Ken Cuccinelli Against Modernity

I am still waiting to see voter turn out numbers, but I suspect overall, they will show apathy and/or over confidence among likely Democrat voters while the Kool-Aid drinkers came out in force.  That said, how did Ken Cuccinelli still manage to lose the election in a once bastion of Republicanism?  A post on Andrew Sullivan's blog (Sullivan holds no love for McAuliffe, by the way) sums it up as a campaign against what modern, future looking voters want.  Here is the relevant quote

[Cuccinelli] chose the campaign path that offered the most resistance from 21st-century constituencies. For instance, already vulnerable to suggestions he was overly involved in people’s bedroom activities (he’d sent an volunteer to monitor a George Mason University sex fair and said the state should regulate gay sex), he opted to set up a website to advocate for the restoration of the state’s sodomy law, which was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2003. And critically, given the extension of the franchise to women just 93 years ago, McAuliffe was able to target Cuccinelli for supporting transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions because Cuccinelli supports transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions.

Cuccinelli is a reactionary theocon of the Catholic variety, a type gently reprimanded by the current Pope. Par exemple:

“My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that. … They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.”

 I hope Cuccinelli's political future is over.  I also hope he gets some mental health care help - and comes to terms with his raging internalized homophobia.  I still suspect that he's a closet case.