Ken Cuccinelli's Parting Gift to Democrats: An "Obamacare Referendum"

[DonViejo]

By David Weigel

Bill Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard that the GOP candidate for governor of Virginia can win if the election turns into a referendum on the president's health care law. Surely enough of Virginia hates that law to be willing to cast a proxy vote here.

Kathleen Murphy, running in a competitive Northern Virginia district (mine!), saying she believes the state should force Virginia doctors to accept Medicare and Medicare patients. This is of course a kind of extension of the logic of Obamacare.

So: Shouldn't Cuccinelli and friendly outside groups, in the final two days of the campaign, try to make the race a full-fledged referendum on Obamacare? It's late in the day, of course. But if I controlled a few hundred thousand dollars, I would robocall and leaflet every home I could in the state, making Kathleen Murphy's statement famous, tying McAuliffe (who’s already a big Obamacare defender) to his fellow Democrat, and making clear that a vote for McAuliffe is a vote to extend, expand, and entrench Obamacare in Virginia, and that, conversely, a vote for Cuccinelli is a vote to begin to limit, repeal, and replace Obamacare.

The only problem with this argument is that Cuccinelli has already been using it, for weeks. I've seen the candidate twice since the end of the government shutdown, and both times he spent minutes explaining that to vote for him was to vote against Obamacare. Here he was, recently, in Prince William County:

full article
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/11/05/ken_cuccinelli_s_parting_gift_to_democrats_an_obamacare_referendum.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

[gopiscrap]

1. hopefull CooCoo will slither into his cave after today

[dballance]

2. Unfortunately, I doubt that will happen.

Like Cruz, Cooch is on a mission from his God.

Any idiot who wants to criminalize oral sex and ignore the SCOTUS ruling in Lawrence v. TX is really out of touch with the reality of today's society. This disconnect often comes as a result of religious zeal.