Maybe we need to petition Regents to take back McDonnell's degree. I'm sure Pat would love the publicity.

" Virginia created by radical televangelist Pat Robertson"

The right are NOT radicals. They are reactionaries.

Radicals wish things to change, reactionaries want to keep things the 'way they have always been' even if the dream they protrait never truely existed, such as the canard about our nation being founded as a "Christian Nation" by avoid dietst none the less......

To prove his moderate bona fides he should put a paper out that lays out his opposition to himself from an earlier age! He's submitted his thesis, now we'd like to see his antithesis! Just to be clear about any transformation that may have taken place from then to now! -Kevo

i just loves the way principled fundamentalist assholes -- once they get a taste of real worldly power -- turn into them thar 'moral relativists' (why, just like dick cheney!11!! -- god damn his shit-filled soul to hell).

especially in contrast to their categorical scheme of faith-based truthiness.

i can't imagine, however, this hurtin' this mcdonald asshole south of the james river... they are fer sure "wink wink nudge nudge" folks ever since the civil war...

Why can't youthful flights of fancy occur when people are 34? After all, George W. Bush's youthful indiscretions took place when he was 40.

If it were up to me, mere attendance at Regent would be disqualifying for government service at any level. But hey, I'm a radical.

More seriously, the GOP hasn't let passage of time stop them from any line of attack they feel will help them. Remember all the crap about "wise latina?" About Bill Clinton's dope smoking? As for McDonnell, have at him.

Although I support Deeds I have to say Terry McAuliffe would be having a field day all over the news with this masters thesis revelation. McDonnell would be on his heels.

As a Virginian, McDonnell scares the ever-loving shit out of me. He's easily worse than George "Macaca" Allen was. And threatens to be as bad as Jim "Roads Be Damned, Let's Kill the Car Tax" Gilmore was.

Regent University, and Liberty University, are prime examples of why the church and state MUST be separate. The application to either school asks for a short essay [can these people write any other kind?] explaining how you will use your degree to spread the Word and call more people to God.

McDonnell is that most dangerous of Republicans: the Christian Fundamentalist masquerading as a tax-fighting conservative. He's got that god-look about him. The plastic hair. The silver tongue. And ultimately, when it comes to God and politics among the low-info voters, looks and words are everything.

Technically, he's right.

"He described as "illogical" a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples. [...] "

As long as adultery/fornication are illegal, making contraception legal IS illogical. You don't need contraceptives if you aren't breaking those blue laws.

I suppose unmarried women can go on the pill with no intention to fornicate for some reason that makes perfect sense, but I forgive McDonnell if it seemed silly to make laws based on suych peculiar circumstances.

That said, voting for McDonnell is a gesture of approval for theocracy and I ask laissez-faire conservatives this: does it make sense to want to "keep more of your money" with lower taxes, only to be told by some church you don't belong to what you are allowed to spend it on?

Tooweary: The standard excuse back in my college days was that girls needed to take the Pill to "regulate their periods." As an excuse, it works at least as well as drinking red wine for the antioxidants and the beneficial effects on cholesterol levels.

JimBob, I agree that sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. After all, right wingers have been trying to convince us for over a year that Obama is guilty by association of radical extremism because of a paper his wife wrote when she was an undergraduate.

As long as adultery/fornication are illegal, making contraception legal IS illogical. You don't need contraceptives if you aren't breaking those blue laws.

WHAT?! It's called family planning, you idiot.

I haven't read the whole thing of course, but at most universities, MS theses are not exercises in political advocacy or polemics. I guess it is not surprising, but it is revealing that Regent "university" allows this to go on as an intellectual activity. A wee insight into the shallowness of these institutions.

"Postscript: By the way, did Democratic opposition researchers dig up this dirt on McDonnell? Nope -- the WaPo learned about the thesis when McDonnell brought it up during a recent interview."

The VA Dems wanted to paint McDonnell as an RW extremist but didn't know about this? Why TF not? Do their oppo researchers get paid?

As long as adultery/fornication are illegal, making contraception legal IS illogical. You don't need contraceptives if you aren't breaking those blue laws.

This is either subtle parody or one of the all-time classic comments ever to appear on the history of the IntarWebs. In either case, congrats, tooweary! You're special.

Sounds like he is savvy enough to be dangerous.

Get this out there now when nobody is paying attention, and after Labor Day he can then give it the old "asked and answered" dodge.

He wrote that stuff in 1989? I would not cut him any slack unles he's repentent? Anyone who believed that stuff in 1989 was so reactionary that any movement to the left would bring them to the level of your average john bircher.

Ninety-three pages for a Masters thesis? My undergraduate senior thesis for my technical communication major was longer! Sheesh...

Kurt, the problem is that during his 14 years as a state legislator, he tried to carry out 10 of the 15 policy goals. If he was 34 when he wrote the thesis, and began his first term as a state legislator 2 years later, he was a legislator until he was 50. He's now 55 now.

McDonnell hasn't changed a bit.

I'm a Virginian, and I've been telling my friends that no one who graduates from Pat Robertson's school is a moderate. I'd never vote for ANYONE who attended Regent.

BTW, McDonnell beat Deeds in the VA attorney general's race 4 years by 325 votes. The "recount" was a joke.

Married couples have Griswold v. Connecticut to thank for their legal use of contraceptives! Even married forincation was regulated up until the mid-1960s! The SCOTUS ruled in favor of the right to privacy - the foundation to the Roe v. Wade decision eventually to come in 1973! -Kevo

Kevo,

44 years after Griswold what rich irony to now hear Sarah Palin saying, "Keep the government away from my body!"

I'll bet if you asked Sarah Palin about Griswold she'd say in that sing-songy voice, "Oh, I'd hafta say I agree and disagree with a lotta those supreme court decisions." Her twitter followers would say she's "deep thinker" and "profound" just for uttering the words, "Supreme Court."

Bob McDonnell just lost the crucial Virginia fornicator vote.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/gop-scholarship-loses-crucial-virginia-fornicator-vote/

How is feminism good for the family? If you can't make that argument, then I don't see how the converse is "offensive."

Feminism isn't good for the family, Dennis. It's good for everyone's freedom. The "traditional famly" assumes that men will work and women will clean, cook, bear children, and rear them. If that's the life you want to live, great. However, what if a man wants to cook? I know many men who would love to have more time with their children, spend less time at work, cook for their families, etc. Feminism isn't some radical hatred of men and families. Feminism is one simple idea: no matter what your gender, we should ALL be paid a equal wage for equal work, we are all individuals who should be able to choose our life path for ourselves-whether to have a family or not, whether to have a career or not. Often, our cultural norms about gender roles and what is "proper" get in the way, which is when you start seeing feminists get angry. I'm a college educated 25 year old CPA. I have the ability to support a family better than many men. Why should I be forced to quit my job and stay home with kids when I become a mom? If your answer to that hypothetical is that I should have the right to choose whether or not I continue my career, then you're a feminist.

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