These republicans fixated on Michelle Obama's college thesis simply because she said she felt isolated as a black person in an overwhelmingly white academic environment. That's not controversial and she wasn't running for office.

But they want us to ignore this guy's caveman thinking and make him governor? I don't think so!

He was 34 years old when he wrote this. This walk back now is done with a wink to the wing nuts that he needs to play this game to get elected.

Creigh Deeds isn't insulting you, you idjit -- your own words insult you, and any Virginian who would be stupid enough to vote for you! Thank you Thank you Thank you for this great gift!

I know that there are plenty of your "base" who agree with you anyway. What this paper does, (written when you were an adult -- chronologically if not intellectually) is wake up those who might have slept through this election. You know -- women who work, fornicators, homosexuals, unwed mothers, and all the men who think you are as full of shit as the rest of us do. B'Bye -- You suck!

Is there any record of McDonnell commenting on Justice Sotomayor's "wise latina" remark?

Could be another strike of hypocrisy against him.

When Barack Obama was thirty-four, he wrote "Dreams from My Father."

I'd gladly stand by my master's thesis, written at the age of 28 in 1988. It was an analysis (favorable) of the Burger Court as a continuation and advancing of the Warren Court in the areas of race, gender, and reproductives rights.

He doesn't believe government should discriminate against gays, but in the assembly he voted to forbid private companies from extending insurance benefits to domestic partners. Anyone ask him about that in the conference call?

I think it's interesting that sticking with these religious wingnut opinions is now obvious political death in a statewide VA election.

Come on independent voters! I'm a Republican! I don't believe any of the religious crap I spout.

Republican voters. Disregard the preceding message. I love the Lord!

McDonnell keeps mentioning Deeds as if Deeds wrote the thesis in order to cause McDonnell problems. What does Deeds have to do with this at all? Is the Washington Post another name for Deeds? They published the article that got this going, and yet McDonnell bashes Deeds for it. He's a rightwing hypocrite, nothing too new about that. Those two words "rightwing" and "hypocrite" seem to go together just like the words "Republican" and "closet-case".

April Fool!

I sincerely hope that the people of Virginia do not fall for this dweeb's baloney. "I may have believed that once, but now that I'm running for office, I'm a really, really good guy!" Yeah, uh huh, sure; that's what the Right told us with Bush and his "Compassionate Conservatism", and we all know how well that worked out.

Come on, Virginians: hand this loon his hat and show him the door. Please.

Why is he allowed to talk about Adam and Eve being literal and still get taken seriously? As much as he wants to detach himself from what he used to think, that sounds like a dead giveaway that he doesn't mean it.

Oh, Ye of Little Faith!

The Lord has spoken to me once again and assured me that He intervened once more to reveal the hypocrisy of the GOP tools of Satan, Christie and McDonnell. He thought that He would have restored confidence to His chosen people, the Democrats, by His destruction of the "C" Street Coven minions of Satan, Ensign, Sanford, Pickering, and Coburn, all within a matter of days virtually, but, No!, the naysayers, those of little faith, would not embrace the Holy Spirit and renew their faith in the ultimate triumph of good over evil. He then decided to make a further demonstration of His divine will by smiting both of the most prominent Pharisees of the 2009 campaign, Christie and McDonnell, in just one week. How much proof do we need?

Furthermore He has confirmed to me that He will allow no GOP hypocrite son of Satan, my redundancy, not His, to long continue to hide their true nature should they venture into the public arena. This will not be the last manifestation of His judgment. All GOP evildoers must know that His days of testing the chosen people with the Golden Calves are over and the days of redemption are upon us.

He also wants us all to know that, contrary to current CW, He does have a sense of humor, as evidenced by many of the strange creatures He caused Satan to empower, and that He has a keen sense of style, which was offended mightily by Christie's gluttony and McDonnell's dye job. He also works in strange ways His wonders to perform, as witnessed by his use of the Mainstream Media for His purposes when it suits Him, as evidenced by the WaPo breaking the McDonnell story.

Relax, saith the Lord. He will not fail us.

"We discriminated on no basis at all."

That sounds about right.

Here's your one and only choice, McDonnell: Do you believe that one must acknowledge that homosexuals, cohabitors and fornicators (blech!) have among us equal station and rights; or do you believe that one can spew any old claptrap as a sycophantic homage to a narrow-minded college to procure a worthless degree?

Considering one of his thesis points was "Don't change your extreme views, just pretend you are a moderate" you really can't believe anything he says now.

I believe that was point #15...

As for those who believe him when he claims he no longer holds these beliefs, I'll point back to the WaPo article which also details his abortion views:

His advocacy of abortion restrictions is well known; he sponsored or co-sponsored numerous pieces of legislation on the topic, including" snip "a mandated 24-hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion.

I support waiting periods for gun purchases. It makes sense to me that if someone is mad as hell and ready to kill someone today, that such a person is far more dangerous if they can purchase the gun the same day. Abortions are different. Women get abortions because they already have children or have inadequate social or financial support. Waiting 24 hours will not change their minds.

What a 24 hour waiting period means for the person seeking the abortion is that if a single mother has to drive an hour or two in order to get to one of the few abortion clinics in her (red) state, she needs to then drive home and tend to her existing children, and come back the next day for the actual abortion. It would not be quite so bad if they allowed her to phone-in the start of her 24 hour waiting period, but they don't, and they don't because the law is written to make it harder for such people to get abortions, that's why!

also from the WaPo article,

Republican friends who support McDonnell's campaign for governor acknowledge parting ways with some of his more conservative views. Former governor and U.S. senator George Allen said he doesn't share McDonnell's opposition to abortion in cases of rape or incest. "There should always be an exception," he said.

Which I interpret to mean that even conservatives feel he's too conservative. It is pretty hard to imagine that between his thesis and his current views on homosexuality and abortion rights that he could even pretend to be at all "moderate", that is, without affixing horns and a tail to the conservative extremists.

I think the damage is done. He is awflly yong to have such draconian views regarding women. I sppose he idolizes Knox and Calvin, to name a couple.

Bob McDonnell just lost the crucial Virginia fornicator vote.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/gop-scholarship-loses-crucial-virginia-fornicator-vote/