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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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KEYWORDS: democratpartypress; fakenews; jeffbezos; mediabias; ralphnortham; unfreepress; virginia; washingtonpost
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To: conservative98

The farkling media declared him cleared..

Patriots have to make the next call.


21 posted on 12/28/2019 4:17:48 PM PST by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: conservative98

He’s a liberal; there is no shame in their game.


22 posted on 12/28/2019 4:29:28 PM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: conservative98
For a leftist all sins are forgiven if you take steps to unilaterally repeal the 2nd Amendment.
23 posted on 12/28/2019 4:35:15 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: conservative98

He was never in real danger of dying politically. Unlike Republicans, Democrats have a way of avoiding the circular firing squad. They don’t virtue-signal themselves to death; they just wait until the controversy dies down.


24 posted on 12/28/2019 4:37:00 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: conservative98

Northam is dirtier than a hog in a wallow. You computer sleuths need to root him out.


25 posted on 12/28/2019 4:47:38 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: conservative98

Northam is a major asset for the Left. He will be used to pass a radical disarmament series of state laws and and see if the populace will submit or, alternatively, force a violent incident that will be used as a pretext for using extreme force against American patriots.


26 posted on 12/28/2019 4:47:39 PM PST by Truth29
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To: conservative98

I bet VMI alums are disgusted. It would be nice to see some sort of petition of disapproval from VMI. I remember all those political ads where Northam used the prestige of VMI’s honor system to help vouch for his character.


27 posted on 12/28/2019 4:48:21 PM PST by TBall
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To: Trump20162020

I don’t think the fake media would let a Republican off so easy.


28 posted on 12/28/2019 4:51:56 PM PST by TBall
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To: conservative98

It also shows Virginia is a permanent and entrenched “blue” state and just another fallen domino. Like most states,the only recourse would be to split Virginia North and South.


29 posted on 12/28/2019 5:13:20 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: conservative98

And VA has a really, really squirrely recall procedure.


30 posted on 12/28/2019 5:19:31 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: conservative98

He only “came back from the dead” because the media and the democrat party allowed it.


31 posted on 12/28/2019 5:21:45 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: vladimir998

I also think that it was from college that helped him survive. We had a republican House of Representative survive same thing in Florida. He basically told the media to screw off.


32 posted on 12/28/2019 5:33:11 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: livius

Al Franken says otherwise.


33 posted on 12/28/2019 5:34:21 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wouldn’t shed a tear if his limo was hit by an efp.


34 posted on 12/28/2019 6:29:37 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: conservative98

He did it by ignoring calls for his resignation until the media remembered heis a Democrat. Any questions?


35 posted on 12/28/2019 6:33:22 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: napscoordinator

Republicans need to learn the Trump.lesson...you don’t ever apologize...they will devour you.


36 posted on 12/28/2019 6:34:47 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: conservative98

Oh, look - the WashPoo is Demosplaining to us ignorant conservatives that they and their buddies in the Democrat Media didn’t really wash Coonman’s blackface poo to keep him in orifice.


37 posted on 12/28/2019 6:49:52 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Trump20162020; TBall
Give him credit, he figured out the kryptonite to political outrage culture: Just wait 2-3 weeks, it’ll blow over.

It helped Coonman immensely when the massed Democrat Media artillery battalions that have been hammering Trump 24/7/365 for 3 long years immediately fell silent when KKK Northam, The Racist Guvnor, was in danger.

"If a racist POS Democrat governor wears blackface and the Media dummies up about it, did he ever really wear blackface at all?"

38 posted on 12/28/2019 6:58:49 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: conservative98

When it was discovered that the Lt. Governor had his own scandal, and that the next in line for the Governorship was a REPUBLICAN, all the sudden Northam didn’t stink so bad...


39 posted on 12/28/2019 7:39:52 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: SERKIT; conservative98

He seems like Trump’s secret weapon for a 2020 victory...


40 posted on 12/28/2019 7:41:54 PM PST by 4Liberty (Impeached, for a retort about Rosie's unhealthy weight. Why not for Obama's "Special Olympics" slur?)
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