McDonnell drops f-bomb during radio interview

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell (R) is likely to regret his interview on Friday with WTOP radio, in which he accidentally drops the F-bomb while discussing transportation policy.

"So no tax will be raised during your four-year term?," host Mark Plotkin asks the candidate.

"I'm going to find other ways to be able to fund transportation. I've outlined 12 f--king funding mechanisms that are creative, that are entrepreneurial," McDonnell answers.

The slip is bad news for McDonnell, who has spent the past few weeks explaining away the controversial details of his 20-year-old graduate thesis. In it, the Republican candidate presented a series of ways the federal government could strenthen the "traditional family." He also argued government should favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators."

"Virginians will judge me on my 18-year record as a legislator and Attorney General and the specific plans I have laid out for our future -- not on a decades-old academic paper I wrote as a student during the Reagan era and haven't thought about in years," he told The Washington Post, which located and first reported about the document.

(h/t NotLarrySabato, a local Virginia blog, for posting the audio.)