Posted on 09/27/2009 12:00:20 PM PDT by freespirited
If Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell thought he was going to get friendly treatment on "Fox News Sunday," he was in for quite a surprise.
Fox host Chris Wallace grilled McDonnell - appearing without Democrat Creigh Deeds, who declined repeated interview requests from Fox - on topics from McDonnell's views on women in the workforce to whether he'll be able to fund road projects without raising taxes or cutting other services to child care.
"If we do a good job on job creation and economic development, Chris, you don't cut anything because we expand the economy," McDonnell said. The GOP candidate said he would use money raised from bond sales, "public-private partnerships," privatization of the state-owned liquor stores and revenue from offshore drilling to help cover the highway construction costs.
Wallace pushed McDonnell on whether he could get the "billions of dollars you need for state transportation by doing the things you're saying. You're going to have cut other functions or you're going to have raise revenues."
"I disagree," McDonnell countered. "I'm finding other ways to do it without raising taxes."
Wallace also asked McDonnell about a controversial 1989 master's thesis in which McDonnell raised doubts about women working outside the home, criticized child care tax credits, and opposed a Supreme Court ruling on birth control for married couples. Wallace openly wondered whether it was a "radical agenda" that would undermine McDonnell's campaign.
"I think those are a couple of quotes out of a 100-page document," McDonnell said. "Look, it was 20 years ago. Some of my views over time have changes. I strongly support women in the workforce."
McDonnell also acknowledged that President Barack Obama's falling approval ratings in Virginia have helped his campaign "dramatically." McDonnell has a five-point lead in the latest polls.
Deeds joins the ranks of RATS too stupid to take the opportunity to be on FOX.
What? You mean mcdonnel couldn’t rep six his school papers. As the president without borders has?
While those views may be objectionable, I do not see how 20 year old writings should have any impact on present day politics.
The only government systems that are based on "creating jobs" and "developing the economy" are communist. When will these people learn that the government can't "create" anything without confiscating money from someone else first.
We the people create. The government usurps.
The dims are pretty had up for dirt on him, aren’t they?
http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/ for Governor
http://www.billbolling.com/ for Lieutenant Governor
http://www.cuccinelli.com/ for Attorney General
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While those views may be objectionable, I do not see how 20 year old writings should have any impact on present day politics.
Except perhaps in his favor. I'll take his thesis over Mrs. Zero's any day. In fact, what's not to like about McDonnell's? Women working outside the house, whatever its other benefits to many individuals, has been the major factor in pushing the divorce rate to "skyrocket." It has not been an unalloyed social benefit, let us say. Child-care tax credits are nice to have as an individual, but across society, not only do they increase the number of women working away from home, but also (surprise) reduce the amount of care children receive. Many conservatives approve of them because they are tax credits, but it's the Lefty ideologues who like them best, since they are an incentive for young mothers to stick kids into daycare. Leftists from Marx on have hated the mother-child bond as the major obstacle to their dream of faceless socialism—where our strongest bond is not to family, but to the State. Child-care is none of the government's business. Cut people's taxes and let people work out their own incentives from there.
The Griswold vs. Connecticut decision on contraception was incoherent and unconstitutional, and was the foundation for pretty much the same gang of idiots to issue the similarly inane and unconstitutional Roe vs. Wade 11 years later.
I'm not from Va., but I will say that if McDonnell would actually stand up for his views, I'd like him even better. I think it's a bad precedent to back away from the truth.
As for old and inconvenient utterings:
4.Obama 1991 Radio Interview Scandal # 1 - Says Supreme Court Should Have Redistributed Wealth from Whites to Blacks! 1991 On WBEZ FM in Chicago, then state senator Barack Obama suggested the supreme court failed the civil rights movement by not “redistributing wealth” after black people were given rights. He thinks the U.S. Supreme Court should have taken money from whites and given it to blacks as part of the civil rights movement!5.Obama 1991 Radio Interview Scandal # 2 - Says Supreme Court Was Not Radical Enough! 1991 On WBEZ FM in Chicago Obama the Warren Supreme Court was “not that radical” because it “didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers of the Constitution.” He wanted them to be more radical, break free from the constraints of the Constitution, break free from the constraints of the founding fathers and redistribute wealth!
6.Obama 1991 Radio Interview Scandal # 3 - Says U.S. Constitution is Flawed! When sworn in as President, obama promised to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. But back in 1991 On WBEZ FM in Chicago, he said the “Constitution fails because it doesn’t say what government must do on your behalf.” He said Civil Rights leaders failed to bring about “redistributive change” because they lost track of community organizing which he said is how you bring about that change. He said “We still suffer from that (failure).”
For Godsake- his daughter joined the Army and DEPLOYED TO IRAQ. His wife has worked for 37 years.
Why doesn’t he just state these facts in amazement when anyone brings up whether he “supports women in the workplace”
Tony laughs about Deeds refusal to appear on his show. What, he doesn't like free air time ? He doesn't want to talk to people in Hampton Roads , yet he wants to be their governor?
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