Posted on 11/04/2013 9:42:48 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
ANNANDALE, Va. — Vice President Joe Biden on Monday delivered a closing pitch for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, painting the Virginia race as a major test of the mainstream electorate’s answer to a resurgent tea party.
”This race has captured the attention of the entire nation,” Biden said. “Not just because it’s a … race in a bellwether state that has become the face of progress in this country. But because it’s the first major race between the forces and faces of the new Republican tea party — a tea party whose social recidivism is only outgunned by its hostility to science and technology and innovation and scholarship.”
Biden’s comments came at a get-out-the-vote canvassing kick-off here, a day before the Virginia gubernatorial election in which McAuliffe is facing off with GOP candidate Ken Cuccinelli. About 300 people packed into the backyard of a volunteer’s home in this suburb of Washington.
Cuccinelli, Biden continued, is a candidate “whose views on women, you know them well but I think it’s fair to say, are from another era. I mean literally from another era.”
He appeared at the event with McAuliffe, along with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), all of whom blasted Cuccinelli over his socially conservative positions on women’s health care and sought to tie him to the tea party.
“Everything they talk about, without exaggeration, is about turning back what the rest of the country and the world thinks is progress,” Biden said. “It’s hard to fathom this state being led by a man who rejects all that this new thinking stands for. The whole nation is looking at this race, that’s not hyperbole.”
A Quinnipiac University poll out Monday found McAuliffe leading Cuccinelli by six points, 46-40 percent. Biden urged Democrats not to get complacent.
“There’s only one place the tea party can compete with us,” he said. “And that is, they do turn out their base, they do turn out those who share those views out of the ’30s and ’40s and ’50s. That’s what it is. Don’t take this for granted.”
Biden said the GOP ticket’s conservative positions on social issues would discourage businesses from setting up shop in Virginia, echoing a line Democrats have emphasized throughout the campaign.
“Think about whether or not, with the attitude of Cuccinelli and his ticket, if they were to win, what that will say to America,” he said. “What that will do to attracting the continuation of this great tradition in this state.”
He jabbed, “They’re going to need to give [businesses] stipends to come to this state.”
The vice president called McAuliffe, in contrast, “smart as hell, tough” and someone who knows “how to get things done.”
McAuliffe served up his standard critique of Cuccinelli, describing him as a socially conservative tea party figure aligned with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). He urged the canvassers to push hard in the final hours of the campaign.
“The question in this election is simple: will the mainstream, bipartisan majority in Virginia be drowned out by the tea party?” he asked the crowd. “If mainstream Virginians from both parties don’t turn out to vote, you’re letting the tea party decide Virginia’s future. That’s why I need your help more than ever. Get. Out. The votes.”
And Joe Biden, YOU are from another planet.
his response should be: “Personally I think socialism-communism days are over and should be made to stay that way”
yeah...a better, more prosperous era
He says that like it’s a bad thing.
We cannot wait to say, ‘back in the Obama era, when things were terrible...’
And that is a good thing.
“... a tea party whose social recidivism is only outgunned by its hostility to science and technology and innovation and scholarship.”
biden was actually able to say this? Of course, he had to bring guns into his argument...
The RATS are at war with America: It’s out in the open.
Hey Joe “This is a big F’ing deal” Biden. Our current state of affairs is what YOU call progress? YOUR Party has bankrupted Detroit and you are currently bankrupting America!
”This race has captured the attention of the entire nation,” Biden said. “Not just because it’s a … race in a bellwether state that has become the face of progress in this country. But because it’s the first major race between the forces and faces of the new Republican tea party — a tea party whose social recidivism is only outgunned by its hostility to science and technology and innovation and scholarship.”
Eureka! Tea partiers know science
A finding in a study on the relationship between science literacy and political ideology surprised the Yale professor behind it: Tea party members know more science than non-tea partiers.
Yale law professor Dan Kahan posted on his blog this week that he analyzed the responses of more than 2,000 American adults recruited for another study and found that, on average, people who leaned liberal were more science literate than those who leaned conservative.
However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn’t, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html
Biden is an idiot.
Says the man with the hair plugs and tooth veneers.
McAwfull has about ten times the funds that Cuccinelli has-——McA’s running TV ads up the kazoo.
Start the avalanche of contributions to Ken....he needs to run last minute-ads to put him over the top.
CUCCINELLI DONATION WEB SITE—click here to donate
https://secure.piryx.com/donate/FkzOS94c/Ken-Cuccinelli-for-Governor/nav-bar
So says the Chairman Moa disciple.
Good Biden! Tomorrow if you win, the Tea Party is in bad shape. However, if we win, look out we are cooking and going to 2014.
Thanks for the link, I just sent a donation.
Hey Joe, how is your niece doing..ya know, the one that got arrested
WTF!! Do females HATE traditionally conservative men because they're jaded from divorce? What secrets do females have that we're not being told? Do they HATE traditional America and perceive it to be against them? WE NEED TO FIX THIS HARMFUL PERCEPTION and make females aware that the 'War on Women' is a ruse used as a tool by the DemonRats to get them emotional and lose their logical minds!
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