Cuccinelli: It’s time to pivot back to conservative principles
posted at 2:01 pm on February 15, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
As Virginia’s Attorney General and Republican candidate for governor Ken Cuccinelli attested on Ed’s show on Wednesday, a big theme of his gubernatorial campaign is going to be about the importance of beating back the brazen overreach of the federal government and the virtues of relying more heavily on federalism as an efficient policy problem-solver. Like he told The Hill:
“I think we should pivot back to principles,” Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), the party’s nominee for governor in 2013, told The Hill.
“The reason Obama is the president in the first place is Republicans failed to lead in the first half of the last decade,” Cuccinelli said. “We need to get back to showing the American people why they work, how they work.” …
“I campaigned very explicitly on pushing back on the federal government if they overstepped the bounds of the Constitution. I just never thought I’d have so many opportunities,” Cuccinelli said. …
“This sort of across-the-board regulatory assault we’re seeing from this administration hurts poor people first and poor people worst. Some people forget that. It’s as unavoidable as gravity,” he said.
His role in suing the federal government over ObamaCare and his recent victory over the EPA‘s overreach will definitely be great high-profile selling points for the conservative base, and the early campaign winds seem to be at his back, but Virginia’s newly solidified oh-so-moderate purplishness means this race is going to need a delicate hand. As much as I applaud the unabashed and unintimidated small-government, founding-principles conservatism, the Democratic team is just waiting in the wings to pounce with the sort of “these Republicans are so extreme” blather to which Virginia unfortunately proved itself more than susceptible last November — and it’s already started.
All of those lovely war-on-women, “Mitt Romney is just like Todd Akin!”-type radio ads to which we Virginians were treated during last year’s campaign season? Those are going to be coming back in spades, and Planned Parenthood is on it. Via Politico:
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Planned Parenthood Virginia PAC are teaming up today to launch a campaign against Cuccinelli, the state attorney general, on women’s and health issues, POLITICO has learned.
“If the November election taught us anything, it’s that voters are sick and tired of politicians like Cuccinelli who want to insert themselves into our personal medical decisions. Cuccinelli’s ongoing attacks on women’s health and economic security should be a warning to us all: women’s health will be on the Virginia ballot in 2013,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
At the center of the campaign is a new website, “Keep Ken Out.” The site features news clips about Cuccinelli, a blog and a list of his positions on issues like abortion, contraception and Obamacare.
Goody.
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If y’all heard my howling laughter, y’all would be afraid.
cozmo on May 8, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Organizer bus votes count just as much as intense votes. Good thing gubernatorial elections on VA don’t coincide with presidential elections.
forest on May 8, 2013 at 12:52 PM
As long as the polls are not filled with illegal votes and voters, no democrat should ever be elected again outside of New England and the Pacific coast. The rest of the country is still sane.
Wino on May 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Come on, Virginia, man up! Terry will spend all his time raising money for the Democrats.
Cindy Munford on May 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Every time you have “NBC/Marist Poll” in a headline, I always misread it as “NBC/Marxist Poll”. I think my version is more accurate.
Agent of the Cross on May 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM
Kenneth Cuccinelli could be a great.
Capitalist Hog on May 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM
LEVIN loves him some Cooch.
But would he be another Jeff Flake?
PappyD61 on May 8, 2013 at 1:00 PM
He he.. I always read it the same way.. Must be the correlation my brain makes between NBC and Marxists.
melle1228 on May 8, 2013 at 1:02 PM
I don’t understand the question, Jeff Flake is in Congress. One thing for sure, he won’t be Terry McAuliffe.
Cindy Munford on May 8, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Yes, McAuliffe can (and does) spew BS like an erupting volcano but he’s just another ‘tax and spend’ Marxist.
Thanks for posting. I thought perhaps I was the only one that red it that way.
PS As a Virginia resident, I don’t recall my household being contacted to contribute to an NBC/’Marxist’ poll. Guess I’ll have to express myself at my polling place.
oldleprechaun on May 8, 2013 at 1:18 PM
Nothing a truckload of missing ballots won’t fix. Add in a legion of illegal aliens, felons, dead and multiple voters… along with a couple of 100% Mccauliffe distiricts and it’s a landslide.
acyl72 on May 8, 2013 at 1:19 PM
…have his people vote more often!
KOOLAID2 on May 8, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Just like the dead heat in last night’s drubbing in SC.
Punchenko on May 8, 2013 at 1:44 PM
Wasn’t Romney winning the intensity gap? I will say this Ken Cuccinelli is a hottie, perhaps he should consider some shirtless campaign stops.
libfreeordie on May 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM
I hope that the Republicans learned a lesson from the election of Al Franken and that they like the Democrats have tens of thousands of ballots waiting to be “found” in closets, car trunks and anywhere else they can think of.
RJL on May 8, 2013 at 2:42 PM
Cooch has a face for the ladies (and a few others), and it is not hurting him. Maybe VA can let him go national in 2016.
leftnomore on May 8, 2013 at 10:27 PM