When your opponent seeks to criminalize oral sex within marriage...

[cthulu2016]

it is probably okay to run on that directly. No need for insinuations that he is 'too extreme'... you can actually say, "My opponent wants it to be a felony in Virginia for a married couple to engage in oral sex."

Because it happens to be true.

Ken Cucinelli is, in fact, seeking to restore the legality of Virginia's laws against "unnatural" sex acts that were struck down by the Supreme Court in 2003. (Lawrence v. Texas)

Terry McAuliffe, or whoever runs against Cucinelli, should be willing to spell that out.

There is a dynamic where your opponent is so offensively crazy that he gets a pass because his insanity is so offensive that it drags down anyone who even talks about it.

But I think we should own this issue... it is probably okay to take an affirmative stand for the right of married couples to have sex however they prefer.

Even in Virginia.

On the bright side, if somehow Cucinelli got his way the "Virginia is for Lovers" tourism slogan could be replaced with a billboard of a State trooper saying, "Get kinky in Virginia and we supply the handcuffs."

[HappyMe]

1. Good grief!

I guess they want to make Virginia - Not For Lovers.

What an idiot!

[NightWatcher]

2. Isn't "Cucinelli" another word for cunnilingus?

Just as Santorum is ........?

[randome]

3. No need for specifics that might turn some people off.

Cucinelli's opponent just needs to say, "My opponent wants the government to intrude on a married couple's sex lives."

That's better.

Hit them over the head with their own 'Keep the government out of our lives' mantra.

[bemildred]

4. "No Country For Old Men". nt

[Bigmack]

5. You gotta wonder about their own sex lives....

.... or maybe NOT wonder. Probably best to not even think about it.

Those people spend a lot of time talking about things like "man on dog" and some really deviant shit that has never crossed my mind... and I've been told my mind is relatively kinky.

[KurtNYC]

6. Perhaps he heard that people wanted to ban Hummers

and got confused.

[Raven]

7. If I were running against Ken, I'd ask him

how this law would be enforced...Bedroom Police? I'd make fun of him.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. Well, DUH, the state's name starts with a VIRGIN!

what would you expect?