McDonnell Is Right
The thing about Democrats running for office is that they seldom tell you what they believe in. Take Creigh Deeds for instance. He’s changed his position on so many issues it’s hard to tell what he would do as governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
His Republican opponent Bob McDonnell has stayed consistently conservative throughout his years in public life.
McDonnell caught a lot of crap today over a paper he wrote in college in which he said that working women were hard on families. Now he’s in hot water, having insulted the women of Virginia.
From Politico reporting on a WaPo story:
Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia, defended himself Monday after the Washington Post reported that his 1989 master’s degree thesis advocated a number of controversial, socially conservative positions.
The Post reported Sunday that he described working women and feminists as “detrimental” to the family and said government policy should favor married couples over “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.”
Well, he happens to be right. Two parent working households are detrimental to children. Where both mom and dad work full time outside the home, the children are neglected. Oh sure, they’ll get tossed into day care, kindergarten, public school, etc., etc., etc., so there’ll be some adult looking after them. But nobody loves you like your own parents. Nobody has the commitment to a child’s welfare more so than the child’s own parents.
So McDonnell has written that he believes families do better with moms at home. Wow, what an outrageous position. Nothing normal like fathers sucking on their toddler boy’s ding dongs that Jim Webb wrote about before he ascended to the U.S. Senate.
The only controversy here is a contrived one by liberals who consider any “conservative” position to be beyond the pale of reasonable public discourse. I reject that whole notion and so should Bob McDonnell. Families are forced to have both parents working because of the high taxes and lousy economy imposed on us by Democrats. Don’t forget that. Most families could live pretty well if they got to keep the 30 to 40% confiscated by the government at all levels from their paychecks.
And, don’t forget the current recesssion — complete with an ongoing housing collapse, manufacturing collapse, coming commercial real estate collapse, auto and financial industry collapse, nearly 10% unemployment (with real unemployment probably closer to 16%) — was caused by corrupt Democrat politicians and their disasterous social and economic policies.
McDonnell should stop apologizing for what he said decades ago. What he said was true, move on. Some are calling this McDonnell’s macaca moment. But George Allen’s big problem wasn’t that he called a creep Democrat plant macaca, but that he apologized for saying it and kept apologizing, giving credence to the bogus charges leveled by a biased press and his political enemies.
Conservatives should stand up for McDonnell and McDonnell should stand up for himself.
Creigh Deeds is a loathsome worm and like all Democrats would rather bring up bogus issues than address the real problems confronting the nation and the state of Virginia.
What an idiot.
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