All summer long, Republican Bob McDonnell has been urging Creigh Deeds, his Democratic opponent in the governor’s race, to join him in a series of 10 debates across Virginia. Let’s debate the serious issues Virginia faces in the 21st century, McDonnell, the state’s former attorney general, said. Deeds’ answer? Here’s a 20-year-old, law-school thesis. Debate that. How truly pathetic. The Washington Post broke the “story” of McDonnell’s law school paper last week. Written while he was a law student at Regent University in 1989, he detailed his views on divorce, single-parent households, homosexuality, abortion and women’s rights. It was pretty...