Virginia AG: Obama birth certificate will 'get tested'

[cali]

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The Virginia Democratic blogger Ben Tribbett posts the audio of a conversation with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli -- recorded, the bloggers says, during the transition -- taking Obama conspiracy theories extremely seriously, and talking about legal options.

"It will get tested in my view when someone… when he signs a law, and someone is convicted of violating it and one of their defenses will be it is not a law because someone qualified to be President didn’t sign it," Cuccinelli says on the recording, suggesting its "possible" that he would challenge it.

"Someone is going to have to come forward with nailed down testimony that he was born in place B, wherever that is. You know, the speculation is Kenya. And that doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility," he says.

Which, actually, it is.

Cuccinelli's office didn't immediately respond to a question about the audio.

ALSO: Cuccinelli is emerging as a real irritant to Bob McDonnell, and his campaign pledge to govern as a moderate, and to avoid the cultural issues he steered away from during the campaign. McDonnell recently reversed an executive order that quietly lifted protections for gay employees after Cuccinelli trumpeted it in letters to colleges telling them they were free to discriminate.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0310/Virginia_AG_Obama_birth_certificate_will_get_tested.html

[Danger Mouse]

1. The AG for Virginia is a homophobic racist piece of shit. Who knew?

[Faygo Kid]

7. Any sentient being in Virginia should have known.

The evidence was clear. They're just getting started.

[Nay]

27. They all knew, all right. This state is a RW POS, and I regret ever

moving here.

[saigon68]

10. A Racist POS

[Hawkeye-X]

2. I'm sure the fine VA folks will be ready to throw both of these schmucks out once their terms are up

And quit voting Rethuglican.

Hawkeye-X

[obxhead]

16. I seriously doubt that.

We turned purple in 08, 2010/12 we will be a solid red state once again.

[onenote]

23. Fortunately, neither senator is up for reelection in 2010

Jim Webb is up in 2012 and its too early to make predictions about that race. The repubs may implode fighting with one another over who they want to run -- George Allen may try to make a comeback and others will be in the mix as well. A lot will depend on whether there is a repub on the national ticket. A lot of folks think McDonnell will be a contender for the repub vp nomination, but I think Eric Cantor may be an even better bet, particularly if Romney heads up the repub ticket.

As for what happens to the Virginia delegation to the House of Representatives in 2010 -- that's going to be interesting. There are three Democrats in what have generally been regarded as "safe" seats: Moran, Boucher and Scott. Scott is absolutely safe. Moran sometimes seems on the verge of losing it, but at the moment its hard to see him losing. Boucher supposedly considered retiring because he was afraid he would lose his seat. But he's hanging in there and so far doesn't seem to have a significant opponent. Three other Democrats in Congress in Virginia are all first termers serving in Districts previously held by repubs. Two defeated incumbents and the third filled the seat of a retiring repub. None are necessarily safe and it wouldn't be a shock if a couple of them get knocked off, although I hope at least one or two can hang on.

[ohheckyeah]

19. My fellow Virginians

were dumbass enough to forget what Gilmore did to the state and to elect a republican. I don't hold out a lot of hope that they will get it this time either.

God, it's depressing living in the middle of a bunch of idiots.

[Nay]

28. Ain't it , though? Every day in this POS state, I bang my head against

the wall. I truly have never seen so much ignorance dressed up as "culture."

[ohheckyeah]

30. I'd go crazy if I didn't have some liberal friends and

family.

[Gin]

21. I'm a fine folk in VA...and ready to throw them out NOW!

I voted Dem

[marmar]

3. A Birther Attorney General?

Good grief.

[cali]

4. good grief indeed.

and don't forget, fuckwad oily taters is running for CA AG- not that that piece of dog shit stands a chance.

[nebenaube]

14. probably from Lynchburg... n/t

[onenote]

20. actually, from Fairfax County

[theothersnippywshrub]

25. I thought the people formerly known as "birthers" changed their name to "Turd Eaters?"

I read something about it on the internets.

[OHdem10]

5. And people believed him when he said he would govern as a moderate.

An arch conservative does not change their stripes. They
are true believers my friends.

[cali]

6. he never said that. It was the governor who said it.

not that I believe him either.

[That Is Quite Enough]

8. Cuccinelli sounds like a real dick. Just an observation.

[grantcart]

9. I need to see this guys diplomas, really, no I mean really, really.

[NeedleCast]

11. Cuccinelli is a pure and true idiot

Our fairly conservative Governor has already had to smack him around a little bit.

[Newsjock]

12. Live boy or dead girl?

Which will Cuccinelli be caught with first?

[gratuitous]

13. I read it as saying that it will be some criminal defendant doing the "testing"

That is, that someone will be convicted of a crime under a bill signed into law by President Obama. Then the defendant will challenge the law on the basis that it wasn't signed by a person qualified to be president. In other words, it won't be Cuccinelli getting his hands dirty by challenging the president's citizenship. He'll let some low-life criminal do the heavy lifting. Cuccinelli sounds like he might be sympathetic to such a challenge, but it would be a rare AG who would let a duly-won conviction go because the perp glommed onto his favorite conspiracy theory. Not that I put anything past the Republicans as presently constituted; I think they'd run over their grandmothers or sell their children into slavery to score a political point. Let some convicted criminal off the hook because he's pleading a technicality that Cuccinelli would like to see validated? It's possible.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Cuccienelli is the Duke of Dumbfuckistan. The Sultan of The Stoopit.

[LonePirate]

17. On the plus side, he's doing everything he can to keep VA blue in 2012

I honestly don't think Virginians will vote a red ticket when Obama is back on the ballot.

[Luciferous]

18. What a nutjob.

[Gin]

22. Deeds ran an awful campaign.....I voted for him but he was

not a good candidate.....choices were slim

[spanone]

24. lordy, lordy.

[theothersnippywshrub]

26. If this Turd Eater knew the law, he would know that any such case would fail

due to the de facto officer doctrine.

[Ikonoklast]

29. I'm willing to bet that never happens.

Seems like he's fishing for some idjit to pick up that ball and run with it.

Trouble is, the birfers seem to have run out of steam now that they all became Teabaggers.