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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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TOPICS: US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: democratpartypress; fakenews; jeffbezos; mediabias; ralphnortham; unfreepress; virginia; washingtonpost
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To: shanover

No, it’s to ring the doorbell and be there with a gun and nicely asking “Hi. I’m an agree Trump voter sick of liberal bullsh!t, conducting a poll. Would you rather die or vote democrat?” Then cock it.


41 posted on 12/28/2019 8:54:45 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: conservative98

In Virginia Democratic politics, it pays to be a racist, a baby-killing advocate doctor (who still has his license), an alleged two-time rapist and a Marxist totalitarian Commonwealth Attorney General.

Lots of Soros money came into the state and got some Soros legal whores elected as county Commonwealth Attorneys (incl. Arlington and Fairfax). Other leftists got elected to country supervisor and/or county boards, often with Soros or Stephen Phillips Red/KAPO money.

The Democrats in Virginia have no morals, ethics, honesty, or integrity and their dumbassed supporters think that this is a qualifying character to have and vote for.


42 posted on 12/28/2019 11:10:21 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: conservative98

He did it by turning totally left wing, which required all those demanding his resignation to say “never mind.”


43 posted on 12/28/2019 11:42:35 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Protected because he is a rat and walks lock step with the agenda and the party


44 posted on 12/29/2019 4:25:49 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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