A common misconception among many people is that The Washington Post is some lefty rag that always endorses Democrats. Not quite. In recent elections The Post has endorsed Tom Davis, Jeannemarie Devolites Davis, Frank Wolf, Bob Ehrlich, and declined to endorse Ken Cuccinelli’s opponent in his reelection to the State Senate in ‘07. And that’s just off the top of my head.

It’s worth noting that this year The Washington Post has endorsed the Shenandoah Valley’s Creigh Deeds over three opponents from their own backyard of Northern Virginia (Brian Moran of Alexandria, Terry McAuliffe of McLean, and Bob McDonnell of Mount Vernon).

Worth mentioning that this comes a week earlier than the Post’s endorsements from the Governor’s races in 2005 and 2001.

This op-ed is a scathing rebuke of Bob McDonnell as well. I did not expect this…

Mr. Deeds for Governor
His transportation realism and Mr. McDonnell’s bogus roads plan present Virginians with a stark choice on Nov. 3.

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There are plenty of reasons why Mr. Deeds is the better choice for governor in the Nov. 3 election. He has stood with Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, the incumbent, and his predecessor, now-Sen. Mark R. Warner, in support of the sane fiscal and budgetary choices that have made the state one of the best-governed and most business-friendly in the nation. Mr. McDonnell has generally spurned those policies, most notably by opposing Mr. Warner’s landmark tax package in 2004, which attracted bipartisan support as it boosted public safety and education and protected the state’s finances. Mr. Deeds has compiled a moderate record on divisive social issues that reflects Virginia’s status as a centrist swing state. Mr. McDonnell has staked out the intolerant terrain on his party’s right wing, fighting a culture war that seized his imagination as a law student in the Reagan era.
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