Rallying for McAuliffe, Obama tears into tea party

[Omaha Steve]

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]

1. k and r... Cuccinelli will soon be an afterthought at best....nt

[riversedge]

2. His type keeps popping up again and again.

[lastlib]

9. like prairie dogs--you can't exterminate 'em, you can only hope to mitigate the damage they do

you get rid of one, and another one moves into its den.

[hue]

23. So very morbidly true!!!

[BlueCaliDem]

30. Yep. It's a constant "whac-a-RWNJ-mole" situation.

But we can't stop swinging that mallet even for a second!

[sheshe2]

3. Thanks Steve!

[gopiscrap]

4. Good for him!

[blue14u]

5. I'm holding my breath!!!

Tuesdays election says a lot about the future of our

country, and Democrats as a whole for 2014...

[Historic NY]

6. Come on Virginia.....go blue.

[kelliekat44]

7. I only hope that the President made a POSITIVE difference. nt

[HipChick]

8. I was at the Rally..the Tea Partiers were outside..trying to spit on us..

Disgusting Fuckers...

[Beacool]

14. On one side of the street, a group of people that reflect the diversity of the nation.

On the other side of the street, an ocean of white.

[davidpdx]

16. That is disgusting

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

10. Tuesday's coming.

I'm voting against "the Cooch!"

[Dopers_Greed]

11. Tuesday can't come soon enough

Time to hire The Cooch for his next job:

Faux pundit

[Politicalboi]

12. I wish Obama would go to NJ

I would love to see Crisco lose it.

[Beacool]

15. He's not going to lose and I'm starting to worry about 2016.

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]

13. If Cucinelli wins, we'll know we're in really deep shit

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]

17. Don't worry. He won't.

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]

18. I'm sorry, WHAT???!!?

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]

28. According to the right wing media propaganda.

Which everyone is hearing 24/7.

[BillyRibs]

19. BTW

Thanks for giving Chris Christie a free ride!

[smokey nj]

27. +1!

[loudsue]

20. I'm sorry. But McAuliffe LOOKS to me like a slimy politician.

Plus, he's a "new" democrat.....which of course means DLC., ie repubican.

[Stuart G]

21. Maybe, but Cuccinelli is much slimier. McAuliffe will win if Dems vote. nt

[Coyotl]

22. Wow, can't kick him in the junk from that far away?

You don't want to know what you sound like, trust me.

[loudsue]

25. Yep. I sound like a liberal.

That must really offend some people here.

[ehrnst]

31. Sometimes you hold your nose and vote. This is one of those times. (nt)

[loudsue]

33. These days my nose gets sore from all the holding.. n/t

[hue]

24. The lowly RW/Tea Sheeple are manipulated by hate laden memes to vote for 1% puppets.

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]

26. Good link, bro!

[Arkana]

29. Wow, that's an uncomfortable hug.

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]

32. I have to say that McAullife is Republican Lite but look at the idiot he is running against.

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]

34. This race is 100% about Cuccinelli

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.