According to pundits like Larry Sabato, McDonnell has pretty much cratered any chances of obtaining the Vice Presidential nomination. Others agree. Stick a fork in him, he’s done. The stupid part is, he knew better and his advisors knew better than to sign the bill he is about to sign.
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Being the anti-birth control party is really not the way to win elections. The Blunt Amendment was defeated in the Senate today. The Democratic controlled Senate didn’t have to allow the bill to come to a vote, but…why not let folks shoot themselves in the foot if that is what they want to do.
McDonnell and Santorum should form a “Boy, we sure effed our electoral prospects in our butts” club. What are these guys thinking? Birth control and abortion are settled issues.
We are witnessing the natural death process of the far right . Just as each Republican candidate had their time at the top of the polls, once the voters were exposed to their thought processes and goals, the flash-in-the-pan GOP leaders fell from the top back to the bottom. The voters are now waking up to what far-right ideology is and is reacting by moving back to the center. The far righters are pouring gasoline onto themselves and are now flicking their Bics.
Too funny, BSinVA. So if I were to tell my delegate to flic his Bic, ….hmmmmm.
Folks need to remember legislation such as this one, when the R’s are talking about unneeded costly regulations. This is just another regulation sponsored by the R’s to influence behavior – and the R’s try to make it sound like unnecessary regulation is in the domain of the D’s.
It has been painful watching some of the political folks trying to defend the bill with a straight face.
@Pat, we have missed you.
Agreed. This is definitely government interference on steroids.
McDonnell would have been a great conservative balance to a ticket headed by Romney. I was certainly cheering for him. He has stepped in some cow pies lately. I’m not going to rule him out completely because the convention is still a few months away and he has time to recover. Also, Romney owes McDonnell for his early support in the primaries. However, I fear he might have done irreparable damage to himself for 2012.
@Need to Know
I suspect he’s done irreparable damage to himself for the twenty-first century.
While I do not agree with the legislative strategy the GA has taken of late, (if there is indeed a strategy), as many often point out when I make an early prediction: there’s a lot that can happen between now an November. We are still in a primary cycle. Candidates always play to their respective party’s base in a primary. The move to the center to run for the general. Let gas prices hit $5.00 a gallon, and the anemic recovery stop or reverse towards recession as a result, and voters will forget all about these bills.
Now if I were a betting man, I’d say that the Governor wouldn’t be taking the tact he is taking, without some understanding as to where he his on the Romney short-list. I would also imagine there has been some discussion with the candidate regarding this bill, and any potential reprocussions. Now that is not to say the current tact that the Governor, GOP state senators, and the HOD is wise. I don’t think it is, but I’m not running the show. That said, don’t make the mistake of viewing the national election solely through the VA prism.
@Steve, I am not so sure McDonnell will have much control over it either way. His political enemies will make it stick, would be my guess. The bottom line is, it really doesn’t matter what the right or the left think…its what appeals to the middle ground.
@Need to Know
I had not had any problem with McDonnell except over the ABC stores. That is fairly neutral, or at least I thought so. However, he has signed off on a couple of bills that I find simply unacceptable. I agree, he stepped in some cow pies he should have avoided.
Of course that explains why some of the in-crowd wanted to send Marshall out to pasture. He was a problem and really owes no allegiance.
LOL, Love your headline…I think you missed your true calling!
@TWINAD
agree, header was fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McDonnell is spending an awful lot of political capital on this one issue.