If there were any doubt that Bob McDonnell is a misogynist after skimming his "scholarly" tract from schoolboy days at CBN University, it was wiped away yesterday going door to door on this sorry campaign trail. I learned of his inability to honor motherhood at the London Bridge Baptist Church.Getting no answer at the door to one home, I left literature for Senator Deeds and Peter Schmidt and went on to the next door. Standing on the porch there, waiting for an answer, I saw a woman come out the door of the previous house, taking the flyers with her as she went to her car. She looked at the material for a minute or so, then looked up and around, spying me. "Hey," she shouted at me, "did you just leave this?" She backed her car out of her drive and in front of the house where I waited for someone to answer the bell.
"Yes, I did. Have you thought about who you are going to support for Governor?"
"Thanks for this…" she said reviewing the literature, "I know who it isn't going to be."
"Who is that?"
"That "M" guy."
Getting no answer at this door, I left the literature and walked to the street. "Do you know about Creigh Deeds?"
"No, but I know this: That "M" guy came to my church on Mother's Day, and do you know what he talked about? Did he talk about mothers and honoring them? I dressed up my three boys and took them to church for Mother's Day and I had to be lectured on abortion. Abortion on Mother's Day. Can you believe it? On Father's Day they talked about the importance of fathers and their role in the family, but on Mother's Day, with my three boys, I had to hear 20 minutes on abortion from that guy."
"So I think we can count on you to support Deeds? Do you know about your candidate for delegate, Peter Schmidt?"
She was looking at the palm card. "I don't know about him…but his wife is a nurse educator and I'm all about that. Biology is my passion."
"Peter is a successful businessman who wants to represent your district and not the lobbyists."
"Well, as long as he's not with that "M" guy... Send me more mailings."
Taking care to confirm the Virginia Beach church to which she referred, I thanked her as she drove off. And I considered "M's" defense of his "decades old" paper citing his lovely wife and three wonderful daughters in his recent commercials as a proof source of his evolved view of women. That paper ought to stick to him like flypaper, not only because of his legislative record, but also because his inability to pay tribute to motherhood on Mother's Day in a house of worship just this year belies his true agenda.
Cross posted at Blue Commonwealth
