Things are heating up in the Virginia gubernoatiral race, with Democratic nominee Creigh Deeds running a new radio ad in Northern Virginia against Republican Bob McDonnell’s 1989 thesis, in which the then-34-year-old McDonnell laid out a hard-right political manifesto against working women and sexual privacy.
The ad has a man and a woman discussing how McDonnell has “plans to take us back to the dark ages.”
“And he wasn’t just a kid when he wrote it,” the woman says. “McDonnell was 34 years old, married, and months away from serving in the legislature.”
The man responds: “I know, and the really scary part, is the Post said McDonnell has aggressively pursued over 10 proposals from his thesis as a legislator.”
Click here to listen to the ad. The full script is available after the jump.
Female: You startin’ to follow this Governor’s race in Virginia?
Male: You mean Bob McDonnell and his plans to take us back to the dark ages?
F: That’s McDonnell – he opposes a woman’s right to choose even in cases of rape and incest.
M: And that Washington Post story about the thesis he wrote at CBN University…
F: …Pat Robertson’s Law School?
M: Yep, it’s Bob McDonnell’s “blueprint” to implement HIS OWN social agenda…
F: …and he wasn’t just a kid when he wrote it — McDonnell was 34 years old, married, and months away from serving in the legislature.
M: I know, and the really scary part, is the Post said McDonnell has aggressively pursued over 10 proposals from his thesis as a legislator.
F: He said day care is a bad idea because it encourages women to work…no birth control for married adults…and opposed equal pay for women…
M: Those are protections even Fortune 500 companies give their employees.
F: There’s just too much at stake…we can’t afford to let Bob McDonnell take us back.
CD: “I’m Creigh Deeds, candidate for Governor, and my campaign sponsored this ad.”
Announcer: “Paid for by Deeds for Virginia.”
