[...] And what about Jerry Kilgore? What is HIS position on abortion? That’s a good question, because Kilgore won’t really say in public. For instance, at the Greenbrier debate a couple of weekends ago, Kilgore refused to answer the “hypothetical” question, “If Roe v. Wade were overturned, and the General Assembly passed a bill further restricting abortion, would you sign it into law?” As Waldo Jaquith points out on his blog: What’s totally appalling…is that Kilgore thinks that abortion should be illegal, even in cases of rape and incest, unless the rape is reported within a week. That, of course, is long before the victim would know that she’s been impregnated by her rapist. (I don’t know what makes seven days so special.) Not a lot of 12-year-old girls go to the police after they’ve been raped by a parent of guardian. Kilgore would force this little girl to be pregnant, presumably ending her life as she knows it. You know, in case the rape itself wasn’t sufficiently traumatic. [...]

Posted by Raising Kaine » “Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land” on 26 July 2005 @ 5am

[...] The weirdest thing about this statement is what it is responding to: a fundraising letter by Chesterfield Republican delegate, Bradley Marrs, criticizing his independent opponent, Katherine Waddell, for receiving a $10,000 check from a wealthy homosexual businessman. The Kilgore campaign rushing to attack homophobia and anti-gay bias? Can we say “out of character” or what? So why did they do it? Could it be, as the Richmond Times-Dispacth suggests, an attempt by the Kilgore campaign at a “softening” of their “use of social and cultural issues themes” that they have been employing regularly in order “to sharpen distinctions between [Kilgore] and Kaine?” Could it be a response to the latest Mason-Dixon poll, which shows Kilgore’s “negative” ratings the highest among the three major gubernatorial candidates – Tim Kaine (D), Russ Potts (I), and Jerry Kilgore (R)? Could it be the Kilgore campaign’s attempt to move away from the hard right and towards the political center? Or could it be yet another example of Jerry Kilgore’s muddled, waffling, or non-existent positions on the issues: abortion, taxes, referenda, the Warner/Kaine record, stem cells, Terry Schiavo, Confederate History and Heritage Month, and several others? [...]

Posted by Raising Kaine » Kilgore Campaign: Anti-Gay personal attacks are “out of bounds” on 30 July 2005 @ 5am