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Pelosi: Virginia Scandals Don’t Damage Democratic Party’s National Brand
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Posted on 02/07/2019 10:59:49 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Pelosi: Virginia Scandals Don’t Damage Democratic Party’s National Brand

BY: Andrew Kugle Follow @AndrewJKugle February 7, 2019 12:56 pm

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) dismissed the idea that the numerous scandals plaguing Virginia Democrats will have any impact on the party's national brand.

"With everything that's been going on with Virginia, the governor, the attorney general here … does that filter down and damage the national Democratic brand in any way?" Fox News congressional reporter Chad Pergram asked.

"No, it does not," Pelosi responded. "They will resolve — the Virginians will resolve their issues that they have there. It's sad because they have some very talented leaders there, but they have to have the confidence of the electorate and they have to have the confidence of the legislature that they have to work with. But I'll leave that up to them. I have enough to do here without getting involved in the affairs of Virginia."

All three statewide elected Democratic officials in Virginia are in the middle of scandals centered on either wearing blackface or sexual assault accusations.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York; US: Vermont; US: Virginia
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To: Sub-Driver

Hasn’t changed my opinion of the party.


21 posted on 02/07/2019 11:34:42 AM PST by LostPassword
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To: HamiltonJay; Sub-Driver

22 posted on 02/07/2019 11:35:21 AM PST by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Sub-Driver

As soon as it became obvious NONE of the Sunday News Shows were going to use the Govorner’s college nickname - ‘Coonman’ - it was evident the fix was in... He can stay until he decides to leave... or not leave.


23 posted on 02/07/2019 11:36:23 AM PST by GOPJ (We renew our resolve America will NEVER be a socialist country. We are born free we will STAY free!)
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To: Sub-Driver

She’s probably right.

People who vote for dems are already voting for the party of self-loathing lunacy. If the party becomes more moonbattish, will that make difference to the half of voters who already believe down is up and tree movement causes the wind to blow?


24 posted on 02/07/2019 11:45:07 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: AFret.

That’s actually what I was referring to. I could’ve been clearer.


25 posted on 02/07/2019 11:54:38 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Tench_Coxe

And some people here in FR think that AOC is cute??? That AOC mouth looks just like the donkey above! Methinks the AOC is cute folks need glasses!


26 posted on 02/07/2019 12:03:26 PM PST by KMac1945 (99% Lurker)
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To: Sub-Driver

Doesn’t matter........ turning Virginia back to red is what matters.


27 posted on 02/07/2019 12:04:55 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: Sub-Driver

at this point it is Virginia’s problem.
If these creeps are allowed to remain in their positions it becomes the Democrat party’s problem.


28 posted on 02/07/2019 12:07:09 PM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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29 posted on 02/07/2019 12:07:32 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: MayflowerMadam
Virginia Scandals Don’t Damage Democratic Party’s National Brand

Dream On!

30 posted on 02/07/2019 12:08:43 PM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The Dems believe in that “brand” - defenders of the working class (lost that vote in ‘16), defenders of women’s rights (ask Harvey Weinstein), sworn foes of corporations and big-money donors (try not to laugh at that one), defenders of civil rights (except for Amendments One through Ten) - this is their brand and they cling to it as an article of faith, the only faith most of them have. Anyone who tries to tell them the Tooth Fairy isn’t real is just stupid, hateful, and racist.


31 posted on 02/07/2019 12:19:48 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Sub-Driver

A racist, a rapist, another racist and a party now legalizing Post Abortion Abortions? No Problem:-)


32 posted on 02/07/2019 12:37:42 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Sub-Driver

At the SOTU there were more democrats dressed in white than at the founding of the KKK.


33 posted on 02/07/2019 1:14:40 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I can’t think of anything that could ruin their “brand.”


34 posted on 02/07/2019 3:14:50 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Whats a black face when you can wear white robes and pointed hat/masks


35 posted on 02/07/2019 3:41:45 PM PST by okie 54
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Only because the Demagogic Party has nowhere to go but up at this point.
Ocasio-Cortez: 'I Haven't Heard Anything' About Fairfax Rape Allegations

Ocasio-Cortez: 'I Haven't Heard Anything' About Fairfax Rape Allegations

36 posted on 02/09/2019 1:21:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: WKUHilltopper

You’ll like this one:

https://spectator.org/the-whole-lot-of-them-are-bat-crazy/

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3726544/posts?page=1

by Dov Fischer

Can you keep up with what is going on in Virginia? As of this writing, I am the only person in the United States still qualified to hold office in Virginia. I just checked my yeshiva high school yearbook, and I can confirm:

A. No blackface:

(i) We all were White, except for Jimmy the Custodian.

