As far as I'm concerned,
this is exactly what Creigh Deeds should be doing in this campaign -- calling out Bob McDonnell for his extreme views on abortion (and, I'd add, other social issues as well).
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds will launch a campaign this week to portray his opponent's longtime efforts to restrict abortion as out of the mainstream...
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Deeds's appeal is directed at moderate suburbanites in Northern Virginia and elsewhere who might be turned off by McDonnell's views. It's also an attempt to rally support from Democrats who have joined Virginia's electorate in recent years but who might be ambivalent about Deeds because of his relatively conservative positions on guns and other issues.
The effort is also designed to undercut one of the main themes of McDonnell's candidacy: that he is a moderate who would concentrate on jobs and the economy if elected.
And let's be absolutely crystal clear:
Bob McDonnell is no moderate, in any way, shape or form. Period.As
NLS points out, "Between the 50+ bills he patroned or co-patroned on abortion in the General Assembly, or his removing a lesbian from a judgeship in Hampton Roads-
this is a guy who would make Ken Starr blush when talking about interest in other people's private lives." In short, I applaud Creigh Deeds for starting to let people know about Bob McDonnell's far-outside-the-mainstream views on "social issues." Go get'm, Creigh!
