John Vaught LaBeaume Says Conservatives Could Learn from Robert Sarvis and Libertarians
Flooded with emails accusing Robert Sarvis' Libertarian gubernatorial campaign of being funded by the left, John Vaught LaBeaume couldn't help but muse: what if Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli was the real "leftist plant," "pushed" into the most-followed post-2012 statewide election to stain free markets with unsalable extreme social conservativism for a generation? By contrast, points out LaBeaume, Sarvis' "Open-Minded and Open for Business" attitude won voters the Republicans couldn't.
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