Oral-sex fearing Republican AG Ken Cuccinelli is desperately relying on the national Republican party to rescue him from himself in the Virginia gubernatorial race.
He’s botched things up pretty good in Virginia – in fact, he’s become a national joke. No pulling himself up by his own bootstraps from his poor poll numbers.
“Down in the polls and out-raised by his opponent, Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli is increasingly relying on the national party to come to his rescue,” reported Beth Reinhard at the National Journal.
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Reinhard writes that in the past two months, the Republican Governors Association has dropped $3.6 million on TV ads trying to save Cuccinelli, on top of the $2 million they already spent on the race. Now Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are being deployed to save Cuccinelli from his extremism.
Cuccinelli was warned by business leaders earlier in the race to tamp down the looney right wing talk, but he just couldn’t do it. Republican women fled his “mortifying” “anti-woman” ticket in March. Virginia doesn’t love extremism.
I’m not sure whose idea it was to deploy Sens Rand and Cruz to soften Cuccinelli’s crazy, but maybe the entire Republican party needs to clean their mirror. Rand Paul recently told the poor that food is slavery — they are not entitled to a farmers labor — and Ted Cruz wants to abolish the IRS, recently renounced his Canadian citizenship in an ode to Birthers, keeps lying to the Republican base about the impeachment process in order to get out the Senate vote, and works hard to dumb himself down enough to appeal to the dense and angry Palin crowd.
Republicans think that Cuccinelli’s Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe is practically Hillary Clinton, since the former chairman of the Democratic Party was also the co-chairman of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign and chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. Now you know why they don’t want McAuliffe to win anywhere, ever.
But Republicans really don’t want a Clinton-adoring Democratic governor running a swing state, and that’s why they’re falling over themselves trying to rescue Cuccinelli from his personality, judgment, ignorance, ethical lapses, extremism, and history of saying really, really fringy things like accusing Planned Parenthood of being racists and wanting to outlaw oral sex. A major Republican strategist even dumped him, calling his Democratic opponent McAuliffe the best choice for conservatives.
It might behoove the press to ask Republicans why they are so concerned about who is the governor of a swing state, are they planning another Ohio or Florida, especially since it’s looking like if Hillary runs Ohio is a lost cause for them and they lost Florida to Obama in 2012 even after they restricted access to voting in places where minorities live.
The two Virginia governors before the scandal-ridden Republican Bob McDonnell of Giftgate were Democrats, civil-rights lawyer Tim Kaine and the very popular Mark Warner, both of whom are now Senators. (Governors can’t serve consecutive terms in Virginia.)
Republicans are acting dismayed over Cuccinelli’s extremism. The rising tea of 2010 has molded into a possible 2014 disaster. Hey, boys, you built that!
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