Creigh Deeds Loves Him Some Abortions!

This is despicable.  The abortion debate has gone round and round for years, but with all the problems facing Virginia its really sad to see the no-talent, no-ideas, back-benching, do-nothing, rural courthouse pol Creigh Deeds throwing this out because nobody is buy what he's selling.  His me-too campaign has been a comedy of errors, following Bob McDonnell around trying to catch up.  And now this?  Are we in 1989 where Wilder pulled this same stuff on Coleman?  Its a testament to how strong McDonnell has been running that Deeds would do this.  

But there is something else.  I thought Democrats preached about getting social issues out of politics.  But more to the point, I found a glaring contradiction in Deeds's statements about this.  Deeds talks about being a moderate, a consensus-builder, bringing people together blah blah blah.  He's never actually done any of this in the legislature, but its nice he thinks of himself that way.  But by injecting a divisive social issue he sort of throws that away . . . he's the one being divisive and dividing people.  

This speaks to the inherent weakness of Deeds, though.  Nobody is buying that he's a Warner-Kaine "moderate," and McDonnell has used the lat five months to become the candidate of the kitchen-table issues.  Deeds is also suffering from a malaise in excitement among Democrats, so has to resort to this kind of stuff.  Warner and Kaine never went to the abortion issue, because they had a full statewide constituency.  Democrats don't win in Virginia running like this, because despite everything they have been winning in the 2000s by owning the economic and kitchen-table issues while defining Republicans merely as social conservatives who know and care about little else.  Deeds is turing that on its head, he's becoming the candidate of social issues, of being in favor of infanticide.

And Democrats better be careful about feeling their oats about social issues.  Like I said, they have never won on running as social liberals.  This is still the state the overwhelmingly passed a gay marriage ban.  And where does Deeds plan to go with this?  While McDonnell is talking about creating jobs by lowering taxes, about balancing budgets by auditing government and limiting waste, and about the connection between energy independence and job creation through offshore drilling, clean coal in SWVA; it seems that Creigh Deeds wants to talk about abortion to fire up his base.  That is how weak Creigh Deeds is.  Six months after Democrats swept Virginia for the first time since 1964, won a senate seat and three new house seats - Creigh Deeds is so bad that he needs to jump on abortion to try and get anyone to care about what he has to say about anything.  

RPV put out this video . . . its taken two weeks for Creigh Deeds to LIE to Virginia about what he's about, how he will be as governor, and about his intentions as a candidate.

Comments

[major pain]

I am guessing i should post something nice or affirming or may i go so far and say congratulatory about McDonnel. but you know i wont. ok maybe you didnt. remember Goldwater? the Republican party loved him. but hindsight is an excellent teacher if only the student(s) pay attention. in the 60s prior to Mr Reagan really, the GOP had morphed into the party of money. members were good at making it, some even better at keeping. but the party's principles had been invaded with ...for lack of a more palatable word ...stupidity. this was history. why are we repeating history. if we repeat stupidity in history that would make us stupid too. back then we were only concerned with a balanced budget:
dont cut the budget. (...anger the constituency) you got to balance that budget no matter what. alright then, sorry constituency. this is painful but raising taxes is the only way.

McD seems to me to be a 60s Republican.

criteria for a leader:Fiscal logic AND moral grounding AND spiritual backbone. if we are voting

[major pain]

Then lets vote for uh oh and oh no heres that word again ...change.

we must change the GOP. not the principles! but as we seem to lack them, can we get back to conservative principles? we know simple works. complicated? unproven. the verdict on complicated is up in the air. stick with what works. the wibwals will secretly thank us.

a state Constitution, the original U.S. Constitution, 10 Commandments. what else do we need? yeah the major pain said that

[major pain]

P.s.
it is not enough to point the flaws of a wibwal. we put up a leader we wont have sell it to the conservatives. explain to a wibwal. which reminds me: we have them rinos afoot. they have to have conservatism explained to them. we got a lotta work

addendum
if we only care about 'some' of those principles we might as well vote with whatever the wibwals want.

now im done

[Not Creightarded]

Deeds is returning to the Dems best strategy. Fear mongering. Even though Gerry Connolly had a healthy lead over Keith Fimian, they were happy to send every woman in the district about six post cards about how Fimian is going to take away our right to "choose." Creigh Deeds is slipping as low as Gerry in using the same tactic against McDonnell. After all, Deeds has no actual idea as to what he would actually do as governor. He comes across as a "me, too" kind of guy. The best job for him would be second banana lt. governor. Too bad for him that Bolling's got that one sewn up.

[Chris]

Connolly's pissed me off more because he's Catholic and he knows where his church stands and Fimian was also Catholic. I thought it was a cheap shot beyond a cheap shot.

[Not Father Gerry]

Fimian failed in not defining himself as a candidate first and in letting Connolly do the defining for him. Never let your opponent have that kind of edge.