In case you haven’t noticed, Democrat Terry McAuliffe is in sedate trouble as he seeks re-election as Virginia’s governor.
And I mean sedate trouble. Like the Detroit Lions Super Bowl, chances for trouble. We’re talking about Urban Meyer explaining everything to his wife when he comes home from Ohio in kind of trouble. Have you received your photo yet?
Best of all, McAuliffe blames the leader of his party, for whom he campaigned and raised funds just months ago. Yes, McAuliffe is actually throwing Joe Biden under the bus to explain why his campaign is faltering in the final weeks leading up to Election Day, scheduled for November 2.
“We have to get Democrats to vote,” McAuliffe said during a video conference earlier this week. “As you know, we are facing a lot of headwinds from Washington. The president is unpopular today, unfortunately here in Virginia, so we have to break through.”
Terry McAuliffe: Joe Biden ‘is unfortunately unpopular today here in Virginia.’ pic.twitter.com/QOMAWRBi2A
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 5, 2021
Some noteworthy observations about McAuliffe’s sincerity in these remarks.
First of all, it directly refutes the approved theses of the Biden White House. While a random president goes around town trying to get senators to support his $3.5 trillion tax, spending and debt plan, he and his team continue to maintain how incredibly popular he and his plan are.
It may be true that part of the plan will perform well if it is removed from the unusual price and taxes associated with them. But if the president is as popular as a ringworm at summer camp, what are the poll numbers like? And if Biden really was as likable and popular as his media minions like to proclaim, why is he having trouble winning the key votes to make his plan succeed?
The obvious answer is reflected in McAuliffe’s comments. Virginia has moved increasingly to the left over the past decade, and if Biden takes power anywhere, it will be in the Northern Virginia suburbs populated by swamp creatures that recently moved there to feed on federal nipples.
Instead, Biden heard “Let’s go, Brandon!” from Virginians instead of “Build Back Better!”
But the real takeaway from McAuliffe’s remarks has little to do with President Incoherent and his dwindling poll numbers. The real story is how sleazy and depraved McAuliffe is.
This guy was a walking, talking disaster of a candidate, and he tries to rationalize his inevitable loss by claiming he’s facing “headwinds” due to Biden’s unpopularity. What an idiot.
McAuliffe loses to Republican Glenn Youngkin because Youngkin is an attractive, smart and disciplined politician and McAuliffe is a mess.
Just in the last few months, McAuliffe has welcomed the enthusiastic endorsement of Ralph Northam, the man McAuliffe called for to resign when it was discovered that he was wearing either blackface or a Klan hood in his yearbook photo (personally, I have money for a hood).
He even refused to talk to a state organization representing law enforcement and then yelled at the sheriff for asking if he supported defunding the police (he declined to answer, but did accept campaign support from organizations committed to BLM’s agenda of defunding the cops in our communities).
He called Critical Race Theory a “conspiracy theory” invented by Donald Trump, while receiving massive campaign contributions from national teachers unions that promote CRT curricula (apparently invented by Trump?).
And of course, during last week’s debate, he made the most damaging campaign mistake in recent election history.
Discussing recent efforts by parents to remove vulgar pornographic books containing images and content related to pedophilia and oral sex (we are also talking about explicit images of these behaviors), McAuliffe stated that he does not think parents should have any say in anything that is happening in public schools about this type of content or anything related to the curriculum.
“I don’t think parents should tell schools what to teach,” the former Clinton staffer said during a conversation with Youngkin about the “pornography in school libraries” portion of the debate.
Terry McAuliffe: “I don’t think parents should tell schools what to teach.” pic.twitter.com/7S15pTv1gY
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 28, 2021
Naturally, within hours, Youngkin posted a 30-second ad containing this extraordinary claim, and it has been playing non-stop ever since.
In miniature, McAuliffe is campaigning like he wants to lose it all.
So of course it’s all Biden’s fault.
The conclusion to the latest drama in Virginia just four weeks from Election Day:
McAuliffe implodes, Biden free-falls, McAuliffe blames Biden for his own mistakes, and Youngkin keeps his eye on the prize and runs like he’s ten points behind (even though polls show it’s a tie, which probably means he’s a few points ahead ).
Ultimately, if McAuliffe feels it will facilitate his cause, he may further distance himself from Biden. He didn’t mention the president’s name once during last week’s debate. That’s just 11 months after Biden won the state by ten points.
If this happens, we could see McAuliffe chanting “Let’s go, Brandon!” in his final campaign rally.
