Ken Cuccinelli, Republican Party of Virginia, Pat Robertson

Because the Montgomery Grill in Portsmouth closed without telling its employees before giving them paychecks that bounced, here are today's nominees for Worst Virginians in the World!

First up is Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (who should be "former attorney general" after announcing his bid for governor).

Cooch is no fan of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe. In fact, Cooch in a recent Facebook post mocked him after The Washington Post's editorial board questioned tax credits for electric cars, and McAuliffe happens to own a hybrid/electric car company based in McLean.

"The Washington Post Pours Cold Water on Terry MacAuliffe's Business Strategy," Cuccinelli wrote, the Post reported Wednesday. "If even The Post says this, in agreement with those of us on the right, then those who are banking on government help to create, build, or sustain their otherwise unmarketable products are in trouble ... including the Dems' leading candidate for Guv in 2013, Terry MacAuliffe."

And Cooch misspelled his name twice, ala Douglas MacArthur. Won't Mr. MacAuliffe be surprised to learn that he's on Cooch's enemies list.

Our runner-up is the Republican Party of Virginia. It's been a strange few weeks for the state GOP over its presidential primary in March.

Only Ron Paul and Mitt Romney completed the requirements to appear on the ballot, prompting a lawsuit by Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich (a McLean resident, ironically). Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli backed off from his original plan to change current law to allow more candidates on this year's ballot, prompting backhanded praise by rival Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling. And the RPV governing board also got flak from Gov. Bob McDonnell, Chairman Pat Mullins, and Bolling for a proposed loyalty oath on primary ballots.

On top of all of that, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Tuesday that a screener has criticized how signatures were accepted. High school teacher William Wilkin told RTD that poorly trained volunteers arbitrarily rejected "pages and pages and pages" of signatures.

In a statement to state GOP officials, Wilkin said, "Various volunteers made peculiar and idiosyncratic judgments to disallow signatures." Many received "less than one minute" of training, and seniors especially had trouble with computers. Worse yet, he said Romney petitions received greater preferential treatment. "I suggest that the Romney signatures may not have survived the type of scrutiny given to the other candidates if all petitions had been treated equally."

An RPV spokesman told RTD, "We strongly disagree with the characterization of events put forward by Mr. Wilkin. Due to the pending suit, we are unable to comment further."

Now that Republicans have near-complete control in Richmond, Virginians should be concerned how they will govern the state if they can't even govern themselves. There's still plenty of time for this snowball to grow even larger.

But our winner is Virginia Beach-based televangelist Pat Robertson (real first name Marion). Right Wing Watch reported Tuesday that Marion said on his comedy show The 700 Club that day that God (or some other voices in his head) told him who would win the presidency in November – something Marion of course won't reveal – and that President Obama is to blame for the nation's perils.

"I spent the better part of a week in prayer and just saying, 'God show me something,' some things I'll share with you," he said. "I think he showed me the next me the next president but I'm not supposed to talk about that so I'll leave you in the dark – probably just as well – I think I'll know who it will be."

Marion said God told him, "Your president holds a view that is at odds with the majority, it's a radical view of the future of this country, so that's why we're having this division. This is a spiritual battle which can only be won by overwhelming prayer. The future of the world is at stake because if America falls, there's no longer a strong champion of freedom and a champion of the oppressed of the world." We're "having this division," Marion, because of people like you who use their ideology as partisan fodder to tear down others.

Marion explained that God told him that this calamity would be brought about not by nuclear war, an earthquake, a radiation blast, or "Mayan galaxy alignment" but an economic collapse.

Either the Lord took time out of his busy schedule to be Marion's fortune teller, or Marion is walking around his declaration in fall that he'd no longer be endorsing candidates. (Worst Virginians called him out for declining to say he'd support a Mormon candidate for president.)

Worst Virginians called out Marion in October for saying, "Those people in the Republican primary have got to lay off of this stuff. They're forcing their leaders, the frontrunners, into positions that will mean they lose the general election." He should follow his own advice.

That's Marion "jawbone of an ass" Robertson, today's Worst Virginian in the World!