Is Virginia Going To Elect A Bigot?

Not if the Washington Post has anything to say about it...

Bob McDonnell Has A Joe Biden Problem

Bob McDonnell has been furiously trying to rebrand himself as a moderate as he tries to win the Virginia governors race. Unfortunately for him his ticket mate for attorney general Ken Cuccinelli sounds like a blogger at Red State. Here is what he had to say about President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Well, it's official, the Nobel Peace Prize is officially meaningless," Cuccinelli opened his Cuccinelli Compass newsletter to supporters Friday. He went on to quote commentator John Podhoretz about what Cuccinelli termed the "Nobel hilarity." Podhoretz argued that the win is not surprising because Obama represents the Nobel committee's highest ideals because he is "an American President queasy about the projection of American power."

"I suspect that whoever nominated him actually did it as a joke. And how about that, it really did turn out to be a joke," Cuccinelli concluded on the subject.

It will be interesting to see how McConnell tries to spin himself away from this kind of over the top right wing rhetoric. I am pretty sure that the people of Virginia do not share Cuccinelli's partisan views on the Nobel Peace Prize and if enough of them start to notice that this is the company McConnell is keeping they may wake up and realize that he is selling them a false bill of goods. If and when that happens you can expect those lofty numbers of his to take a preciptious slide but it is still up to Creigh Deeds to show himself to be something more than just "not McConnell". Unfortunately as weak kneed Democrats often do Deeds tried to put some air between himself and a very popular President at the first sign of President Obama's poll numbers slipping a little. If he was smart he would go running back like a prodigal sun and hug the hell out of Obama for the rest of his campaign.

Buncha Dumbasses

On the heels of the Democrats in Tennessee pulling off a coup in the State Assembly, we now here this story of a similar coup attempt by the GOP in Virgina. Unfortunately though the Republicans in the Virginia Senate decided to follow the Peter Hoekstra rules to twittering and the end result was an EPIC FAIL!

Apparently Senator Ralph Northam had agreed with Minority Leader Tommy Norment to vote to give Republicans power sharing in the Virginia Senate today.

Before it was announced on the floor and finalized, RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick tweeted about it.

Can you guess what happened next?

The Democrats found out, shut down the session and pulled Northam behind closed doors and gave him the business until he saw the error of his ways. And all because Frederick felt the need to use his crackberry prematurely (I bet his wife hates that). Do these fools think when they send a message on twitter that nobody else can see it? Straight comedy. I really hope the GOP keeps going with their online "rebirth". Its going to make smashing them to bits just that much easier.

(h/t emptywheel)