Until Conservatives understand that once again…and elect representatives and officials who live, breathe and are willing to die for those same principles…we will continue to be stuck under that rubric “well, our candidate is not as bad as your candidate.”

coldwarrior on February 15, 2013 at 2:15 PM

I agree with you on this Coldwarrior. It’s time to go whole-hog or none at all.

However, it seems we as a culture and a people have forgotten both the value of our freedoms and the values tied to our freedom. I think the problem is both the culture and cultural. Those need to be fixed first.

Good afternoon folks –

On Saturday, the Cuccinelli campaign went over to Terry McAuliffe’s office in Rosslyn – which offers a scenic view of the Potomac River and Washington D.C. – and delivered an autographed copy of The Last Line of Defense to the former DNC Chairman for his 56thbirthday. As Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook reports: 2013 WATCH: Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, is 56 today and his Republican opponent, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, sent him an autographed copy of his new book, “The Last Line of Defense.”

Meanwhile, Attorney General Cuccinelli told the Washington Free Beacon that his book strongly encourages states to push back against a federal government that has become too powerful and aggressive in implementing their agenda. Ken Cuccinelli argues in his new book, The Last Line of Defense: The New Fight for American Liberty, that states protect individual liberty against an expansive federal government. “States, as the founders intended, really do have a role in pushing back” against the federal government, Cuccinelli, Virginia’s attorney general and likely Republican gubernatorial candidate, said in an interview about his book, which was released on Tuesday. “We’ve never seen an administration so aggressive, with such frequency, trampling the law and the constitution like this,” he said, referring to the Obama administration. He highlighted the Federal Communication Commission’s efforts to regulate the Internet as “the most brazen” example of federal overreach. The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the FCC to stop trying to regulate the Internet in 2010 but the FCC voted 3-2 to regulate it anyway, Cuccinelli said.

And what has to be a devastating letdown for Terry McAuliffe and his liberal D.C. allies, Bacon’s Rebellion reported that there’s no political hay to be made from the book. If you’re doing opposition research on Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and you’re looking for evidence of a wild-eyed culture warrior, you’ll find thin gruel in his new book, “The Last Line of Defense,” … The book chronicles the struggle of the AG and his conservative peers in other states against the Obama administration’s unconstitutional power grabs in pursuit of an expansive, big-government agenda. Abortion, gay rights and other culture-war touchstones make no appearance. … [I]f your interest is simply to dredge “The Last Line of Defense” in search of wild and intemperate remarks, as seems to be the case from some early reviews of the book, save yourself the time. You won’t find anything…”

Following the coverage of his book, the Cuccinelli campaign stayed on offense and slammed Terry McAuliffe for blaming his own company for creating jobs in Mississippi, that could’ve easily been created in Virginia. As Politico reported: GreenTech, McAuliffe’s electric car company, looked at building its new plant in Virginia but ultimately chose a site in Mississippi. In a release obtained by POLITICO, Cuccinelli’s campaign is charging that McAuliffe has changed his story about what happened. ‘Terry McAuliffe is definitely in the car sales business, because first he falsely claimed that Virginia wasn’t interested in his car company and now he’s blaming his company for the decision,’ Cuccinelli campaign manager David Rexrode writes in the release. ‘Given that Terry McAuliffe was the Chairman of the GreenTech, he only has himself to blame for creating jobs in Mississippi that could have been created in Virginia.’ The question of why GreenTech chose Mississippi has come up before in the Virginia governor’s race, and Cuccinelli’s campaign is likely to keep hammering away at it.

Meanwhile, the National Review Online reported that McAuliffe – who was the Chairman of GreenTech Automotive – must be the most strangely powerless chairman of a company ever. “In 2009, electric-car company GreenTech Automotive decided to locate its manufacturing plant in Mississippi instead of Virginia — pledging to bring at least 1,500 jobs to that state. Asked why McAuliffe’s company picked Mississippi instead of Virginia, the Democratic candidate contended that officials at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership — the state’s business recruitment agency — weren’t interested. ‘They decided they didn’t want to bid on it.’ … McAuliffe was asked about it and is now offering a new spin — it wasn’t his fault, somebody else made the decision. ‘They made the decision, the company made the decision,’ McAuliffe told a radio host Friday. McAuliffe must be the most strangely powerless chairman of a company ever.”

