GOP Post-Mueller-Investigation Video

Headlines, with rousing music ("Can Can"):

Quotation Of The Day

A comment found on blog rounds the morning after the Mueller Investigation was concluded and a comment which sums up my own thoughts....

Commenter LL's evaluation as stated at Lone Star Parson:

Mueller, in the end, after making his retirement money (for himself and his cronies), and lacking ANY evidence, finally folded his tent and the aspirations of the Deep State and the Corrupt Media are weeping (more) bitter tears. The Russia collusion narrative is dead even though pawns like Adam Schiff (D-CA) will continue to beat the drum because it's the only drum they have.

Russia, military in decline, reduced to a regional power with a nuclear arsenal, is doing its best to follow a Russia First agenda, and why shouldn't they? China is having some money problems but it's still promoting its belt road agenda, and the US is energy and food independent, steel industry back in business.

President Trump has revealed disastrous trade deals with China, Japan, Korea and Europe is re-mapping how business is to be done and the Deep State trembles. All that money in bribes stopped. All those plans to weaken the US have been put on hold. Such a pity -- all that plotting, waiting and hoping that somebody like Beto or the fake Indian will capture the imagination of the voters. Somebody who can read the message of his/her handlers from a teleprompter the way that Barack did.

Last year, one of my clients, a dyed-in-the-wool member of the Democrat Party, said to me, with feigned sorrow, "I'm sorry. But Trump is going to be removed from office."  You see, she really believed the drumbeat she heard every day on MSNBC and The View.

And there are millions more like my former client.

I wonder....How long before more screaming at the sky commences?

Let the nervous breakdowns begin!

Related reading, from Lone Star Parson's follow-up post Satan Does Not Tolerate Failure. Worth your time.

President Trump on the Limbaugh Show

President Trump called into the show last week, on the 30th anniversary date of the Rush Limbaugh Show.


Eat your heart out, you now Never-Trumpers who used to substitute host for Rush!

What The Left Most Dreads Right Now

From the Guardian (UK), dated May 31, 2018:

Liberals' worst nightmare: a second supreme court pick for Trump

...Any vacancy prior to 2020 would almost certainly be filled by Trump, and a rules change adopted by Republicans during the Gorsuch nomination fight enabled the Senate to confirm supreme court justices with a simple majority vote....

Read it all HERE.

My commentary:

The Left will stop at nothing — NOTHING! — to get President Trump out of the Oval Office!

Fasten your seat belts. The propaganda war to destroy the Trump Administration is going to get worse and worse.

Make no mistake: the very survival of our republic founded upon the principles of federalism is at stake.

This battle isn't about issues ranging from women’s reproductive health to LGBT rights, as mentioned in the Guardian article. Those mentions are scare tactics to divert attention from what is really at stake.

A.F. Branco 2017

Some political perspective on 2017. Enjoy!

The Trump-Russia Connection. Um, not exactly.

With a hat tip to my friend Z:


Now, why aren't the members of the GOP driving home these points every time they step in front of the camera and every time they have a mic within reach?

Khizr Khan To Run For Political Office In Virginia?

Ah, the dhimmitude — that a Vietnam veteran is promoting this insanity!

From Vietnam veteran urges Gold Star father to run for Virginia House (August 4, 2016):

In the week since Khizr Khan, the father of an Army captain killed in Iraq in 2004, made an impassioned call to elect Hillary Clinton, some of her supporters have found another person they'd like to see in public office: Khan.

The Charlottesville, Virginia, lawyer and his wife, Ghazala, rose to national prominence after he challenged Trump's rhetoric on Muslim Americans in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Thomas Keefe, a Vietnam veteran and longtime Democratic activist, watched the Khans from backstage at the convention and thought of his son's friend who died while serving in Afghanistan five years ago this month. Northern Virginia native Douglas J. Green was 23.

"There were a lot of things that were swirling around my head when Mr. Khan was speaking," he said in a phone interview, his voice cracking.

By the time Keefe, 67, had returned home to Knoxville, Tennessee, he had resolved to send a message to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump about the kind of leadership he believes Americans deserve.

