22 Feb 2012 7:32 pm
MistyBlue, on 22 February 2012 - 07:08 PM, said:Governor Bob McDonnell [R-Virginia]....generally, he's governing in a mainstream conservative way.Really? What about the personhood bill that was even too radical for Mississippi?Is that mainstream?If so, why did it fail by double digits in both Colorado and Mississippi?No comment on the stuff that Bob McDonnel wrote in his thesis when he was 34 years old?'Leaders', Bob McDonnell argued, 'must correct the folklore about the separation of church and state'. He called on 'every level of government to use public policy to punish cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators'.He said, 'Man`s basic nature is inclined toward evil, when the exercise of liberty takes the shape of pornography, drug abuse or homosexuality, the government must restrain, punish and deter'.Bob McDonnell said the Supreme Court ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut which said states can`t criminalize contraception, was illogical. He then came out raging against, 'the perverted notion of liberty, that each individual should be able to live out his sexual life in the way he chooses, without interference from the state'.Does that stuff sound mainstream to you Puss?Do you agree that the idea of separation between church and state is 'folklore'?Do you agree that government should use public policy to punish cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators?Do you agree that the notion that each individual should be able to live out his sexual life in the way he chooses, without interference from the state, is a 'perverted notion of liberty'?Before you go telling me that he may have written that stuff, but he hasn't governed that way, The Washington Post actually did an analysis of his thesis and found that of the 15 things listed in it, McDonnell has already worked on legislation to address 10 of them. So he is governing exactly that way.He sponsored four bills to make divorce more difficult in Virginia. Bob McDonnell`s thesis had said that the, "trend of working women was ultimately detrimental to the family." Once Bob McDonnell got into the state legislature he voted against the resolution calling for the end of pay discrepancies between men and women. The resolution essentially said, we think men and women ought to get paid the same if they do the same work. Bob McDonnell voted no on that.He even co-sponsored legislation that could have made it illegal to swear in an e-mail that was sent from Virginia.There's a real small government Conservative for you.He wanted to outlaw cursing in e-mails. **** that. Edited by MistyBlue, 22 February 2012 - 08:34 PM.