The place better not, I don't need a career in politics or anti-politics. VA is pretty solid at the state legislature, but we do have problems. Huge progressive base in NoVa that needs to secede/surrender to DC or MD. Large "useful idiot" bloc of extremely poor people who start in Richmond and follow the river east. Plenty of Appalachia kooks too.
Our biggest sin so far is providing springboards for national embarrassments like Tim Kaine, Jim Webb, and Terry McAuliffe. I don't think they'd get very far if our brand of R opponent wasn't a GOP line fundie right type. I really don't see good young conservative candidates. McDonnell will run for something else and get hounded by his abortion comments, despite being a decent gov.
On the bright side, we're right to work, balanced budget amendment, term limited governorship, so it takes some effort to screw the place up. A pretty decent pro-business environment has been maintained by both sides, I swear, to listen to Tim Kaine on the radio when he was governor sounded like a whole different person that the idiot running the DNC.
