McDonnell's fanatical extremist views are responsible for some republicans' decisions to now place the interests of Virginians over the bigoted 'views' of today's republican political party. These reasonable republicans include, for example, Sen. Marty Williams, Sen. Russ Potts & Del. Jim Dillard.


Sen. Williams has even endorsed Creigh Deeds, explaining that it is the first time that he has ever endorsed a democratic person.


Independent Del. Katherine Waddell supports the men in their contention that McDonnell's record & the 'thesis' McDonnell wrote when he was 34 years old are nearly identical although McDonnell is now trying to deny that fact.


It is important to remember that McDonnell chose to attend Pat Robertson's CBN University. Robertson established this evangelical 'school' to alter the political landscape in the Commonwealth of Virginia to reflect the reactionary dogma of right-wingers wanting to CONTROL the government. The law school within CBN was not even accreditied when McDonnell chose to attend classes there. Any reasonable person would ask why did McDonnell chose to attend classes at a non-accredited school instead of a 'real' law school? Did he perceive that he was not capable of succeeding in classes at an accredited school? Was he more interested in being a wingnut minion than actually having a 'real' law degree?



SEN. WILLIAMS - "My biggest surprise is that he's running away from it. I really do think that's who he is."


SEN. POTTS - The best political leaders govern from the center. "Bob (McDonnell) has never been about governing from the middle. He wants to govern from the far right." Pointing out that McDonnell has pushed 35 bills in the Commonwealth that would have restricted women's so-called abortion rights, Potts said "He was out of the mainstream all those many years. The record is the record, I was there."


DEL. DILLARD - McDonnell was "always pushing social issues" in the General Assembly. "The Bob McDonnell who is running for governor is not the Bob McDonnell who we knew and served with in the General Assembly. It's a TOTAL RE-INVENTION of Bob McDonnell so he can be governor."


DEL. WADDELL - "You can run from yourself, but you can't run far".



On another website - 'the shad plank' (which offers numerous articles of interest pertaining to the McDonnell situation), a reader has posted a relevant comment:


"To those who say that Mr. McDonnell was merely undertaking an "Academic exercise" or reciting the values of his professors for fear of getting a failing grade on his thesis, I ask you to consider whom he choose to study under at that time, and even better WHY???

In 1989 CBN University (not yet Regent, NOT AN ACCREDITED LAW SCHOOL AT THE TIME, and founded by Pat Robertson, a right-wing ideologue) was designed to be a brain trust for right wing christians to become certifed in law and public policy, so that they could change the political landscape and discourse in the Commonwealth. (Also, apparently they required its graduates to supplicate to this ideology in order to be receive credit.)

My question is, why did he choose to go to an unaccredited law school started by an evangelist and write a 90 plus page thesis outlining the prevailing morality of the school, unless he truly held these positions? (Let's face it - CBN/Regent is not UVA... or William and Mary... or Washington and Lee...or the University of Richmond - all outstanding law schools in the Commonwealth that he could have attended, which were fully accredited as law schools at the time, and further are institutions which espouse the free marketplace of ideas as opposed to forcing you to academically tow the party line in order to be recognized as a scholar and graduate.)

Further, you don't choose to write a thesis on a topic which does not come to have a significant meaning in your life - you devote so much time to it, it had better be something you believe in.

Mr McDonnell's legislative record reveals that he he still harbors these inner feelings to some degree, and although it may not be politically feasible for him to alienate working women at this time, I note he hasn't said much about homosexuals or fornicators in his back-peddling.

Bob be a man and tell us why you went to a school that would make you say such things just to get a degree?

Or maybe you really DID feel that way at the time, and have marginally changed your opinion about women in the workplace, but still don't care too much about their right to choose or if they love other women, or if they live with men out of wedlock.

Here's the truth - Bob McDonnel, as nice as person as he may be, was and still is is an ideologue, just like Pat Robertson, his mentor. He should be man enough to admit it. Don't be fooled by the window dressing."

A fellow named Jim Spencer has written in the DAILY PRESS recently:




This opinion column FIRST APPEARED in the Daily Press on Jan. 15, 2003. It accompanied a story that quoted then Del. Bob McDonnell as saying, "There is certain homosexual conduct that is in violation of the law. I'm not telling you I would disqualify a judge per se if he said he was gay. I'm talking about their actions."

The full text:

Got together with the wife last weekend. We thought we were expressing our love for each other in the privacy of our bedroom. But according to the Code of Virginia, there's always a chance we committed a Class 6 felony.

I wanted Virginia Beach Republican Del. Bob McDonnell, chairman of the House of Delegates courts committee, to know that, because he might want to send the prude police to investigate.

McDonnell, a man considering a run for Virginia attorney general, apparently has decided to warm up by appointing himself head of Virginia's new Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

If you thought such overbearing minions of morality existed only among Afghan extremists, think again. Taliban Bob says Newport News Circuit Judge Verbena Askew may not be fit for reappointment to the bench if she ever violated the state's crimes-against-nature law.

