Here in Virginia, our GOP has been somewhat immune from the civil war
that's raging nationwide, destroying the Republican Party.
No longer.
Today, our radical rightwing Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, announced that he's running for governor of VA -- election is 2013.
This is a huge rip in the fabric of the VA GOP because the current
Lieutenant Gov, Bill Bolling, is a moderate, well-liked, calm
Republican who was expected to be the candidate to follow our current
governor, Pat Robertson, Jr. -- oooopppsss -- meant to say " our
current governor, No-Jobs-Bob McDonnell."
This also marks Cuccinelli's first step on his road to the Presidency.
During his tenure as state senator and AG, Kookynelly (AKA: "Kooch") has established himself as a champion of The Crazy. He sued Mr. Jefferson's
University, claiming that a scientist working at the U of VA had used
state grant money to produce phony climate warming data -- the courts
told Kooch academic freedom trumps his witch hunt.
Kooch took huge bribes -- he called them campaign donations -- from a phony charity in exchange for not investigating their activities in VA. When Democrats blew the whistle on him, he backed down.
Kooch's first action after moving into the AG's office was to issue a
letter to the state's colleges and universities telling them it was okay for them to
discriminate against gays and lesbians in their admissions and hiring
practices. The schools ignored Kooch and went on admitting and hiring anyone they wanted.
Everythng Kooch has done has been carefully designed to ingratiate
himself with the radical rightwing of the VA GOP and the Teahadists.
Now, he hopes to call in the markers in the form of rightwing votes in
2013.
Bolling, meanwhile, is stunned. He was generally expected to be the
next GOP candidate and he's acquitted himself decently as Lt Gov.
However, now we see there is no room for decent people in Virginia's
GOP or anywhere else in the GOTP.
If you listen closely in Richmond, you hear the "swoosh!" of long knives being pulled from scabbards!!