The Odd, Painful, and Bizarre Final Days of Ken Cuccinelli

[Coyotl]

The Final Days of Ken Cuccinelli
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/10/ken_cuccinelli_is_losing_badly_to_terry_mcauliffe_the_bill_clinton_ally.html

HERNDON, Va.—“We’re going to stick with the founders,” said Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. “We need people to know that Nov. 5 in Virginia is a referendum on Obamacare!”

The place: A conference center nestled in the unending concrete yawn of Fairfax County, Va. The audience: At least 300 cheering Republican voters, there to sign up for the final stretch of Cuccinelli’s gubernatorial campaign and to see special guest Sen. Rand Paul. The message: The last way that national Republicans want this race to be perceived. If these are the final days of Ken Cuccinelli’s political career, as the polls suggest them to be, the wider Republican Party wants to say a safe, spinnable distance away from the smoldering wreckage.

What was supposed to be a competitive race for governor between two unpopular candidates is in danger of turning into a rout. Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman, has overcome a series of financial scandals and a governing record that consists of Meet the Press appearances to build a 10-point lead over Cuccinelli. No Democrat has built that sort of lead in a Virginia gubernatorial race since 1985. No Democrat has won this office while a member of his party was in the White House since 1965. And those records are going to be busted by Terry McAuliffe? It baffles Republicans.

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[Warpy]

1. I wonder how many years it will take Republican movers and shakers to realize

that nutty religious extremism is not playing in Podunk any more.

Even Cruz, who's a little cagier than his nutty father is about announcing his lunacy, is finding himself hated by his own party even more than by Democrats.

Do you think they'll notice stuff like this before or after their party falls apart?

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Wow. Maybe he shouldn't have run on a platform of outlawing oral sex.

Who could have thought that might not go over real well?

[Coyotl]

5. True believers are funny in some ways. They stick to the beliefs that stick it to themselves.

One would think this is ludicrous, but look back on history and consider how far Catholic domination of the world proceeded before its demise. They had to burn a lot of women at the stake and genocidally exterminate 100 million people, but the conquered and dominated two continents, burned all their books, executed all their learned, and stole all their wealth. We should fear any fundamentalist movement and stop it in its tracks as soon as possible before they kill us.

[DeSwiss]

3. ''It baffles Republicans.''

- Everything baffles Republicans. It's their one consistent characteristic, and their tell.....

K&R

[center]''Finally, a pie chart you can believe in.''
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[Myrina]

4. +1

[gopiscrap]

6. God, I hope it's his final days

new polls say the race is tightening up.

[Coyotl]

7. It is all over except the elephant tears

[Coyotl]

8. Democrat showing solid lead in Virginia governor's race: poll

Democrat showing solid lead in Virginia governor's race: poll
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014636041

(Reuters) - Democrat Terry McAuliffe's lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the widely watched Virginia governor's race may be helping lower-level Democratic candidates in a state hard hit by the recent government shutdown, a poll showed on Wednesday.

A Roanoke College poll showed businessman and former Democratic National Committee Chairman McAuliffe with a 15-point lead over state Attorney General Cuccinelli, though that margin was far stronger than in two other polls.

"This election is shaping up to be a referendum on Cuccinelli," said Harry Wilson, director of the Institute for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College.

Cuccinelli, a Tea Party favorite and strong abortion opponent, was hurt by this month's federal government shutdown and now has a 52 percent unfavorable rating among likely voters, compared with McAuliffe's 33 percent unfavorability, the poll found.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/30/us-usa-politics-virginia-idUSBRE99T1BF20131030

[smorkingapple]

9. Best quote of that article:

He wondered if a Cuccinelli loss would tell conservatives that they needed to tone it down. He worried that they wouldn’t; they were always “fighting the last war” and saying the party was simply not conservative enough.

“You send a bunch of boys over the top,” said Barnett. “They get mowed down. So you send in another wave of them. They get mowed down. You try again. It’s Passchendaele on steroids.”

Let's keep mowing them down as they come over the hill until they aint none left...

[Coyotl]

10. Except, unlike in war, this is hilarious.

[Arkana]

11. Really, Cooch?

So when Terry fucking McAuliffe stomps a mudhole in you, is the election still going to be a referendum on Obamacare?

[DFW]

12. Koochicrazy really IS crazy if he's making his last stand in Fairfax County

It's not in Fairfax that he'll find the lost votes that'll save his sorry ass.

[ChiciB1]

13. What I WONDER Is... Will He Actually Lose!

I've heard that McAuliffe could actually lose because of lower voter turn out. Terry McAuliffe isn't actually Bill Clinton and I hear not a good candidate. I always liked him, but I don't know why many Democrats haven't come out for him. I know the former Governor, Wilde I think his name is, when asked if he would campaign for him actually didn't answer the question. Seems many Democrats don't seem to be really pulling for him.

I heard last night that the lead has shrunk to only 4 pts. And given that Cuccinelli is also the Aty Gen. trying to purge voters it makes me wonder.

[Coyotl]

14. Latest polling shows the lead widening.

[madinmaryland]

15. Wait what?? "Nov. 5 in Virginia is a referendum on Obamacare!"

Didn't we have an election one year ago that decided that issue.

Ken Douche-inelli.