Circum Spective

McDonnell Needs To
Grow Some Cohunes

Of course Bob McDonnell believed what he wrote in his law school thesis paper about cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators, and he almost certainly still believes those same things today. I've read his thesis paper, entitled "The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of the Decade", and although it is not one of the more persuasive or well written arguments I've ever read, the general premises are correct, and he should have the cohunes to stand by what he believes. ...Then again, I guess that's a little too much to ask of a politician.

I would be more specific than Bob "let-me-start-kissing-up-to-the-homosexual-lobby" McDonnell was in his 1989 paper and assert that this culture brings tremendous pressure to bear on mothers of young children to work outside the home. But that is more about economics, greed and difficult personal choices than it is about government policy. Hard-core "feminists" (a obsolete term, but useful in the 70's and 80's) and homosexuals are, without question, making this country a hostile environment for married couples who seek to live according to traditional Judeo-Christian family values.

And so, by the way, are spineless politicians who claim to be Christians, but who suddenly don't act like it when they fear losing votes or campaign contributions.

Mr. McDonnell concludes his 1989 paper with fifteen "standards that keep men free". Among those fifteen are these four: 1) be honest 2) have convictions 3) have courage and 4) stand for truth. These can be found in his Appendix B on page 84. However, it sounds to me like Bob has abandoned all four of those standards. I guess that means Bob won't be free any more.

You should be very proud of yourself Bob. You just did the backstroke more quickly than any other professed Christian politician in modern times. Well done ... coward.

P.S. Your law school thesis does, in fact, suggest you would support workplace discrimination against women. I don't think you would actually do that, and neither does your opponent. However, you have not adequately responded to that implication by merely pointing out that your daughters have master's degrees and that one of them served in the military. What the heck does that have to do with anything? That’s about as effective as asserting as proof that you have no racial prejudice that some of your best friends are negroes.

You may want to consider hiring a better damage control person for your campaign, if that’s the best you can do.