If you're a member of the Daily Kos community who has defended Ron Paul (R. TX) in the past, you might want to keep you're mouth shut about this:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/...
With a libertarian third-party candidate threatening to spoil his chances of winning the Virginia governorship, Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli received a welcome endorsement Friday from the desk of Ron Paul.
Paul, the former Texas congressman and the guiding light of libertarians everywhere, endorsed Cuccinelli in a letter to the Virginia attorney general.
"Ken Cuccinelli has always stood for smaller government and limited government, he has consistently and unapologetically worked with the Liberty movement in Virginia," Paul said in the letter, which is being distributed by Cuccinelli's campaign.
"His stand against Obamacare shows he is willing to stand up to Washington's continued abuses on our individual liberties. I am proud to endorse to Ken for Governor of Virginia," Paul wrote.
Cuccinelli trails Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the race by anywhere from six to 10 points, depending on the poll. - CNN, 10/12/13
It's not that surprising Paul would endorse the Cooch. He's already endorsed fellow psychopath Paul Broun (R. GA) for U.S. Senate and he endorsed fellow douche bag Mark Sanford (R. SC-01) for Congress. We'll see how much Paul's endorsement will help the Cooch win over conservative Libertarian voters. Now you want to hear something that will either make you laugh or enrage you? Listen to the Cooch's reason why he hates Obamacare:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
"Women make 75 percent or so of the health care decisions in this country, and the government is coming to get in between the decision-makers and the doctors and what they’re allowed to do in treatment," Cuccinelli said. "That’s something that women very much react to -- a lot more than men do, for instance. And the fact that federal bureaucrats are going to have access to our health and income records, that sits particularly poorly with women."
He was raising two conservative claims that Media Matters has named among the 15 myths of Obamacare. In fact, the government will not interfere in doctors' treatment of patients. The bureaucrats in question will look at broad Medicare policies and are specifically forbidden from making recommendations that would restrict benefits or ration care.
Cuccinelli's comment about "access to our health and income records" is simply a reference to the fact that Americans will be confirming to the Internal Revenue Service that they have insurance coverage -- and therefore need pay no penalty. IRS agents will not be accessing anyone's medical records.
Beyond his questionable interpretation of the Affordable Care Act, Cuccinelli apparently does not see his own history of anti-abortion activism in the state government as interference in women's health care decisions.
Yet as a state legislator, he proposed a fetal personhood amendment that would recognize a fertilized egg as a person for legal purposes and would ban abortion entirely.
Then, as attorney general, Cuccinelli strongly urged the Virginia Board of Health to approve a new set of rules for abortion clinics that will force them to undergo expensive and medically unnecessary renovations in order to hold onto their licenses. The clinics will have to expand the size of their janitor's closets, for instance, and build spacious staff lounges with showers -- an endeavor that some of them will not be able to afford. - Huffington Post, 10/11/13
Seriously, what an asshole. Feeling the election slipping away from him, the Cooch is now trying to up his nastiness against Terry McAuliffe (D. VA):
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) released a new campaign ad Friday, calling his Democratic opponent in the governor's race, Terry McAuliffe, "despicable" and hitting him for investing with a man who has been charged with defrauding insurers.
"Terry McAuliffe invested in an insurance scam that preyed on dying people," the ad says. "Profiting off the terminally ill? Is that the kind of man you want as your governor?"
McAuliffe has not been accused of any wrongdoing in the case, and his campaign insists that he had no active role in the company. - TPM, 10/11/13
McAuliffe has shot back against Cuccinelli's misleading ad:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
There has been no indication that McAuliffe (D) or other investors were aware that Caramadre was stealing identities. But Caramadre’s former lawyer has said that investors were aware that he was exploiting a loophole that would allow investors with no insurable interest in the ailing individuals to receive death benefits when they died.
“This ad is despicable and the latest sign that Ken Cuccinelli is resorting to desperate and false attacks to make up for the fact that he is one of the most disliked statewide candidates in memory,” McAuliffe spokesman Josh Schwerin said. “Terry was one of hundreds of passive investors several years ago and had no idea about the horrible allegations against the defendant. Ken Cuccinelli is desperately trying to distract voters from his extreme agenda of standing with the architect of the government shutdown while Virginia’s economy suffers.”
When asked about Caramadre an event in Richmond on Thursday, McAuliffe himself said: “I was a passive investor in a life insurance annuity pool.” - Washington Post, 10/11/13
Cuccinelli's ad is based on the retracted AP story that falsely tied McAuliffe to this scandal:
http://www.politico.com/...
McAuliffe and his campaign clearly take the Caramadre issue seriously. They have announced that the candidate and his campaign have donated $74,000 to the American Cancer Society, an amount intended to offset the sum of campaign contributions McAuliffe received from the convicted Caramadre, plus returns the candidate made from the investment.
The McAuliffe campaign noted that the updated AP story declared, “There is no allegation of wrongdoing by McAuliffe or that he or other investors knew of efforts to defraud the terminally ill.”
But the Cuccinelli campaign said it will continue pushing for answers about how McAuliffe met the businessman and what exactly he believed he was investing in. - Politico, 10/11/13
While Cuccinelli is trying to deceive voters in his late attempt to bounce back in the polls, McAuliffe has continued to hammer him about the Tea Party shutdown. Here's an e-mail I received from McAuliffe's campaign last night:
Last night in Richmond, Ken Cuccinelli refused again to condemn Ted Cruz for forcing this damaging government shutdown.
He's choosing not to ruffle feathers with his Tea Party friends over standing up for Virginia families, many of whom have stopped receiving paychecks because of Cruz's temper tantrum.
That's not a huge surprise — Cuccinelli once said that "you get more Ted Cruzes [in the Senate...] and you have less to worry about."
I think that judgment and those priorities are pretty out of whack — if you agree, will you spread the word on Facebook?
http://action.terrymcauliffe.com/...
Another thing happened at last night's forum in Richmond. Terry said "I would not even be in the same room as [Ted Cruz] today. And if I had gone to the room, I would have told him to stop using the government shutdown as an ideological bargaining chip."
I'm putting in crazy long hours working to elect Terry because I know he's got the right priorities and he'll always, always put Virginians first.
Can you lend me a hand today and make sure your friends on Facebook know about Cuccinelli siding with his allies in the Tea Party?
http://action.terrymcauliffe.com/...
I'm pretty sure they'd want to know...
- Robby
Robby Mook
Campaign Manager
McAuliffe for Governor
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And you can click here to donate or get involved with McAuliffe's campaign:
http://terrymcauliffe.com