Below is an article by Amy Gardner reporting on the Log Cabin Republicans love for Bob McDonnell and hatred for Ken Cuccinelli; While it is not my desire to have to rip McDonnell again this close to the election, I cannot let my friend Ken Cuccinelli take arrows from a group of Republicans that really should be Democrats without defending him, and that will require contrasting his position with that of McDonnell;
Feel free to read the article below I have pasted in, and if you are truly conservative you will admire Cuccinelli for the courage it took to say what he does this close to an election, particularly knowing that McDonnell will throw him under the bus for standing up for what he believes, but standing up anyway.Ken was absolutely correct that homosexuality defies natural law; he also did not say that he would discriminate against them in hiring practices.....only that he would not PLEDGE to pretend that there is no difference between hetero and homo;
Cuccinelli's viewpoint is out there for all to see and know, and it looks like the vast majority of Virginians are going to elect him AG;
If so, that same majority is putting their stamp of approval on Ken's willingness to take arrows from the homosexual leadership for his belief that God created them male and female, and that one leaves one's father and mother and cleaves to one's wife, not ones domestic partner.
What a shame that McDonnell and Bolling do not have Cuccinelli's principled traditional American values, and that they will throw him under the bus for standing up for those values.
It is so refreshing to see an American patriot like Cuccinelli who is not afraid to stand up against the militant homosexual leadership, while so many other Republican leaders are wetting their pants in fear;
Just as the New York Republicans put up a flaming liberal for Congress in NY-23, Bob McDonnell endorsed Danny Smith, a homosexual Republican in NoVa whose main platform plank is calling for the overturning of our Marriage Amendment that Bob claims to support and champion.
As usual, Republican leaders are trying to have it both ways, no pun intended, refusing to take principled, uncompromising positions on traditional issues that most Americans care about more deeply than even the economy.
The lessons of the Reagan era appear to be forgotten and eschewed by Republican leadership, as they actively court and recruit liberals to carry the banner of the Republican party whose platform is antithetical to liberalism.
Normal Americans get this and don't like it; Cuccinelli also understands we are aware that we are losing our nation to liberalism, socialism and Marxism, and that we reject the liberalism currently being spewed forth by the current administration and way too many Republican leaders desperately trying to regain their personal power base;
Cuccinelli views the role of government much the same as it was intended by our Founders, and his ability to win elections in NoVa when most other Republicans have long since died indicates that even in increasingly liberal Northern Virginia people still respect a man who will stand up for traditional American values without apology or equivocation;
Ken Cuccinelli is still unneutered by Republican leadership; Ken Cuccinelli is still a man.
Ken stands for traditional American values of Faith, Family, and Freedom, and therefore I stand with Ken Cuccinelli.
Yesterday, the Log Cabin Republicans praised Republican Bob McDonnell for his "inclusive" statements promising never to discriminate against employees on the basis of sexual orientation.
Today, the group of Republican gay activists slammed McDonnell's ticket-mate, Ken Cuccinelli, for the reverse. Cuccinelli, the Republican nominee for attorney general, was quoted in the Virginian-Pilot newspaper declining to commit to the state's nondiscrimination policy against gays and lesbians.
"My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong," Cuccinelli told the newspaper. "They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that. . . They don't comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society."
David Lampo, vice president of the Log Cabin Republican Club of Virginia, put out the following statement today:
"That Mr. Cuccinelli would make such incendiary and prejudicial remarks as a candidate for the state's highest legal office is truly frightening, and we call on him to apologize for injecting his personal and hateful opinions into this race," said David Lampo, vice president of the Log Cabin Republican Club of Virginia. "The overwhelming majority of Virginia voters, 90 percent according to Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, support a policy of employment nondiscrimination for state employees. We hope voters evaluate very carefully a candidate who intends to let his personal beliefs and prejudices guide his decision making as Attorney General."
"Cuccinelli's remarks stand in stark contrast to the inclusive statements of Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for Governor," Lampo continued, "Mr. McDonnell has rightfully said the government should not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, and so we call on Republican leaders and candidates throughout Virginia to repudiate Cuccinelli's hateful remarks and stand with Bob McDonnell on this important issue."
Cuccinelli's opponent, Democrat Steve Shannon, also criticized Cuccinelli for his remarks. Shannon sent a letter to McDonnell urging him to denounce Cuccinelli's remarks, and McDonnell did -- sort of, while also taking a swipe at Shannon for focusing on the issue at all.
"Bob McDonnell's record and position is clear: he does not tolerate discrimination of any kind and he hires and promotes based solely on merit and ability," spokesman Tucker Martin said. "That was his policy as attorney general, and will be his policy as governor. There are only six days left in this critically important race. Bob will spend that time continuing to advance innovative ideas to create new jobs, improve our schools, fix our roads and turn Virginia's economy around. Steve Shannon, as a candidate for statewide office in these tough times, should think about doing the same thing."
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