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The Political Establishment v. Ken Cuccinelli  By Richard
Viguerie and Mark Fitzgibbons Predictably, The Washington Post,
the Washington establishment's newspaper of record, endorsed the
Democratic candidate for Virginia Attorney General in the
upcoming November 3rd election. Despite previously praising Ken
Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate, for his principled
independence even from his own party, The Post worries that Ken
Cuccinelli "would treat the job of attorney general as an
ideological crusade."  WaPo wouldn't object, however, if the AG
candidate were a liberal crusader. You see, it has been
Democratic attorneys general who redefined, and many say,
abused, their positions as chief legal officers of their
respective states for ideological -- indeed highly partisan --
purposes. WaPo has always seemed to like, if not outright
support, liberal AG crusaders.  The term for what Democratic
attorneys general have done in the name of liberal caus