Columnist Robert McCartney has declared Gubinatorial hopeful Ken Cuccinelli a multiple legal loser. Why? Cuccinelli keeps batting out in his rather grandiose legal challenges. The Washington Post today reminds us about his failed lawsuits that pandered to his base–health care and climate change being his biggest swing and a miss challenges.
With two new, major court defeats last week, Cuccinelli’s record is almost as woeful.
… Cuccinelli is used to coming up short. Although he’s won battles over voter redistricting and Medicaid fraud, he’s had a remarkable number of losses on closely watched cases. Ironically, his much-publicized complaint against Obamacare didn’t even make it to the Supreme Court, because an appeals court tossed it out on grounds that he lacked standing to sue.
With these latest reverses, it’s clear that Cuccinelli’s legal crusades serve primarily to win him right-wing acclaim and not to actually roll back the allegedly tyrannical liberal legislation he decries.
The ambitious Virginia conservative, who’s running for governor, lost big on Thursday when the Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s health-care reform act. Cuccinelli (R) had become a nationally known tea party champion by rushing in 2010 to be the first state attorney general to file suit against the law, acting just minutes after the president signed it.
He suffered another setback on Tuesday when a federal appeals court in the District slapped down a legal case against the Environmental Protection Agency. Cuccinelli was a leader among plaintiffs arguing that the EPA was wrong to find that greenhouse gases contribute to climate change and threaten public health. In a sharply worded rebuff, the court said instead that the EPA’s position was “unambiguously correct.”
Cuccinelli is pretty much making a fool of himself to the rest of us who aren’t his base and he needs us to get elected. For all the pandering to his base attention he has gathered, he now needs to look at his losing record and how this record illustratesjust how out how of touch with the mainstream he really is. He has also garnered national attention by trying to cover up the exposed breast of the state seal’s Lady Virtue and he has forbidden Virginia Universities to include sexual orientation in the state’s thou shalt not discriminate list. There are countless other examples of how out of touch and partisan he is.
Basically, I think we are all just trying to say he is an extremist embarrassment. If you make Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show and you are from Virginia, you might just be an ***-Hole. At best he is just a legal loser. Some Attorney General. Another sing and a miss.
It almost guarantees his election.
HELL YA! I’m voting for him. Twice.
He is too much of an extremist to be elected.
He can’t tone it down. I know that McDonnell toned it down. Maybe people will see now that when someone shows you who they are the first time, believe them. (Maya Angelu)
Marin, what is it about him that you think is so neat? Why would you admire someone who panders to their base and ends up looking like a national fool?
“He is too much of an extremist to be elected.”
Except he did as our Attorney General.
“He can’t tone it down.”
Amen!
“Marin, what is it about him that you think is so neat?”
I can’t say I find anything in him that I don’t like. If only he and Sarah Palin were to have a child.. It’d be the second coming…..
“Why would you admire someone who panders to their base and ends up looking like a national fool?”
That national fool is your Attorney General. 🙂
That national fool is but a guest in my birth state.
fools like that only get elected once…and that is only because the Americal electorate is rather uninformed.
People hadn’t followed him.
Richmond, Hampton Roads and NOrthern VA will save the state. Exposure to Cuccineli will not be his friend.
So tell me why you are laughing, Cato? You and Marin might also want to explain how come Cuccinelli is different from the American Taliban?
We shall see. We shall see.
As I’ve said many, many times before I always chuckle when people underestimate the Cuccinelli machine.
Pretty sure the fools have been Ashcroft and Cuccinelli who were so offended by a justice liberty’s breast they had to spend tax dollars to cover her up. How immature and repressed at the same time.
@Elena
I have zero objection to any female showing me her breasts. My female family members our of course excluded.
So lets get someone to post showing how mature and non-repressed they are by showing some skin! 😉
I’m laughing because people with a certain worldview, such as yourself, keep insisting that he’s too “extreme” (whatever that means) to win statewide.
Cuccinelli has never lost an election. He has a large army of fanatics that knock doors and give generously. To dismiss him out of hand is foolish. To beat him, you’re going to have to put up a candidate that people can honestly get excited about going to the polls for, and his name ain’t Terry McAuliffe.
The bottom line is the next Governor of Virginia will be Mark Warner, if he wants it. If he doesn’t, then get ready for Governor Cuccinelli. It’s that simple.
I wonder how many tax dollars it costs to file these lawsuits?
@Cato the Elder
You are overlooking the number of people who don’t get exited over Cuccinelli. You are also overlooking the people who didn’t know what an extremist hs really is.
Cuccinelli will run out of steam. I have seen it time and time again. Before he ran for attorney general people did not know much about him. That has changed because he got that old republican full head of steam. He showed them who he really was. Virginia is conservative but it’s not ultra conservative. That’s the part that is going to bite your theory in the butt.
It’s too early to bet on this one. I think he’s too extreme to go far. As for that world view, I don’t think you have a clue, mainly because people like me don’t have world views.
@Observer
Hi Observer. Probably a lot more than he is willing to admit. Its’s a waste of money and pandering to his base.
@Moon-howler
Anytime you want to put 100 bucks on it, I’ll be right here.
I have voted in many elections. I never bet on them. A fool and his money are easily parted. (or her money) @Cato
That election is light years away.
@Cargo,
It is more important that once they are elected that they represent MY values. That’s just me though. Cuccinelli isn’t it.
Drat. Was hoping an empowered, mature, non-repressed woman would’ve posted.
Note to self. Go to Home Depot and get some under represented blue collar workers to vote for Cooch!! No ID required!!!!!
The more times you step up to bat…the more times you might strike out. I’d rather have an AG that steps up to bat for what he believes is right.
If Cuckoo does win the governor, I wish him the same level of success that he has enjoyed as Attorney General, bwahahaha!
Has everyone factored in how mad and justifiably angry the Bolling people will be? At what point does a man’s vanity get to kick another in the face?
Bolling has been a good foot soldier. He has done what he was told. He is the LT Gov. which is not an illustrious post. He has not tried to outshine McDonnell.
Corey needs to be careful what he wishes for. He too could get to be sitting in the butt monkey seat.
Btw, I voted for Bolling in the primary.
Good for you. I didn’t vote at all. If I had gone out I would have voted for Bolling.
Ok, thanks for making me think I am crazy. Which primary did you vote for Bolling? I have been sitting here thinking how the hell I missed that one. It didn’t happen. Wrong year. Do you mean like last state election cycle?
Oops…I just realized that too….I’m planning to vote for Bolling. I VOTED in the other primary…I picked the challengers to the incumbents…. Cantor had one: Blayne. And Maccaca boy had one…. Radtke.
Anyone that is too stupid to defend against that Maccacca story is an idiot. And his campaign was an idiot. He lost by a few thousand votes. His campaign manager, instead of just refusing to answer a survey, insulted the VCDL. The VCDL has a few thousand members…AND influences thousands more.
Ooops.
campaign MANAGER was an idiot…. edit THEN POST
I seriously thought I was losing it. I went to the state board of elections to see the results …then it dawned on me.
Yea, I bought right in to it.