Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli still refuses to criticize Jackson’s views on gays and abortion

Somehow, Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli slipped through the cracks of reality upon his emergence onto this planet. And there is no better example of this than Thursday’s statement made by Cuccinelli regarding his running mate’s hate mongering comments about Planned Parenthood and homosexuals.

The Republican pick for lieutenant governor in the great state of Virginia, ‘Bishop’ E. W. Jackson, isn’t too short on examples of asinine comments regarding touchy social issues. Just to name a few, Jackson has called homosexuals “very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally” and has compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan. The latter statement can easily be disproved because no one on record for Planned Parenthood has been witnessed riding around on horseback in a white bed-sheet.

According to The Washington Post, Cuccinelli had this to say when asked whether he could explain the remarks of his running mate: “It doesn’t change our message a lick. He’s got to defend all his own statements and he’s going to go about doing that, but we run our own race.”

As noted before, it would be difficult for Cuccinelli to criticize his running partner’s positions on issues such as abortion and gay rights because the attorney general and Jackson are closely in agreement. Bigot #1 and Bigot #2.

Herein lies the true reason why Cuccinelli won’t chastise Jackson’s controversial views too severely, if at all. It’s because Cuccinelli has publicly stated similar beliefs!

If ever a political ticket were to write themselves (or speak themselves) out of office, it’s this pair of oddly self-reaffirming New Right representatives in Virginia, a group of conservatives so disdainful of difference and ‘big government’ that they are willing to use the latter to subdue the former (and enrich themselves with favorable stock options, paid-for vacations, and god knows what else).

That these two have gotten this far in the electoral process is a clear symptom of a much larger problem creeping through certain parts of Virginia: ignorance, hate, and stupidity. Americans have a right to these attributes, just not so close to the levers of government power.