After a week of Kumbaya moments, Virginia Democrats started today with a red-meat revival.

Gov. Tim Kaine, dressed in his Denver uniform - polo shirt and khakis - grabbed the mike and led something that sounded like a tent meeting, urging his fellow delegates to deliver Virginia permanently from he called the "wilderness years" of being a red state. 

Turns out, Kaine was just the warm-up act.

Next up was Terry McAuliffe - Virginia resident, former DNC chair and confidante of Bill and Hillary. The hyper-caffeinated political operative said he was running on just 45 minutes of sleep. Seems his pal Hill phoned after her speech, inviting him for a drink. Hours later McAuliffe hit the sheets, only to rise around 4 a.m. to do network television.

McAuliffe was in constant motion. He was waved his new book around.  He pronounced George Bush the worst president ever. Then he declared that if any party could "screw up" its chances of victory this November, it was the Democrats. "It's going to be a dog fight."

He even made wisecracks about the Clintons. "The most expensive friends I've ever had."

McAuliffe makes a point while Alan Diamonstein goes for a danish.

(Richard Cranwell had dubbed Diamonstein the delegation's "geriatric page.")

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