To be fair, as SecState, she needed to stay out of, that is “above”, politics. It would have been entirely unprofessional for her to advocate a political position in the US while in that position. She did, however, advocate for “gay equality” on the world stage, and that makes perfect sense for her position.
I’m sure that had she been a New York Senator, she would have “evolved” on that position at least as early as Obama did, if not sooner.
cite?
I can tell you the boards, but I’m not going to search archives.
I can give you a lot of board names too. So can anyone.
Then I guess you’ll just have to wait for my 2013 prediction to come true: Republicans win both governors’ races.
Yes I remember this. Even at the time I saw it as an obvious political ploy. What kind of sway is the US SoS going to have in countries where gay rights are not recognized? They’re not even fully recognized in our own country. We align ourselves with the Saudi Arabias of the world and we are shilling for gay rights? The whole thing was a joke.
Christie’s a very heavy favorite, so that’s not exactly going out on a skinny limb there, and Cooch is a toss-up. No surprise you’re picking Pubs to win either, but what makes this is a brave act of political punditry? Ho hum. Call me back when we’re ten days out, Cooch is down by ten points in the polls–THEN I’m interested in why the polls are skewed. Or would be, from anyone but you.
Cooch is ahead in the RCP average. By 1 point. And Terry McCauliffe is Mitt Romney, except he made his money off government contacts:
“Let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/339773/terry-mcauliffe-his-own-words-jim-geraghty
This guy is going to be SO easy to destroy. I mean, he doesn’t even try to deny what giving him money can do for his donors:
See, donate to him, and you're "in on the ground floor" of Hillary 2016! See, this is why I like Elizabeth Warren despite her ideology. THe Democrats need some honest ideologues to fight the machine Democrats, just as the Republicans need the Tea Party to fight the Tom Delay/Duke Cunningham wing of the GOP.All right, how about a current race that is contested? I say Sanford will beat Colbert Busch fairly easily.
Now tell us that you were supporting her against Scott Brown. Just out of curiosity, how much money did you send her campaign so you’d have her sort of honesty in the Senate? On your honor, now.
I agree, Sanford is favored over Colbert-Busch. Let’s find a race where the Dem is heavily favored over the Pubbie that you think the Pubbie will win because the polls are wrong, okay? There must be a few of those. If not, why not? Did the pollsters suddenly learn how to tell the truth or something?
I don’t see the Virginia Gov. race going like you think. It’s not a dispassionate calculus of who’s sincere in their positions and who’s for sale. It’s an emotional calculus of who won’t insist on sticking his nose in your vagina and who won’t try to make blowjobs illegal. Cooch is a nut. McAuliffe is a venal corporatist stooge but at least he’s not a nut.
Virginia has a recent history of good government. I doubt they’ll want to mess that up by electing the nation’s biggest cronyist since the Bushes left politics.
So instead they’ll elect the crazy anti-science religious throwback?
I can tell you that a lot of Dems are rather pissed at the Virginia Democratic Party for having cleared the field so that Faceless Terry could run unopposed for the nomination.
The fact that he’s a venal political insider bothers me a hell of a lot less than the fact that, though I’m a political junkie who’s known this guy’s name for many years, I don’t know much else about him other than what’s in this paragraph. And especially, if asked to give anyone a single reason to vote for him besides his not being Ken Cuccinelli, I would come up short.
As a Dem, that’s what scares me about this election: in an off-year, you’ve got to figure out how to motivate your voters to go vote. Cooch’s crazies will show up. I don’t know how Virginia Dems are expecting to get people to show up to vote for Faceless Terry.
Yeah, not seeing how Cuccinelli is good government. He’s part of the Bribe-Me-More GOP, isn’t he?
They elected McDonnell and haven’t regretted that choice.
I can’t say for sure that Cuccinelli is a good government Republican, but we know for sure that McCauliffe isn’t a good government Democrat.
Other than his support for the vaginal probe law, I haven’t heard a whole lot of crazy out of McDonnell. He seems to be generally a typical business-oriented Republican who does some crazy-religious outreach on occasion for political purposes. Cooch is another story entirely. Practically his first act as AG was to inform the state’s university system that they were no longer allowed to treat LGBT employees like people. That was right before he used the state’s legal system to harass a climate scientist. Then there was the abortion crap. And just lately he’s decided that Virginia doesn’t have to follow a Supreme Court decision.
He’s firmly in the batshit contingent.
I do know for sure that McAuliffe isn’t a Christian-government Republican. Were I Virginian, that would be more than enough of a decision-maker for me, knowing Cooch.
I don’t know, for me corruption is more of a dealbreaker than anything else. Although I can see how a Democrat might not consider it that important. 