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The dispatching of interns to college campus for purposes of digging up politicians’ old papers, newspaper columns, and self-effacing submissions to really radical but also really, like, awesome poetry ‘zines is a sacred tradition of journalism. And it is this custom that has made it possible for America to now enjoy the senior thesis of Virginia gubernatorial candidate/former attorney general Bob McDonnell, a 93-page musing on the fairer sex that is now forcing McDonnell to perform the PR equivalent of fellatio on fornicators, cohabitators, working mothers and other types of fallen women.
McDonnell didn’t take too kindly to feminists in college, especially not employed feminists, who bitch about equal pay and then use their riches to buy condoms in order to have hypersexualized types of sex. In other words:
He argued for covenant marriage, a legally distinct type of marriage intended to make it more difficult to obtain a divorce. … [H]e criticized federal tax credits for child care expenditures because they encouraged women to enter the workforce.
“Further expenditures would be used to subsidize a dynamic new trend of working women and feminists that is ultimately detrimental to the family by entrenching status-quo of nonparental primary nurture of children,” he wrote.
He went on to say feminism is among the “real enemies of the traditional family.”
Sagely, McDonnell is now characterizing the college paper as an “academic exercise.” This is intended dissuade you, the crying woman, from reading too much into it, as you are wont to do.
93 pages to say: “Barefoot and Pregnant”?
Best not show this article to that notorious feminist Sara K Smith.
I love that women working was a “dynamic new trend”. In 1989. Once again VA legislators establish that they are living, or would like to be living, in 1864.
>“academic exercise.”
It’s true. Even Regent University requires a little more effort into a thesis than writing “STFU BITCHES” on a piece of paper and handing it in.
ManchuCandidate: Big font, wide margins, 2.5 spacing.
McDonnell is apparently an extremely bad lover. All studs know that a feminist is like linoleum: Lay it right the first time, and you can walk all over it for years.
Can we really pay attention to the rantings of a 19 year old???
oh wait..he was 34 when he wrote this…oh..uhm…..
ManchuCandidate:
That also struck me as knid of long. I’m guessing he drew lots of pictures.
Fox News Light: there is that, and that he has made his career trying to enact this shit:
“The 93-page document, which is publicly available at the Regent University library, culminates with a 15-point action plan that McDonnell said the Republican Party should follow to protect American families — a vision that he started to put into action soon after he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.
During his 14 years in the General Assembly, McDonnell pursued at least 10 of the policy goals he laid out in that research paper, including abortion restrictions, covenant marriage, school vouchers and tax policies to favor his view of the traditional family. In 2001, he voted against a resolution in support of ending wage discrimination between men and women. “
Bob McDonnell: Partying like it’s 1899…
He sorta looks like Joan’s husband on “Mad Men”. Coincidence???
“fellatio on fornicators, cohabitators, working mothers and other types of fallen women”?!?
GODDAMNIT, Juli: WHEN are you going to LEARN?
We need PICTURES with a story like this.
And their phone numbers, too, come to think of it.
:::Grump:::
Bob McDonnell: Making “Jobs” an adjective since 2008.
“I’m a jobs anti-feminist.” - Bob McDonnell
McDonnell wouldn’t be having these problems if women didn’t have the vote, as God intended.
The overwhelming majority of women–even the likes of Sarah Palin–consider themselves “feminists.” A thesis like this is a one-way ticket to Selfabuseville.
Doglessliberal: Why is it that Republics always bray about “protecting America’s families”? Their track record just doesn’t back that shit up.
Now wait a minute, kids. American women have become too uppity. Why else would Sanford had to have gone to South America to find some true love? It is all the fault of them pheminists.
It certainly can’t compare to the love poems of Mark Sanford.
Believe me, this dood is not even remotely interested in what womyn do with their yoni.
Hey, I have no problem whatsoever with being barefoot and preggers for the rest of my fucking life, if Republicans are willing to hand over a well-endowed man atheist who has a well-paying job with amazing benefits, inexpensive healthcare for his whole famdamnily, decent vacation time, and no penchant for clipping his fingernails while riding public transportation. Until such a man materializes, though, I guess I’ll have to keep working, for 75% of the pay that my male colleagues earn, so that I can afford my insulin.
Thanks to his thesis advisor, “shackeruppers, turd-burglers, or heathen adulterers” was changed to “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators”.
“In 2001, he voted against a resolution in support of ending wage discrimination between men and women.”
