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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's PAC, Opportunity Virginia, is up with a new ad, promoting what's to love in Virginia (and who's been in charge).
But it was just last week that McDonnell denied to NBC's Chuck Todd on MSNBC's The Daily Rundown that his PAC would soon be going up with ads.
"You can't believe everything you read in the papers," McDonnell said. "We don't have any plans at this point."
He added, “We're always looking for ways to get out the positive message of Virginia," but then later said: “I don't know where those reports have come from."
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Virginia is a great state, but not thanks to "Vagina Bob."
Governor vaginal probe will never be VP!
Bob "Vaginal Probe" McDonnell -- The War on Women is not the only worrisome position of this man and his ilk. Listen up right-wingers, if you are a "cohabit-or or fornicator" you're next! Go read his theocratic college work to see that this man is for Christian Sharia Law.
What's worse, McDonnell's positions or Robert Bork's? Romney is such a dweeb, he'll put them all on his team.
A dildo is under consideration for VP? Now that should get the old, stale, liberal vote.
Here's the prediction: the GOP/TP will have a ticket with two, boring, white guys on it.
I live in Virginia. Bob McDonnell has proven himself to be as much of a flip-flopper as Mitt Romney on many issues. He panders to ultra conservatives until the press publishes his extreme statements, then he backtracks on what he said earlier. He'd be the perfect Etch-a-Sketch VP candidate. It would be so much fun to see him debate Joe Biden, especially on foreign policy about which McDonnell knows nothing.
LSCW,
^There is no greater flip-flopper than the current leader of the nation.
Check his record, see the manner in which he changes with the wind, or the voter reaction to his policy statement.
Wow, did they say business is up, unemployment is down? How does that jive with the GOP message of doom and gloom caused by the Obama administration?
Virginia's booming economy owes nothing to Obama's disastrous leadership.
Right Bob.
Because it's not like virginia is solely dependant on federal-related jobs or anything.
Military contracting, Naval bases and airfields, etc.
Good catch, man. Glad you're here to point out how Virginia has no economic shared-interest with the Federal Government.
Unemployment in Virginia was at 7.3 percent when McDonnell took office in January 2010. Now the state has the third-lowest unemployment rate east of the Mississippi, 5.6%.
McDonnell: "we have put in place policies that help private-sector job creators innovate and grow. And we have focused on keeping taxation, litigation and regulation to a minimum, so job creators can keep more of their hard-earned capital to employ more Virginians and expand their operations, without government getting in their way. That formula is working.”
Basic economics.
1. The federal government is pumping more money into VA than any other state.
2. Those are recession-proof jobs, meaning that there is a lot of people with cash in their pocket.
3. This leads to a relatively constant level of 'demand' from the federal employees in VA.
4. This leads VA businesses to maintain growth, regardless of the rest of the nation.
Find a better comparison than VA.
VA is THE federal welfare state.
I don't suppose the unemployment rate in Virgina has anything to do with its bustling Washington lobbying industry, does it?
teknishan is right - Virginia receives $1.66 in federal spending for every dollar of tax burden. California and Illinois receive $0.79 and $0.73.
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/datasets/federal-tax-burdens-and-expenditur/versions/1
The GOP/TP are probably plotting ways to tank the economy as we speak. Laying off more government workers (like closing US postal offices), warmongering to make gas prices high, passing legislation supposedly to help small business that will only help the rich and increase deficits, etc. And if all else fails, tamper with the vote.
Bob in Virginia, I'm a Virginia resident, too. This Commonwealth would fall apart if it weren't for the federal defense contracts and lobbyists. We can thank the federal government and US taxpayers for our metro here in Northern Virginia, too. My neighborhood alone is full of very well off retired military officers who are taking their 20 year military retirement and benefits still shopping in the PX at discounted rates while earning big bucks in their second careers in defense contracting and building McMansions. While I'm thankful for their service to the country, it should not give them license to gouge taxpayers (and that's an understatement) many, many times worse than welfare recipients. I wish Leon Panetta luck in reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in the corrupt, old boys network at the Pentagon. He'll need it.
Virginia is doing great and you have got to give McDonnell credit.
But he ain't gonna be on that Republican Ticket come November and he's gotta know it.
Perhaps he's hoping for some (any) position in the possible Romney Administration so he can rehabilitate his image in time for 2016.
Nah, that man could not keep his Vaginal Probe out of women's lives long enough for the rehab to take effect.
You embarass yourself, Ms Brandy, with your crude and obnoxious terminology.
No, Katheryn isn't the one who should be embarrassed. The misogynists who pushed vaginal probes and those who vote for them are the ones who should be embarrassed. It kind of reminds me of the old Clinton days when republicans bent over backwards trying to take him down over a blow job, then complained when everybody was talking about blow jobs.
Kathryn is being extremely realistic about the kinds of things republicans want to do to women's reproductive rights. White republican men like McDonnell want to do to have control over women's bodies.
Hopefully it wont be anywhere near Health and Human Services.
With term limitations McDonnell will soon be out of a job. He is looking for employment and wants that VP spot. I say, let him see what's it like out there for the unemployed thanks to failed Republican policies.
I don't think that Mitt Romney is going to like that unemployment is down in Virginia since he is running on a bad economy. Looks like the Virginia governor is not with the program.
Virginia's economic success is due to Governor McDonnell, not the total failure Obama.
GOP-Governed states in general are doing far better with unemployment and the economy. One need only look at Illinois and California to see the total failure of Democratic policies.
Virginia's economic success is due to Governor McDonnell,
And here I thought it was because so many people who live there have jobs with the federal government.
Really? You want to compare my state of 38,000,000 citizens with a state of 8,000,000?
Or Illinois, with ~13,000,000?
Or the fact that no other state sucks off the federal teet more than Virgnia and Maryland?
Better get a better comparison, big man.
Maine has a GOP legislature and a Tea Party governor, and we are the only New England state that has seen it's unemployment rate go up this year.
We can buy fireworks in state, now, though.
How does state population have anything to do with it's unemployment rate.
You do know how the unemployment rate is calculated, don't you?
Why don't we look at Wisconsin?
Why don't we? Scott Walker is going to walk away with his recall election, the budget is in order, and the economy is turning around.
So yeah! Wisconsin is a perfect example.
lib50 -- The tax cuts for corporations--even though not one job IN Wisconsin was guaranteed in return--is one reason why Scott Walker attacked workers to balance the budget. In the end, job creation plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed. Aside from Scott Walker being under investigation, Wisconsin is an example of Teapublican policies we don't want, and an example of grassroots organization against oligarchy that we do want.
Exactly.
Bob McDonnell is clearly on the short list for VP, and should be.
I think, contrary to the prevailing wisdom, the informed consent law on abortions will help him if he is put on the ticket.
The liberals will get nasty and personal with over the top attacks on his abortion position. Even though McDonnell's position on abortion is in the mainstream.
McDonnell is articulate and likeable, so the nasty name calling will backfire. McDonnell can focus on economic issues, he has a great record as Governor and remains very popular.
We are not confused.
We know it is the 'Pseudo-Small-Government' Republican A.L.E.C. Norquisters who are "nasty and personal".
GOP Governor McDonnell and his forced trans-vaginal state-mandated probes could not be more anti-women.
Nope, McDonnell will always be know as VP Bob. It's to bad that a fine state like Virginia is associated with the likes of this character.
Ignorant alert!
The Virginia informed consent law on abortion is not extreme, is in accord with 8 other states, and does not requires invasive probes, only external ultrasound.
Over 20 states have laws regarding requirements for informed consent and ultrasounds before an abortion procedure.
McDonnell wanted to do it real bad but couldn't make it stick. At his own admission, he would sign it into law tomorrow if he could.
That 'other' states have adopted similar invasive big Goverment procedures, does not make it right or decent.
How would YOU like a NICE LEGAL PROBE?
When it comes to love and being in charge, Virginian conservatives love to control their constituents with vaginal probing wands. The rest of us are more likely to love more humane things, like other people.
[is in accord with 8 other states]
That is a small minority of only 16%.
[Over 20 states have laws regarding requirements for informed consent and ultrasounds before an abortion procedure]
Still a minority !!
And the women that use military base facilities (military, spouse, children) are exempt.
No states should have these types of laws. It's nobody's business other than a women and her doctor.
Poor Bobby in VA.....his delusions grow by the day. We'll have to treat him gently when he finds out his GovernorVP will not be Romney's choice for VP.
Backhouse -- You reminded me of the legislation to probe men who want Viagra. Ouch! Or the legislation against sperm used for anything other than procreation. Uh-oh.
Gingerbread Mamma -- What if Bobby is McDonnell?! Ha!
http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2012/apr/23/man-beaten-mob-critical-condition-ar-3659891/
You think this mob was comprised of Obama voters or Romney voters?
My gut tells me the former. In fact, if Obama is elected to a second term such violence will only become more common place. When people have no jobs, no house, no hope, no governance aside from purposeful divineness this is the result.
Is this the kind of “change” you voted for?
The democrats have warned voters for decades that if Republicans gain power your Granny will be throw off a cliff and die. Well, granny never went over the cliff. But trust what I say if Obama is elected to a second term the very real possibility of you ending up in a hospital bed like this poor bastard is ever real!
That was in Alabama.
Who cares who they voted for?
All a Product of Conservative government for the last 50 years.
Look at Alabama's unemployment rate compared to your sink hole of a state's.
That is the problem, the so called Conservative government.
