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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 01:51 PM
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VA gov race: extremist Bob McDonnell - Pat Robertson's pick also supported by BET founder
Republican Virginia gubernatorial candadidate Bob McDonnell has been desperately trying to present himself as a moderate (for a winger) to voters, and one of the ways he has done this is pimp on his web site the support for his candidacy by one Sheila Johnson, Black Entertainment Television co-founder and multi-billionaire.
Unfortunately for Bob, there is a 93-page document at the Regent University library that provides an inside look at what he really thinks about feminism, marriage and The Homosexual Agenda. These views are hardly moderate (or cast away), particularly since he was on Crazy Pat's show to talk about preserving marriage (right). (WaPo):

Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working women and feminists as "detrimental" to the family. He said government policy should favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators." He described as "illogical" a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples.

The 93-page document, which is publicly available at the Regent University library, culminates with a 15-point action plan that McDonnell said the Republican Party should follow to protect American families -- a vision that he started to put into action soon after he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

...McDonnell's opponent, state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds (Bath), and other Democrats have sought to highlight McDonnell's conservative record, saying he is obscuring a large part of his background to get elected. Deeds recently spoke to women's groups about McDonnell's record on abortion, saying that voters needed to know about his stances.

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/12731/va-gov-race-extremist-bob-mcdonnell-the-pat-robertson-moderate-supported-by-bet-founder
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angee_is_mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 01:57 PM
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1. WTF
Sheila is just as bad as her crazy ass ex-husband.
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angee_is_mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 02:18 PM
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2. also sheila doesn't have any pull in the black community
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Bullet1987 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 02:27 PM
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3. Both the Johnsons are known for their conservative leanings
And both are corporatists anyway. Not progressives.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 05:38 PM
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4. Didn't Bob Johnson support Hillary? Wasn't he the one who implied Obama was selling drugs on the
street corners in Chicago?
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HopeOverFear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 05:40 PM
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5. yes! the same motherfucker whose music video station sells
negative images of african americans TO african americans, said Obama was selling drugs on the streets.

I could have smacked the shit out of him.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 05:43 PM
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6. Thanks. I KNEW that name sounded familiar.
Same here. Then he tried to deny it claiming he could've meant Obama was doing POSITIVE things on the street corners or some BS that made no sense.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 08:40 AM
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7. What else would he advocate that the government should enact as law?
That if a married couple has sex without procreation be fined?

That married couples could not have sex after age 60?

Require chaperones for them?

That only those belonging to a church could get married?

Certify that the bride be a virgin when married?

Increase the odds that a bride will be a virgin by encouraging 13 year olds to marry?
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burning rain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 05:24 PM
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8. Well, we'll see whether Virginia Dems want to win it ugly, or lose like nice guys.
Edited on Mon Aug-31-09 05:30 PM by burning rain
Dems there should pump the message 24/7 that McDonnell is a fundamentalist neaderthal with no respect either for women or anyone who "sins." Demonize him until not only he loses, but his family are ashamed to claim him as a relation. Deeds is down by double digits and needs to go negative in a brutal way. A "positive campaign" will just play to the Republicans.
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