McAuliffe Is Campaigning... In Nantucket?
Of course, if T-Mac had done to Nantucket what he did to Virginia, you'd want to get out of town too.
Been a rough month for Terry McAuliffe.
First and foremost, what self-respecting Irishman drinks a Miller Lite on the Fourth of July? I mean, we all know what the Fifth of Jameso— I mean, July — is reserved for. But is Miller Lite even an actual beer? How many breweries are there in Virginia again?
And the Macker went for a Miller Lite?
Is that a green energy grill powered by windmills? You can’t even hear the sizzle… probably because that Greentech XT1000 is cranked to its maximum blazing hot 102F (if that sort of illegal power would even be allowed under T-Mac’s green energy plan).
Also — let’s talk about that unethically sourced meat on that grill. Is that tofu? Where is the plant-based faux meat to match that faux beer? How many carbon credits did McAuliffe purchase before he decided to destroy our children’s future with his meat-based diet?
So where in the world do you go when your own party is still divided on your candidacy after you practically bought it?
When men such as former Governor Doug Wilder are dropping truth-bombs left and right because you are running alongside blackface aficionados such as Ralph Northam and Mark Herring?
Naturally, you do what any Democratic fundraising operative would do. You run back to the warm and loving embrace of your left-wing donors.
In Nantucket.
Of course, it’s not just this. McAuliffe’s campaign seems disoriented, undisciplined and frankly unprofessionally off-kilter. In boxing, when someone lands a punch that stuns their opposition, the term for it is getting buzzed.
The entire Virginia Democratic Party right now just seems buzzed.
On Miller Lite.
Let’s review what McAuliffe is actually talking about right now, shall we?
10 people were killed in the Richmond area over the long weekend after calls from Democrats to defund the police. According to the FBI, the murder rate in Virginia increased a whopping 43% during McAuliffe’s tenure. Instances of rape increased every year. Murders in Virginia are at a 20-year high.
What does McAuliffe want to talk about instead? How many and the structure of upcoming debates. In 2013, that talk was “silly” according to T-Mac. If the conventional wisdom is that frontrunners typically avoid debates, why is McAuliffe trying to rack so many up? To talk about his failures?
McAuliffe has attacked Youngkin for investments made by the Carlyle Group — investments McAuliffe personally benefited from. Offshoring jobs? Is the founder of Greentech really going to scold the rest of us on jobs in China?
Did we mention Critical Race Theory in Virginia’s public schools? Cancel culture? The sans-culottes of the woke elect operating as so many Jacobins in our institutions? McAuliffe seems to be eager to court these little Robespierres. Does anyone in their right mind think that Virginians want another four years of the Reign of Error?
Facts are that Virginia Democrats are in a pinch.
They can’t slough off their militant progressive left wing for fear of becoming victims themselves.
They could hug the cactus, drop the mask, and tell Virginians to cheer up because the worst is yet to come — that is, if honesty were prized more highly than victory within the political left.
They could simply mimic Youngkin at this rate and run on his issues as they are doing now — but that is a surefire way of running from weakness rather than principle.
Facts are, the Democrats nominated one of the most deeply unpopular governors in modern Virginia history because he bought the nomination. Not only will McAuliffe act as a sandbag on the rest of the ticket, but House Republicans — eager to vindicate themselves after 2017’s catastrophic losses — know very well that they are on the cusp of winning at least 9 seats next year and possibly as many as 14.
Yes — it is that bad. McAuliffe is buzzed right now and the world knows it.
But I suppose the view is better from Nantucket.
With a Miller Lite.
Shaun Kenney is the editor of The Republican Standard, former chairman of the Board of Supervisors for Fluvanna County, and a former executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia.