Is Ken Cuccinelli a civil rights leader for our times?
Listen to the clip below, from a talk show Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli appeared on Monday, in which he kinda sorta compares himself to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on the holiday memorializing the famed civil rights leader.
January 22, 2013 - 5:32 PM
I didn’t hear the comparison to Martin Luther King. I heard him recognize Martin Luther King Junior Day. I also heard another conservative have to steer a conversation back to where it needs to be, religious freed, when liberals want to talk about contraception all the time. It’s a childish game the Democrats play.
Maybe if “your time” is the Spanish Inquisition Even then…maybe not.
Eddie@1 nails it. This appears to be just another of Dan’s liberal smears
on a conservative. There is no kinda sorta comparison by Cuccinelli of himself to Martin Luther King. . .unless one listens to the tape with a liberal juandiced ear.
“juandiced ear”
I got juandiced ear once. I spoke fluent Spanish in less than a week. Works better than Rosetta Stone.
hey ol’ dano,
What’s up with your lyin’ about AG Cuccinelli? There is no reference, by either the AG or his host, about the AG even “sorta” comparing himself to MLK. Ken properly credits MLK for his good works and his non-violent protest practice.
Hey, I know! ol’ dano’s bias has completely corrupted his ability to think clearly and honestly. he hears imaginary things which end up flying out of his fingertips, for all to read. i bet he talks to imaginary friends. i bet they are libs, too.
Hey, I know! ol’ dano’s bias has completely corrupted his ability to think clearly and honestly. he hears imaginary things which end up flying out of his fingertips, for all to read. i bet he talks to imaginary friends. i bet they are libs, too.
He’s doing a lot of that tonight, Frank. Ken Cuccinelli is a tremendous and honorable person. Dan should be ashamed for trying to tarnish this great man. It’s a shame when people get blinded by ideological hate that they would follow orders and spread falsehoods about one of God’s great servants.
It does appear Henry has shamed Dan into calling the AG by his proper name, though.
Dan saw a case of shameless namedropping. Honor by association is the crap Pooch was trying. And since Pooch would jail any man like King until he rotted in jail, Dan was right to cry foul.
Why would Ken jail and let rot MLK, a fellow Republican? There was no association between Ken and MLK. Do we need to get an English professor in here to do some sentence diagraming?
Cuccinelli=scum
Dr. King was a Republican. Nice try, Eddie.
“It does appear Henry has shamed Dan into calling the AG by his proper name, though.”
Were you talking about the Cooch, suzie?
It was so cold this morning, I actually saw a DEMOCRAT with his hands in his OWN pockets.
Dr. King was WAY too smart to have been a Democrat. He was a visionary…not a thief.
King was a radical progressive revolutionary. Call it “conservative” all you like.
Exactly what is the point of debating MLK’s political affiliation? The parties have largely swapped social agendas and pretty much traded constituencies since then.
Nearly everything about Dr. King was liberal. He would not have been the catalyst for change that he became and the figure that he is today if he wasn’t a game-changer; liberals like to change the game – conservatives like to play the same game and just tweak the rules as they play. There is no denying that Dr. King took our nation down a new path without ever worrying about on which team he was playing. His message was one of inclusion, not separation. How he chose to vote is truly irrelevant and also none of anyone’s business but his own. His message lives on because it transcends race, affiliation, creed or any of the other shallow, petty things by which we judge one another. It’s saddening how many of the people who quote and speculate about him today have lost or forgotten that most important part of his message:
There is only one team and we are ALL on it.
Exactly what civil rights would Cucinnelli be “leading” over, in ANY time?
I am not so sure that the GOTP would even consider tax raising and gun control advocate Ronald Reagan to be “one of them” anymore, much less the idiocy of claiming Dr. King.
Dr. King was a Conservative. Call him a radical progressive revolutionary all you want.
Nearly everything about Dr. King was liberal.
MLK’s signature quote is one of the conservative tenets –and the total opposite of liberalism.
“…they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but of the content of their character”.
This totally flies in the face of the affirmative action crap.
