Other than getting Creigh Deeds' name wrong (Davis? Thinking of Tom or Jeannemarie?), Chris Matthews (and also Michelle Bernard) made some interesting points last night.
*"You have to ask yourself as a citizen, what do they really believe, what they write when nobody's watching except their teachers, or what they say when they're trying to get elected?"
*"This wasn't the indiscretion of youth."
*"...a major thesis, this isn't something you knock off in a pop quiz, this is something you devote yourself to for at least a year...it's a major commitment of who you are, you write something you believe is useful to the academic discipline, something you believe is, or else why write it?"
*Michelle Bernard adds, "Look at women on the jury on this...character's the big issue here, who is this man, has he evolved? There are many people who were troglodytes on a whole array of issues..."
*"This is one of the arguments that knocked Rick Santorum out of the U.S. Senate very recently, he was caught writing a book where he basically knocked down the idea of women in the workplace."
*Michelle Bernard asks, "Let's assume [McDonnell] hasn't changed his views, can he really act as governor of a state and completely separate his views about women in the workplace...and actually act as governor in a way that meets their needs...about how they want to live their lives?"
*Michelle Bernard adds, "The bottom line is this is not the 1940s or 1950s America...women are going to be saying, 'is my life as valuable as a man to you if you're governor of the state of Virginia'?"
*"Oftentimes on this program, you can tell which way the winds are blowing politically by who we get on...today they went out there and went everywhere, trying to get someone to come on and defend Bob McDonnell's views on this subject and they couldn't get anybody."
P.S. Mo Elleithee was supposed to be on the show but technical difficulties intervened.
P.P.S. Matthews later got Creigh's name right. :)
