![]() Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Virginia's GOP appears poised to nominate state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to be its candidate for governor in 2013 -- embracing a man whose extreme political views bear striking resemblance to those of unsuccessful 2012 Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO). With his fervent anti-science, anti-choice, and anti-LGBT, anti-federal government activism, Akin's extreme positions were well known long before his infamous August pronouncement that victims of "legitimate rape" are unlikely to become pregnant helped derail his 2012 US Senate campaign. Cuccinelli's views closely mirror Akin's in all of those areas. Over 7 1/2 years as a VA state senator and three years as the commonwealth's attorney general, Republican Ken Cuccinelli II has been, in the words of the WaPo's editorial board, "the most overtly partisan attorney general in Virginia's history." |