Suzie, the only reason why this country still has affirmative action is because of people like you who still judge someone by the color of their skin.
No one can really say what Dr. King’s affiliations would have evolved into, but we can say without a doubt! He sure as a hell wouldn’t be a conservative in today’s political scene.
That you do not comprehend the idiocy of claiming Dr. King as “one of you” is just really revealing. In that totally Norma Desmond way you all have.
Dr. King said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” The extremely pejorative way you all have judged the content of Barack Hussein Obama’s character (and that of his wife and many other people of color) leaves you so far removed from the sentiment of Dr. King as to make you an alien species.
The extremely pejorative way you all have judged the content of Barack Hussein Obama’s character (and that of his wife and many other people of color) leaves you so far removed from the sentiment of Dr. King as to make you an alien species.
We have judged obama’s character to be defective, and it has had nothing to do with the color of his skin. So we are following Dr. King’s dream to a tee.
Suzie, the only reason why this country still has affirmative action is because of people like you who still judge someone by the color of their skin.
Are you kidding? AA has nothing to do with equality. It’s just another vote-buying mechanism by the left. Just like food stamps and welfare.
hmmm, looks like we’ve got a lib using “Pooch”, for Cuccinelli.
And, we’ve got another libber posting “the Cooch”, for Cuccinelli.
And, we’ve got another libber posting “Cuccinelli = scum.”
Looks like ol’ dano is cool with his minions posting disrespectful names of conservative politicians. hmmm. Alrighty then.
Whew! We’re right back to where we were pre-December 7, 2012. It only took ol’ dano’s very own lib followers …less than 7 weeks… to completely trash the “blog rules of etiquette” presented by their very own leader. Seriously! I can’t make this up!
So, I hereby dub obama, …”obuma”.
Didn’t a wise man once say, “Judge not, let ye be judged?”
Should have been ‘lest’, of course.
It was specifically the results of MLK’s work that drove Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, and hundreds of other southern career politicians with a constituency of bigots into the Republican party. MLK would not have followed them; if he had, they’d have left it.
Helms and Thurmond (and Rand Paul today) wanted to conserve segregation, MLK wanted to progress beyond it. A bigot killed MLK with a gun, in a sniping that concealed handguns wouldn’t have prevented.
Fox, Limbaugh, and the rest of the RW echo chamber elites do not want their captives to understand political realignment in American politics, particularly while it happens again today with generations too young to be credulous of Mike Deaver’s mythologizing efforts.
Oh gee, look at Frank pretending he ever honored the “civility codes”. You are a laugh a minute Frank.
Frankie, you were one of the first butchering names again. Everybody who reads this blog knows it.
This particular Blog series is just more proof that all you have to be to Blog/write a column for the RT is be a liberal. No other “skills” required.
Dan’s total blind devotion to the cause has totally obscured any objective interpretation of what the AG said.
Ever since Cuccinelli took office (and probably before) Dan has waged a war against him along with the RTEB.
And both are still losing.
ummm, Bob H:
Cuccinelli, McAuliffe Virtually Tied In New 2013 Virginia Governor’s Race Poll
http://www2.wsls.com/news/2013/jan/23/cuccinelli-mcauliffe-virtually-tied-new-2013-virgi-ar-2484502/
Frankie, you were one of the first butchering names again. Everybody who reads this blog knows it.
Nope. You were the first.
Didn’t a wise man once say, “Judge not, let ye be judged?”
Assessing the fitness and character of a national leader is not meant by that passage.
I’m not judging whether obama will get to Heaven or not. But the guy does have the blood of millions of butchered children on his hands, so that will be an unspeakably large obstacle to overcome. Still, we as Christians believe no matter how horrible the tyrant and how egregious the sins, God can always forgive. Does someone like that seek or even want forgiveness? That’s another question.
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And both are still losing.
When atheist people and organizations attack one of God’s servants, there’s no question who wins in the end. Ken has taken their best shots, yet still continues to grow in public esteem and stature.
