Former Republican Attorney General Bob McDonnell, a candidate for governor of Virginia, gave his take on opponent Creigh Deeds’ success in the Democratic primary, and the Washington Post’s coverage of his controversial Master’s thesis.
Of Terry McAuliffe: “His negatives were always higher than his positives. I almost started rooting for him in the last month, because anybody who’s got negatives as high as he did, I thought would probably be a good target.”
Of Brian Moran: “Brian moved so far left during the course of the primary, to try to attract base voters in the Democratic party, that I think even the more activist Democrats thought there’s no way this guy could win. No governor had ever been elected running on a platform of opposing coal, for instance, in Virginia.”
Of Creigh Deeds: “His whole campaign over the last month has been based on former presidents, former governors, and a 20-year-old thesis. That’s his platform…He pledged three weeks ago in the debate that he’d never been a guy to talk about social issues. And now, for the last three weeks, that’s all he wants to talk about…If that’s what he wants to do, then I think that’s a winning formula for me.”
Of the Post: “What the Washington Post does — today I think we had three articles and yesterday it was two. I’m thinking maybe we’re going to get one more every day until people stop buying the paper. They were at least nice enough to run one story today that actually had someone that was supporting me, instead of the usual five against me and then me with my own quotes.”
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