Thrown on the defensive over his conservative origins, Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell is disavowing views on working women, gays and divorce in a paper he wrote as a law student two decades ago at the university founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson. But Democrats say the paper exposes the true ideology—and agenda—of a candidate who, they contend, is attempting to represent himself as a centrist by emphasizing economic themes to Virginia’s recession-anxious voters.