Creigh Deeds Shouldn’t Try Out For “The Apprentice” Anytime Soon

Saturday’s WashPo details just how rough a time Creigh “What’s In Your Wallet?” Deeds is having with the business community, particularly in Northern Virginia.

With major backing from unions, conflicting promises on taxes and no details on how to fix the state’s mounting transportation crisis, Deeds is not swaying some business-minded voters who are jittery about the economy and who say they don’t like what they see as Deeds’s uncertain positions on a host of critical state and federal issues.

Doubts about Deeds’s business support have pervaded the campaign this week, as has the perception that his Republican opponent, Robert F. McDonnell, has more persuasively made the case that he will create jobs, keep taxes low and protect Virginia’s right-to-work laws.

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“He never addressed the issue of ‘What is your plan,’ ” said C. Daniel Clemente, a real estate investor from McLean who supported Warner in 2001 but said he left Thursday’s debate feeling “very sorry” for Deeds. ” ‘I’m for education’ — what’s your plan? ‘I’m for transportation. I’m going to bring everybody together.’ To do what?”

We pointed out the other day the irreparable harm that Deeds did to his candidacy with his pathetic performance at the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce debate.  This just reinforces what we said.

Then there is this passage:

Some critics say part of Deeds’s challenge is in the way he communicates. A self-described “country lawyer” from rural Bath County, 200 miles southwest of Washington, Deeds’s folksy speaking style and his lack of business experience have left some corporate leaders, particularly in Northern Virginia, unimpressed.

In essence, the Post is admitting what we said long ago — Creigh Deeds is the Democrat Jerry Kilgore.

Apparently, Deeds is getting so desperate that he is preparing to launch a smear attack against one of Bob McDonnell’s family members.

I wonder when Deeds will finally get to the point of desperation where he will actually start to release detailed policy proposals and maybe even a transportation plan…