The WSJ has an editorial today chastising the Virginia Republican party for failing to stick to their core values and leading the state into blue territory.

Republicans in that ostensibly "red" Southern state got their clocks cleaned in November's elections after they refused to take a coherent stand on taxes, and Democrat Tim Kaine squeezed to their right on pocketbook issues. As GOP state senator Ken Cuccinelli explained, "We ran on a message of almost being for tax cuts, almost for smaller government, almost for protecting Second Amendment rights, and almost being pro-life. As a result, the voters almost came out and voted for us."

However, in typical WSJ fashion, they show that they still just don't get it.

The GOP plan would increase auto fees, the gas and diesel tax, and even taxes on batteries and tires. This is the same party that last won the governorship under Jim Gilmore in 1997 promising to abolish the very car taxes they now want to increase.

So, the WSJ prescription to the problem is to return to the failed policies of Gilmore, who bankrupted Virginia by eliminating a tax while failing to cut spending to make up for the loss of revenue. It may be one thing to say that the Virginia GOP has drifted from core values, but to hold that incompetent Gilmore up as the path to glory is just insane. He wrecked the state, put it in the red, and is directly responsible for the changeover to Warner in 2001. Not exactly the role-model they should be holding up to encourage their party.

This makes me happy, not only the news that Virginia might be deciding to join the ranks of the civilized states, but that the wackos at WSJ in trying to provide constructive criticism recommend the policies that ruined the party in the state in the first place. Give Up works, they dig their own graves with their BS conservative ideology.