bigot:

1. A person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics, or race.
2. Person extremely intolerant of others and irrespective of reasoning.
3. Ken Cuccinelli.

From the Washington Post editorial, Mr. Cuccinelli’s bigotry:

As attorney general, he would be an embarrassment to Virginia.

KENNETH CUCCINELLI, the Republican candidate for Virginia state attorney general, believes it’s “appropriate” to formulate public policy on the premise that homosexuals engage in behavior that is “intrinsically wrong” and offensive to “natural law.” His comments — which retrofit the old rhetoric of racism, bias and intolerance in a new context — were made in an interview with the Virginian-Pilot, a newspaper in Norfolk.

Homosexual acts, said Mr. Cuccinelli, currently a state senator, are “intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law-based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that. . . . They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.”

Putting aside what Mr. Cuccinelli has to say about homosexuals when he’s not trying so hard to be polite, let’s call his comments what they are: bigotry.
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I highly recommend reading this post from conservative blogger, Doug Mataconis:

I support Bob McDonnell. I think Bill Bolling has done a great job as Lieutenant Governor and deserves another term. At this point, though, I can’t in good conscience tell people to vote for Ken Cuccinelli and I can’t do it myself.

Ladies and gentlemen, your next Attorney General:

Steve Shannon for Attorney General

This endorsement of Bob McDonnell by the Free Lance-Star is all class. They decry the negative tactics of the Creigh Deeds campaign, (while simultaneously attacking Deeds with the same exact negative spin employed by McDonnell) and decide that….

Hearing nothing inspiring from either hopeful, the citizen must assay personal attributes. So:

Mr. McDonnell is articulate, certainly a virtue in leadership (recall George W. Bush’s chronic incoherence and its incurred cost in popular support). Mr. Deeds is not a confident speaker, giving the impression that he is confused by complexity or fears candor.

Says the paper that twice endorsed George W. Bush and declined to endorse Barack Obama, a man who’s constantly mocked for being an articulate speaker. Apparently, when you’re Bob McDonnell, those magically become leadership qualities!

I also like the fact that they don’t think Creigh Deeds would be able to work in a bi-partisan manner as Governor. EIGHT GOP members of the General Assembly who served with both men in Richmond have endorsed Deeds over their fellow Republican, Bob McDonnell (who the Free Lance-Star calls “a socially moderate lawmaker”). That includes former Finance Committee Chairman and State Senate President John Chichester of Fredericksburg.

Meanwhile, in the rest of Virginia….

Creigh Deeds is racking up endorsements, including…. The Virginian-Pilot! McDonnell served Virginia Beach for several years in the House of Delegates, and was endorsed by the Pilot over Deeds in the 2005 Attorney General race. Bob McDonnell refers to himself as Northern Virginia’s Own and Hampton Roads’ Own, in strategically placed signs around the commonwealth. Now both of those area’s most read papers (the Post and the Pilot) have endorsed Deeds over their “native son.”

The Pilot endorsement acknowledges that McDonnell is charismatic, BUT….

McDonnell may be a more persuasive leader, but he is asking Virginia to follow him down a dead-end road. If he is governor, he will spend four years churning out spreadsheets with fantasy forecasts and writing stern letters to the president, Congress, state legislators and city councils demanding that they do something to save him from his own inertia.

If Deeds is elected and breaks his promise to pass an adequately funded transportation plan, that failure will fall directly on his shoulders. He’s not asking that accountability be passed to future governors or postponed for more prosperous times. He’s willing to take on that responsibility here and now.

In return for that commitment, we give him our support.

Ken Cuccinelli is too far to the right for the Free Lance-Star? Ouch.

They write that Steve Shannon “can speak knowledgeably about gang violence, cropping up even in Virginia’s boonies, and his prosecutorial and legislative record glitters.”

Shannon for A.G.
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For most of his career, Mr. Shannon, 38, has protected children from the despicable criminals who exploit the blind spots of a mobile, techno-chaotic society. Just after finishing U.Va. Law School, Mr. Shannon and his wife brought the then-new idea of the anti-kidnapping Amber Alert to the Washington metro area and arduously sold it to skeptical authorities. As a Fairfax prosecutor, Mr. Shannon zeroed in on child molesters. Today–yes, we mean right now–he can tell you exactly how many computerized kiddie-porn transactions took place in Virginia yesterday.
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The Free Lance-Star blasts Cuccinelli for, among other things, “making criminals of journalists who knocked on the doors of mourners.”

Typical right-winger. Go on and on about the Constitution while wiping their a** with the Bill of Rights.