Fearing that he could not win a primary contest against Bill Bolling where not Christofascists and Tea Party lunatics would not be able to out number the declining sane members of the Republican Party, Ken Cuccinelli mounted a coup earlier in the year to shift the nominating process to a state convention that guaranteed an extremist/Cuccinelli victory. Now, with the final gubernatorial debate close at hand, Cuccinelli is trying to torpedo participation by Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis. Why? Because, Cuccinelli has rightly determined that the better Sarvis does on November 5, 2013, the worse Cuccinelli will do. Actually, Cuccinelli's tactics mirror those of the GOP as a whole: If you can't win voters with your ideas and proposals, then try to disenfranchise them. It all goes part and parcel with Cuccinelli's lie filled campaign. A column in the Richmond Times Dispatch takes Cuccinelli to task. Here are highlights:
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli could have won a primary contest for this year’s Republican gubernatorial nomination, but he didn’t want to take that chance. Instead, he benefited from behind-the-scenes machinations that changed the party’s selection process to a convention — whose participants came from the most conservative cantons of the state GOP.
Now Cuccinelli seems to be trying to tilt the playing field in his favor once again. He and his Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, will debate for the last time a week before Halloween. Robert Sarvis, the Libertarian candidate, might participate — if he meets a polling threshold of 10 percent. Sarvis has done so in some polls, but has fallen short in others.
Experts in political horse-racing think Sarvis will take more votes from Cuccinelli than from McAuliffe. Cuccinelli’s campaign manager seems to think so, too: Chris LaCivita says voting for Sarvis amounts to throwing your vote away. (We explained why LaCivita is wrong in a previous editorial, “Unwasted.”)
Unfortunately, the Cuccinelli camp might be going beyond rhetoric. The Washington Post reports that “people involved in the (debate) talks said Cuccinelli’s campaign has consistently sought to make it harder for Sarvis to get in,” in particular by seeking to raise the polling bar Sarvis must clear.
[T]this story says more about Cuccinelli than it does about Sarvis. It suggests once again that the Republican is willing to win by any means necessary — and that he will take the low road even when he could win on the high one.
Sadly, Cuccinelli is the all too typical Christofascist Republican. To win and secure personal power, Cuccinelli is willing to lie, cheat and engage in any and all kinds of unethical activities. His claims to allegiance to Christian values is a smoke screen to sucker the ignorant and gullible. As I have long maintained, if a candidate is willing to lie and cheat to win your vote, do you think he/she will be honest and ethical if elected. Of course they won't. It's all about their ego and sick quest for power. Lies and untruths will be the norm.
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