On Monday, August 5, 2013, Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli took the extraordinary step of calling on embattled Governor Bob McDonnell to call a special session of the Virginia General Assembly in order to deal with ethics. It is difficult to imagine a greater blunder.
Ken Cuccinelli has demonstrated that he isn't a very skilled politician. Cuccinelli lunges at what he believes is the immediate quick fix the his political needs of the moment without thinking about the long range consequences for others, or even for himself.
Last year, Cuccinelli decided he didn't want to face Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling in a full, free, and fair Republican primary election in June of this year. So he and the Tea Party dominated Republican Party of Virginia leadership changed the rules and decided to have a closed convention instead of an open primary. Instead of hundreds of thousands of Virginians voting to decide who the GOP's nominee for governor would be, Cuccinelli engineered his own nomination by a tiny number of delegates in a closed convention.
