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“The Republican Party of Virginia is back, it’s alive, it’s well and it’s victorious,” Mullins said. “Tonight the Commonwealth is once again red.”
Cantor also spoke harshly against current leadership in Washington.
“Tonight’s great victory is a great sign that we the people are fed up with the Obama-Pelosi-McCain agenda,” he said. “Enough with the spending, enough with the waste, and enough with the incredible reach of government into every aspect of our lives.”
McDonnell was courteous yet firm when speaking about the opposing party. He congratulated Deeds for running and said that he hopes to continue to work with Deeds as he serves in the state senate.
“We both agree this is a great and wonderful state in which we’re privileged to live,” McDonnell said. “Creigh Deeds is a good public servant and what we’re going to need is good public servants.”
However, McDonnell also said he intends to stick to his ideals and values to improve the state, which doesn’t mean he’ll agree with every policy passed by a Democratic Congress and president.
In his acceptance speech, Cuccinelli said that during his tenure as attorney general, he would work to “protect life and families and fight for truly limited government.”
Shortly before 9 p.m., Deeds officially conceded the race.
McDonnell supporters applauded after the televised airing of Deeds’ speech.
The atmosphere in the ballroom of the Richmond Marriott could not have been more celebratory.
In his acceptance speech, governor-elect McDonnell thanked his friends, family and God for his victory. He told the audience he was “ready to go to work to serve you and help Virginia.”
“My promise to you now is the same as it was when I was running for this office,” McDonnell said, “to strengthen the free enterprise system and create more jobs and opportunity so every Virginian can use their God-given talents to pursue the American dream and liberty.”
With exit polls showing that 85 percent of Virginia voters said they are worried about the state of the economy, McDonnell conceded that the next four years would not be easy.
McDonnell promised that he, along with Bolling and Cuccinelli, would “work together to leave Virginia better than we found it.”
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This idiot makes me want to puke.
Now we have to listen to his mediocre conservative bull for what will seem to be an eternity. Are Virginians really this stupid? Looks like its time to move.
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I'll help you pack if it means you could leave quicker.
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Good, I hope you do move. It's people like you that have been suffocating Virginia with liberal crap the last decade.
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