Ted Cruz’s visit to Virginia puts Cuccinelli in a tough spot
By Editorial Board, Published: October 4
We invite you to come and listen to Ted Cruz . . . and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and to be among the more than 1,000 politically-active conservative Virginians. Come be inspired and meet like-minded Virginians who share your traditional values, and hear one of the conservative movement’s most significant national leaders, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.
SO READS the invitation on the Web site of the Family Foundation, the gay-bashing, abortion-hating, home-school-loving group whose annual gala dinner will be held Saturday night in Richmond. If the event serves as a sort of homecoming for Virginia conservatives, Mr. Cruz is this year’s homecoming king. That has left Mr. Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, squirming.
Mr. Cuccinelli has spent the campaign walking a fine line between the rock of Virginia’s purple-state moderation and the hard place of his unstinting conservatism. As the first attorney general in the country to file suit challenging Obamacare, he is a hero to the tea party. But to align himself with like-minded Republicans, who have pushed Congress to its current impasse, risks infuriating everyday Virginians, to say nothing of the state’s 170,000 federal civilian employees, who dislike the government shutdown much more than the health-care law.
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