Former Virginia AG Bob McDonnell a Conservative Christian

Post Bombshell: Conservative Candidate Actually – gasp – Conservative!

By Matt Barber
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Politicos, pundits and armchair campaign managers around the country are keeping a close eye on this year’s gubernatorial contest in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The stakes couldn’t be higher. In fact, many analysts believe this race (among others) may forecast things to come in the 2010 and 2012 elections – up to and including the battle for the White House.

That’s why it’s of little surprise that a branch of the Democratic Party’s media propaganda machine – the unabashedly liberal Washington Post – would, per usual, abandon any semblance of journalistic integrity and rush to the aid of State Senator Creigh Deeds, Virginia’s floundering Democratic gubernatorial candidate.

Deeds, who has run an abysmal campaign thus far, continues to trail his Republican counterpart – former State AG Bob McDonnell – by double digits.

In a thinly veiled effort to derail the McDonnell campaign, the Post, over the weekend, put on a case of the vapors, issuing a breathless report that presumed to expose the scandalous revelation that McDonnell – who attended the conservative Christian Regent University School of Law, was – now brace yourself – a conservative Christian.

The Post attempted – and continues an effort – to make hay out of a decades-old graduate thesis McDonnell penned wherein he expressed traditional conservative positions on issues ranging from abortion to the “God-ordained covenantal formâ€