The Virginia Impasse

By Jeff Simpson

Today Virginia held a special election.  The choice was simple in this solidly red state ....

1. A Democrat who could possibly be the worst possible democrat to run since Dan Rostenkowski!  McAuliffe is a former head of the DNC and is an awful person and terrible politician.    I personally can not think of a possible scenario of a way that I would vote for McAuliffe.

His loss should be a sure thing....until you meet his opponent!

2.  Republican candidate and full on "tea party" hero Ken Cuccinelli, who ran on the ultra right wing, tax cutting platform.  

“On the other hand, you have a candidate who says he will lower taxes by $700 per family. That will allow the economy to grow and allow your kids to move out of your basement.”

“My opponent believes government is the answer to everything, and he can’t walk in a room without promising something,” Cuccinelli said.

He reminded the crowd that he was the first attorney general in the country to file suit against the federal Affordable Care Act and that he opposes a key piece of the health care overhaul that is unresolved in Virginia: expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program for low-income people. McAuliffe supports Medicaid expansion.

Noting the technical difficulties that have beset the rollout of the federal law, Cuccinelli said: “Why would we expand failure? We knew it would fail.”

This race was so bad, that the local paper endorsed - None of the Above! However that did not stop our very own Governor to spend a weekend(and our tax dollars) helping his good friend campaign.

Terry Mcauliffe pulled it out tonight!

In a very red state,  the Democrats just pulled out a major victory with the message of "I know our guy is horrible but the other guy is tea party" and now will be in charge of the Governorship.   

In Wisconsin, our guy not only hitched his wagons to this losing train, Scott Walker calls himself "the Original tea party". 

"When people ask me, 'How do you appeal to Tea Party folks?' I say: I was the original Tea Party in Wisconsin." -- Scott Walker on CNN.

When you pair Wisconsin, which leans to the left, and just came off overwhelming victories to Tammy Baldwin and President Obama, with nationwide disgust for the "tea party", should mean a change of faces in the Governor's office.  Let's see if the powers that be, have the ability to make that happen!  

Cucciker? Walkinelli?

 

By Jeff Simpson

Scott Walker this weekend is doing the one thing he has mastered since becoming Governor of Wisconsin - leaving the state to campaign.   This time, its for one of the more extreme right wing people you have ever seen - Ken Cuccinelli.  

Cuccinelli is sort of a combination, if you took all of the bad from Steve nASS, Andre JAcque and Glenn Grothman and then took a step to the right!

Let's take a quick peek at Cuccinelli(since that is about all anyone can handle):

He is amazed that God has not punished America more for allowing abortion:

But in his speech to the Christian Life Summit last year -- unearthed Monday night by NBC12 -- Cuccinelli said he is surprised that God has not yet "imposed" more judgment on America for allowing abortion to be legal.
"Really, given that God does judge nations, it's amazing that abortion has run as far and foully as it has, without what I would consider to be a greater imposition of judgment on this country," Cuccinelli said. "Who knows what the future holds?"
Cuccinelli also criticized the Catholic church for its "soft and weak" leadership on social issues.

Has declared war on oral sex:

 Ken Cuccinelli wants to keep kids safe from sexual predators by banning oral and anal sex—between consenting adults. On a website his campaign just launched, Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, paints himself as the only real protector of children, because of his efforts as Virginia attorney general to reinstate a law banning all naked fun-time acts besides vaginal intercourse

And Hates the LGBT community:

 Politico reports on how Cuccinelli responded to a question by moderator Judy Woodruff in which she asked if he still agreed that homosexuality was “against nature and harmful to society":

“My personal beliefs about the personal challenges of homosexuality haven’t changed,” he said at one point. “What I want to do as governor is create an environment, including an economic environment, where every Virginian has the opportunity to succeed.”

“The notion that because I believe marriage ought to be protected, because I believe life begins at conception — just like hundreds of thousands of independents and Democrats — this isn’t just me, it isn’t just Republicans,” he said. “There are lots of Virginians, millions, perhaps, of Virginians, who share my sincerely held beliefs.”

With a guy this far to the right, no wonder Scott Walker is spending our taxpayer money and heading out of town to campaign for him.  When you align in goals so closely, why not help his good friend win?

There is only one problem though!   The Virginia republican party worries that Scott Walker will make Cuccinelli look bad because he is so extreme and divisive! 

Walker, the Wisconsin governor, will make two stops with Cuccinelli on Saturday. He is popular on the right for taking on unions in a blue state and then beating back a recall, but his trip risks giving Democrats an opening to argue that Cuccinelli will govern in a similarly divisive way. McAuliffe promises a bipartisan cabinet and a knack for deal-making.