Somebody needs to tell smilin’ Bob that by allowing lower pay for women, he encourages the hiring of women. So, if he wants them women at home where they belong, he’d better start finding ways to make their employment more expensive than male employment, say by supporting equal pay, paid maternity leave, subsidized child care, and other liberal stuff.
What he wrote in the thesis on women in the workplace, he said, “was simply an academic exercise and clearly does not reflect my views.”
So he was willing to lie in writing his college thesis, and now he’d like our trust and our votes?
HEY, family values there - elect that guy!
He’ll put an ‘merican car in every garage, a chicken in every pot and a self-loathing, pill-popping housewife in every liquor cabinet.
GOP family values can only mean one thing - he’s been screwin’ someone or something he ought not to be screwin’.
Fortunately for him most Virginians don’t take kindly to them feminist types which means his approval ratings just skyrocketed here. Everyone say Governor McDonell!
I love how wingnuts think work is a choice for most women and is something NEW.
PrairiePossum: It’s only a matter of time until he’s busted offering $20 to blow guys at a Stuckey’s on I-95.
AnnieGetYourFun: Do I hear an echo of J.R.?
A Republican who doesn’t like or respect women. Color me shocked.
freakishlystrong: Because Republicans are forced to speak exclusively in coded messages. They all understand that “protecting America’s families” sounds much better to the mainstream than “preserving the white male’s exclusive right of pre-eminance.”
AnnieGetYourFun: See, this is why you can’t be trusted with the full pay of a man doing the same job. You’ll just go and spend it on drugs. First insulin, next you’ll probably expect epidurals in childbirth.
Larry Craig’s thesis: “Why Men Are Better Than Women: A Thorough Investigation.”
snideinplainsight: and that is a lie, too, as he actively legislated for these issues. He is a piece of shit.
And who really would want their Senior theses exposed once they are hatched out of academia? I mean, my thesis on “Bong Hits > Beer” probably not my best work either.http://bit.ly/fTyuQ Also.
Cape Clod: Next question to this knuckledragger; “If you’re so interested in “protecting America’s families”, why on earth would you be against Healthcare Reform?”. Oh, wait, that’s implying we have actual reportage being done out there. But Jenna’s segments should be informative!
What do you expect from a Pat Robertson trained moron?
McDonnell added: “Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.”
My guess is that his views have gotten worse, not better. Remember, Jesus wrote almost all of the new testament condeming homosexuals, right?
Does Juli have banhammer rights?
This would have been great opposition research, except that it was done not by the Deeds campaign but by candidate McConnell himself!
The Washington Post learned of the thesis in a recent interview with McDonnell, who mentioned it in answering a question about his political roots. McDonnell brought up the paper in reference to a pair of Republican congressmen whom he interviewed as part of his research. McDonnell then offered: “I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.”
FMA: Good god, I hope that happens soon. I need the schadenfraude after reading about this.
Come here a minute: Don’t tell anyone, but if you want to get really high, try mixing your anti-epilepsy meds with a hefty dose of Advil on chemo days. That shit will FUCK YOU UP. Good times. Good times.
Why is it that repugnicans always have photos of themselves with their families as campaign posters? As if to say “Hey looka here! I aren’t no faggit! I fuck my wife and am a virile male human who produces offspring!”
As if having a family is some kind of guarantor of family values? Even wife-killing husbands and baby-drowning housewives have(had?) families.
And as for point number the 4th in his plan: “Continue to battle the interstate sale of pornography and obscenity to the extent constiutionally permissible, and encourage state Republicans to do the same.”
To me, that sounds like he wants to REGULATE PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
Why does Bob McDonnell hate America?
Hey, if he wants women to stay home and be mommies and housekeepers, shouldn’t they get paid for it? Now that shit looks like WORK!
Neilist: Would this include our hero, Sara K. Smith?
And another thing. Why do the closeted homos and pig-fuckers always bitch about “government interference” in people’s lives except for when they’re the ones doing it?
You are supposed to read, and then tell us, what a MSM story says so that we don’t have to read it. This post completely ignores that important rule.
If you had just said that he attended, and submitted his “thesis” to, Regent University, I would not even have had to go further to be fully informed what a douchenozzle he is, for all time.
AnnieGetYourFun: Don’t forget to ask for an illegal immigrant willing to care for the damn rugrats 24/7 at less than minimum wage. Otherwise, where’s the fun??
I wonder what Michelle Bachman has to say about this.
