think (now) that Virginia may have been a lost cause from the beginning. MacCauliff (sp?) and Moran weren't likely to win statewide, and Deeds is apparently pathetic, despite being (on paper) the right Dem candidate for the state. Whatever happened to our superior candidate recruitment abilities over the last few years?

I wish he had considered opting out of running for governor, in favor of a real democrat.

What's his encore for this - line up a bunch of uninsured working poor and piss on their faces? Or maybe he can get his health insurance donors to do so for him, as that's essentially what his position amounts to.

I will still vote for Deeds, but running to the right when the left isn't excited about you is the strategy that Dems really need to end. Unfortunately he will probably loose and we'll be stuck with a typical extreme social conservative again for 4 years. At least we still have the single term limit here in VA so we can all learn again just how bad the Repubs are at running the state and get back to work with a Dem in 4 years.

This is the answer to those who claim that no red state would dare opt-out if given the choice and that an opt-out compromise would turn red states blue.

Such arguments are made by those who don't live in red states, and don't have first hand experience with the madness that surrounds progressives who do. Such arguments indicate that people living in blue states are willing to risk the lives and quality of lives of those of the poor and disenfranchised living in red states--not to mention abandoning those in red states who worked so hard to help elect a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress with their contributions, calls, letters, and votes.

Also, as Creig Deeds demonstrates, an opt-out compromise would take us back in time from an effective 50 state strategy to a DLC style swing state strategy where many red state Dems would have to argue against a public option in order to get elected..

I beg my fellow progressives not to accept an opt-out compromise. It's cruel, it selfish, and it's long-term trouble.