So he started a digital crowdfunding campaign intended to recruit Khan to run for the Virginia House of Delegates, complete with a bumper-sticker-ready slogan: "Yes We Khan!"

Through the platform Crowdpac, 123 individuals pledged more than $13,000 in less than two days. Keefe hopes to reach $20,000 by Monday....

Read the rest of this dhimmitudinal puff piece HERE at Stars and Stripes.

Hannity's Interview With Donald Trump

Worth 40 minutes of your time (hat tip to Adrienne):

Ain't It The Truth?

In response to Silverfiddle's comment at my blog yesterday:

We've got to give El Donaldo some credit. He's forcing the political whores to lay their cards on the table.

DC is spilling over with cheap pimps, and the dirty little secret being revealed is that they know no ideology...

Let us count the ways and hope that we don't exceed the allowable bandwidth.

(hat tip to Skip V. Patel's Twitter page)

Paradigm Shift?

The Cambridge Dictionary Online defines "paradigm shift" as the following:

a time when the usual and accepted way of doing or thinking about something changes completely.

Last week, I said at at Ed Bonderenka's blog Not of This World...

If what we are witnessing [in this election cycle] is a paradigm shift, we shouldn't be surprised that there is a great deal of animosity. And I've come to believe that we may well be in the early stages of a paradigm shift. I lived through the huge paradigm shift of the Sixties followed by a smaller paradigm shift (Reagan),and, of course, the more recent paradigm shift (2007-present).

When a pendulum swings in reaction to a very recent swing, the pendulum will swing hard. If time allows and the clock doesn't implode, the pendulum will come back to center.

From Trump: What American Conservatism Needs:

...“True” American “conservatism” cannot be saved by the executive branch or the Republican Party. It can only be preserved in the family, the home, the small town, and the political communities that make up America, what truly makes “America great.” When Americans subscribe to a national prescription as a remedy for all that ails us as a people, they unknowingly invite the type of executive abuse we have weathered for the past twenty-eight years.

If Americans wish to “conserve” anything, it should be hearth and home, freedom to have your local political community reflect your values, and the possibility of upward mobility unrestrained by unconstitutional federal regulations. It should be a revival of the rugged individualism that provided the blood and sweat of American greatness. More than anything, Trump has tapped into these values. The establishment can’t stand it.

Trump’s victory has made establishment “conservatives” angry. It may even signal the demise of the Republican Party (I doubt it). It may drive some people to support Clinton or a third-party alternative in the general election. But it won’t destroy American conservatism. Trump has, whether the establishment wants to recognize it or not, rekindled it....

Please read it all HERE. We have a lot to consider before we cast our ballots in the 2016 National Election six months from now.

Ted Cruz As The Establishment Candidate?

The neocons are now supporting Ted Cruz:

Ted Cruz on Tuesday [March 8] nabbed an unlikely endorsement: the backing of a Bush.

Neil Bush, a brother of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush, was listed (along with his wife) as one of 13 new additions to Cruz's national finance team. The campaign said the new additions are all former supporters of other candidates, including Bush, Rand Paul, Rick Perry and Marco Rubio.

This follows the release last week of a list of several other previous Jeb Bush backers now supporting Cruz, whose hardline conservative approach is generally at odds with the one Jeb Bush took.

Last summer, former President George W. Bush told supporters at a private fundraiser for his brother's campaign that Cruz was the GOP contender who most got under his skin. "I just don't like the guy," George W. Bush said at a Denver fundraiser....

The neocons have despised Cruz. But not now.

Defeating Trump?

The Trump Train

This essay by Helen Delich Bentley, Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1985 to 1995, asserts that blocking Trump from being the nominee would be unfair.

Excerpt:

..Trump is inspiring tens of millions of Americans of all ages, races, religions and ideologies. He is inspiring them with novel ideas such as requiring that immigrants and visitors come into this country legally with proper documentation and making sure that we can properly vet everyone who wants to come to this country. He is inspiring them with novel ideas such as not rewarding corporations for taking jobs out of the country to parts of the world that have no minimum wage, environmental or child labor laws so that they can turn around and sell cheap goods to the Americans whose jobs they exported. He is inspiring them with novel ideas such as not expanding benefits to illegal immigrants while veterans — American heroes — are dying because we cannot treat them quickly enough.

If the Republican establishment does not like Trump’s ideas, it should try to beat him fair and square, by capturing the hearts and imaginations of the voters, as Trump has done over the past six months. If it can beat him fair and square, with a majority of votes and a majority of delegates, then the party — including those of us who support Trump — will come together behind the eventual nominee. But if the nomination is stolen from Trump through shadowy billionaire super-PAC money and “brokered convention” chicanery, I sadly predict that the party that I love and have helped to build for more than half a century will suffer a massive schism that may send it the way of the Whigs....

Read the rest HERE.

There is the very real possibility that Trump cannot be stopped from traveling further along the road to the nomination. From This essay, "The 25-Year Tide That Gave Us Trump,":

Trump’s popularity is a direct result of a tsunami of economic and cultural globalism that has flooded the shores of America over the last 25 years. The overwhelming pace of this change has upended both the country and the relationship that working-class voters have with both political parties, but especially the GOP....

Important factors according to that essay: economic globalism, cultural globalism (including concerns about Islamic terrorism), and the Great Recession with the 2008 Wall Street bailout. In sum:

They [the middle class] want an outsider — someone strong enough to take on the system, someone who will not fix it or reform it but break it. Someone who will drop an anvil on the system’s head the way one was dropped on theirs [the heads of the middle class].

Read the entire essay HERE.

Of note: Marco Rubio, perceived as a GOP-establishment candidate, didn't pick up a single delegate yesterday.

Neoconservatism (the tenets of the establishment GOP and often referred to as "modern conservatism") is struggling to survive. Should it survive?  And does neoconservativism really protect American interests?

Monday Morning Quarterbacking (The Iowa Caucuses)

This analysis over at The Last Refuge (Conservative Treehouse) is long, but worth exploring: Post Iowa Caucus Results – Winners and Losers.

Excerpt:

...So who benefited from the events last night in Iowa.

The BIGGEST WINNER is Wall Street.

[...]

The SECOND BIGGEST WINNER is Fox News.

[...]

The BIGGEST LOSER last night was not Donald Trump, it was middle America....

Read it all HERE.

Karl Rove and the rest of the GOP establishment are clapping like seals this morning because Marco Rubio scored in the top-three tier of the Iowa Caucuses.

Marco Rubio is the establishment GOP's anointed one. That's been true since at least October 2015.

Pat Condell On Donald Trump

The GOP-Establishment Manipulators

Last night, I looked into getting absentee ballots for Mr. AOW and me so that we can vote in the Virginia Primary on March 1, 2016. We were planning to vote for any GOP candidate not approved by the GOP establishment.

For as long as I can remember, here in Virginia we have had open primaries. That is, voters did not have to affirm Party affiliation to vote in primaries.

Lo! What did I see regarding the upcoming Virginia Primary? THIS!

The Republican Party of Virginia has determined that the
following statement shall be a requirement of your participation.

Both Mr. AOW and I are registered as Independents, so we won't be voting in the 2016 Virginia Republican Primary. We've been shut out.

BTW, no such certification is required for the 2016 Democratic Primary here in Virginia.

Meanwhile, here is a recent essay by one of the GOP-establishment mouthpieces: Trump’s nomination would rip the heart out of the Republican Party.

The Two-Party System

Particularly appropriate after what the Congress critters did last night with the passage of the omnibus bill (hat tip to Political Tea Leaves):

We no longer have a representative government.

Ebola News 10-27-2014 - Quarantine Not Necessary, Huh?

CBS 60 Minutes: Inside the first US Ebola diagnosis,Thomas Eric Duncan
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TheHill: ER nurse: Duncan lied about exposure to Ebola

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UK DailyMail: Five-year-old boy is being tested for Ebola at NY hospital after returning from family trip to West Africa  
Child was reportedly vomiting and had a 103-degree temperature 

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LibertyNewsonline: Ebola Quarantine Nurse's Ties to CDC Scrubbed from Web; Was it a staged OP to invoke opposition to quarantines? 

-----NYPost: Manager claims tenant who bowled with Ebola doctor is under home quarantine

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Fox&Friends: NY Governor Cuomo loosens Ebola quarantine restrictions after criticism 
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ValleyNewsLive: IBM Launches Humanitarian Initiatives to Help Contain Ebola Outbreak in Africa 
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IBM Partners with Airtel and Echo Mobile to Launch Ebola Containment Initiaties in Africa 
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ChinaDaily: China sends more relief to help stem Ebola 
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HealthCanal: Blood from Ebola Survivors tested as short-term treatment option
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TheLocalSpain: They treated us as scum: husband of Ebola nurse 
The husband of Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero who beat the Ebola virus has slammed the handling of the country's Ebola crisis as a "complete disaster", saying he now plans to take Madrid's health boss to court over comments made about him and his wife.
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NewsAsia Australia suspends immigration from Ebola-hit nations 
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CBS: With states stepping in, can Obama control the US Ebola response? 
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WashingtonTimes: Ebola health worker quarantines pit politics against science 
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ABCNews: NYC Ebola Patient 'Looks Better' After Plasma Treatment 
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TWCNews: NY1 Exclusive: Liberian President's Son Offers Unique Perspective on Ebola 
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AllAfrica: Liberia: UNICEF Develops Critical Ebola Data Flow
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AllAfrica: Liberia: US Brings in More Materials for Ebola Fight
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AllAfrica: Liberia: Finance Ministrers From Affected Ebola Region Want Aid Scale Up
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AllAfrica: Liberia: Corruption Spreads Ebola! Cllr. Verdier Observes
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AllAfrica: WestAfrica: 'Ebola Virus Epidemic in Africa Poised to Explode'
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YahooFinance: Kaiser Permanente Calls For Highest Honor and Best Treatment for Volunteers Returning From Fighting Ebola in West Africa
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RIANovosti: US, WHO to bring experimental Ebola vaccine to Liberia
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NYorkers learn hard Ebola Lessons from Dallas
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Bloomberg: What does Médecins Sans Frontières Teach Its Doctors?
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Yahoo: FACTBOX: Ebola cases in the US
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MYSA: Pentagon Ebola medical team trains at BAMC
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ScientificAmerican: Inside the 4 US biocontainment hospitals that are stopping Ebola [video]
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Fox: WHO sending Ebola experts to Mali, 43 people monitored for virus
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EPICInsurance: Protecting Those Who protect others: First Responders and Healthcare Workers Eligible for Never-Before-Offered Ebola Insurance Coverage Offered through Lloyds of London
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WTAE: Pennsylvania to monitor travelers from Ebola-striken area
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Yahoo/AFP: 'Active monitoring' for travelers from WAfrica to US : CDC

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Reuters: Mauritania closes border with Mali over Ebola fears 

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Daily Caller: Obama [successfuly] reduces Ebola quarantine protections [in NY & NJ]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo buckled Sunday afternoon and announced that travelers could serve their quarantine time at home. New Jersy Gov. Chris Christie, retrrated late Sunday night, and approved home quarantines. In both states the home quarantines will be monitored by state health officials.

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CNBC: New test can spot Ebola in 30 minutes
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JapanNews: Man with fever arrives at Haeda, to be screened for Ebola
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IndustryWeek: Ebola Drug Maker Fujifilm to buy US Vaccine Manufaturer Kalon Biotheraputics AFP 10/27/2014
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TheHealthSite: Ebola in US: Expert tips to make your child aware about Ebola10/27/2014 5:50PM
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NY1: A Messy Ebola Policy for the Governor October 27, 2014 9:13AM
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TPR: Ebola Team Trained at JBSA Cleared for Duty October 27, 2014 8:24AM (note unfortunate image provided by DoD illustrates men not covered to CDC's Ebola standards)
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Campaigns&Elections: Ebola Sparks Worry For Some Dallas Poll Workers October 27, 2014
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DominicanToday: Bales of used garments could spread Ebola, tetile-makers warnoctober 27, 2014 9:37AM
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Daijiworld: Only two people reamin in hospital after Spain Ebola scare October 27, 2014 7:05:48PM IST
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Fox: JointChiefs Recommend 21 day Mandatory Ebola Quarantine for Military to Hagel 

CBSNews: 11 US Soldiers returning from Liberia monitored in isolation for Ebola in Italy for 21 days 30 more expected today
10/27/2014

Cranky CDC nurse . . .ok to go home for self-monitoring.

