Breaking down McDonnell's Regent University thesis....

Republican Bob McDonnell's 1989 thesis is all over the Internet, so what can you find in the 93-page document?

Following the traditional "the more eyes the better" mantra, we're posting the thesis online and asking readers to sift through the Republican's social viewpoints and arguments to find interesting tidbits of information. We're still reading the academic paper that McDonnell wrote as a 34-year-old student at Regent University in Virginia Beach. 

The Pat Robertson-founded college was known then as CBN University. Democrat Creigh Deeds campaign clearly believes that the document pulls back the veil on McDonnell and one of the Democrat's seniors advisors has called the paper "devastating to the McDonnell campaign." 

McDonnell's team is backing away and downplaying the impact of the paper calling it an academic exercise that shouldn't be used 20-years after it was written. But Deeds advisor Mo Elleithee is quick to point out that the paper is "not the ruminations of some college kid. This is someone on the cusp of public life." 

So here's a link to McDonnell's thesis.... 

Read as much as you want and see what you can find in the paper and cut and paste the details into the comments section.   

Comments

[College Research Paper]

I appreciate the work of all people who share information with others.

[College Research Paper]

I appreciate the work of all people who share information with others.

[college thesis paper]

Great info on {the topic of the blog}. It will guide many of the readers.

[College Thesis Paper]

Great info on {the topic of the blog}. It will guide many of the readers.
College Thesis Paper

[Harleys R. Toofuknloud]

Should be required reading for all working women, fornicators, homosexuals and humanists demanding equality; might want to add in felons, terrorists, child molesters, and journalists while you're at it since they're just a notch or two down the list of society wreckers.

[jeffkramerak]

who knows what the deal is here...things have been crazy ever since the new year with politicians! They can't be trusted, PERIOD.

[Erick]

Liberal: someone who believes that the two hundred thirty year old United States Constitution is a "living document" that can be rewritten whenever they feel like it but that a thesis written twenty years ago is an ironclad constraint on the opinions and attitudes of a living person today.

[terisalyn]

paw, I just finished reading Michelle Obama's thesis. Couldn't find the "vitriol and hate-filled diatribe" at all, though.

[terisalyn]

"Yet believing in the correctness of their moral vision for the family and limited constitutional government, Republican pro-family advocates must also be political risk takers and educators, who understand that often the profound wisdom of God's law for the family will appear as folly to foolish men."

And anyone who doesn't share his religious beliefs must be foolish?

[terisalyn]

"For at least 8 years, Republican domestic policies have demonstrated that man is capable of doing good only in an atmosphere of liberty and faith, not compulsion and atheism. However, man's basic nature is inclined towards evil, and when the exercise of liberty takes the shape of pornography, drug abuse, or homosexuality, the government must restrain, punish, and deter."

This follows the basic belief of the fundamentalists in the Republican party - that the United States is a theocracy that has been hijacked by "godless liberals" and "secular humanists".