The Republican ticket for Virginia's statewide offices jetted across the state today to kick off their campaign after last weekend’s GOP convention.

Flying in from their first stop this morning in Abingdon, Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli arrived at the Roanoke airport about 10:30 a.m. for a rally attended by more than 100 enthusiastic supporters.

It was their first as a group since the ticket was finalized Saturday. In the only real contest of the convention, Cuccinelli was added as the candidate for attorney general over former Roanoke federal prosecutor John Brownlee and Arlington lawyer Dave Foster.

McDonnell resigned from the attorney general’s job in February to devote full-time to the gubernatorial race, and Bolling is seeking re-election to the lieutenant governor's job he’s held for the past four years.

During their 50-minute visit, the trio hammered hard on many of what have been McDonnell’s central campaign themes for the past months -- energy, including “clean” coal and off-shore drilling; his anti-abortion position; gun rights; and economic growth through lower taxes and deregulation.

They were scheduled to stop in Weyers Cave, Northern Virginia, Fredericksburg and Norfolk by day’s end.