Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged Cam Edwards, Campaign 2013, gun control, Jim Geraghty, Ken Cuccinelli, National Review, NRANews, Terry McAuliffe, Terry McAuliffe and gun control on September 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
National Review Online’s Jim Geraghty joined Cam Edwards on NRANews.com yesterday to discuss, among other things, Democrat candidate for Governor Terry McAuliffe’s comments related to gun control.
It’s clear that McAuliffe believes being out front on gun control will not hurt him. It’s up to gun owners to prove him wrong. Geraghty is right, this is going to be a low turnout election and gun owners can make a difference in that environment, when we get out and vote.
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged Campaign 2013, Ken Cuccinelli, Terry McAuliffe on September 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Wall Street Journal has the story here. Now is the time for gun owners to get involved for Cuccinelli. Turn out will decide this election.
Posted in Politics, tagged Bearing Drift, Campaign 2013, Ken Cuccinelli, Terry McAuliffe, Washington Post on September 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
That’s the question Bearing Drift is asking this morning.
Democratic Sens. Dick Saslaw, Janet Howell and Barbara Favola all sent emails to members of the Northern Virginia Technology Council PAC when word got around that the PAC was going to endorse Ken Cuccinelli rather than Terry McAuliffe. The email from Howell, excerpted in the Washington Post, was scathing:
The Post article mentioned on Bearing Drift reports that the lobbying effort by Saslaw, Howell and Favola was “intense.”
“For them to endorse a guy with his views, a supposedly enlightened group of people — science-oriented — would have been the same as in the 1960s, the NAACP supporting George Wallace,” Saslaw said.
The Post noted that when the two candidates interviewed for the endorsement, that Cuccinelli came off as an intelligent, serious candidate, and that McAuliffe came off as, well, McAuliffe.
“Terry was his normal, flamboyant self,” said a board member present for both interviews. “He didn’t want to get pinned down to any details. He didn’t give any details. He was all about jobs, jobs, jobs — ‘I’m just going to take care of the situation when the time comes. I’m just going to do it.’ It was all [expletive].”
The endorsement was due out last Friday but the McAuliffe campaign protested, leading to what the Post said was an “intense lobbying effort.” It’s clear McAuliffe is not ready for prime-time, does not know the issues and is in no way prepared to be Governor of Virginia:
On a question about whether Virginia should stay in something called the “open-trade-secrets pact,” Cuccinelli gave a thoroughly researched response, the person said.
But McAuliffe answered, according to the source: “ ‘I don’t know what that is. I’ll have to look it up later.’ And then he turns back to the guy [who asked] and said ‘Well, what do you think we should do?’ And the guy says, ‘We want Virginia to stay in it.’ And then Terry says, ‘Okay, we will.’ ”
We have less than two months before the election. Here is one more example of why we need to keep McAuliffe from leading this state.
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged Colorado Recall Elections, elections, gun control, gun rights, mobile apps, Politics on September 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
It appears “There’s an App for That.”
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged gun control, gun rights, Ken Cuccinelli, Politifact Terry McAuliffe on September 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Terry McAuliffe has tried very hard to make Ken Cuccinelli look as extreme as possible, most recently on the issue of firearms. Last week McAuliffe sent out this tweet:
“In 2004, Ken Cuccinelli voted against making it a misdemeanor to carry a missile into an airport terminal,”
“Fast Terry” was referring to a 2004 bill that
Cuccinelli was one of 16 people in the 40-member state Senate that voted against that would have barred people from entering an airport terminal carrying a “gun or other weapon designed or intended to propel a missile or projectile of any kind.” According to PolitiFact, it can be argued that the description does encompass missile launchers, but that’s an interpretation that doesn’t weigh the debate at the time the bill was considered.
McAuliffe’s tweet focuses on the term “missile” and suggests that the bill’s purpose was to ban warheads from airports. But the term “missile” is undefined in state law and could mean bullets, rocks, or even a cup of soda if it’s thrown maliciously.
So there’s a trace of truth to a deeply distorted and inflamed statement by McAuliffe. We rate his claim Mostly False.
I think that is a good way to rate McAuliffe’s entire campaign.
Posted in gun rights, Politics, tagged Campaign 2013, E.W. Jackson, Ken Cuccinelli, Larry Sabato, Mark Obenshain, Terry McAuliffe on September 2, 2013| 2 Comments »
Bearing Drift has these thoughts on Larry Sabato’s latest rating in the statewide races. Sabato says what most observers already know; Cuccinelli is behind and if the election were held today he would probably lose. Fortunately, the election is still two months away and we have time to turn this around.
Now that summer is over we all need to get out and do what we can to see that the anti-gun ticket of McAuliffe, Northam, and Herring do not win. Are you in?
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