Quote Originally Posted by muddywings View Post
this plus the republican establishment failed to financially back Ken C. and support his candidacy. Basically it sounds like the RINO establishment didn't like a tea party guy raining on their parade so they rather have uber liberal D run the state then an R that in many ways looked more like a libertarian on many issues except certain social issues.
Sarvis was a libertarian in name only.

edit: Zundfolge beat me to it.
Agreed. I'm not so sure that Ken C would have won even if Sarvis had been outed earlier in the cycle, but it does create angst when the Libertarian candidate is that far from Libertarian ideals and still manages to get 6% of the vote. For all I know he was pulling votes from McCaulliffe(sp?) because of the very stance for more gov't. As for Ken not getting the big R support from the party headquarters, it seems it is time to starve the beast and donate directly to our candidates instead of expecting the RNC to do it.