Posts Tagged ‘ bob mcdonnell ’

It's one thing for a homophobic conservative to refuse to implement non-discrimination statutes for the LGBT community. But it's quite another to remove existing non-discrimination statutes, which is exactly what recently-elected Republican Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia has done. From Talking Points Memo: Gay and lesbian state workers in Virginia are no...
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Filed under: Polls, Governors, Poll WatchIt's starting to get an "Is there an echo in here?" quality, but two more polls show the Virginia governor's race being firmly in the hands of Republican Bob McDonnell.A Suffolk University poll (link not available yet) conducted Oct. 26-28 says McDonnell leads Deeds 52 percent to 40 percent...
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What's crazier? Having opposed birth control for married couples, or thinking that there's nothing extreme about having opposed it? Transcript:    WALLACE:  You criticize tax credits for child care. And you even opposed a Supreme Court ruling legalizing birth control for married couples. Mr. McDonnell, isn’t that a...
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The moribund Virginia governor's race, where Democrat Creigh Deeds faded into irrelevance following his upset primary victory, has been shaken by the emergence of Republican Bob McDonnell's law school thesis (PDF) from Liberty University. At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor...
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For the entire campaign, Virginia Democrats, led by their nominee for Governor (Creigh Deeds), have alleged that Bob McDonnell is not a mainstream conservative. Rather, they claimed, he is an ultra-conservative, especially on social and moral issues, who is concealing his real agenda in order to get elected. Normally, this can be dismissed...
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Filed under: Republicans, Media, Woman UpNothing brings back 1965 like the movies that were playing that year. "How to Murder Your Wife" was one of them. As the Internet Movie Database helpfully tells us, the tagline was "Bring the Little Woman...Maybe She'll Die Laughing!" Then there was "How To Stuff A Wild Bikini," an...
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Filed under: Republicans, Culture, Deep BackgroundDoes Robert McDonnell, the Republican candidate in the Virginia governor's race, believe non-marital sex is a crime? McDonnell, who was widely regarded as leading Democrat Creigh Deeds in the off-year election, has hit a rough patch of his own making -- or writing. The 1989 master's thesis he...
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Filed under: Bush Administration, Democrats, Republicans, Economy, Religion, Abortion, Budget, Crime, Health Care, Gay Rights, Taxes, Culture, DisputationsAs the furor over Robert F. McDonnell's apparently paleo-conservative views on working women and contraception and the like roil his campaign for governor in Virginia, what has gone largely unquestioned is the assumption that the Mass-going Catholic...
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Filed under: Republicans, Barack Obama, Media, Woman UpActually, Melinda, I don't find Bob McDonnell's "old thoughts" on "bad women" to be that far off the mark. In fact, if I were running McDonnell's campaign for governor of Virginia, I would tell him to stop backpedaling and stand up for family values. He just needs...
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Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Barack Obama, Iran, Abortion, Crime, Education, Gay Rights, Guns, Terror, Obama Administration, Woman Up, CultureThree years before Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell submitted his now-famous thesis at Regent University, (in which he described working women as detrimental to the family, called for a "covenant view" of marriage, and said government...
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