Three Attorney Generals will be questioners in Fox’s December 3rd Republican Debate that will be hosted by Mike Huckabee. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will be one of the three panelists. Cuccinelli is one of the darlings of the tea parties. For those non-extremists who enjoy elevated blood pressure, the evenings events should be high political comedy. Get those rotten tomatoes ready to throw. Cover up Lady Virtue’s “chest” and gays gladly not attend. Health care, bend over and kiss yourself good bye…Ken is here.
From the Richmond Times Dispatch:
Cuccinelli, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt have been actively involved in the legal challenges to President Barack Obama’s health-care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Cuccinelli said the questions will focus on issues confronted by attorneys general and states in their relationship to the federal government, such as federalism, regulation, exercise of executive power and, of course, health care.
“We’re sticking to areas that are relevant, by and large, to our purview,” he said in an interview Tuesday evening.
Cuccinelli said the format will provide a better opportunity than in typical debate formats to test candidates’ knowledge of the issues and their positions because it will allow follow-up questions by people with greater expertise than media representatives.
Virginia is among more than two dozen states that have sued the federal government over the Affordable Care Act. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a lawsuit brought by Florida on behalf of 26 states challenging the constitutionality of the law.
The high court on Tuesday met to consider whether it would also hear Virginia’s challenge to the law, which was dismissed in September by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A decision is expected by next week.
There seems like there is a debate once a week. Its easier to just watch the 24/7 reruns. Catching the high lights, as it were.
Update: Cucinnelli will probably announce his race for governor soon. Is Virginia ready for someone that conservative? I say no.
God Bless General Cuccinelli.
arrrgghhhhhhhh!!!!
@marinm
God Bless soon to be GOVERNOR Cuccinelli.
There…fixed it for ya….
😉
BARF!!!!
I join you, Lafayette, in the projectile vomiting.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Personally, I think that Cooch should run again for AG and let Bolling run unprimaried.
I meant no offense to our current General and heir apparent Governor. It tickles me to think of him in the big chair.
So what is it about Kook that you find so attractive?
He makes Dems teeth itch 😈
He makes Independents projectile vomit. Don’t they count?
Apparently not all of them, you can’t get elected to statewide office in Virginia without independent support.
@Cargosquid
I agree. Bolling has my vote. I don’t harbor the dislike of Ken that Democrats feel, but Bill has been a good Republican, done a lot for the Party, put his own ambition aside to support McDonnell so the Republicans could run an undivided race, etc. There’s no reason I see not to like and support Bill Bolling. Ken will be doing Virginia Republicans a disservice by entering this race and likely helping set the stage for Democrats to win in 2013. In 2017 I would consider supporting Ken based on what he does between now and then.
Ken should run for Lt. Governor or another term as AG in 2013, and allow Republicans to back Bill unanimously. That would virtually ensure four more years of a Republican governor.
I would rather have Cuccinelli go for Lt Gov, so he could learn the ropes, or stay as AG. Then we would have more years of conservative dominance almost ensured. If he primaries Bolling, who has been a very faithful team player, we have a chance of losing because of ill will among Republican voters.
And now Cookoonelli has announced he is going to run for governor. Any bets on whether he will win?
My vote is for Cooch.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Cooch go!!
I’m just curious who will run for the Democrats.
I thought they were going to run Terry?
Terry who?
http://www.terrymcauliffe.com/
@marin,
Ah…that Terry. His biggest problem is, he is an adopted son. He tries to be a native son. He needs to put on the adopted son mantle and wear it proudly. He has a lot of work to do making native Virginians like him. He was not successful at that before–especially in his own party. He came to Richmond and he..well…pardon me…but he big-assed to the Democrats. It didn’t set well with the Virginia Democrats and they showed him. They threw their weight behind Creigh Deeds. Creigh Deeds is great…he wasn’t ready to RUN for governor.
McAuliffe be able to translate his success as a national campaigner and fund raiser into the state level without gathering the resentment he has gathered in the past.
I just said that as an old Democrat looking at the situation through the window rather than as part of the family.
Terry needs to
I’m excited. If Terry is the guy it doesn’t matter who the -Rs run — it’s a WIN.
If it’s my homey Cooch even BETTER! 🙂
I’m tickled.
ewwww…gross. I have no clue who will run. I wouldn’t count McAuliffe as in or out. I wouldn’t underestimate him though. He is smart and he learns. Remember that your homey will have also had 3 years to show who he really is and that he plays to a certain base. There is the base he doesn’t play to….and they will want a big part of his hide on a skewer.
Let me examine this question more broadly and look at problems common to Northern Virginia candidates with no roots in the state who try to run statewide.
Terry McAuliffe will have the same problem Sean Connaughton had and Corey Stewart will have running for statewide office. All three do fairly well in Northern Virginia with its transitory population and new arrivals who don’t feel strong roots in Virginia. That’s not the case in Southwest and Southeast. All three are seen as “carpet-baggers” outside of Northern Virginia. Sean was slaughtered there and so will be McAuliffe and Stewart. Corey just showed he can pull a strong win in a low turnout local election armed with about one-half million of developer dollars running against very weak candidates. That will not translate statewide. McAuliffe has not shown even as much electability as Corey Stewart.
I spent a lot of time around Southwest before moving to Northern Virginia. McAuliffe has no issues that will play strongly there. Moreover, even if President Obama is defeated next year, his memory will still be fresh and that will work against McAuliffe also.
Illegal immigration, which is Corey’s only issue, does not play in Southwest like it does in PWC. This issue in PWC was always based on quality of life – residential overcrowding, noise, etc., rather than dislike of the illegals themselves as Corey tried to play it. In rural areas, where lots of illegals live also, the attitude is much more laid-back. This is because of two factors. First, religious sentiment is much stronger in the rural areas. Long-term residents take a much more “Christian” attitude toward the poor and less-fortunate. There’s much more tolerance for them. Second, in the less-crowded rural areas, the quality of life concerns are just not as serious as in more densely populated Prince William County.
Corey’s “Virginia Rule of Law” campaign has been a complete bust statewide. He even had to subsidize it from his Board of Supervisors campaign developer money pot just to keep it on life support.
I worked in an office that caught the wind from a poultry processing plant sometimes. Virtually all of the workers at that plant were Latino, including obviously many illegals. The only complaints ever heard, even from these “rednecks,” were about the stink from the plant. I never heard one negative comment about the people working there.
Corey must recognize also that his fiscal irresponsibility and cozy dealings with developers and campaign contributors will face much greater scrutiny in a statewide election. I know this will happen in part because I still have friends who are prominent movers and shakers in the Republican Party in Southwest. My “rolodex” is still pretty good.
Sean, Terry, Corey and any other “carpet-bagger” candidates face a much tougher battle in a statewide race in Virginia than they might care to admit.
And don’t forget….Cuccinelli is a northern Virginia candidate. He has a base in NOVA
@Cargosquid
He moved to PWC a couple of years or so ago. I don’t know if he grew up in VA. Actually, being from Northern VA could hurt him statewide. I thought at the time he moved to PWC to run for Congress.
I believe he is a New jersey boy. @NTK and Cargo. He might be considered what NTK called a ‘carpetbagger.’ Lafayette will definitely confirm that.