Revelations of a sex-harassment accusation against Askew by a former female official at the Newport News Drug Court spurred Taliban Bob to this moral high ground. Doesn't matter that an investigator found "little, if any, credible evidence to support the allegations and substantial credible evidence to support the denial." Doesn't matter that the accusation -- even if true -- never involved allegations of touching or kissing, much less anything carnal.

Taliban Bob, a graduate of Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School and a darling of Robertson's Christian Coalition, assumes that the harassment claim might mean that Askew might be a lesbian. And if she is, McDonnell says, she may not be judicial material. Then, he defends his bigotry by hiding behind the crimes-against-nature law.

Well, here's what part of that law says:

It says that if you engage in oral sex -- in a heterosexual or homosexual relationship -- you commit a Class 6 felony, even if you're consenting adults.

What's that I hear, gentle reader?

You're disgusted and uncomfortable with me talking about the deepest, most intimate details of people's personal lives?

How do you think Askew feels?

Taliban Bob opened this Pandora's box. So blame him, not me. If Virginia's moronic, outdated and unenforceable crimes-against-nature law is the standard by which Taliban Bob wants to judge judges, he certainly will have no problem applying the same standard to every one of the judges he is about to recommend for reappointment. Let's get 'em all in and make sure they never had oral sex or anal sex or sex with animals or sex with relatives.

Taliban Bob also will want to check all the new judges he's about to appoint.

And, oh yeah, he'll definitely want to put the question of crimes against nature to himself and his brothers and sisters in the state legislature.

So let's schedule a big, old public hearing at the state Capitol in Richmond after the holier-than-you Republicans get through railroading Askew out of her job. The man who would be attorney general obviously believes we need to get our leaders on the record about their sex habits and preferences.

Step on up to the mike, senators and delegates. Let's see who's fit to serve. We're all waiting to hear.

You go first, Taliban Bob.

Ever violated the crimes-against-nature law?

"Not that I can recall," McDonnell told a reporter Tuesday.

Sorry about that, Bob. But you know what? Your prudery and your homophobia say a lot more about your character than Verbena Askew's.

Bob Lewis has written an article for the Daily Press (9/1/2009) which he titled "Conservatives wary of McDonnell's changed views".

http://www.dailypress.com/news/virginia/dp-va--virginiagovernor0901sep01,0,568263.story

Essentially Lewis illustrates that 'conservatives' are indicating that "McDonnell can't afford to distance himself any further from the Christian conservatives who have been the earliest and staunchest BASE OF SUPPORT for his 18-year career in State politics..."

Within the article, Lewis quotes Jerry Falwell, Jr. as saying ".....I know my father in the '60s (and) most everybody in this part of the country was a segregationist. He more or less had been brought up that way and he went along... "



How very illuminating that Falwell's son now admits that his daddy was a bigot. Naturally, many recognized years and years ago that Falwell was a bigot - just as they easily recognize today that ALL people like him continue to demonstrate their bigotry today.

How typical too that Falwell Junior tries to project the 'cause' for this bigotry on a mythology that 'most' people were bigots and that his father was just going along or something.

In reality, MOST people were not bigots. The majority of Americans - in Virginia and elsewhere - rejected long ago the 'legalized' bigotry which racists had enacted via nefarious legislation. The bigots and the people like them only associated with themselves - obviously similar to their behaviors today - and consequently develop delusions that they represent some imaginary majority when they evidently don't and realistically never will.

Of course some pockets of depravity will continue to exercise influence for a little while - areas like limited vicinities in Washington County (especially just out of town, northwest of Abingdon), Virginia, relatively small areas around Kingsport, Greeneville, etc. and similar cesspools here & there in Johnson City or in the two Bristols.



McDonnell is incapable of representing the population of the Commonwealth. He doesn't care about the population of Virginia. He is interested in promoting the views of only the intolerant, superstitious & ignorant. These 'types' have been his "BASE OF SUPPORT" for his entire career, and nothing has changed in this regard. What has changed is that the wingnuts are actively trying to turn back the clock and force the majority to be controlled by extremist right-wing mythological dogmas.


McDonnell is interested in representing only the interests of the wingnuts and, suspectedly, only wingnuts will actually vote for him. And surely, some corporate interests will look the other way and go along with his bigotry. Why? Because they visualize that their monopolistic philosophies will coincide more 'easily' with the dogmas maintained by the intolerant, superstitious & ignorant than with any democratically influenced group seeking the best interests of the majority of citizens.


For proof of this, one merely has to consider the plethora of blatently dishonest & misleading propaganda now inundating the local airways - propaganda paid for the national Chamber Of Commerce & National Association Of Manufacturers.

It just interests me that many of these people forget the where God talks about acceptance and love.

Oh Well... Good post.

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