A sleazy and unscrupulous Democratic
grifter named Terry McAuliffe reportedly – and inexplicably -- leads Virginia
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli by roughly 7 percentage points in current polls
monitoring the race for Governor of Virginia.
Cuccinelli has spent nearly his
entire professional career in effective and dedicated service to the
Commonwealth, both as an accomplished state senator and as a highly effective
and principled Attorney General. He is
Virginian to the core, both in education (degrees from both University of
Virginia and George Mason) and career, as well as in longstanding family
residence. His unwavering dedication to
public service is exceeded only by his demonstrated commitment to the most
important job a man can perform – that of a strong, loyal, and protective
husband and father.
McAuliffe, in contrast, has spent
nearly his entire career ruthlessly raising money for Democratic politicians who
represent the antithesis of Virginia values -- like Bill and Hilary Clinton,
Barack Obama, and now, himself. He has
raised $275 million for the Clintons and their causes alone.
This is his primary, if not his sole, claim to prominence in public
life. There appears to be no moral
principle or standard of simple decency he will not compromise in his fanatical pursuit
of influence-driven political money and money-driven political power. As evidenced in his own autobiography (elaboration
below), McAuliffe has even treated his own
wife, during the crucial hours of post-partum vulnerability, with churlish
disdain and disregard – all in the cause of his obsessive pursuit of political
dollars for non-Virginia Democrats.
Can a man who treats
his own wife with such brutal
indifference be expected to treat the unknown millions of Virginia citizens –
of whose rich culture, traditions, and geography he knows little to nothing –
with the conscientious consideration expected of a Virginia Governor? The answer is obvious. What is less obvious is how so many millions
of Virginians are so ill-informed that they appear prepared to place this moral
midget in the distinguished office held by a line of luminaries unequaled among
the 50 states.
Governors Monroe, Jefferson, and Henry would not be amused by a Governor Moneybags
Virginia's past governors include
such patriotic giants as Patrick Henry, James Monroe, Edmund Randolph, and the
illustrious Thomas Jefferson. These
titans have established high and challenging standards of moral and
governmental excellence for Virginia's highest office. Each of these men, like most of their
successors in more modern times, devoted years of distinguished service to the
Commonwealth and its people before presuming to qualify for Virginia's highest
government office.
Yet now, the inattentive voters of
Virginia appear on the brink of electing as their governor a D.C.-bred political operative who has never served a single day
in a single Virginia office. Nothing –
repeat, nothing – in his tawdry career as a political money-man
remotely qualifies him to be Governor of Virginia. On the contrary, the distorted value system
he has followed and cultivated in his disreputable career soliciting funds at
Georgetown and Manhattan cocktail parties is fundamentally inconsistent with
the solid values required for Virginia's highest office. While Ken Cuccinelli has devoted his career to serving the interests of the citizens of Virginia, McAuliffe has devoted his career to money-trolling for morally-challenged Democratic politicians like Bill Clinton – who dragged the dignity of the American Presidency to depths that Virginians can expect McAuliffe to emulate if they entrust the Governor's Mansion to this smirking charlatan.
Think of the qualifications,
accomplishments, and character of the Commonwealth's long line of distinguished
governors. Then consider the dubious record of the brazen interloper who is potentially on the brink election, and
mourn the decline of American and Virginian values and civilization.
Patrick Henry inspired and rallied
the American Revolution with his profound courage and his inspirational oratory
in the Virginia House of Burgesses, which is epitomized by his timeless revolutionary
call-to-arms:
"Is
life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not
what course others may take; but as for me, give
me Liberty, or give me Death!"
Now, try to think of the glad-handing
and feckless McAuliffe emulating Governor Patrick Henry's principled greatness. His governing principle is the pursuit of political
money to enable Democratic collectivists to curtail
our liberties. McAuliffe's version of
Henry's immortal declaration would thus be something like, "Is life so
dear that you will not contribute more to the election of Democrats? Give me $4,000, or better yet, give me $5,000!"
Before
his election as Virginia's Governor, James Monroe served with distinction both in
the Virginia House of Delegates later as a Virginia delegate to the
Continental Congress. Earlier, he fought
bravely on the frontlines of the Revolution, including heroic service under
fellow Virginian George Washington at the Battle of Trenton, where he was
wounded in that historic American victory. The thought of placing the name of a truly
little man like McAuliffe alongside the likes of Governor James Monroe is repellent. The closest McAuliffe ever came to combat
service was his aggressive frontal assault upon the wallets of corporate
sugar-daddies to procure contributions for Democratic politicians.