Finally, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported on McAuliffe’s self-inflicted wound. The Republican Virginia Attorney General, who has never been shy to throw a punch, this week is taking a swipe at Democratic rival Terry McAuliffe over McAuliffe’s decision to locate his GreenTech Automotive company in Mississippi rather than Virginia. The McLean-based businessman and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee suffered a self-inflicted wound early in the campaign when he claimed that Virginia wasn’t interested in having his company locate in the commonwealth. The claim was rated “false” by Politifact Virginia and had McAuliffe backpedaling in a recent radio interview.

That’s all that is happening in the Virginia’s Governor Race. Make sure to stay tuned for more exciting news from the campaign.

I think the best solution is to divide Virginia into two states, North and South.

My part of the state is nice and red and the Yankees can have the North.

Good riddance!

“these Republicans are so extreme” blather

’cause killing 1 million unborn a year is so gentle…

Subotai Bahadur on February 15, 2013 at 4:42 PM

There will be no primary race. Cuccinelli is the Republican candidate. If anyone else wants in, they have to be 3rd party or independent.

I will continue to push back against the naysayers, because:
Cuccinelli won his AG race by 15 points in 2009
McDonnell, the current governor, won his race by 18 points
McDonnell has a good record as governor and solid approval ratings among all Virginians
Cuccinelli has won challenging races before, starting with his race to be a delegate in Northern Virginia
Obama won the race last year, by less than a point, by getting many votes from people who won’t participate in an off-year election
McAuliffe will not be a good candidate for the Democrats

Cuccinelli’s ongoing attacks on women’s health

Question: What does abortion have to do with women’s health?

Answer: Absolutely nothing

“The reason Obama is the president in the first place is Republicans failed to lead fight 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.” how they’ve been lied to, what the lies are …

If not you, who?

Sigh, I believe you have fallen for sarcasm…

SWalker on February 15, 2013 at 3:25 PM

It was a letter to the editor of a newspaper. See the link. Normally, before a letter is published, someone contacts the writer to do some kind of verification. That’s happened to me.

That HAD to have been sarcasm! (right?)

bernzright777 on February 15, 2013 at 3:33 PM

“Head. Desk. Ouch!” or the letter?

The Republicans lost the election the moment they nominated the architect of Romneycare.

And I, and many others, pointed out that this is what choosing Romney would mean.

18-1 on February 15, 2013 at 2:59 PM

Who would have won?

Head. Desk. Ouch!

Resist We Much on February 15, 2013 at 2:57 PM

That HAD to have been sarcasm! (right?)

Head. Desk. Ouch!

Resist We Much on February 15, 2013 at 2:57 PM

Sigh, I believe you have fallen for sarcasm…

Cuccinelli’s race to lose. VA will vote red in 2013 because there won’t be enthusiasm to turn out for The Won.

22044 on February 15, 2013 at 2:28 PM

Hope to God you’re right!!

Resist We Much on February 15, 2013 at 2:57 PM

…someone read that on the radio the other day…now I’m seeing it!
Thanks

. Romney lost key debates simply by the fuzzy line he used to try and explain why Romneycare was not Obamacare.

The Republicans lost the election the moment they nominated the architect of Romneycare.

And I, and many others, pointed out that this is what choosing Romney would mean.

Genius Obama Supporter: Democrats Must Amend the Constitution To Allow C-Section Babies To Run For President…

Via Carteret County News-Times:

TO THE EDITOR:

Republicans and “so-called” conservatives are at it again. They are claiming that the Constitution gives people the right to have guns without the permission of the government. If that were true, then how could New York and Chicago have laws against it?

We Democrats are sick and tired of Republicans constantly using the Constitution to cover up their true plans, which are to make us all afraid of everyone else. Our great president came from a civilized part of the country where there is strict gun control, and he is only trying to bring the benefits of that more modern way of living to the rest of us. I don’t know the exact statistics, but I’m quite certain that Chicago is a lot safer that Morehead City, when it comes to gun violence.

