This is something that’s been nauseatingly-repeated in Abigail Spanberger’s campaign ads.
I’d resolved that I wasn’t going to vote for Abigail “Deep State Abby” Spanberger long before the debate last night. Am I thrilled with Lt. Gov Sears? Um, no. Yes, I’ve previously voted for her, and think she often had good things to offer. I was excited to vote for her when she ran against Bobby Scott whenever it was. Her race and gender is very unimportant to me; she’s a MARINE. The Lieutenant Governor in Virginia is kind of an afterthought office, but she, and the Republicans who’ve been running Virginia for the past four years have done an okay job, despite the Democrat-controlled General assembly.
One might think that the identity-bound Democrats might be less-critical of the 2025 Republican slate consisting of an immigrant woman, a gay guy, and a first-generation son of Cuban immigrants, but you’d be wrong.
There was the first, and probably only, debate last night at Norfolk State. Spanberger did not, even when asked repeatedly, to withdraw her endorsement of Jay Jones. What Jones said was absolutely disgusting. Do I think it disqualifies him from holding office? Absolutely. Does it matter? Not really. Virginia is being reshaped back into the Harry Byrd reliably-Democrat enclave of the mid-Atlantic.
Jones made his horrible comments in 2022, which was right in the middle of the post-Trump frenzy. In the US Congress, that ended in November, with the Republicans retaking the House, but….
Jones didn’t take the prescient advice in Tropic Thunder.
You fantasize about shooting a nearly-meaningless Republican Delegate while leaving Hitler and Pol Pot?
Just reinforce that you don’t belong anywhere near politics.
I think there was, too, something to do with the Charlie Kirk assassination. As I said, I knew next to nothing about the guy. But it was fucked-up that he was assassinated. This is true regardless of whatever minutes-long promo video you might have seen trying to explain how he’s a white nationalist.
He wasn’t. Jay Jones isn’t a violent extremist, either. Should he face electoral defeat for his stupid 2022 remarks? No, not just for those, but if there’s someone who’s not paid attention is persuaded not to vote for him, that’s okay by me.
Similarly, my reasons to not vote for Deep State Abby are because of her background. She proudly touts her public service in her ads.
For the CIA.
Where they did things like murder US citizens without a trial.
I will mail my absentee ballot in the next few days. I’d decided who I was voting for long ago. I got an absentee ballot without specifically-requesting one. Probably because I was travelling last election day. I’ll be on the road again this year, but I didn’t request it.
In 2024, I voted for one of the worst LP candidates in history largely because Trump’s speech to the LP National Convention reconfirmed my promise to never vote for him.
But the reason Deep State Abby won’t withdraw her endorsement is people are already voting. If she comes out, now, despite the really retched shit Jones said, it’d be replay of things with the Hunter Biden laptop.
Just a guess that Deep State Abby knows more than a few of the people who put out that the Hunter Biden Laptop story was Russian disinformation.
I was watching the Eagles at the Giants, but I’m going to guess that that didn’t get brought up at all last night.