Cuccinelli unimpressed by the presidential field
By Norman Leahy | Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | Politics, VirginiaAttorney General Ken Cuccinelli has surveyed the GOP presidential field and found it lacking:
“I don’t think there’s any single candidate … that’s so spectacular that he leaps out to everyone that he’s the one…”
Readers of Bearing Drift Magazine and listeners of “The Score” radio show already knew about Cuccinelli’s qualms with the field and the qualities he was looking for in a candidate.
So you’re a months ahead of the Washington Examiner — take a bow (and if you haven’t subscribed to the Magazine yet, you can do so on the right sidebar).
But back to the question of which candidate will earn the Cuccinelli endorsement…
There is no clear frontrunner. If anything, none of the current players are in the game (a Cuccinelli endorsement of Mitt Romney, for example, would come as an almost lethal shock). He may decide to endorse no one, which could be spun as a stand on principle. Or, perhaps, Ken could be one of those Republican mandarins secretly hoping for a brokered convention, where no clear winner of the primaries has emerged, the delegates are divided and cranky and a dark horse emerges to make it all right.
We shall see.
So who is the lucky winner of Cooch’s nod? Make your case in the comments…
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Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Examiner contributor.
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18 Responses to "Cuccinelli unimpressed by the presidential field"
Guess he can show his un-impression at the next so called debate. He’s supposed to be one of the questioners, I’ve heard.
It’s good to see Repubs are now looking for the Messiah too. Very Dem like. Relying on constant pressure from the base to ensure Constitutional governance is too boring for all concerned. Of course leftists have no problem doing that to advance unconstitutional governance. BTW do you ever see Dems (publicly) complaining about their candidates?
I hope that Cuccinelli will ask them if they agree with Obama, the dems and Allens buddies in the gop who just passed HR2112. This is real bad for Virginia horse farms: “During these trying times, is the only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is that Americans need to eat horses?” Can’t make this stuff up.
Read more: http://technorati.com/lifestyle/article/obama-legalizes-horse-slaughter-for-human/#ixzz1fCofDpcd
Tell those kids who supported Obama about this.. Any potus candidate who cannot come out against this as well as human abortion loses my vote.
valentinus – hell, yes we do. Harris Miller v. Jim Webb was one of the nastiest primary fights I have ever seen. Then you recall the Deeds v. McAuliffe v. Moran kerkuffle? That was when I actually enjoyed reading Blue Virginia. Then there was the Favola Senate primary – particularly internecine.
The Dems have had a chance to regroup – very few state primary issues and no real challenge to Kaine right now. The Democratic U.S. Senate candidates are not nearly as vociferous as those who support Jamie Radtke or EW Jackson.
They certainly could be, but it’s just not happening right now.
But do we “ever” see Dems complaining about their candidates – hell yes.
Correction to the above typo.. HR should read H as in H2112.
JR
I guess I need to go back to the footnotes. Obviously the gangsters and their backers always have their squabbles. However the Dems not directly involved in the spoils fight never* (*hardly ever) say ALL of them are not good enough. Look at Caddell and Schoen. They excoriate Obama only to genuflect to Hillary Clinton who has virtually the same ideology with her own baggage. They don’t say that no Dem is worthy of the nomination. They just want a better bet to win and do the same things more discreetly.
BTW I assume you agree with everything else in the post prior to the last throwaway line since you didn’t see fit to knock it.
Silence is consent.
Anyone who thinks Democrats don’t run nasty campaigns only needs to look towards Jim Webb’s nasty anti-Semitic cartoon against Harris Miller in 2006.
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h45/citizencard/jim_webb1.gif
Disgusting, IMO.
As a post update…and I’ll put this also up on Facebook, from the most recent Cuccinelli Compass:
Turbo
What would YOU do with dead horses? Cremate them and put the ashes in an equine memory garden? Why shouldn’t the meat be used? It’s perfectly OK as long as it’s inspected as other meats. Moose, deer, rabbit, chicken, pig, sheep not to mention turkey. There’s nothing holy about horses as far as I know. The horse trader, who wrote a comment on the link you provided, had it right.
“… Americans need to eat horses.” Nobody NEEDS to eat meat of any kind. Hog dogs are my favorite meat, and I have no idea what goes into’em!
Turbo, I ate horse in Sicily and it tasted great. If it is less expensive than beef, I will be happy to buy and eat horse.
Shaun, why is that cartoon anti-Semitic? I assume it was intended to be anti-Republican.
And I am with Cuccinelli-none of these candidates really impress me.
Turbo,
The rationale behind H2112 was that without slaughter houses too many old horses were being left in neglectful conditions if that was cheaper than paying a vet to put the animal down and paying to dispose of the carcass. I have to agree with you, however, that there are some troubling ethical issues with treating higher-intelligence animals as live stock. Personally, I am adamantly opposed to killing and eating liberals and, judging by the comments posted over at Smurf Virginia, most horses are much smarter than the average liberal.
QRow,
If we aren’t supposed to eat meat of any kind, then how come animals are made of meat? PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals.
I love hot dogs, too, and you don’t want to know what goes into even “all-beef” hot dogs. I suggest that you try Hebrew National kosher hot dogs. Trust me, you will never eat another brand.
I tell ya what, go ahead and eat horse. Equine vets won’t though because they know how much risk the vaccines and euthanol present to humans. Go ahead and it all you want.
I harvest deer, birds and other wildlife that are not medicated, vaccinated, medicated or loaded with antipsy that was injected before pushing 400cc’s of euthanol or enough to kill a horse.
So, uh.. which republicans want to put their name on this bill? haha
Is anyone really interested in the AG’s endorsement of a presidential candidate other than the AG himself?
While I applaud the AG’s efforts as it relates to defending states from further federal encroachment, the Commonwealth would be better suited if he focused his efforts continuing fighting that battle rather than get involved in commentating the presidential election. The fight in the courtroom is far from over and it’s one fight where we all need the AG to succeed.
Right, @John Hardy Willson
Why would any candidate care what Virginia’s AG
thinks?
@Rocky
Is it OK for a non-Jew to eat Hebrew National kosher hot dogs? You know, I wouldn’t want to offend anyone.
McDonnell has cause to be chosen as the right man for the job. We shall see what happens. Think of how a proposed team leader POTUS with a proposed dream team cabinet could win the campaign.
From reading this and other Republican blogs, I have to ask is there anyone who isn’t unimpressed by the GOP presidential field? I mean, Newt Gingrich, who has been a has been for a decade is the latest flavor of the month. It’s more and more likely that the nominee will be Mitt Romney, who a lot of Republicans just aren’t all that enthusiastic about — to say the least.
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