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Massachusetts GOP Primary Coming to a Close
April 29, 2013 | 6 comments
Campaign Crawlers
A True Conservative in Virginia
AmSpec sits down with Ken Cuccinelli.
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So far, Ken Cucinelli’s race is certainly one to watch. As a champion of small government in the only high-profile race this off-year, his campaign will be followed with intense interest across the political spectrum. Even Slate can’t find much bad to say about him, other than that he is “ultraconservative.”
Those conservative values will be on trial in Virginia this November. And the whole country will be watching.
Photo: UPI.
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Teresa Mull is an editorial intern at The American Spectator and recent graduate of the University of Dallas.
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.22.13 @ 7:52AM
" 'We’ve got to step it up to do better in that area at one-on-one campaigning. We’ve got to have our people able to explain why the course we want to be on is better.'”
I believe that Mr. Cuccinelli is correct in this regard. Unfortunately, though, while I feel that most people agree with the principles articulated by conservatives, and recognize the superiority of these principles in governing how we live our lives, too many have been accustomed to what government will give them (or what they feel it owes them). As a result, in the privacy of the voting booth, there are now too many who will vote to keep the benefits flowing, even though they recognize the ultimate destructive nature of the course their ballot will help continue.
JD| 2.22.13 @ 1:13PM
Since Reagan, Leftists have presented Leftism in conservative terms. They implement social welfare as "refundable tax credits." They litter their speech with the words "market-based". They call their regulations "incentives".
It's faux conservatism, but the electorate is largely fooled.
Dagny Taggert| 2.22.13 @ 2:11PM
Good point JD. Spending has become "investment."
Joellen| 2.22.13 @ 8:09AM
Al, your wise comment, "they recoginize the ultimate destructive nature of the course their ballot will help continue", that is the definition of insanity and that is why we have insane leaders at the helm.
Bob K| 2.22.13 @ 9:34AM
It's not likely a Republican with any kind of Conservative credentials can be elected to a state wide office in Virginia.
The reality is that most of the eastern portion of the State is a bedroom community for people who work for the Federal Government or for companies who do business with it.
5 of the top 10 richest counties in the USA are in the Washington DC suburbs. The people who live there are very well paid bureaucrats who know which way to vote to stay well paid.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....-counties/
One solution that would help the entire country would be to move the Nation's Capital to the center of the country somewhere in the Midwest, west of the Mississippi to reflect the changing population of the nation. Washington DC would then become a tourist attraction to be visited to see the monuments.
Bob K| 2.22.13 @ 9:38AM
Actually 13 of the top 100 richest counties in the USA are in Virginia. Is that a coincidence?
Bob K| 2.22.13 @ 9:41AM
And 10 of the top 100 are in Maryland.
20% of the richest 100 counties in the USA are in the 2 states that surround Washington DC!
Bob K| 2.22.13 @ 9:44AM
Make that 23%.
Do I have a bid for 25%? Going! Going!
Once again for selling out America's Freedoms! Do we have a bid for 25%?!!
Maxwell| 2.22.13 @ 11:11AM
Bob K, with all due respect, can we move the UN too? Please.
Bob K| 2.22.13 @ 11:59AM
Maxwell,
One or two longitudes east should be about right.
John II| 2.22.13 @ 10:24PM
But no farther!
Reminds me of a tune from "West Side Story":
Uniiiiiii-ted Nations!
My heart's devotion!
I hope you sink back in the ocean!
How come there's no Contest this week?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.23.13 @ 11:10AM
Tim has been doing them every other week as a way to cope with the enormous emotional drain of sponsorship.
BL in AK| 2.24.13 @ 1:37PM
Mr. Bowman's house could have hosted another one.
fmm| 2.22.13 @ 12:12PM
Virginia should think about giving those counties to D.C.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.22.13 @ 2:04PM
Of course, in the early years of our republic, Washington, D.C. was the center of the country.
Still, I think your idea has merit; nonetheless, we might see the District of Columbia as a former city full of ruins (in the manner of the ancient Greeks and Romans) instead of monuments in the near future if our present course is not altered.
John II| 2.22.13 @ 10:28PM
There's abundant reason to suppose the Prince of Darkness wants the whole city in such ruins, not just the portion inhabited by the welfare culture he promotes.
