The editors of the Washington Post take issue with both candidates in the Virginia governor’s race for their transportation plans. But there’s a difference, and the editorial’s

“a pox on both your houses” tone soft-pedals a key difference between the two candidates. The Post editors don’t like Bob McDonnell’s ideas, but they have no idea what Creigh Deeds’s ideas are.

As I mentioned earlier, Deeds’s unwillingness to provide any details about his transportation plans makes a mockery of the Post’s endorsement of Deeds from the primary, when they wrote, “Unlike his opponents, Mr. Deeds has made clear that he would make transportation his first priority, vowing to tackle this region’s greatest challenge while his political capital is at its height.”

I don’t necessarily like all of McDonnell’s ideas, but they demonstrate he’s been thinking hard about how to solve a revenue shortfall; any successful plan is probably going to include some compromises. If Deeds has thought out the details of this problem and come up with a comprehensive plan, he’s keeping it to himself. One can’t help but suspect he hopes to get elected and wing it once he gets to the governor’s office.