Whatever you may think about brusque D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles, he’s got nothing on Virginia’s freshly sworn-in Ken Cuccinelli, who’s getting attacked from all sides today for making some pretty bizarre remarks straight out of the Tea Party handbook. To start, video has surfaced in which Cuccinelli describes how a possible legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s citizenship “doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility.” And now there’s this weird thing, an apparent campaign appearance with a group of seniors, where he suggests he and his wife are considering not getting a social security number for their newest child, because, as he explains, “it is being used to track you.”

All this comes in the context of Cuccinelli’s recent push to remove language dealing with sexual orientation from state university anti-discrimination policies.