Haaretz: Latest Updates/Boy, 5, tested for Ebola in NY 10/27/2014 6:03PM
what took so long? That poor child!
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RAPS: FDA Authorizes Use of New, Substantially Faster Ebola Diagnostic Tests
October 27, 2014
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WSJ: EU Ebola Chief to Visit Affected Region
Christos Stylianides to Travel to Africa Next Month
(hmmmm, at the same moment that Samantha Powers is there? Whats up with that? Who knew, EU has Ebola Czar too!)
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Breitbart: Ebola Aide Doc: I'm not telling my team to tell the truth
October 27, 2014 8:33AM PDT
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RollCall: Clapper Identifies Airport Insiders and Ebola As Key Aviation ThreatsOctober 27, 2014 11:32AM

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Breaking News

New York child, 5, who recently returned from Guinea tests negative for Ebola

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Bloomberg: nse Suits in Short Supply Amid Demand 10/27/2014 6:10pm

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WBALTV: University of Maryland Medical Center patient isolated for Ebola testing. Published On: Oct 27 2014 06:24:44 PM EDT
Updated On: Oct 27 2014 06:26:20 PM EDT

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Bloomberg: States Not Forced to Follow CDC Protocols, Earnest SaysOct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest speaks about the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak, the outlook for Ebola guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's handling of U.S. air-bag recalls. Earnest speaks at the daily White House news briefing. (Source: Bloomberg)

Dave Brat's Opponent

We all know that Dr. David Brat (Ph.D. in Economics and a Constitutionalist) defeated incumbent Eric Cantor in Tuesday's GOP primary here in Virginia.

Here is the man that Dave Brat will be running against in November, Jack Trammell, an associate professor of sociology specializing in disability issues:

“Jack Trammell has hundreds of stories, poems and articles to his credit, as well as two dozen book credits. He lives in central Virginia on a small farm with his family, and currently has a vampire novel in the works. He is an award winning author, teacher, researcher, and disability advocate.”

Most of Trammell’s tomes sound pretty boring and historical in nature. There’s Appalachian Dreams, Math in History and Down on the Chickahominy: The Life and Times of a Vanishing Virginia River.

But if his 2001 book Sarah’s Last Secret is in any way based in reality, we’re in for a seriously exciting, high drama race....

Both Brat and Trammell are professors at Randolph-Macon College. Of all places! Most of my students won't even consider Randolph-Macon as an option for college. The college is not even on their lists!  Just sayin'.

Muslim Brotherhood Political Bloc Here In The United States

From IBD:

Muslim Brotherhood Launches Own U.S. Political Party

With an eye toward the 2016 election, the radical Muslim Brotherhood has built the framework for a political party in America that seeks to turn Muslims into an Islamist voting bloc.

'Muslim voters have the potential to be swing voters in 2016," said Nihad Awad in launching the benign-sounding U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, whose membership reads like a Who's Who of Brotherhood front groups.

"We are aiming to bring more participation from the Muslim community."

USCMO also aims to elect Islamists in Washington, with the ultimate objective of "institutionalizing policies" favorable to Islamists — that is, Shariah law....

Read it all HERE.

Read it and weep.

No lessons learned from 9/11:

Demagogue In Action

A tone of desperation in his voice?

An expression of insanity in his eyes?

You decide as you watch and listen to this brief excerpt from Obama's November 3, 2013 speech in Northern Virginia:


Today is the gubernatorial election in Virginia (Cuccinelli, Republican, vs. McAuliffe, Democrat).

In 2009, Obama endorsed the Democratic Party candidate for governor here in Virginia. The result: a GOP sweep.

Today we'll find out if history repeats itself in the Commonwealth.

Meanwhile: Democratic Robo-Calls Claim Cuccinelli Supports Obamacare, Abortion.