Posted on 11/05/2009 7:46:37 AM PST by La Lydia
In an RV swing through Northern Virginia in late August, there wasn't really time for Robert F. McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor, to stop in West Springfield. But an urgent memo awaited from his senior advisers in Richmond...A 20-year-old academic thesis -- in which McDonnell had presented a deeply conservative vision of government and criticized working women, single mothers and homosexuals -- had surfaced. McDonnell needed to sign off on the campaign's response, and then he needed to race to a rally...That moment brought the greatest test of McDonnell's disciplined campaign. Would he be able to maintain his focus on jobs and road improvements? Or would he veer off message to a discussion about his social conservatism, a topic he had sought to avoid for most of the year?
The way the campaign responded -- a disciplined response and a quick return to the practical issues that were the basis of his campaign -- was indicative of how McDonnell cruised to a resounding 17-percentage point win Tuesday over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds....
The Washington Post learned of the thesis in a mid-August interview with McDonnell and obtained a copy from Regent's library, where it is publicly available. The Post planned to publish a story on the thesis Sunday, Aug. 30. On Thursday, Aug. 27, the paper provided a copy of the thesis to the McDonnell campaign and asked for comment....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Interesting how the MSM has been able to obtain sealed documents and old theses of Republicans, but has not been able to locate a single paper Obama wrote in either his undergrad or in law school.
Don’t forget Hillary Clinton’s thesis on Saul Alinsky, another possibly enlightening document the Post and the MSM have made no effort to obtain.
People are losing their jobs and struggling to make ends meet. They don't care about a college thesis McDonnell wrote 20 years ago. Moreover the double standard they employ become all the more glaring in this enviroment. "Its the economy, stupid"!!
Give it up, WaPo. You lost.
The Washington Post learned of the thesis in a mid-August interview with McDonnell and obtained a copy from Regent's library, where it is publicly available. The Post planned to publish a story on the thesis Sunday, Aug. 30. On Thursday, Aug. 27, the paper provided a copy of the thesis to the McDonnell campaign and asked for comment.
Amy Gardener, The Washington Post, November 4, 2009
The Washington Post learned of the thesis in a recent interview with McDonnell, who mentioned it in answering a question about his political roots. McDonnell brought up the paper in reference to a pair of Republican congressmen whom he interviewed as part of his research. McDonnell then offered: "I wrote my thesis on welfare policy."
Amy Gardener, The Washington Post August 30, 2009
The Washington Post is over. The endorsed the top three Democrats. All lost. They endorsed four (or so) Republican candidates who also all lost.
Call the Post out for what it is. A discredited Democrat hack propaganda machine.
That pretty much sums it up.
My bad though. Reading through that again maybe she doesn’t contradict herself.
McDonnell won Fairfax and Loundon counties - WaPO readership base. Take that WaPO!
Of course, Larry Sabato is spinning McDonnell’s victory as due to low voter turnout of blacks, women, and young people.
How many people are actually desperate and dim enough to rely on the WaPo for anything other than pet potty training material?
Maybe I don’t actually want to know the answer to that question.
That may be the case, but that demographic typically doesn't vote anyway, and only voted for Obama, because of his skin color. When it comes down to politics they don't care one way or the other. I am guessing many of that group couldn't have told you who was running in the first place. Our precinct had average turnout for a non presidential election.
Y’know, the Macaca Post probably did Gov-elect McDonnell an enormous favor digging up that old thesis. If they hadn’t, he might’ve only won by 10%. ;-)
After watching McDonnell's two Sunday morning interviews on YouTube this evening, he's ready for them. They won't rattle him.
On the “plus” side, the WaPo DOES have the largest comics section of any daily newspaper I’ve ever seen...
;-)
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