Thomas Jefferson, the most
illustrious of all Virginia Governors, served with great distinction in both
the House of Burgesses and the House of Delegates before his election as
Governor. That was before he earned his
stature as one of the Giants of American History as, among other things, Author
of the Declaration of Independence and America's Third President.
Among the extensive catalogue of
Governor Jefferson's incisive quotations is the following: "The policy of the American government
is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their
pursuits." The policies of a possible
Governor McAuliffe, patterned after those of his leader, President Obama, would
be exactly the opposite of Jefferson's vision – imposing laws like the Affordable
Care Act precisely in order to aid favored political constituencies, while restraining
and oppressing the balance of the populace.
It would be difficult to envisage a
candidate who presents a sharper and more dispiriting contrast to Virginia's
distinguished line of great governors than Moneybags McAuliffe. His prominence in public life derives almost entirely
from his notoriety as a fundraiser and political organizer for
Washington Democrats as well as his mastery of the most garish forms of crony
capitalism. He has openly admitted that
his success in business is an outgrowth of his insider relationships with Bill
Clinton and other Democratic political figures.
He has never served the people of Virginia in any governmental capacity,
and his only government service at the federal level was laughably limited to
the oddly named position of Ambassador to the Taejon Expo of South Korea.
The title McAuliffe chose for his
autobiography aptly describes a lifelong pattern of sleazy behavior that may be
the right stuff for Democrat fundraisers and professional glad-handers, but
which unwittingly flaunts his obvious unsuitability for the office occupied by
the likes of Jefferson, Monroe, Randolph, and Patrick Henry: "What a Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists,
Alligators and Other Wild Animals."
Among other infamies, McAuliffe's
own book openly describes his outrageously churlish treatment of his own wife during her
pregnancies, including abandoning her in the delivery room in 2005 to attend a
party for a newspaper columnist; his disruptive shouting match with the
anesthesiologist over health-care reform while his wife was in labor in 1993,
resulting in his ejection from the delivery room; and, while driving his wife
and newborn child home just after
delivery, leaving his wife waiting in the car in tears while he made a
"quick little drop-by" at a Democratic fundraiser. He flippantly justified the latter outrage
against the most basic notions of spousal solicitude and support by declaring that
it meant "a million bucks for the Democratic Party." These admitted behaviors confirm that McAuliffe
has a profoundly warped sense of values and priorities. Consider him applying those values and
priorities as Virginia's Governor, and shudder for the Commonwealth's future.These and other disturbing episodes demonstrate why it is not merely Republicans and conservatives who understand why McAuliffe is profoundly unfit to serve as Governor of Virginia. As but one example, consumer advocate and liberal legend Ralph Nader has flatly stated: "He really is not someone who should be governor and in possession of the public's trust."
The truth of Nader's assertions have
been more recently confirmed by the insidious misrepresentations spread by McAuliffe's
multi-million dollar TV calumnies, which relentlessly broadcast the blatant
falsehood that Ken Cuccinelli effectively advocates the abolition of contraception
in Virginia. McAuliffe's dishonesty
extends not only to his gross misrepresentation of Cuccinelli's actual
position, but in the broader libel that a demonstrably dedicated and supportive
husband like Cuccinelli is somehow anti-woman.
Coming from a certified boor who has treated his own wife with churlish
disrespect and insensitivity when she was still recovering from the stress of
childbirth, this is more than a bit rich.
Like so much that McAuliffe says and does, it is a complete distortion
of reason and reality.
Luckily, there are still several
weeks left until Virginia's voters actually enter the booths and pull the lever
for Cuccinelli or McAuliffe. There is
still time for those Virginia voters who care about such things to learn
and understand that McAuliffe is an unqualified, untrustworthy candidate who
would disgrace and damage the
Commonwealth if elected governor.
Otherwise, rocks and slag will be
falling from Mt. Rushmore, as Thomas Jefferson shakes his great head in disgust
at the folly of the voters in placing an unscrupulous political hustler in the office held by
so many illustrious Virginians.
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