Cuccinelli is for a clean CR. So, sure, the House GOPs are winning. LOL

[Mass]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/10/04/ken_cuccinelli_says_the_shutdown_is_holding_one_part_of_government_hostage.html

Three days into the shutdown crisis, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has come out with a coherent position. He's for a "clean CR." He's split, for the first time I can think of, with the Tea Party movement writ large. Cuccinelli did this after one of the "Obamacare roundtables" he's holding in Virginia, intended to raise ire and awareness of problems with the law.

Cuccinelli told reporters after a Thursday-morning event that shuttering the government is not the right way for opponents of the 2010 Affordable Care Act to gain leverage to defeat the law he wants to see repealed. “Strangling government to do this is not an appropriate course to go,” said Cuccinelli, the state’s attorney general... “Holding one part of government hostage to another part, I don’t think is a proper way to govern."

There you go: One of the most conservative Republicans running for statewide office has embraced the "hostage" metaphor to describe Republicans. Democrats are delighted.

[lonestarnot]

1. Tee hee.

[Coyotl]

9. They know Boehner's dog-and-pony show won't play with the electorate!

[ProSense]

2. Kick! n/t

[dgibby]

3. But he's campaigning with Ted Cruz.

Cuccinelli will do/say anything he thinks will benefit him. As much as I'd love to see him (and the McDonells) doing the perp walk, I just hope he's not indicted before the election because he's the best reason we got to elect a Dem.

[Heather MC]

6. IT hurts my brain trying to figure out how they think

You can't have Ted Cruz and support a clean CR

[dgibby]

8. IIRC,

Ted Cruz also voted for a clean CR.

If you do ever figure out how they think, you'd better seek professional help immediately!

[calimary]

4. Too late, pal!

Don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!

[meadowlark5]

5. He's just saying that because he's tanking in the polls n/t

[kwolf68]

7. Northern Va

Don't think for a moment he's not looking at our state to see that many people work directly or indirectly for the federal government.

[dgibby]

10. Bingo!

I can only hope that he's stupid enough to take Cruz to NOVA. I'd pay good money to see that dog and pony show!

[kwolf68]

12. Haha...

Coochy has enough idiocy in him to light the nation's energy grid...I doubt he'll take Cruiser with him, that's just too much lunacy and while I maintain Virginia leans right, we also don't like lurching to the fringes either.

[Mass]

11. Of course, but this this belies the idea that the GOP is winning the debate.