Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

[spookyhandle]

I was so proud of my adopted home state last November. Not only did our country elect the presidential candidate I'd thrown my weight behind, but so did Virginia. We were a swing state in that election, and we came through (as much as our options allowed) for women's and gay rights

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[phantomblogger]

I completely agree. The election results are disappointing almost all the way around.

[cz_unit]

That's the plan. No matter how much better things get you'll focus on that and stay home for the next few elections.

CZ

(By "you" I mean you the electorate. It's annoying that the Dems have no clue how to manage public opinion. Ah well.)

[luguvalium]

McDonnell is not the one to worry about (too much), its the new Attorney General, Cuccinelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cuccinelli

[suncatnin]

Cuccinelli scares the shit out of me. He's been the equivalent of Delegate Bob Marshall in the State Senate and spearheaded the efforts to strip PP of their funding the other year.

NJ

[anonymous]

Can't cheer you up, but thought I'd share the fact that NJ just elected the first Rep Gov in over a decade. Not happy about that for some of the same reasons you quoted, but then I wasn't happy with the other options either . . . disappointing all the way around . . .

[elmo_iscariot]

That said, how any self-respecting woman could support a candidate who wants to take away her reproductive rights is something I've never been able to understand). Quite simply, not all self-respecting women agree that access to abortion on demand is a fundamental reproductive right, nor an acid test of a politician's support for women's rights

[spookyhandle]

I'm with you that abortion is an inherently complicated moral issue, and while I'm personally pro-choice, I fully respect the opinions of people who disagree with me here. There is no obvious cut-and-dry answer, and while I've arrived at a conclusion which I feel is morally sound, I recognize that other people will come to their own moral-from-their-own-perspectives conclusions. And that's fine.

However, the issue of reproductive rights extends far beyond the pro-choice/pro-life debate. I was, in fact, thinking more about the bit of McDonnell's thesis in which he proclaimed that unmarried women should not have legal access to birth control. I'm talking about Cuccinelli's (our new Attorney General's) attempt to cut out funding for Planned Parenthood--which yes, offers abortions, but also helps women like me get birth control at an affordable rate (not to mention annual paps, etc).

[elmo_iscariot]

...McDonnell's thesis in which he proclaimed that unmarried women should not have legal access to birth control. I'm talking about Cuccinelli's (our new Attorney General's) attempt to cut out funding for Planned Parenthood...

I'm sitting here gearing up to point-by-point this on small-government grounds, pointing out our relatively fine disagreement over how long you can hold somebody responsible for failed positions, or whether individuals should be forced to pay for other people's elective medication period, let alone medical procedures and treatments they're opposed to... But that has very little to do with your post. The bottom line is that I read something into the OP that you didn't intend. Mea culpa etcetera.