All three of the Virginia GOP's candidates - all of whom in my view are mentally unstable - are striving to suddenly market themselves as moderates despite well documented histories that show that claim to be an utter lie. None of them is trying harder than Ken Cuccinelli who has proven himself to be the enemy of gays, women and minorities and, of course, anyone who accepts scientific fact. Humorously, at an event yesterday where Cuccinelli sought to distance himself from the GOP caused federal government shutdown, three representatives of the medical field who had been invited to discuss issues related to the Affordable Health Care Act turned on Cuccinelli and lambasted him for his extremist positions on so-called social issues in front of the assembled audience. CNN has details:
Cuccinelli was in Fairfax to emcee the latest in his series of “Obamacare roundtable,” in which he discusses the perils of the law with sympathetic Virginia voters. He was joined Friday by nearly a dozen local physicians to discuss the Affordable Care Act.
But the event showcased a nagging problem for the Republican candidate: escaping his reputation as a crusading social conservative under a furious onslaught of attacks from McAuliffe and his Democratic allies who say Cuccinelli would limit women's access to contraception.
Cuccinelli, who has sought to limit access to abortion in the commonwealth and once sponsored a “personhood” bill as a state senator, is badly trailing McAuliffe among women.
Three of the doctors invited to join him on the Obamacare panel veered from the topic at hand and vented to Cuccinelli, for nearly 10 minutes in full view of television camera crews, about friends and work colleagues who say they refuse to vote Republican because of the party’s perceived fixation with cultural matters like same-sex marriage.
“There are concerns you are going to lose the race because of these social issues,” said Dr. Stephen Weinroth, an infectious disease specialist from Fairfax and a self-described Republican, who urged Cuccinelli to fight back harder against Democratic attacks.
Another local supporter on the panel, Fran Fisher, said “the average Joe on the street can’t get past the disagreement with social issues to look at who would be better with the economy. That’s the problem.”
Dr. Ali Assefi, a Fairfax nephrologist, said “the social issues are scaring people.” “I talked to both of my neighbors and both of them identified you with transvaginal ultrasounds,” he said, referring to a 2012 effort in the Virginia legislature that would have required women to undergo an invasive ultrasound procedure prior to having an abortion. “That has become the single issue that is bothering them. Not the issue of being fiscally responsible or smaller government or creating jobs or making the economy better.”
Sometimes you reap what you have sown and hopefully Cuccinelli is about to reap the results of his slavish, self-prostitution to the file theocrats at The Family Foundation and racist elements in the GOP who seek to disenfranchise minority voters.
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