Another Rethuglican Hater Running for Virginia's Governorship

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Robert McDonnell announced his candidacy for the 2009 Virginia Gubernatorial election at American Legion's Boy's State of Virginia 2007, making him the seventh consecutive elected Attorney General to run.

The GOP nominated McDonnell without significant opposition to be their nominee for Governor. Creigh Deeds won the Democratic Party primary, which sets up a rematch between the two candidates who ran for attorney general 4 years earlier.

In contrast to his Democratic opponents and Democratic Gov. Kaine, McDonnell is campaigning to begin petroleum exploration and development off the coast of Virginia.

McDonnell opposed the acceptance of $125 million in federal stimulus funds to enable Virginia to extend unemployment benefits to Virginians who work part time or are in approved job training programs because, according to his campaign, it would create "an unfunded federal mandate to permanently expand benefits with one time funding poses an undue hardship on the taxpayers and employers.

Thus the long term effect would not be good for economic development. After the Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates narrowly voted to reject the federal funds, McDonnell's stance was the subject of an opposing ad by Common Sense Virginia, a political action committee.

McDonnell said the ad was "deceptive", and he called Common Sense Virginia "an out of state partisan attack dog group funded by big national unions".

McDonnell's 1989 thesis for Regent University, a Christofascist college founded by televangelist Pat Robertson, a 93-page document entitled "The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of The Decade," has gained attention in the campaign because it outlined a 15-point conservative Republican/Christian political agenda, 10 of which points McDonnell pursued during his years in the General Assembly, according to press analysis.

These positions "included ... opposition to abortion in cases of rape or incest ..., covenant marriage, school vouchers and tax policies to favor his view of the traditional "family" and public policy discrimination against those he labled as "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators."

Is this guy living in the middle ages, or what?

In this master thesis he also declared his belief that working women harmed the family and described as "illogical" a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples.

The American Taliban at it's finest, folks.