Creigh Deeds, Democratic candidate for governor, is attempting to use Bob McDonnell's own words against him, unlimbering radio and Web ads citing the Republican's controversial conservative dissertation.
The Deeds campaign is setting up a Web site -- http://www.bobmcdonnellblueprint.com -- at which voters can read McDonnell's 1989 thesis, written as a law student at Pat Robertson-founded Regent University in Virginia Beach.
Also, advertisments posted across the Internet are designed to drive Virginians to the Web site, which launches later this morning, according to Deeds spokeman Jared Leopold.
The radio spot will start running this weekend in vote-rich Northern Virginia, anchor of the Democratic ascendancy, and could be carried elsewhere, says Leopold. The commercial -- featuring a conversation between a man and woman -- touches on many of the issues raised in the McDonnell graduate paper.
In the thesis -- elements of which McDonnell is disavowing -- the Republican suggests, among other things, that working women are a threat to the family. He also argues that government policy should not favor gays and unmarried couples.
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