Ken Cuccinelli: Unfit for Any Elected Office

I do not hide my opinion that Ken Cuccinelli - the all but crowned Republican Party of Virginia nominee for governor of Virginia - belongs in a mental ward rather than the governor's mansion - or any elected office for that matter.  The man is insane but in a scary scheming way that one might associate with Adolph Hitler or Josef Stalin.  And his new book, “The Last Line of Defense,”highlights Cuccinelli's insanity and extremism.  A piece in Bacon's Rebellion does a good take down of both Cuccinelli and his insane screed.  Here are excerpts:

Ken Cuccinelli’s book, “The Last Line of Defense,” is the presumptive Republican nominee’s opening salvo in his quest to become Governor of the Old Dominion. It is a strange politico manifesto for a campaign. Ken refrains from writing about topics near and dear to his heart such as trans-vaginal inspections and gay bashing, but neither does he address any of the Commonwealth’s problems such as road congestion, K-12 school performance and spending, competition between coal and the increase of shale derived natural gas, and how the state will be affected by the sure-to-come large defense cuts. Instead, Cuccinelli presents himself as a knight in defense of Virginia against its biggest threat, not international terrorism or cheap Chinese imports, but the government of the United States of America, especially the Affordable Health Care Act and the Environmental Protection Agency.

In tackling complex issues such as health care and the environment one would expect a tome full of scientific, economic, and political analysis appropriately footnoted and explained to support his arguments. Ken opines on all these issues without a footnote, end note or bibliography. The Cuccinelli Doctrine of research states, “If Ken says it, it must be true.”

The tone of the work is set literally within the first few pages. On the second page he states: “I call the biggest set of lawbreakers in America the Obama administration.” Attempts to criminalize the political opposition is a tactic often practiced by dictatorships of the Right or Left. 

 Cuccinelli, who writes that the only reason for a social safety net is to make citizens dependent on government, thus assuring the reelection of certain politicians. Continuing this line of logic, he states that several popular sections of the Affordable Health Care Act came into force simply to placate the electorate. Ken states that one of these was a provision preventing private insurers from discriminating against those with pre-existing conditions. He states that this is a good way to put private sector insurance companies out of business.

Cuccinelli’s book confirms that he is unfit to serve in elected office. He is a practitioner of politics at its lowest level of integrity. His political ancestors include John C. Calhoun, Joseph McCarthy, and J. Lindsey Almond. Hopefully, the Republicans will have a second look and nominate a true Conservative grounded in ethics and in touch with reality.