George Oscar Bluth: Let’s leave Cindy McCougar out of this.
jagorev: Isn’t baby Charlie and secret Dan proof that Sara K. Smith is not a fornicator, cohabitator or a hateful feminist but a wholesome mom. Oh wait she is working mother, never mind.
I’m a working woman, single mother and fornicator and I just think he has a funny hairdo.
I’d like to hear more about how one goes about performing fellatio on working mothers and other types of fallen women.
Dreamer: HEY trust me on this, ALL mothers are working mothers! (Well, unless you leave the kids in a tied burlap sack on a snowdrift somewhere.)
An excerpt from Bob McConnell’s college thesis:
“…and homosexual women, prostitutes, women who live with men who are not married, women who have sex who are unmarried, women who dress provocatively, women who wear shorts, and any woman who holds a top-level executive position at a huge corporation, should all be dragged outside in a public forum, preferably a football stadium, and pelted with stones or beaten with bamboo sticks by a macho man. This will teach them! I think is a productive form of corrections, discipline, reform and rehabilitation! And anyone who disagrees should be stoned. Anyone who doesn’t like stoning should be stoned. And anyone who disagrees with me should be stoned. This is a central theme of this collegiate thesis…”
AnnieGetYourFun: well-endowed man atheist? My new favorite phrase. Not sure it exists but it’s gonna get me through the day. thank you.
thefrontpage: That would just go to prove what we already know.
He has teh gh3y.
Thinkaboutit. “Barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen”????
Tres ick!
I prefer “Wearing stripper heels, on birth control and sitting in my lap.”
“master’s thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach.”
His school isn’t even identified. Must be a storefront diploma mill.
But what does the Eva Braun of Regent U., Monica Gooding think?
That he wants women to wear dog collars will lose him votes in northern Virginia, and that he went to college and wrote a paper will lose him votes in the south.
This wasn’t his senior thesis. He was in a masters degree program at Regents, then called the CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) University. He was in his 30’s when he wrote it.
I’m certain that anyone enrolling in a college by that name was looking for a broad based education that would require students to consider all points of views.
Regent University is for wingnuts that fail out of Phoenix.
So this guy’s gotta have a tent city in his back yard where his teenage baby momma resides with his demon spawn…right???
Perhaps it’s my long stint at a major elitist research university speaking, but I just don’t think “thesis” is quite the right word for a 93-page polemic with a 15 point “action plan.” Also, can we get some of those nice Code Pink ladies on the case, stat?
snideinplainsight: there you go putting a feminist spin on motherhood. Isn’t that what the whole thesis was against — demeaning motherhood?
But seriously, who are we kidding, isn’t Virginia a major Birther State - of course they will not be shocked by this clown’s views.
Mild Midwesterner: Please tell me this is your idea of snark, ’cause otherwise, you deserve a dope slap.
BlueStateLibtard: Kinda hard to have one wage-earner support an entire family in a “right to work” state.
jesusbutter: For the record, an atheist man can be well-endowed, just not by his creator.
oh, Crap, I should be hauling my sorry butt over to Virginia to work against his election. Going to Regent is bad enough- it would totally disqualify him in Maryland- much less his pos thesis and his legislative policies. Tell me this moran has no chance in Va!
jesusbutter: Man atheist sounds weird to you? Where I come from, that there is edumacated talk.
jasper f. krone: If I found a well-endowed man, I don’t think I’d be an atheist any longer.
So, this ‘academic exercise’ means ‘haha, j/k’?
freakishlystrong: Well, they protect *rich* people’s families. They just leave out one little adjective.
If the fundy Jeebus-ers and the Taliban ever figure out that they actually have a lot in common, especially when it comes to fear of women and sex, we’re all screwed.
Pop Socket: Phoenix College. Or, as we like to call it down here, “FK”.
finallyhappy: not only does he have a chance, he is polling way ahead of Deeds. We need all the help we can get.
finallyhappy: Depends. Apparently his opponent isn’t loudly enough pro-choice for some: http://community.feministing.com/2009/08/marginalized-by-our-allies.html
jasper f. krone: Do you want to believe?
That’s why you major in Engineering and write a thesis about advanced techniques in vectorized distributed processing compilers because, really, BOOOOOOO-RING!
I have a sixth sense of sorts for identifying closeted pervs. This one is setting off the alarm. How long until we find out that he can’t get hard unless someone is urinating on him?
