The three-piece Republican domination Tuesday was expected, of course, but not like this. McDonnell, Cuccinelli and Bolling exploded, and so here we are, no Allen fiascos, no Gilmore ineptitudes, no Warners, no Webb jackassery, nothing but: A Conservative Virginia. Not since 1997 has Virginia had all three positions filled by Republicans that really are conservatives. Its back its back its back.

The exit polls basically admit to this, but I accept the challenge of not calling this a referendum on President Obama. In fact, boom, it isn’t a referendum like that at all, as they are a referendum on two extensions of his political machine:

• Big(ger) government’s failure to save jobs
• Tim Kaine

The former is vague — and we could get into a long and arduous trek through the ludicrous stimulus jobs “saved or created numbers” for states with block grants like Virginia — but let’s roll vague for a few and hit on the Spirit of Virginia, which would be an adequate name for a riverboat that ferries around the elderly. We of the Commonwealth can generally cough up one thing they agree on: Nobody can tell me what to do. Smoke Marlboros in a box, with a fox, whatever, because the state was founded on tobacco goddamnit, or, if you live in Fairfax and associate cigarette smoke with villainy: Fund public schools until money shrugs its shoulders and is like, well, sure we’ll pay for a graduate class per teacher per year. You can’t tell us how to run our lives. We have political power. Or guns, depending on our geographical location.

So, Creigh Deeds says Abortion, and Bob McDonnell wisely shrugs his shoulders, deflects, dodges, and says Jobs. This was never about abortion, and it was never going to be — the economy still groans on the daily. Creigh Deeds tacitly agrees to raise taxes in a deep recession, Bob McDonnell said tax credits for new jobs. Checkmate.

Extension of that: The referendum on Tim Kaine. Look, he wasn’t the Chicago Bears. We can’t stand around and be like THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY ARE. Tim Kaine promised to be like Mark Warner, and he isn’t. He’s petty, partisan, accomplished little, dropped his command of a state in the middle of the recession to run the DNC, he forced a progressive agenda on worthless issues, but still disappointed progressives.

So, Creigh Deeds says Abortion, and cues up the Obama highlight reel, and Bob McDonnell wiseley shrugs his shoulders, deflects, dodges and says Jobs, and cues up his Northern Virginia history. Something about Creigh Deeds called to mind Kaine and the contentious election that spawned him.

Virginia returns to its history and tradition: Conservative leadership, running on a platform of fiscal conservatism. Memorize this lesson, GOP, read it over and over: Place sober, steady, responsible economics on the mantle up with the Virgin Mary and a dollar bill. Learn the lesson of Bob McDonnell: Deflect, dodge, ignore, and talk Jobs again and again.

The Virginia map is mine, and yes, that is Coca-Cola Santa, Alex Ovechkin and the Marlboro Man. Check it out here, if you want to use it for your own Virginia celebrating purposes — just hit me up in the comments.