Whether Bob McDonnell still believes everything he wrote in his 1989 thesis is a fair question. So is this one: Should Creigh Deeds be the one to ask it?
As The Washington Post noted in a recent profile, Deeds often calls himself a "work in progress." And indeed, he is notorious for switching positions on several hot-button issues, from gay marriage to the gun-show loophole.
"My thoughts have evolved in a lot of respects," Deeds says.
Well, then: If Deeds' thoughts can evolve -- often quite rapidly; in the case of the state's marriage amendment, he made an apparent reversal "within weeks," The Post notes -- then surely it is possible for McDonnell's thoughts to evolve over the span of two decades, isn't it?
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