Rethuglican Talibangelists are all for getting gubmint off your back, except when it comes to the bedroom. That hypocrisy is apparently having a negative effect on Virginia Rethuglican gubernatorial candidate and vaginal probe enthusiast Ken "Cooch" Cuccinelli's fund raising abilities, as major donors are turned off by his extreme social conservatism:
“'I’m an employer in Virginia, and Cuccinelli terrifies me,' said Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association in Arlington, which represents 2,000 technology companies.
'To attract the best employees, you don’t want to have the most backward policies in the country,' Shapiro said, referring to Cuccinelli’s stands on issues including abortion and gay rights. Shapiro, an independent who confronted Cuccinelli at a February meeting of the Republican Governors Association executive council to vent his concerns, said his peers in the business world share his perspective. 'I don’t know anyone who’s going to give him money,' he said. 'I said it to Cuccinelli’s face: He’s anti-business, anti-woman, anti-employer, and he’s not going to get the support of business leaders.'"Thankfully, Cooch and his Talibangelist backers are going to find the going rough in an increasingly purple state like Virginia.
(cartoon: Tom Tomorrow, via Daily Kos)