I hope to run for governor some day, so all the bad song lyrics I wrote in college will come to light.
It’s like I singlehandedly invented Emo; years before anyone even heard of Mark Sanford. Me for Gov!
A world where I can’t get a blow job from my secretery by overtly threatening her employment status while my wife obediently sits at home all day doing ‘woman’s work’ is NOT a world I want to live in!
What surprises me is how quickly people forget how mainstream all of this stuff was in 1989.
Doglessliberal: Deeds ain’t much better, but I guess I’ll go knock on some damn doors for lazy/dumb ass.
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend: No Deeds isn’t, but not voting for him gets McDonnell elected, so I will hold nose and do it.
chapka: Maybe in your part of the world…Thank dog I didn’t have to grow up in America.
the problem child: Whoever is elected Governor of Virginia will have more armament at his command than your nation state of origin (Kenya?), and more than likely won’t feel like a man unless he puts it to use. Just sayin’, our problems are everyone’s problems.
An academic exercise is a page or two long.
A well through out personal manifesto or thesis is 93 pages long and no college student no mater how studious would spend that kind of time and effort writing something that long if he didn’t believe in what he was saying.
You can tell a lot about a man by looking at his hands. This man would NOT be fun to hook up with.
chapka: really, I was a fulltime working(OUTSIDE THE HOME)mom in 1989 along with quite a few of my co-workers. Where did you live?
QuestionEvil: Beethoven was once quoted as saying that the Ninth Symphony was just a chance for him to dabble some more in choral writing.
GreatOldOnesParty: It’s not “private” if I think God thinks it’s naughty. Because He sees it and it makes Him sad and therefore if I don’t make sure everyone in the world follows my code of ethics, God will consume the earth in fire. What about that doesn’t make sense, HENGH?
aleks: I am a non-practicing agnostic, so the question doesn’t apply.
thefrontpage: So did he cite Dylan for the use of the lyrics from “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 for this? It seems his premise is “Everybody must get stoned.” Dylan should be in the footnotes somewhere-no?
Dude really needs to give up the toupee.
Doglessliberal: That plan worked spectacularly for John Kerry.
When I saw this, I knew it had to be something from a “Christian” school. These people are pathetic.
SlouchingTowardsWasilla: Virginia went pretty blue this past election. I have my fingers oh so crossed.
But doesn’t this guy realize that talking smack about feminism gradually makes you look like Rush Limbaugh?
GreatOldOnesParty: He needs to demonstrate that at least one woman on the planet is willing to cohabitate with him. And that his sperm have completed their intended mission, so he’s healthy in the only way that counts to Christianistas.
Off-topic, but related: The other day I drove behind an expensive looking van with multiple Christian-themed stickers. It also had one of those stick-figure window decals that demonstrate exactly how many spouses, children, and pets the driver has, as if we care. But the winner was something new to me: a big, honkin’, red-white-and-blue bumper sticker that said, “I [heart] my hubby.” Is this a new family-values fad? Do hubbies now force these on their wifies (I don’t even know how to spell those words)? I wished I had some trucknutz with me. I would have added them to the decorations.
finallyhappy: I’m not saying women weren’t working outside the home in 1989. I’m just saying the idea that their doing so was somehow Bad and Wrong and that feminism caused divorce and hurt families was a pretty mainstream conservative opinion, because not having a father would make your child into a gay serial killer. Remember Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown a few years later?
In other words, many of the male republicans who’ve been in Congress since 1989 or before would probably have agreed with everything McDonnell wrote back in 1989. They just probably didn’t write extensive academic papers on it.
Jukesgrrl: Not long ago, my wife and I were behind car bearing a bumper sticker that said, “I (heart) my wife.” I guess it was a Promise Keepers kind of thing.
I said I wanted to get a (club) sticker to put over the heart.
My wife, who is more insightful, said, Now there’s a guy who’s fucking some truck-stop waitress.
geminisunmars: +1
FMA: We don’t love them hoes!
finallyhappy: Yes, but that sort of platform kept getting assclowns like this guy elected - it was a pretty mainstream way to campaign then - idiot ‘rhetoric’ like this totally got my parents’ votes in the ’80s
Bob McDonnell - Keeping the virgin in Virginia.
FMA: Your idea is better than trucknutz! And your wifey IS very insightful.
Flanders: Hey! Watch that kinda talk about The Virgin Mother of Our New Lord And Savior, Charles ‘d Wonkett.
Obviously he mastered political prose early on!