Terrible Ted| 2.23.13 @ 12:54AM
Yes Bob, then move the capital every 20 years thereafter. What better way to spread the wealth?
AllAmericanAmerican| 2.22.13 @ 10:03AM
I love Virginia but this last election---going for Obama and electing Tim fricking Kaine to the US Senate---has me moving this summer. Sorry Cooch, love ya buddy but I am moving to a red country surrounded by red counties in a red State. Good luck fighting the leftwing gubmint worker kooks up near DC and the dependent class in the Tidewater area, but I'm out of here.
AllAmericanAmerican| 2.22.13 @ 10:04AM
*EDIT: Should read: "...moving to a red COUNTY..."
Archie| 2.22.13 @ 1:16PM
I live in Virginia and I have a prediction. The two republicans will beat each other up, getting lots of negative press in the process, and continue the message to the masses that the republicans can’t get their act together. McAuliffe will win. I sure hope I’m wrong.
BTW, did you know that McAuliffe is in MS word spell-check. Sheesh.
Michele San Pietro| 2.22.13 @ 2:36PM
America does need true conservatives. I hope Cuccinelli is actually one, since it's harder and harder to find true conservatives these days.
Autorotate| 2.22.13 @ 4:36PM
Ken has this Northern Virginian's vote, as he has since his first run for office. As for the current Lt. Governor who thinks the GOP needs to move more toward the "mainstream" and who threatens to run against Ken as an Independent, he has my invitation and strong encouragement to leave the GOP and settle in with the Democrats whom he thinks we need to be more like.
Purp| 2.22.13 @ 7:03PM
Cooch is just what his name rhymes with ... but im happy he's out there... another Akin loser...
CJW| 2.22.13 @ 7:38PM
Purpie the Village Idiot posted:
1. "Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
2. purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
3. In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
4. Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born.
5. purpie believes that a 20% cut in the tax rate will INCREASE his 0% rate to 8%.
6. purpie also posted one of the female bloggers here should just lay back and enjoy the rape.
Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation
John II| 2.22.13 @ 10:40PM
And yet, as God-fearing Christians, we are obliged to embrace Purp lovingly unto our bosoms and to vouchsafe fraternal correction to the moron.
[I mentioned bosoms again in the hope of drawing out Tim. Where's the Contest? This is going to be a mighty chilly weekend if there's no Contest. I'm almost out of Charlie Chan movies.]
CJW| 2.23.13 @ 9:05AM
next weekend, John
homme nike air max BW | 2.22.13 @ 10:57PM
and his war on big government, as well as the contents of his book and the perception his words generate.
bustunloose| 2.23.13 @ 10:51AM
Dear know it alls, canwe ever win the White House without VA. ? Not one word here about how social issue extremism hurt GOP here. The mandatory sonogram and probe stuff. Not a word. Just like mainstream media ignoring Ben-Gazi. Blind fools-every election for you is another opportunity to redo Picket's charge. Please leave the GOP and form your true believer party. Let us see the left has the green party-what can we call you ? The Loser party works. You do know that Akin and Murdoch lost ? Dontcha ?
John II| 2.23.13 @ 2:17PM
I never knew that Karl Rove was such a bad speller. That explains a lot.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.24.13 @ 9:42AM
...and I believe you have pointed out in the past how deficiencies in spelling can be indicative of deficiencies in character...
John II| 2.24.13 @ 10:34AM
I have indeed. And I still believe so, inasmuch as there has always been a remarkable confluence of treacherous whining and bad spelling among my students over the years.
On the other hand, there are intermittent exceptions that may or may not prove the rule. For some few, bad spelling is a sign of vigorously creative intuition.
Did I spell "Tim" correctly?
Bob K| 2.24.13 @ 9:45AM
Another "highly educated" federal bureaucrat from the Washington DC suburbs gives advise to republicans in well reasoned bureaucratic jargon.
Bob K| 2.24.13 @ 9:47AM
Bustunloosed!
You have a great future waiting for you writing for liberal blogs!
spike59| 2.25.13 @ 5:55AM
I always get a kick out of liberals who talk about the GOP as 'us' and 'we'...dumbass