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Why did Republicans lose, Virginia
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Permalink Reply by A4L on
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I don't believe that sign is appropriate to suggest that it represents Cuccinelli, is it? if so, what has Cuccinelli done that makes it legitimate to attach him to the sign?
McAuliffe outraised Cuccinelli by almost $15 million, and he used the cash advantage to pummel him on the airwaves. A lack of resources forced the Republican to go dark in the D.C. media market during the final two weeks. -
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Permalink Reply by LoveLife&Laughter on
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Republican Ken Cuccinelli is seen in VA as anti-woman.
Cuccinelli is seen as repulsive and disgusting by many (moderate) Republican women , a hard-line social conservative Christian focused on destroying abortion rights and and women's health issues for all women.
And he isn't the only one, wait until next year, it will be a main attack on all GOP/Tea Party by the Democrats. Cuccinelli was just a warm-up.
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Nothing surprising in what you said.
"Republican Ken Cuccinelli is "seen" in VA as anti-woman."-LLL
But what has he specifically done that proves he is like this?
Obamacare is "seen" as bad by some. But others see it as a good thing or at least recognize the good that they feel confident that it will accomplish.
What has he done in office that shows something bad? If he is antiabortion so are many others. Personally as I have said before I wish for no abortions, but I do not feel that the government should be between a woman and her decisions about these personal choices. At least not during the first number of months. I am not saying I am pro abortion, but people are responsible for their own choices. As I have also said I am not for going back to making abortions illegal where women are having illegal and dangerous operations. But I see why people who believe that life begins at conception have an honest intellectual battle to feel that in some way they are condoning this by not taking a stand. I respect anyone who wants to preserve life, but I don't feel that the government has to be the arbiter in these matters. I see good and sincere arguments on both sides. If I don't have to carry the baby, I can easily talk. Obviously the mother should be given a larger voice in the matter.But I want conservatives for their position on preserving freedoms and limits on government, which is also why I feel it is consistent to limit government in the abortion issue as well.
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Permalink Reply by ProblemAgain on
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how bout being for transvaginal ultrasounds being required for any woman seeking an abortion? how bout being the attorney general who filed an appeal to reinstate a sodomy law with the bland assurance that the law would only be used on those who preyed on minors...even tho the law had no such specifics in it regarding age and was used against gay people (and we KNOW how that works out right?) or maybe this?
The Ridiculous Reason Virginia Abortion Clinics Might Be Closed
Posted on Oct 19, 2012
Flickr/ Gage Skidmore Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
Virginia—the state that brought you a proposed law that would have mandated an invasive transvaginal ultrasound before an abortion—has come up with another insane way to try to prevent women in the state from getting the legal procedure. And this time, it has nothing to do with the female body.
Instead, the state is trying to shut down its abortion clinics by imposing expensive, inane and unnecessary regulations on—wait for it—the buildings. That’s right. It’s entirely possible that all 20 of the state’s clinics could be shut down in two years because they don’t meet the ridiculous building standards being imposed upon them.
In part because of the new abortion clinic regulations, Virginia Health Commissioner Karen Remley resigned Thursday.
The Huffington Post:
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Remley wrote a letter to colleagues saying, “how specific sections of the Virginia Code pertaining to the development and enforcement of these regulations have been and continue to be interpreted has created an environment in which my ability to fulfill my duties is compromised and in good faith I can no longer serve in my role.”
Women’s health advocates have long argued that the process by which the abortion clinic regulations were pushed through the state Board of Health was fraught with corruption and misuses of power. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, an outspoken anti-abortion advocate, sent a set of detailed building regulations for first-trimester abortion clinics to the board for approval in June. The new rules, which called for covered entrances and hallways of certain widths, would require costly renovations, and many clinics would be unable to comply in the allotted two-year time period.
The Board of Health passed those regulations in June, but included a provision that would grandfather in existing clinics so that they would not be forced to close. Cuccinelli refused to certify that version of the regulations, telling board members that adopting such an amendment was outside their scope of power. He threatened to withhold state legal counsel from them if they did not pass his original version of the regulations.
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Bye-Bye, Cooch
Ken Cuccinelli, an "issue of special concern to women."
Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images
One of the funniest Facebook posts I read Tuesday morning came from an Arlington, Va., voter who simply quoted her 5-year-old daughter telling her kindergarten teacher that her mom and dad were “voting for the man who doesn't think women are stupid.” I also liked Laura Galgano, the owner of a local diner, who simply posted: “That's right. I voted. With my lady parts.” Or John Higgins: "Today, Virginia voters will decide the future of oral sex in their state." My friend Lisa posted, “Cuccinelli: bad for vaginas, oops bad for Virginia.”
There will be a lot of finger-pointing and blame-throwing about Virginia’s gubernatorial race in the coming weeks, mainly in the key of regret (and relief, from the McAuliffe camp): Depending on what you feel like hollering about, Ken Cuccinelli’s loss proves that the Tea Party has had its day, that money is the only thing that counts, that you can’t govern from the extreme right in a purple state, and that he was tragically saddled with his crazy-talking lieutenant governor, E.W. Jackson. Blame will be ladled out to Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis, who will pull a not-insignificant proportion of votes from the right; to the government shutdown, which soured some Republican Virginia voters on the Tea Party; and to the Virginia ethics scandal, which swept in Cuccinelli with the gifting and the vacationing.
