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How Ralph Northam came back from the political dead
Washington Post ^ | Dec. 27, 2019 at 5:56 p.m. EST | By Editorial Board

Posted on 12/28/2019 3:57:40 PM PST by conservative98

THE HISTORY of U.S. politics is full of second chances — of scandal-scarred, disgraced and irredeemable public figures staging improbable comebacks — but few back-from-the-dead narratives have been as swift and sure-footed as the one Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has managed this year.

Since Feb. 1, when the discovery of a racist photo on his medical school yearbook page dealt what seemed a lethal blow to his political career, Mr. Northam has refocused his governorship on racial equity and reconciliation in what amounted to an extended act of public contrition and atonement. It has been astonishingly effective not just in terms of his own political rehabilitation — his poll numbers climbed from the depths — but also in setting a clear theme for his four-year term in office, delimited by Virginia’s prohibition on governors succeeding themselves.

In the process, Mr. Northam, a Democrat, persuaded many Virginians to allow him a season of penitence.

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Quite a comeback, and a hard-earned one, for a governor who could scarcely show his face in public in February.

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1 posted on 12/28/2019 3:57:40 PM PST by conservative98
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The truly pathetic Washington Compost, Democrat Party-mouthpiece https://t.co/sesot3qYtK— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 28, 2019


2 posted on 12/28/2019 3:57:49 PM PST by conservative98
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Redeeming Barth: “Come and Take It” - Arrested Development ...
3 posted on 12/28/2019 3:58:16 PM PST by KC_Lion
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4 posted on 12/28/2019 3:59:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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The reason why he’s still in office and has made a “comeback” is that the liberal dominated media has refused to attack him because he’s ONE OF THEIR OWN.

If he were a Republican, his career would have been over by noon time on Feb. 2nd.


5 posted on 12/28/2019 4:03:11 PM PST by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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Came back from the political dead did he?
Just let him try running for president and see what happens to him.


6 posted on 12/28/2019 4:03:20 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: conservative98

He’s protected by the traitor MSM.


7 posted on 12/28/2019 4:04:12 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: SmokingJoe

precisely


8 posted on 12/28/2019 4:04:24 PM PST by conservative98
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Didn’t read it but I’ll go out on a limb and say it was the media.


9 posted on 12/28/2019 4:06:08 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He said he’d take guns. All guns.

Virginia creates a buffer zone that supposedly creates a safe space for pols.


10 posted on 12/28/2019 4:06:51 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! Hi)
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....and gun grabber....
11 posted on 12/28/2019 4:07:53 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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The 2nd Amendment Sanctuary movement in VA has announced they are going to have a rally in Richmond on 1/20/2020 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This has the potential for turning into a real public relations disaster if Gov. "Babykiller" successfully deflects the issue from the 2nd Amendment to public safety, especially "Black Lives Matter".
12 posted on 12/28/2019 4:08:44 PM PST by MacNaughton
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He also had the advantage of having a LT Gov. who is accused of rape and an AG that was also a blackface offender.

Kind of made it hard to make him resign when his replacement is worse.


13 posted on 12/28/2019 4:09:40 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: conservative98

Governor Coonman


14 posted on 12/28/2019 4:10:29 PM PST by trublu
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Being a Dem means never having to say you’re sorry.


15 posted on 12/28/2019 4:11:34 PM PST by livius
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To: vladimir998
Yeah. Unless of course that Republican just happens to be one Donald J Trump.
Remember the NBA Access Hollywood tape in 2016 which the deranged media used to viciously attack Trump, and repeatedly declared that was “the beginning of the end” for Trump?
Now that was the real fastest recovery ever, not this Northam crap.
16 posted on 12/28/2019 4:14:29 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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What a crock! From WaPo’s llps to the DNC’s @$$.


17 posted on 12/28/2019 4:15:05 PM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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dealt what seemed a lethal blow to his political career, Mr. Northam has refocused his governorship ....

BS. The leftist media and Dems held his hand, wiped his tears caused by anxiety from his eyes and pushed him into a future of gun grabbing political power. What a hero./s

Do black people love him and still enthusiastically rush to vote for him?

When Bill Clinton curtailed non-mother,able-bodied welfare recipients to a set time limit and caused many thousands to be kicked off from gaming the system, thousands of blacks still came with tears in their eyes to try to shake his hand or at least touch his garments and they cheered at his appearances.

18 posted on 12/28/2019 4:15:12 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: SmokingJoe

NBC not NBA


19 posted on 12/28/2019 4:16:15 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: conservative98

Give him credit, he figured out the kryptonite to political outrage culture: Just wait 2-3 weeks, it’ll blow over.

If only Republicans could figure that out instead of resigning immediately.


20 posted on 12/28/2019 4:17:28 PM PST by Trump20162020
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