Comments on: He said what? McDonnell drops F-bomb in radio interview

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By: Observateur

Observateur — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:38:17 +0000

I think what came out in the interview is the frustration Jobbing Bob is feeling after his long campaign to be the blow-dried voice of sweet centrist reason (complete with smiling family) has been holed by discussion of his extreme social views as exemplified by his thesis (and his record ever afterward). If Jobbing Bob were as cool as his photo-ops, he would have had his tongue under control. The interview itself was hardly a high-stress situation, and the questions he was being asked were pretty pedestrian. He should have poked them out of the park, but instead he lost it when pinned down. I don’t know a politician comfortable in his or her own shoes who could not have answered a question about the future without resorting to foul language.

By: One Dirty Word, One Dirty Transportation Plan « Straßgefühl

One Dirty Word, One Dirty Transportation Plan « Straßgefühl — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:54:31 +0000

[...] telling WTOP (a fairly credible Washington area news radio station) that he’s “identified twelve fucking funding mechanisms” for Virginia’s perpetually-imperiled transportation [...]

By: Likes It Quiet

Likes It Quiet — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:46:20 +0000

I make my voting decisions not on party affiliation but on a candidate’s platform and my personal judgment on the fitness of the candidate to govern. This includes experience, personal deportment, and a candidate’s history. A candidate’s associates and who he chooses for endorsements also reveals much.

McDonnell’s “slip of the tongue,” while inconsequential for the average person, gives away unfortunate contradictions in McDonnell’s persona which muddy any value of his carefully crafted campaign facade seen in his TV ads.

His troubling thesis, though 20 years old still has not been denied or addressed by McDonnell point-by-point but only vaguely referred to or lightly shrugged off.

More than his language, his associates are also troubling to me. McDonnell’s looking for endorsement from Newt Gingrich (according to his radio interview) shows his willingness to appeal to constituents interested in immoderate television personalities rather than people with actual substance. Also troubling is McDonnell’s readiness to seek out an endorsement from Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a person with a repugnant record and contemptible philosophies.

All of this and more is adding up to a McDonnell who seems more and more to be an embarrassing political animal rather than a man worthy of a vote or respect. It’s a shame that he continues to sully his own character with this behavior. Very sad to see.

By: Steven Sisson

Steven Sisson — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:07:25 +0000

McDonnell is another evangelic hypocrite. It’s more of the same ‘Do As I Say, Not As I Do’ mantra which is defining the Republican Party.

By: Matthew Yglesias » Endgame

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:15:16 +0000

[...] — Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell offers the political line of the year: “I’ve identified twelve fucking funding mechanisms.” [...]

By: chrisgraham

chrisgraham — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:05:04 +0000

Note, Charles, that the Deeds campaign didn’t bring this up. A blogger did, I found it on several blogs, and tried to do what I think was a better job than they did in providing context to the episode.

The 20-year-old thesis is valid for the purposes of dissecting what a McDonnell administration might be like. This slip of the tongue, not so much.

By: charles salembier

charles salembier — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:01:48 +0000

Seems like an awful lot of words about absolutely nothing; slip of the tongue, Happens to all of us.
If politicians can’t find anything more to criticize than a slip like this, or a 20 year old thesis written in an academic atmosphere, I have to wonder how afraid Deed’s supporters are of the man’s actual policies.

By: chrisgraham

chrisgraham — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:44:18 +0000

I don’t know that the issue would be that he used the word. It would be that he used the word in a live radio interview. I don’t disagree that it’s probably not Macaca.

By: Rufus Wheatgrass

Rufus Wheatgrass — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:42:02 +0000

So what if he said “fucking” I say it everyday…. I have a post secondary education! I ‘m not Christian, I’m Agnostic… I don’t think at this point it well be a Macaca moment