Rallying for McAuliffe, Obama tears into tea party
Source: By PHILIP ELLIOTT and JOSH LEDERMAN
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - President Barack Obama cast Republican Ken Cuccinelli on Sunday as part of an extreme tea party Republican faction that shut down the government, throwing the political weight of the White House behind Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the final days of a bitter race for governor.
National issues that have sorely divided Democrats and Republicans spilled into the race as Obama rallied for McAuliffe just outside Washington. As Obama tore into Cuccinelli as a compromise-averse ideologue, Cuccinelli was telling his supporters that Tuesday's election will be a referendum on Obama's unpopular health care law and McAuliffe's support for it.
"This isn't a game," Obama told a crowd of 1,600 gathered in a high school gymnasium. "There are very real consequences when you operate ideologically, the way some of these folks do."
Praising McAuliffe as a practical thinker whose commitment to equality runs deep, Obama told Virginians that a vote for McAuliffe would be a vote for progress. He said Cuccinelli wanted Virginia voters to forget that Cuccinelli's intellectual counterparts in Congress just weeks earlier had taken the economy, the nation and the economy hostage, hurting Virginians in the process.
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President Barack Obama hugs Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe prior to speaking on McAuliffe's behalf at a campaign rally Washington Lee High School in Arlington, Va., Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)riversedge
(70,246 posts)lastlib
(23,251 posts)you get rid of one, and another one moves into its den.
hue
(4,949 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)But we can't stop swinging that mallet even for a second!
sheshe2
(83,793 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)blue14u
(575 posts)Tuesdays election says a lot about the future of our
country, and Democrats as a whole for 2014...
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)Disgusting Fuckers...
Beacool
(30,250 posts)On the other side of the street, an ocean of white.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)I'm voting against "the Cooch!"
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Time to hire The Cooch for his next job:
Faux pundit
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I would love to see Crisco lose it.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)I live in NJ, I don't want him as the Republican nominee. He's an overrated, aggressive bully, but maybe people would find his style "refreshing".
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)and that all the talk about the Repukes killing themselves (again) is complete bullshit. That guy shouldn't even get 5% of the vote.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Polling has had him down each time. If voters just get out, Terry will be next governor. But its too bad we can't ship those stupid morans to some place they can create their own stupid society. Boggles the mind that we have to live among a bunch of ignorant, uneducated freaks.
I also found this MSNBC piece. Hope it conforts you.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/03/21296054-republicans-struggle-with-division-and-big-changes-in-crucial-virginia?lite
Democrats appear poised for another big electoral victory in Virginia on Tuesday as conservative and Tea Party Republicans face real questions about whether they can win again in this fast-changing state.
The gubernatorial race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli has remained unchanged for weeks, with McAuliffe holding a steady and sizable lead in most polls.
Those surveys tell a stark story: The GOP is losing not because the party failed to nominate the most conservative candidate -- but because they did.
Cuccinelli's attempts to fashion himself a jobs and business-centered candidate were largely ineffective.
Poll after poll demonstrated key weakness for Cuccinelli: a deficit with women voters as high as 20 points, and problems with independents and GOP voters partial to Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis.
Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)As Obama tore into Cuccinelli as a compromise-averse ideologue, Cuccinelli was telling his supporters that Tuesday's election will be a referendum on Obama's unpopular health care law and McAuliffe's support for it.
The ACA is unpopular? According to whom??
loudsue
(14,087 posts)Which everyone is hearing 24/7.
BillyRibs
(787 posts)Thanks for giving Chris Christie a free ride!
loudsue
(14,087 posts)Plus, he's a "new" democrat.....which of course means DLC., ie repubican.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)You don't want to know what you sound like, trust me.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)That must really offend some people here.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)loudsue
(14,087 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)In a way, for the oligarchy, it is a game. They write the scripts (ALEC), move the game pieces (puppet politicians), change the rules (ex: voter ID laws) & boundaries (gerrymandering), mind control through main stream media output, etc. to maintain control (win). Yet they live in tightly secured compounds with armed guards & legions of security ranks & technologies with secret meetings etc. in order to be completely immune & untouchable.
They do not know life/living as we know it.
We are their game pieces.
DanM
(341 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)Pretty sure the President hasn't forgotten how vocal McAuliffe was in the '08 primaries.
Still, water under the bridge now and all that.
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)You just do not turn an Aircraft Carrier on a dime,it takes a while and a lot of water.
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Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)People are coming out to vote against Cuccinelli, McAuliffe just happens to be the empty suit that is lucky enough to be running against him. It's too bad the President had to show up to support him.