{"id":10936,"date":"2013-11-06T18:58:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:58:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-06T18:58:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:58:22","slug":"how_the_democrats_went_after_cuccinelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/11\/06\/how_the_democrats_went_after_cuccinelli\/","title":{"rendered":"How the DemocRats Went After Cuccinelli"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I kid you not. Folks, this is from the Washington Post. You\u2019re gonna think I\u2019m making this up. From the Washington Post: “Latino Voters Say Health Care, Controversial Remark Spur Them to Turn Out for McAuliffe.” <\/p>\n

Now, what was the “controversial remark” that he made? I\u2019m gonna tell you. This is from the article in the Washington Post. Cuccinelli “was pilloried in a Democratic campaign commercial for a remark he made criticizing a DC law on pest control, which he claimed prevented the killing of rats. ‘It is worse than our immigration policy,\u2019 Cuccinelli said in a 2012 radio interview. ‘You can\u2019t break up rat families … and you can\u2019t even kill \u2019em.'” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s true. In Washington, you cannot kill rats. You have to capture the rats and move them, out of compassion for them, and he opposed that. “In a Spanish-language television ad that aired last month, Virginia\u2019s Democratic Party denounced the comment — which Cuccinelli\u2019s campaign said was taken out of context. ‘He was talking about how disturbing it was that our laws treat rats better than people, because our laws let us break up immigrant families,\u2019 Republican Party spokesman Garren Shipley said. <\/line><\/p>\n

“But judging by interviews with Latino voters on Tuesday, the ad … resonated.” All Cuccinelli did, is he opposed the Washington, DC, law. The city has a policy: If you find a rat population, you can\u2019t kill the rat or the population. You have to round them up and move them someplace, and he was saying, “For crying out loud, we\u2019re treating rats better than we do immigrants,” and that became “Cuccinelli anti-immigrant and anti-rat!”<\/p>\n

I kid you not.<\/p>\n

They made hay on the fact that, on an animal rights issue, that Cuccinelli hates animals, hates rats, and hates immigrants. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they did with that comment, and there\u2019s no push-back on it. No, I\u2019m not kidding. I\u2019m reading to you verbatim from the Washington Post. I am not kidding. The law in DC says that you cannot kill a rat. If you see a rat in your building or in a warehouse, you have to capture it, find its family, and move it. You can\u2019t kill it. The animal rights wackos have gotten in there and said you can\u2019t do it. And Cuccinelli heard about that (paraphrasing), “Well, that\u2019s the silliest thing. They spread disease, vermin, my God.” If you can\u2019t find the rat family, how the hell do you find a rat family? But if it\u2019s a single mother rat, if it\u2019s a single rat, if it\u2019s a teenager rate, if it\u2019s a straggler rat, how do you find its freaking family, for crying out loud? Well, you can\u2019t. <\/line>