Cuccinelli: 2013 a chance to show “conservatism isn’t dead”
Ken Cuccinelli
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, now the likely Republican nominee for governor next year, gave what amounted to his first speech of the 2013 campaign today during the state Republican Party’s annual “advance” in Virginia Beach.
And it is clear from the text of Cuccinelli’s remarks that he doesn’t buy the argument that his party needs a makeover after losing the presidential election and the U.S. Senate race in Virginia.
“Well, one thing I know Virginians don’t want, don’t need, and sure as heck can’t afford, and that’s two Democrat parties!,” Cuccinelli said. “Look friends, Virginia once again has an opportunity – this is an opportunity to show the country that conservatism isn’t dead… that it’s not old or worn out – and that it’s still alive and thriving!”
Cuccinelli appears to have a clear path to the GOP nomination after Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling dropped out of the contest earlier this week. Cuccinelli saluted Bolling today, saying: “I appreciated my time in the Senate with him, where I can hardly remember disagreeing with him on an issue, and where I can remember voting right along side him in some tense and difficult fights.”
The full text of Cuccinelli’s remarks can be found here.
– Michael Sluss
December 1, 2012 - 7:13 PM
Lets go, Ken…Obama was elected by a truly illiterate society.
We need Cooch to be Cooch and we need Tom Perriello to get in this race. Solid, fact-based conservatism is certainly not what Cooch stands for; he is on the lunatic fringe and has no reasonable chance of being elected as Virginia’s Governor. He makes George Allen look like a moderate and Allen couldn’t get it done this last time around in no small part because of remarks he has made in the past. Cooch has enough peculiar and damaging remarks on the record that whoever his opponent is there will be an endless flow of ads pointing out how far out on the fringe this guy is. Unfortunately, until Perriello gets in the race officially, we have McAuliffe as Cooch’s opponent. McAuliffe is not likely to be taken seriously either which leads us to Perriello. Tom, for the sake of all reasonable Virginians, please make your announcement soon!
Conservatism isn’t dead. Well, for the 25 to 35% of people. The Cooch is going to have a mighty hard time getting to the real voters he need – the moderates/centrists/independents/or whatever they are called these days. The Grand Old Party should know by now (geez) that the conservative votes are not their problem. It looks like they need to lose one or two more big election cycles to learn their lesson. tsk tsk.
Doto, I’ve read enough of your posts to know that you aren’t in any position to throw that stone. Give it up.
Conservatism might be still alive, but Cooch proves nuttiness is also alive and well. Go Periello.
Well said Concern for the future! I think Cuccinelli will discover that the entire Virginia electorate is just not that in to him. He will help us elect a Moderate Democrat, so for that I will be grateful. There is a reason Virginia is “blue” and if anything Cuccinelli believes is true, was indeed true, Romney would have carried this state.
Conservatism isn’t dead, nor should it die. However, Cuccinelli’s brand of Tea Party radicalism is dying quickly, as it certainly should. He speaks of not needing two Democratic partes. The GOP’s problem this past election was & remains, that there are currently two Republican parties, something Cuccinelli & his ilk have caused with their extremism.
Sure, Cuccinelli’s rhetoric plays well with the Tea Party & their billionaire backers. The general public, even other conservatives, though, don’t support that exlusionist mindset.
I may have voted for Bolling, someone I consider a standard, even slightly moderate Republican. I do not like McAuliffe. I hope Tom gets in the race because there is no way in hell I would ever vote for Mr. Cuccinelli.
GOP wants the public to think that conservatism means “Ronald Reagan conservatism”. Ronald Reagan was far more left than Cooch, and shouldn’t be named in the same breath. The comment by Jeff is exactly why he won’t win!
Has anybody else noticed the absolute blarney Jamie Radtke is spouting these days concerning the takeover of the Virginia Republican Party of the right wingers? Things like having a convention is better for the voice of the grassroots people and that the process has been taken out of the hands of the big money people. I wonder who she she thinks the Roves and the Koches are.
Apparently Radtke has become just a complete tool of the Tea Partiers. Either that or she’s seriously out to lunch.