Earth to Sandi, re: ““I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin…”
Correct me if I am wrong but, didn’t an R president nominate Condoleezza Rice, Colon Powell, Clarence Thomas? How about RNC chair Steele? Or the first black senators or congressmen?
Seems like the R’s have moved to realize his “dream”.
Why is it that liberals always want to reinvent history to “their” liking and make everything a racial issue? Is that the best they have to offer?
Bob H, re: 5:11
I suspect Dan gets paid according to the number of posts he can solicit.
The more extreme he can be, the better for his wallet.
Capitalism 101; He knows that the lifespan of this is limited so he is taking full advantage. He doesn’t believe all the crap he spews here, it is just “red meat” for the liberals and venting for those who disagree.
With every finger click Dan gets richer. His Caseites are building his retirement… robber barons would be proud…
“I suspect Dan gets paid according to the number of posts he can solicit. The more extreme he can be, the better for his wallet. Capitalism 101; He knows that the lifespan of this is limited so he is taking full advantage. He doesn’t believe all the crap he spews here, it is just “red meat” for the liberals and venting for those who disagree.
With every finger click Dan gets richer.”
–Comment by mikeO
In terms of reality, this is as wrongheaded as it could possibly be, like everything else mikeO posts here.
But, it’s a fantastic idea! Would you call the publisher, and pitch it to her today?
Why is it that liberals always want to reinvent history to “their” liking and make everything a racial issue? Is that the best they have to offer?
Mike O,
They have to keep the race issue stirred up to keep getting the black vote. The last thing the left wants is racial harmony or for blacks to prosper on their own. Keep ‘em uneducated. Keep ‘em dependent. Keep ‘em separate.
Next to abortion, it’s the worst abomination the left has foisted on America.
So mikeO has decided to enrich Dan?
Better to deny Dan by disappearing, mikeO.
Comment by mike o — January 23, 2013 @ 6:05 pm
This is a subdomain within roanoke.com. Without charging for memberships, the only way Dan could make money from this site is through advertising on his pages. Since the ads remain the same no matter which blog you visit within the ‘blogs’ domain, obviously this is not the case. Even if it were the case, he’d better be rotating his ads more often because I doubt he’d be getting many click-throughs with the same ads rolling repetitively. At an average of 3 cents per original IP click-through, he’d have to roll a million clicks per year to really be making any kind of cheddar from this site. I’m willing to bet that’s revenue that roanoke.com isn’t willing to let flow solely to it’s blogmasters without getting their cut.
If Dan were making money from this site, he’d be plugging it in every column he published at at every available spot on roanoke.com. I know I would.
But hey, way to dump all over a free courtesy service provided to us just to further some unfounded speculation. This place just oozes gratitude.
If you believe that Mike O, why are you helping the brother out? You make no sense. None. Capitalism 101, walk with your feet.
I give the Republican leadership respect for being a lot more color blind than their followers but I have no idea how that translates into no more problems over race. It doesn’t.
Bob H and Mike O’s “total blind devotion to the cause has totally obscured any objective interpretation of what the” President says.
Ever since Obama took office, and before, they have waged a war against him, Dan Casey, the Roanoke Times and the RTEB.
So if we are “sheeple” what does that make you? Hypocrites?
“So mikeO has decided to enrich Dan?
Better to deny Dan by disappearing, mikeO.”
Warren, J.M. and others,
As I’m sure you realize by now, mikeO thinks he has everything figured out. There’s a know-it-all tone in his comments that remind me of something similar in Big Momma’s stuff (although mikeO’s phrasing isn’t nearly as clunky as BM’s is).
This is just another thing mikeO thinks he has figured out, that he’s 100 percent wrong on. In that respect, he’s consistent. I’ll give him that!
“Nope. You were the first.”
Nah, that would have been Frank claiming it was a typo.
Great News, mikeO!!!
Dan has decided that because of your dogged determination and persuasive ability, he’s decided to institute revenue sharing from all proceeds that are directly derived from posts on this blog! He’ll be using an established model, here are the details:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_DV54ddNHE
It just proves how delusional he is.