Power and Office

Steyn Online ^ | 1 Nov2021 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Tuesday is what less evolved societies than Virginia still quaintly call "Election Day". The Democrat candidate, the unlovely Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe, claims that "we are substantially leading on the early vote". In the fullness of time he will also be substantially leading on the late vote, if he isn't already.

That leaves the votes on Voting Day up for grabs. The Republican candidate, Mr Youngkin, is a squish of no fixed beliefs who will govern as Mitt did in Massachusetts or Pataki did in New York. But he has been handed a winning issue that he would probably not have chosen save for public outrage - the state of Virginia schools in an age of "critical race theory" and trans-mania. It's bigger even than an education issue: The left is so boundlessly ambitious that it is abolishing biological sex, and if it gets away with it will leave an awful mountain of human wreckage in its wake, bigger even than its other innovations.

Every Virginian should vote on Tuesday - because Youngkin's campaign is a classic example of Milton Friedman's dictum: in politics you don't wait for the right people to do the right thing, you create the conditions whereby the wrong people are forced to do the right thing. That is what parents at school-board meetings have been doing, and they deserve to be rewarded for it.

[Rummyfan]

[datura]

Which party believes in freedom of choice in health care decisions vs mandates?

[frank ballenger]

Ouch. To be called the new Mitt/Pataki squish.
That’s gonna hurt.

[Rummyfan]

Virginia is a state where a rapist gets transferred to another school because he/she belongs to a protected class, rapes again, and, when you protest the anal rape of your daughter by a known rapist, you're the guy who gets thrown to the ground and arrested. Whether one finds the foregoing objectionable shouldn't really be a Republican/Democrat thing, but such is the moral depravity of the cultural heights that Dems are all in on the convicted sodomizer and only squaresville low-status GOP candidates can muster even pro forma objections. So in 21st-century Virginia insouciance about schoolgirl anal rape is now a partisan thing.

[FreedomPoster]

Mark gets the fecklessness of most of the Republican Party.

[Rummyfan]

Yet Election Day is not the end but the beginning, of government. Trump had the most explicit program of any GOP candidate in two generations, and Paul Ryan had no interest in it. So it was all done by executive order, and mostly undone by twenty past noon on January 20th 2020.

Is there no Republican in Congress with guts? Bravery? The courage to lead?

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] The Republican candidate, Mr Youngkin, is a squish of no fixed beliefs who will govern as Mitt did in Massachusetts or Pataki did in New York. But he has been handed a winning issue that he would probably not have chosen save for public outrage - the state of Virginia schools in an age of "critical race theory" and trans-mania. It's bigger even than an education issue: The left is so boundlessly ambitious that it is abolishing biological sex, and if it gets away with it will leave an awful mountain of human wreckage in its wake, bigger even than its other innovations.

Every Virginian should vote on Tuesday - because Youngkin's campaign is a classic example of Milton Friedman's dictum: in politics you don't wait for the right people to do the right thing, you create the conditions whereby the wrong people are forced to do the right thing. That is what parents at school-board meetings have been doing, and they deserve to be rewarded for it. [/snip]

[Chuckster]

Is there no Republican in Congress with guts? Bravery? The courage to lead?

LOL!!

[Lurkinanloomin]

There are a couple in the House.
Ostracized by their fellow Rs.

[Rembrandt]

“There are a couple in the House.
Ostracized by their fellow Rs.”

Really, name them.

[Lurkinanloomin]

MTG, Bobert, Jordan.