(06-27-2019 08:55 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(06-26-2019 09:34 AM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  I have voted for many Democrats - - and expect to vote for many more in whatever amount of time I have left before I am involuntarily committed.

The last Democrat that I voted for is still washing the black off of his face.

What's the consensus down in VA about that guy? I mean ya'll didn't want to recall him or anything? It's like the story just died after he admitted to it, crawfished, and said nope on second thought, wasn't me.

We in Virginia (particularly the natives, of which I am not) have a talent for averting our eyes from unseemly conduct - - at leas if it reflects badly upon us.

This disclosure, to be frank, was a shock to those of us who thought that Ralph Northam was a normal dude. He ran a mostly placid campaign against Ed Gillispie - - a Republican money guy, but generally non-offensive. The race was close enough that toward the end Team Northam had one of their allied pac's run a smear ad against Gillispie - - do a bing search (not google) on "Gillispie, bumper sticker ad". It was an appalling cheap shot. Northam pretended to distance himself from it, but Gillispie's response was pretty lame.

Part of the shock when the yearbook picture came out is that the Gillispie team did not themselves come up with this yearbook picture, which was pretty much available for all to find. That kind of political malpractice deserves a loss.

The general consensus is that the disclosure of the yearbook picture was an inside political hit, by Democrat operatives who wanted to distract from the embarrassing post-birth abortion comments made by the governor. It was effective in doing so. Those stunningly radical comments (even for those of us who lean pro-choice) have faded into the background. We instead are left arguing about a decades-old picture.

That's Virginia. To quote the great Jackson Browne, "It's who you look like. Not who you are."