Barb = Bob

By Miss Kubelik

The Republican Party is on the social-issue hot seat in this year's swing-state midterm elections, and we cats couldn't be happier.

One of those swing states is our own, Virginia — which means it's been amusing to see candidates like Chinless Ed Gillespie fumble for an excuse for the GOP's war on women. Getting all umbrage-y and declaring that his religious beliefs should be off-limits for debate is pretty ironic, considering Chinless is a former national chair of the party that constantly tries to legislate its, um, religious beliefs.

And in the Virginia Congressional district next door to ours, we have the ever-odious GOP candidate Barbara Comstock, a right-wing nutcase who is trying to fog over her extreme record to fool Northern Virginia voters — but who is being unerringly called out by the fabulous John Foust.

Comstock responded to this latest Foust ad by huffily countering that she "was running for Congress, not the Supreme Court." As if her anti-choice positions won't matter! This is specious to the max. Do we have to remind Comstock that Congress holds the federal purse strings? Must we dredge up the many, many times that Republicans have denied funds to health initiatives involving abortion? No wonder that FitzSimmonds guy — a fellow Republican — called her a, well, you know.

We cats have a different nickname for Barbara Comstock. In the Virginia House of Delegates, Comstock has supported the full range of anti-choice Republican legislation — including the nefarious ultrasound bill championed by former Governor (and newly convicted criminal) Bob McDonnell. So let's call her "Transvaginal Barb." We cats PURR.