But don’t let that distract from what really happened in Virginia on Tuesday: an official who consistently used his elected office to promote policies that shamed, marginalized, and patronized women and other minorities was met with a “no.” This wasn’t just about money, or the shutdown, or Star Scientific, or Terry McAuliffe’s fancy Clinton-era friends. It was about voters and what they know to be true. The vote may have been close, but in the end Virginians, especially women, showed that they simply don’t believe that the commonwealth of Virginia should be in the business of discriminating against homosexuals, legislating an extreme anti-sodomy agenda, shuttering Planned Parenthood clinics, pressing an invasive transvaginal ultrasound law, and supporting a draconian illegal immigration law.
You can dismiss all the Virginians—men and women—who posted on Facebook today about their lady parts, and their aversion to forced ultrasounds, and the weird feeling they get when the state regulates consensual sodomy as silly sheep who were led astray by an expensive McAuliffe smear campaign. But most of them knew a year ago, sometimes much earlier than that, what Gov. Cuccinelli would mean for their freedom to do what they wanted, with whom they wanted, without government’s oversight.
Cuccinelli was proudly and self-avowedly one of the most activist attorneys general the commonwealth had ever seen. From the very outset, his political ambition was to impose upon the state a social and religious code that may have made perfect sense to him, his supporters, and his conscience but came across as extreme, hateful, and intrusive to most everyone else. It didn’t help that Cuccinelli then had to combine his fate with that of the unfortunate E.W. Jackson, who calls Democrats "anti-Christian, anti-Bible, anti-family, anti-life, and anti-God." But long before Jackson came along, Cuccinelli was on the record opposing abortion for survivors of rape and incest, refusing to support the Violence Against Women Act, browbeating state entities into closing abortion clinics, denying equal protection for gay workers at state schools, and insisting that unconstitutional state sodomy laws need to stay on the books to protect children. He endorsed “personhood” laws that would have limited access to at least some forms of birth control. He urged people to go to jail to protest women's access to contraception. He has pushed to keep state funding for sex education focused on "abstinence-only" programs and favored putting armed guards in schools after Sandy Hook. And women who may have balked at any of that eventually tended to balk at him.
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Thanks for sharing more info. I am getting more informed from it. Haven't read it all yet but I am getting the gist that there is a very passionately social Christian element with him.
I am absolutely pro Christian, but with the caveat that an elected official distinguish clearly their personal faith from their duty to govern in consort first with the law and the constitution which definitely does not take any particular religious side, but one of representing best all citizens.
I hope I am saying this reasonably OK. Got my little buddy here showing me some of the things he is playing with.
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that's the crux right there. an elected official is perfectly free to follow his or her own religious precepts in private but to attempt to imbue their office with their religion and to use that office to try to advance their religion is to become a christian taliban.....
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I think your description is a little harsh, but the point is well taken. And I agree with it definitely in the basic substance of your premise.
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The mothers have talked. 85% of Republican registered women voted Democratic in VA.
And in many other states. The 2010 era of pro-gay discrimination Dr. Ultrasound and his dog Ken are over.
And it's not what they thought, it's what they did. Politicians promise to represent all their people, not just the crazy Jesus Freaks. He did, he gone.
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Permalink Reply by base2final on
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How do you know that many (moderate) Republican woman found Cuccinelli repulsive and disgusting. Show us some proof that what you say has even the slightest bit of truth.
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signs Virginia ultrasoundbill - CBS News
www.cbsnews.com/.../virginia-gov-bob-mcdonnell-signs-virginia-ultraso...Mar 7, 2012 - Bob McDonnell signs Virginia ultrasound bill.Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. / MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images. Amid continued protests ...Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Asked to Resign Amid Snowballing ...
crooksandliars.com › Blogs › Heather's blogJul 2, 2013 - It seems Virginia's 'Governor Ultrasound' Bob McDonnell is going to have a lot more to worry about than whether anyone would ever consider ...A different kind of problem for Gov. Ultrasound | MSNBC
Apr 10, 2013 - Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) is wrapping ...For one thing, of course, he's stuck with the “Governor Ultrasound” label. For another, there's a ...Bob McDonnell, Virginia Governor, Signs MandatoryUltrasound Bill ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../bob-mcdonnell-virginia-mandatory-ultraso...Mar 7, 2012 - WASHINGTON -- Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a controversial mandatory ultrasound bill into law Wednesday afternoon, making Virginia the ...Virginia governor signs pre-abortion ultrasound bill – USATODAY.com
www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-03.../virginia...ultrasound.../...Mar 7, 2012 - Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on Wednesday signed into law a bill that requires women to have abdominalultrasound exams before an ...Virginia's 'Gov. Ultrasound' received Rolex and other undisclosed ...
www.rawstory.com/.../virginias-gov-ultrasound-received-rolex-and-othe...Jun 26, 2013 - Two weeks later, in August of 2011, McDonnell received his own Rolex, engraved with the phrase, “71stGovernor of Virginia.” The Post said ...News for virginia governor ultrasound
- Washington Times - 4 days agoVirginia's voter guide to the governors race ...Supports requirement for a woman to have anultrasound before being allowed to have an ...
- ABC News - 6 days ago
Virginia Governor Backs Down From Ultrasound Bill : NPR
Feb 23, 2012 - After protests, the GOP governor asked legislators to revise a bill that would have mandated an invasive procedure before a woman could have ...Gov. Bob McDonnell blamed for transvaginal ultrasoundbill ...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../virginia...ultrasound.../gJQAuoYY1U_blog...May 30, 2012 - Virginia state Sen. L Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) has let the world in on her pet name for Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R): Governor VP.
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