Yeah!!!! Deeds closing the gap in Va race

[angee_is_mad]

Finally.

Links:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2009/governor/va/virginia_governor_mcdonnell_vs_deeds-1055.html

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/poll-deeds-gaining-on-mcdonnell-in-virginia.php?ref=fpblg

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/09/virginia-race-tightens-up.html

Why do I get the feeling that mcdonnell is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.

As my mother use to say, "What you do in the dark will come to light."

[mvd]

1. Woohoo!

:bounce:

[angee_is_mad]

2. Yep, Yep, even repubs are jumping ship

Check this out:
http://hrblogs.typepad.com/the_shad_plank/2009/09/va-gov-republicans-take-on-mcdonnells-thesis-and-record.html

A handful of Virginia Republicans, including former Sen. Marty Williams of Newport News, are taking on Republican Bob McDonnell's 1989 thesis and saying that it matches his ensuing legislative record.

Williams and Sen. Russ Potts and Del. Jim Dillard all served in the General Assembly for the GOP, but they have been willing to break with their party leadership especially during this campaign. After McDonnell released a transportation plan that relied on off shore drilling, future port growth and tolls on drivers coming in from North Carolina - the three men stepped away from the GOP to back Democrat Creigh Deeds.]

and this, same link:

McDonnell said that voters should focus on his record in the General Assembly.

Williams, Potts, Dillard and Del. Katherine Waddell, an Independent, all said that the thesis and McDonnell's record are playing the same tune.


"Bob has never been about governing from the middle," Potts said. "He wants to govern from the far right. He believes that passionately and I respect him for that."

Potts noted that McDonnell carried 35 bills that would have restricted abortion rights.

"He was out of the mainstream all those many years," Potts said. "The record is the record, I was there."

Dillard said that McDonnell was "always pushing social issues" in the General Assembly.

"The Bob McDonnell who is running for governor is not the Bob McDonnell who we knew and served with in the General Assembly," Dillard said. "It's a total re-invention of Bob McDonnell so he can be governor."

Waddell said that the thesis cannot be dismissed as th partisan musings of a young adult because McDonnell would enter the legislature only a few years after the paper was written.

"You can run from yourself, but you can't run far," Waddell said.]





:fistbump:

[brewens]

6. He said legal birth control was illogical

Illogical if you want to oppress poor and middle class people. Like land owners that would kick a young sharecropping couple off their land if they didn't have kids. The system didn't work if they didn't have children. They might be able to save up enough money to buy their own piece of land to farm.

[angee_is_mad]

7. WTF!!!!

Did he mean birth Control or abortion? I can respect someone being against abortion as long as he/she repect my right choose want I want to do with my body.
Wonder what he will do when his black girlfriend get pregnant? He would not be able to get his checkbook out fast enough.

kidding about the black girlfriend, but you get me point.

[TygrBright]

3. This may mark the turning point:

The moment where "being an asshole" turned from a political asset into a political liability.

May it be so.

hopefully,
Bright

[angee_is_mad]

4. "You can run from yourself, but you can't run far,"

Waddell said.


I couldn't have said it better myself.

[old mark]

8. That would be a significant point in American history - can such things

be? Intelligent voters?

mark

[virgdem]

5. This is great news indeed...

I was really worried about McDonnell. He has that thin veneer of seeming to be a really attractive candidate, but when you look below the surface, it is a murky, dark history of hatred for minorities, women and the disadvantaged. After two relatively progressive Democratic Governors who effectively cleaned up the mess of the last two horrible Republicans, I was not ready to go back in time to 19th century thinking and policies.