(ii) In our all-boys yeshiva high school, it was Jimmy who taught us about girls, so we respected him deeply.

(iii) Jimmy taught us all the dirty words that people speak, so he prepared us for college and for watching television and movies.

(iv) Whenever Jimmy would enter a classroom, he would shift from the demeanor we knew in the lunchroom and would become deeply respectful to the rabbi teaching class as he entered to attend to a custodial matter, always prompting the rabbis to lecture us that we should learn to be less chutzpah-like and instead should learn to be more like Jimmy. We dutifully followed our rabbis’ instructions.

B. No “#MeToo”:

(i) There were no girls in the all-boys yeshiva.

(ii) We were not allowed to date girls outside of school during our yeshiva high school years.

(iii) We were not allowed to attend mixed-gender parties.

(iv) We were not even allowed to touch girls’ hands as in a common-courtesy handshake.

(v) The only females we were allowed to talk to were our Moms, sisters, aunts, cousins, and Bubbies (grandmothers).

So my high school Yearbook has cleared me for Virginia Governor. Meanwhile, look at the crazy Left Democrat hypocrisy:

1. Joy Behar dresses in blackface. Ted Danson in blackface. The always-despicable Sarah Silverman in blackface. Jimmy Kimmel: OMG — He even do da tawkin’ in blackface like a slave on da plantation. They all are a bunch of racists of the worst sort — or maybe they just were stupid and grossly insensitive. Like, honestly — take the politics out of it, and let’s be fair: Is it racist for a White guy to dress in blackface if he is doing it as part of a celebration of his Black girlfriend? How can that be taken as racist, even as she laughs and signals approval? Meanwhile, only one week has passed. Give it some time, and we soon will find that the only person in Hollywood who has not dressed in blackface these past thirty years is Harvey Weinstein.

2. Ralph Northam announces he would kill babies. That is a governor of a state in America. We expect that of a regional governor in Afghanistan, in northern Syria — heck, in all of Syria — in Iraq, in Iran, in Saudi Arabia, in Pahhhkistahhhn. But Virginia is for lovers, no? Well, yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, but you better watch out, Virginia, for your governor’s Infanta Claws. For this Northam should have been ousted from office, along with all other Democrats backing their new Gosnell-Mengele Abortion bill. One thinks back to the scene in My Cousin Vinny where Marisa Tomei gets on Joe Pesci for deer hunting:

“Yaw gonna shoot a deeuh? A sweet, hahmliss, leaf-eatin’, doe-eyed little deeeuh. Imagine yaw’r a deeuh. Ya put yaw cool deeuh lips down to da cool cleeuh wawttuh. [And then] Bam! A [ ] bullet rips off paht of yaw head. Yaw brains ahh layin’ on da ground and in little bloody pieces.”

That is the new abortion vision proffered by Virginia Democrats and certified by Dr. Northam, M.D. If he personally ever actually did one of those post-birth “hospice abortions” he should be moved to a new movie script — from My Cousin Vinny to Judgment at Nuremberg where he gets to be portrayed as a Nazi War Criminal.

3. It turns out that Northam also had a page in his medical school yearbook with a photo of a guy in blackface and a hooded Klansmen (presumably aspiring to emulate former Democrat Senator Robert Exalted Cyclops Byrd). Thoughts:

(i) They have Yearbooks for Medical School? Like, aren’t they busy learning to be doctors and doing 48-hour shifts? They bother with Yearbooks?

(ii) What kind of idiot puts such a photo pairing on his page? Would you undergo surgery conducted by such a moron?

(iii) Even though he is an Infanticidal Liberal Democrat, he should not be punished for a mistake of 30-plus years ago. Once we begin punishing people for what they did and said thirty and forty years earlier, when they were morons in their teens — wow! Now we are talking Stalinism and the NKVD because everyone has a mistake in his closet. Adam ate the citron, fig, date, pomegranate, olive, wheat, or whatever Eve gave him. (It was not an apple. Bereishit Rabbah 15:7.) What is the point of repentance and self-improvement if you never can be allowed redemption to emerge greater than your past? What is the point of prison rehabilitation programs that liberals love so much if people cannot be forgiven for teenage idiocy from forty years earlier? And if we now adopt the policy that mistakes of forty years ago, during the Moron Years of High School, are unforgivable, what do we do with political phonies like Kamala Harris who salaciously and meretriciously slept their way up the political ladder in public extramarital affairs with political sugar-daddies thirty years their senior, all while brazenly publicly shaming her paramour’s wife? What do we do with vicious Jew-haters like Al Sharpton who, as adults, helped incite not one but two different pogroms that each resulted in street deaths and who made regular speeches attacking the Caucasian race and urging attacks on police?

