Ken Cuccinelli to Rallied Last Night with Gay-Bashing, Abortion-Hating, Home-School-Loving Group"

Ken Cuccinelli has been whining about Terry McAuliffe's ads which correctly point out Cuccinerlli's - or should we say Kookinelli's - extremist positions on gays, contraception, abortion, and the desire to divert funding from public education to religious schools.  Kookinelli has claimed that McAuliffe's "lying about him."  So what did Cuccinelli do last night?  He attended a gala at The Family Foundation, an organization that leads the Christofascist effort in Virginia to create a far right theocracy.  In short, he just confirmed every one of the statements in McAuliffe's campaign ads.  And better yet, Cuccinelli appeared with lunatic Ted Cruz who is out to destroy America's economy and is responsible for some 170,000 Virginians being on furlough from their jobs.  Here's how the Washington Post editorial board described the gathering of extremists:

We invite you to come and listen to Ted Cruz . . . and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and to be among the more than 1,000 politically-active conservative Virginians. Come be inspired and meet like-minded Virginians who share your traditional values, and hear one of the conservative movement’s most significant national leaders, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.

SO READS the invitation on the Web site of the Family Foundation, the gay-bashing, abortion-hating, home-school-loving group whose annual gala dinner will be held Saturday night in Richmond. If the event serves as a sort of homecoming for Virginia conservatives, Mr. Cruz is this year’s homecoming king. That has left Mr. Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, squirming.

[For Cuccinelli] to align himself with like-minded Republicans, who have pushed Congress to its current impasse, risks infuriating everyday Virginians, to say nothing of the state’s 170,000 federal civilian employees, who dislike the government shutdown much more than the health-care law.That’s why Mr. Cruz, the architect of the current showdown in Congress and the tea party’s champion, is a problem for Mr. Cuccinelli.

[H]is handlers have been at pains to emphasize that the Family Foundation dinner is not a campaign event [even though it is]. He continues to heap scorn on the health-care law, while suggesting, sotto voce, that he opposes the shutdown.

We suspect that if Mr. Cuccinelli or Mr. Jackson were in the Senate, rather than on the statewide ballot this year, they would have no trouble siding with Mr. Cruz and the other conservative absolutists who have forced the government to its knees. There is very little in either man’s background to suggest they’d embrace pragmatism over what they regard as principle.

By contrast, Virginia has benefited from statewide elected officials who have tended to govern from the middle, whatever their ideological preferences.

In Virginia few groups are more frightening in their threat to religious freedom for all and control over one's own body and relationships than The Family Foundation.  If they had their way, these folks would implement a modern day Inquisition.

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