But do Republicans and conservatives listen to the voice of reason? No, of course not. All they want to do is whine and complain about how gun control and wealth redistribution violate the Constitution, as if the Constitution were all that great, anyway. There are a lot of things that need to be changed about the Constitution, I’d say, and President Obama needs to change it.

The Republicans are just trying to stand in the way, because the president is black. They even dared to question whether he was born in this country. I think all this demonstrates that the Constitution needs to be amended when it comes to the qualifications for being president. Right now, it says that a person has to be 35 years old and be a natural born citizen. WELL, THAT IS OBVIOUSLY UNFAIR BECAUSE THERE ARE A GREAT MANY OTHERWISE QUALIFIED PEOPLE WHO CANNOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT BECAUSE THEIR MOTHERS HAD TO HAVE A C-SECTION. BUT BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, NOBODY EVEN THOUGHT OF THE DISCRIMINATION THAT WOULD RESULT FROM A DOCTOR HAVING TO DELIVER A BABY IN THIS UNNATURAL WAY. Now that we Democrats are in control of the government, that’s just one more thing we should change in our drive to make life fair.

Please withhold my name because I don’t want to get crank calls.

PROUD TO BE A DEMOCRAT

Head. Desk. Ouch!

Give the voters a choice, not an echo, as a wise woman once said.

18-1 on February 15, 2013 at 2:44 PM

But let’s make a distinction here. It’s okay to agree on some principles, even for different reasons. I sometimes get the sense that there are those who want “choice” to mean full-throated opposition to whatever position is held by the other guy.

Even with low information voters, a candidate can score points by explaining the principles behind their position. They may be greedy stupid parasites but they are not completely unintelligent.

Which, BTW, brings up another point. The conservative movement needs to start running candidates that have a consistent position on priniciple. Romney lost key debates simply by the fuzzy line he used to try and explain why Romneycare was not Obamacare. It isn’t but don’t think that the left didn’t grab on to that tighter than Michelle Obama holds her ribs and lobster.

Says who? It takes a few urban districts with 105% voting rate to throw a close elections. The true horror was in how meekly the GOP took it up the wazoo – not a peep from Romney, nor RNC, nor the Governor, not even the local activists. Would you bet your life, or your house or salary, that it cannot happen in your state? My thought exactly.

Archivarix on February 15, 2013 at 2:40 PM

I saw voter fraud at my VA polling place. A guy who admitted he wasn’t registered to vote was provided a provisional ballot nonetheless. Why if not for fraud? VA does not have same day registration. So, make no mistake, VA Democrats are just as corrupt and evil as their national counterparts.

I stand on principle because it is the right thing to do, but for God’s sake more John McRomney’s isn’t a path to victory of even the nominal sort and the Republican establishment keeps trying it again and again.

Give the voters a choice, not an echo, as a wise woman once said.

We can’t get cocky, but Virginia is definitely not Philly & Cleveland!

22044 on February 15, 2013 at 2:35 PM

Says who? It takes a few urban districts with 105% voting rate to throw a close elections. The true horror was in how meekly the GOP took it up the wazoo – not a peep from Romney, nor RNC, nor the Governor, not even the local activists. Would you bet your life, or your house or salary, that it cannot happen in your state? My thought exactly.

They also had the state blanketed with paid staff and $$$ to turn out those voters. Meanwhile our team was paying consultants in Washington who clearly didn’t care if Romney loss the election.

Punchenko on February 15, 2013 at 2:34 PM

Virginia was a “battleground” but one where there was little ground organization for the GOP. Groups like Planned (murder to prevent) Parenthood ran that outrageous ad making the claim that Mitt Romney wanted to ban all abortions. And they ran it over and over again.

I’m not a big Cuccinelli supporter and I think there may well be a third-party candidate if it is deemed he has pivoted too far to the right. Nevertheless, it is time we citizens take our state back from worthless parasites like Cecile Richards. A bitter ugly woman that SHOULD have been subjected to the “procedure” she hawks to innocent women. The picture of her at the General Assembly when the Ultrasound Bill was voted on is the epitome of pure ugly hatred.