I have written before about the disingenuous campaign that Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell is running in his quest for the office of Governor of Virginia. If McDonnell is a moderate, then I'm Queen Victoria. McDonnell's claims of being a moderate are to be blunt utter bullshit. If his record is examined - something the MSM is too lazy to do - the picture that emerges is a Pat Robertson puppet who holds extreme views on abortion, gay rights, and taxation. Fortunately, Democrat candidate, Creigh Deeds seems to be waking up to the fact that Virginians DO NEED TO KNOW the real Bob McDonnell as opposed to the false moderate construct that McDonnell's team has so carefully constructed. As the Daily Press reported yesterday, Deeds finally brought up McDonnell's extremists views on abortion:*
ANNANDALE, Va. - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds launched a sharp attack Monday against his Republican opponent's Bob McDonnell's anti-abortion record, accusing him of "trying to chip away at a woman's right to choose" in his time as a state legislator. In a speech to nearly 100 women Monday at Northern Virginia Community College, Deeds said McDonnell is trying to obscure his record as a social conservative, especially on abortion, by highlighting economic issues in his statewide campaign. "My opponent is trying to undergo a complete makeover," Deeds said. "I don't have to undergo a makeover."
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As for gay rights, in Taliban Bob's view based on his own record he believes that gays have no rights. Indeed, based on mere rumors that Circuit Court Judge Verbena Askew might be a lesbian, McDonnell led the lynch mob that blocked her reappointment to the bench back in 2003. The Virginia Democrat looks further into the real Bob McDonnell:
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Why are Bob McDonnell and Virginia conservatives afraid to discuss social issues like choice and discrimination against gay people? If you doubt that they are afraid, look no further than the ferocity of the response on the righty blogs to Creigh Deeds' raising of the issue. Their response was not to defend Mr. McDonnell’s positions, but rather to seek to squelch the debate before it could even begin by arguing, among other things, and quite ridiculously in my opinion, that Creigh agreed not to raise these issues in the campaign.
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More revealing in that very same poll, however, is that only 18% of respondents held the same position as Mr. McDonnell on the issue of choice, namely, that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances. In contrast, 77% of the respondents in the poll held the pro-choice positions, i.e., that abortion should be legal in all circumstances (21%), or legal under only certain circumstances (57%). This is Creigh’s position.
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That real Bob McDonnell is an extremist who would seek to impose, with the force of law, his social and religious moral beliefs on all of us. When Bob McDonnell says all abortions should be criminalized, there is no space for tolerance of other views. When Bob McDonnell would deny someone a judgeship because he believes she is gay, or writes legal opinions justifying discrimination against gay people, he was using his power – power granted to him by the citizens of Virginia – to discriminate.
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I truly hope that much more will be done by Deeds and others to make McDonnell's extremism a major issue in this campaign. Otherwise, Virginia's social policies may end up being controlled by the likes of Pat Robertson and Daddy Dobson's lunatic Kool-Aid drinkers at The Family Foundation.
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