You know, we've been at this RaisingKaine thing for 8 months now, and we've collected a whole bunch of great material on Jerry Kilgore. I was thinking that it might be a good idea to condense all the reasons NOT to vote for Jerry Kilgore into an easy-to-read "Top 25" list. But then I thought, that's too many in one shot. So, instead, I've started listing a reason per day, counting down -- David Letterman style - to #1 in early October. Anyway, here's reason #3!
3) Aside from Bill "Gutter" Bolling, the other member of the Republican ticket is the Attorney General nominee, Robert Francis ?Bob? McDonnell. This guy is so extreme, he's actually earned himself the nickname "Taliban Bob". McDonnell has also been mocked as heading up a "Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice" here in Virginia. Why the mockery? In addition to his overall religious extremism on a variety of social issues, this guy harassed and persecuted Newport News Circuit Judge Verbena Askew for possibly being a lesbian and therefore violating Virginia's bizarre "crimes-against-nature" law (which, by the way, officially outlaws heterosexual sodomy, even among married couples). Lovely. McDonnell is also closely tied to Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and is a graduate of Pat Robertson?s Regent University Law School. Interestingly, when asked whether HE had ever engaged in an act that would violate the "crimes-against-nature law," McDonnell replied, incredibly, "Not that I can recall." Wow. That Kilgore-Bolling-McDonnell trio is quite a ticket!