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This Is Going in Your Permanent Record, Young Man!
Remember when some teacher said that shit to you in middle school, and you were like, “Fuck off, granny, nobody’s gonna give a shit in 20 years that I said your ass smells like sausage and gravy from Skeeter’s (inside, old-timey Gainesville reference!). Well, you were probably right if, like me, your greatest career aspiration is having a shot at assistant manager at Sonic, but slick, patrician Repub Robert McDonnell is learning that that shit can happen.
Twenty years ago, as a 34-year-old grad student at Pat Robertson’s farm for churning out fundie nutbags, Regent University, McDonnell wrote a master’s thesis charmingly titled “The Republican Party’s Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of the Decade” (those grad students, they sure love them some colons in their paper titles!). In it he trumpeted all the tired hash those hacks always go on about: contraceptives shouldn’t be legal for unmarried people, women should be in the homes raising kids (seriously, no shit!), gays should have no legal rights, blah, blah, blah.
Unfortunately for him, Virginia’s pretty purply these days, and he’s been trying to appear kind of moderate, but this ain’t gonna help. To be fair to him, it sounds like he’s come a few steps out of the 4th century, considering one of his daughters fought in Iraq and both have master’s degrees, but the article I read didn’t say nothing about whether they have JOBS or anything.
Anyway, he’s already put the smooth spin on this, trying to turn it around on his democratic challenger, some guy named Creigh Deeds, but we’ll see how it goes for him. The other guy who posts here probably ought to say something about this, since he lives in that state and all.
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Did you ever work at Sonic? Or was it the Steak and Kill? You know they closed down all Sonics here?
I didn’t work at the Steak and Kill, but Dame and I were roomies when that killing happened in ’86.
Bad news about Sonics–their chili dog n tater tots combo is the awesome.
Good take on McDonnell’s thesis. I can report that for whatever reason, the story isn’t getting much traction here in Va-ginia, probably because half the state agrees with everything he wrote. Even our left-leaning local blog, http://starcityharbinger.com/, has essentially ignored it. I think a lot of the ennui over the whole matter stems from an overwhelming sense of fatigue over election politics. This could come back to bite Deeds in the ass. As for Deeds, he’s in the Blue Dog Democrat mold anyway, so beyond social issues there isn’t a lot of light between him and McDonnell.
I thought I’d add a link to a pretty good editorial on this issue in today’s Roanoke Times – http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/217409.