Rob in ma - that kind of violence will only become commonplace if morons like you fan the flames. Your hatred of our President is so evident in your ignorant posts and it is stupidity like that which causes violence. If the Congress had worked with our President, we would be further along with our recovery. But, when we vote the idiotic Republicans out in November and take control of the House, we will get things moving better.
Obama/Biden 2012
Raaaaab in Ma . who was this victim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard
oopsie, a guy beaten to death because he was 'um not normal. Sensationalism is ugly, but what the heck, let's go with your cause. Some deserve it, some don't. Caught up in the middle, to bad so sad. You are the sickest kind, because you can't decry beatings. Apparently, everyone needs one, and that is the one belief that democrats will never buy into. I belong to the group that says it is never appropriate. You belong to the group that says sometimes, it MUST happen.
A magic panty wearing holier than thou as pres nominee with a vagina probing evangelical as his running mate...priceless!
The progressives showing their true colors...nasty and ignorant.
Bob in Virginia - and yours - dumb and dumber!
From the way McDonnell was talking to Chuck Todd, it sounds like he thought his VP audition had to include a demonstration of his ability to flip flop. Don't worry, Bob--you can stick to invasive procedures on women; Mitt has the flip flopping covered.
Steeler Fan -
I'm not sure which part of the interview was better - the beginning, where he coyly pretends not to know anything about the ads about to be run by his PAC (and why the big secrecy? You'd think he'd be proud of them, not trying to hide from them) - or the end, where he blames the whole invasive probe debacle on DEMOCRATS because they "continue to focus on these false dichotomies". Yeah, right......Virginia women were all in favor of that until Democrats started making an issue about it.
Let's see - didn't Romney also claim in one of the debates not to have seen any of the ads his own PAC was running? About 15 seconds before he then said "in the ones I have seen" and it was all caught on tape?
So, neither one of them has any idea what their PAC's are doing, they're both great at taking all the credit and none of the blame, and they both have great hair. Sounds like a match made in heaven.
P.S. - I'm not sure "polished" is the right word here - I'm thinking "Extreme Makeover: Veep Edition" might be a little more like it.
Check it out, the progressive posters are all fired up about a successful popular GOP Governor from a swing state. Keep up the nasty vitriol....see if you can sink to a new low.
Very interesting to note how nasty the Democrat talking points are about the Virginia Governor. They fear him.
No we don't. He is a lame duck. He is VP Bob and he will never ever be Vice-President, because he is a liar just like Willard Flip Romney.
Bob -
I'm afraid of a lot of things. Spiders. Clowns. The dentist. Okra. Driving in dense fog. Job interviews. Mushrooms. That Burger King king with the big plastic head.
But Bob McDonnell? Please. I fear him about as much as I ever feared Sarah Palin. Which is to say somewhere around as much as I fear kittens and bunny rabbits.
I must say, I admire your loyalty in the face of all odds - not to mention reason - but a chorus of one is still a solo.
Bob Mc D is not so popular in Hampton Roads, Va after he made some deals with private companies to toll our roads and they earn a guaranteed 13% profit...so he could keep his word to Grover Norquist.
These are also the roads tunnels that service our Navy shipyards, hospitals and ports; so does that help the struggling sailors and airmen in the area...no...but we know that the little people don't count....
And we won't even begin to talk about cuts to education...so who is he popular with?
Bob in Virginia - no one fears him. No one fears Romney - nothing to fear from either except their stances on women and our rights!
The lying is the least offensive. Christian Sharia Law, now that's frightening!
Joanne - just re-read your post and I'm laughing. Afraid of Okra - must have grown up in the south like me. I'm not afraid of it but I sure hate it! The dentist - total fear! LOL
Bob McDonnell: Look, Mitt, I'm the perfect VP pick! We're birds of feather, you and I. Just like you, no matter how hard I try to sweep my entire history under the carpet, the media just keeps bringing it up. And I've just proven that I have no problems telling boldfaced lies to them. We'd make a great pair, you and I, without a shred of integrity to hold that ticket back.
Bob,
You should get some input from the good folks of Norfolk and Portsmouth before you start singing the praises of Governor Bob McToll....he made some pretty sneaky deals on the Elizabeth River project so he could keep his loyalty oath to Grover....and sold the good people of the tidewater down the drain....
Mitt should pick Sarah Palin. She is used to losing.
I did get a little down and dirty there didn't I,Bob?
But honey,at least I gave McDonnell credit for his good deeds too.
Honestly, Bob Mickey D's would be a bad pick for VP. Romney needs somebody who can appeal to the extreme religious and social conservatives. While Bob fits that description to a 'T', every time I see him in an interview, he's running away from them at full steam. It would make an interesting pairing, though. The guy who's desperately trying to convince his party that he's ultraconservative, and the guy who's desperately trying to convince the country that he's not.
Nathan - I love your description -very apt