This is something that’s been nauseatingly-repeated in Abigail Spanberger’s campaign ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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….<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jones didn’t take the prescient advice in Tropic Thunder.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n