What They're Saying About Bob McDonnell

Today has NOT been a good day for Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell based on the growing media focus on the extremism of his 1989 CBN Law School thesis - a thesis that McDonnell has tried to implement during his years in the Virginia General Assembly and while serving as Attorney General of Virginia. I have been complaining for weeks and weeks about the MSM's failure to focus on McDonnell's record. Thanks to the Washington Post story on Sunday, that situation seems to have come to an end and none too soon. The following clip shows just how extensive coverage has been, ranging from Channel 13 locally to MSNBC and Faux News. And that's not counting the growing newspaper coverage across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

What my ultimately do in McDonnell is that now he is caught in the cross fire of the Democrats pouncing on his extreme views as set forth in his thesis while the wingnuts at The Family Foundation - Daddy Dobson's Virginia affiliate - is demanding that McDonnell reaffirm his commitment to the views set forth in the thesis. Indeed, McDonnell may be facing the worse of all possible worlds. And rightly so. His campaign depicting him as a moderate has been a huge lie and has been implemented solely in order that he could dupe voters into voting for him. Here are some highlights from OneNewsNow of what Uber-Christian high priestess and Kool-Aid drinker in chief, Victoria Cobb, has been saying on behalf of The Family Foundation:

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The head of a Virginia conservative group is asking Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell to clarify his stances on traditional values issues in light of his attempt to distance himself from a master's thesis he wrote for an evangelical Christian school 20 years ago.
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Gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell (R-Virginia) appears to be backing away from a thesis paper he wrote at Regent University in 1989 that said Republicans should promote welfare policies that "prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, or fornicators." In the paper, he also described working women and feminists as "detrimental" to the family.

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Victoria Cobb is president of The Family Foundation, which once gave McDonnell its "Legislator of the Year" award. Cobb urges McDonnell to be very cautious not to downplay his strong conservative record. "If he is seen as someone who is flip-flopping on issues or backing away, no matter what the issues are, that is always viewed by the electorate as a negative," she contends.

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Cobb says although she understands McDonnell's desire to reach out across the aisle and to other voting blocs, there is no need to distance himself from previous positions. Her organization has sent out a candidate survey to McDonnell and his Democratic opponent Creigh Deeds. The answers to the survey will soon be compiled for a voter guide the group will distribute starting October 15.

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Meanwhile, four former GOP members of the Virginia General Assembly who are backing Democrat Creigh Deeds are contending that voter should pay heed to McDonnell's thesis and call attention to his efforts to implement it while he was in the Legislature. Here are highlights from the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

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Moderate Republicans backing Democrat Creigh Deeds for governor say Bob McDonnell's controversial graduate-school thesis confirms what Virginians need to know: that he's seemingly preoccupied with hot-button social issues.

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In a conference call this morning with reporters, the four Republicans -- all former state legislators who served with McDonnell in the General Assembly -- said McDonnell has always been more interested in such matters as abortion restrictions than job creation and transportation.

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Former Del. James Dillard of Fairfax, who headed the House Education Committee, warned voters of "the total reinvention of Bob McDonnell so he can be governor." Dillard chided McDonnell for opposing a $1.4 billion tax increase for schools, police and social programs enacted in 2004 with bipartisan support.

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I truly hope that the MSM keeps focusing on McDonnell's record and the extremist positions that he has consistently held on abortion, taxation, gay rights, and women as equal citizens.