Editor, Gazette-Journal:

For several weeks I have been manning the RPV phone bank, off and on. One of the responses I occasionally get is, "I usually vote Republican, but I don’t like Cuccinelli." O.K., Mr. Cuccinelli has some baggage (although certainly no more than his opponent), but the real issue in this governor’s race is not the man, but the ideology. A vote for Terry McAuliffe is a vote for the nanny-state, liberal agenda; a vote for Ken Cuccinelli is a vote for conservative values. It is as simple as that. Which is your preference?

Take a look at your new health insurance premiums: Do you like what you see? Do you know someone whose work hours have been cut back, or perhaps lost his/her job because their company had to get below the 50-employee minimum? That is what Obamacare has done for us. That is what the Democratic Party has done for us, and Mr. McAuliffe is solidly behind it.

Do you want to see Virginia’s coal industry regulated to death, while w...