herald-leader endorsed rand paul in 2010. this its what they wrote today, it is hard to know where to start with senator rand paul s reaction to legitimate criticism of repeated plagiarism. paul said he accepted responsibility, and then went on quickly to slough it off, laying it on his rapid assent to national prominence which he sought, on his staff whom he hired and finally on haters who want to bring the great man down. senator paul appears to believe profoundly in his own exceptionalism including that the rules do not apply to him. the herald-leader takes particular exception with something senator paul said this week to the new york times. that him facing this criticism quote is what people hate about politics and why frankly members of my family he said, are not to interested in politics period. or in wanting me to do more of this. to tell you the truth, people can think what they want.
of article v of the virginia constitution, which had never been used before in the entire history of the virginia constitution. it s the part of the virginia constitution that would allow other officers of the state government to throw the governor out. to declare the governor, quote, unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, thus throwing him out of office against his will, if he refused to quit. what?! why did this not get reported until 48 hours after the election? i mean, ken cuccinelli also took gifts from that guy. ken cuccinelli was totally implicated in that same scandal. ken cuccinelli didn t disclose his gifts from that guy. initially, he waited until he was getting ask ds about it before he paid the gifts back. he never had any explanation for why he took those gifts for himself. he was never able to explain himself. all the while, everybody s waiting for the indictment against bob mcdonnell, and ken cuccinelli is not able to distance himself from this horribl
don t put it in with everything else, and you know, all the wise people in washington and the pundits saying, well, we ve got to fix these entitlements, because they always mean social security and medicare. fascinating stuff. if the debate happens in those terms, i don t know that we re going to end up in a different place, but it would be a much more sensible debate. we will end up in a different place, because the public overwhelmingly says if you poll, should we fix entitlements or should we reform the entitlement system, people will say, yes. if you say, should we cut social security and medicare or shift medicare costs to seniors, they will say, decidedly, no. it s a lot like the minimum wage debate. and democrats and progressives have to be making these debates, making these issues putting these issues in front of people and really making the case. not to play on their field, continued budget cut, continue undercutting medicare, continue these low-wage kinds of jobs. let
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on the other hand, the tea party diagnosis about what ken cuccinelli did wrong is that he wasn t hardline enough. he was too much of a squish. he should have campaigned more about immigrants and birth control and abortion and gay rights. so there s this really interesting dynamic, right? the democratic unanimity and the chaos on this. democrats have never been more unified, but republicans, not only do they not know what their party position is, they can t agree on whether or not they re proud of it or ashamed of it, whether they want it to be something they run on or something they run from. and therefore, nobody really knows how to strategize on this issue in future elections. this is going to be amazing to watch from here on out, because for a generation now, it has been an article of faith among republican strategies that it is good for the republican party to run hard-line, anti-abortion candidates and pursue hard-line, anti-abortion policies. the calculation has always been that,