(iv) Bottom Line: A person should not be destroyed politically for a mistake of forty years earlier when he was a teen-aged moron.

4. It turns out that the next guy in line, Lt. Gov. Fairfax, allegedly forced a dignified woman professor to service him orally, by allegedly pushing down her head forcibly towards his crotch and allegedly coercing her to service him. Thoughts:

(i) Not a good thing.

(ii) Perjury Blasey Ford could not identify when the supposed party happened, where it happened, how she got to the party, how she got home from the party, what she was doing at the party… and the few names she proffered as witnesses all unanimously derided and denied her hokey story. Meanwhile, Perjury Blasey Ford was on record as a Leftist in the Berkeley region, an anti-Trump donor, and she needed an excuse for adding a second front door to her home to make it a rental property in a locale not zoned for leasing. She lied about her door, her air travel. Nary a word of her voice-fry testimony held up. The only thing saving her from the hoosegow is that the people who need to investigate her lies are Republicans, and “GOP” stands for “Gutless OMG-clueless Powerless” — even when in power.

(iii) This accusing professor tells a much more compelling story. She knows the year. It was at the Democrat Convention. (Priceless.) It was at the guy’s hotel room. She vividly recounts details of the incident. She is a Black Democrat Liberal who would love to see a Black Democrat Liberal step in as next Governor of Virginia. I believe her — so far. Not because I automatically believe women — never automatically have and never automatically will. It just rings true on initial blush. But politics must not allow anyone to be denied the justice and fair play that these liars and hypocrites denied to Justice Kavanaugh. This guy deserves his right to confront his accuser, to demand evidence and a fair hearing. Maybe she is lying like Dr. Perjury Ford and like the Avenatti client who next came after Justice Kavanaugh or like the liar who falsely accused the students of the Duke lacrosse team or the liar who falsely accused the University of Virginia students or even the liar Tawana Brawley whom Al Sharpton (see above under “Jew Hater”) catapulted to fame. But it don’t look good for the Lieutenant Guv.

5. It turns out that the next guy in line, Virginia Democrat #3, also dressed in blackface. Thoughts:

(i) What’s with the Democrats, Liberals, and Blackface? Like, really, who does this? In feeding Halloween kids for more than thirty years, I don’t ever remember a kid costumed in blackface. I remember a kid dressed like an Indian. I think Elizabeth Warren (Princess Speaking Bull) once trick-or-treated while masquerading as a Paleface. There was something with Megyn— oh, what’s-her-name-again? (The one who left Fox for NBC.) But, really, who dresses in blackface?

(ii) The thing about this guy is that he demanded that Jerk #1 (the Dr. Gosnell/Dr. Mengele post-birth “hospice aborter”) should resign for having donned blackface thirty or forty years ago. Although Jerk #1 should be entitled to atonement and redemption for that one — but not for advocating infanticide as recently as 2019 — this Jerk #3 absolutely must resign because he set the standard that Blackfaces must resign, no redemption, no explanation, no matter what. So, the only advice to him: Don’t let the door hit your keisteron your way out.


37 posted on 02/09/2019 7:25:49 AM PST by GOPJ (We renew our resolve America will NEVER be a socialist country. We are born free we will STAY free!)
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38 posted on 02/09/2019 9:35:01 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: WKUHilltopper
In the Jim Crow South black-face reinforced stereotypes of black citizens in ways that made it easy for the powerful to ignore the abuse happening to black citizens... ("they" were silly, or childlike or violent etc)

It's similar to the ‘fake hate crimes’ used against conservatives in our day - allowing the powerful to stereotype us - to stomp on our credibility - without the a sane backlash from ordinary citizens.( the rational was 'Both groups got what they deserved - had to have etc)...

Evil is consistent - and in both cases it's 'democrat'...

39 posted on 02/09/2019 1:24:46 PM PST by GOPJ (We renew our resolve America will NEVER be a socialist country. We are born free we will STAY free!)
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