Sandy’s Endorsement for Governor: Senator Frank Wagner

This might shock many of my readers and I am well aware of the issues – taxes, slating, some crony capitalism…

BUT

I have to choose among the three candidates that are actually RUNNING.

Corey Stewart.  Ed Gillespie.  Frank Wagner.

That’s it.

I did go to the Stewart rally tonight and he stirred me.  He things he can win in at least Prince William County – has won four times already.  Tough place to run.

Stewart made an astute observation tonight:  If they can remove the monuments of the Confederates today due to slavery, tomorrow they will undermine the Founders due to their owning slaves and then attack the documents they wrote – like the Constitution.  I am sure there is some greater effort there to do exactly that.

But I am disturbed by things like the “cuckservative” taunt directed at Ed Gillespie and some associations he has.  I do not and will not ever practice this kind of politics.  I am afraid Stewart will be seen as too shrill for many voters.  I would love to see him win and I would be open to helping him in the general election.

So what’s wrong with Ed Gillespie?  Ask a Tory activist.  I think Gillespie is too much like a Theresa May – sitting on an apparent lead and trying to ride it out to the primary.  I think the Dems will use his past as a lobbyist and GOP national chair against him.  I cannot see Ed going after Perriello for his George Soros connections.

So I reluctantly have to endorse Senator Frank Wagner.  Yes I know about his record.  But he is a mainstream conservative.  Wagner also can work with the legislature after four years of disastrous relations with the General Assembly.  I cannot imagine a Judge Roush fiasco in a Wagner administration.  I do not like the crony capitalism, or the slating or the tax hikes.  But he has the best chance of the three to soothe and win over at least some of the suburban women in NOVA we need to win.