“Not perfect, but smart enough to know that we shouldn’t give our opponents any more ammunition to use against us. It doesn’t have to be hard. What part of “don’t take any money” is hard to understand? Same with “don’t take any gifts”. Surely we can run candidates who have worked an honest living and not bagged expensive gifts from anyone. “
I don’t have a problem with it, as long as the man is doing the job we need him to do and he certiantly has been doing that hes got my vote.
The implication of theses “gifts” is to buy favor but there are many ways to get favor without buying or trading for it. Liberals are quite adept at it in the form of lobbying. There is nothing we can do to stop it from happening to anyone so just drop it.
Cuccinelli did not run claiming to be saint he ran as a constitutional conservative and that he most certantly is!
And that is really the sad part about all this. If Cuccinelli loses this race because of a stupid thing like this, we will have lost another winnable seat, and had a good candidate go down to defeat, not because they were wrong on the issues or had bad ideas for governing, but because some stupid thing like this tripped them up. That kind of stuff drives me nuts. There's no reason for it. We lost two perfectly winnable Senate seats in Indiana and Missouri last election because our candidates weren't smart enough to see and avoid the trap the 'Rats were setting. They weren't wrong on principles, but their political acumen was sorely lacking. We're paying the price for that now in having two uber liberals sitting in those seats in the Senate. We can't afford to have that happen again.