Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
“Once that picture with the blackface and the Klansman came out, there is no way you can continue to be the governor of the commonwealth of Virginia.”
So decreed Terry McAuliffe, insisting on the death penalty with no reprieve for his friend and successor Gov. Ralph Northam.
Et tu, Brute?
Yet Northam had all but sworn Saturday he had no knowledge of the 1984 yearbook photo and that he was not either man in the photo.
McAuliffe, who is considering a run for president, joined Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Julian Castro and Joe Biden in the pile-on. All had washed their hands of Northam.
That a moderate Democratic governor is near friendless in a fight for his life reveals much about the Democratic Party.
Earlier last week, Northam was at the center of another blazing controversy. He had backed legislation to permit abortions up to birth.
And then he volunteered that, if a child were born after a botched abortion, the “infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
Northam seemed to be not only endorsing third-trimester abortion, but infanticide, “mercy killing,” the murder of a living but wounded baby after birth. A public outcry forced the legislature to back off the bill.
Then the photo from the yearbook of Eastern Virginia Medical School surfaced. Yet, in term of moral gravity, which is worse?
Public advocacy of late-term abortions with an option to execute babies who survive, or a stupid and insensitive 35-year-old photo of two beer-drinking guys, one dressed up in Klan costume, the other in blackface.
Other Democrats are saying that even if Northam is not in the “racist” photo, he admitted to putting shoe polish on his face, to imitate Michael Jackson and his moonwalk, for a 1984 dance contest.
To some Democrats, third-trimester abortions are a step forward for women’s rights. Gov. Andrew Cuomo was cheered in Albany for enacting a law to guarantee late-term abortions should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
By week’s end, Virginia Democrats were bewailing the “horrible” history of their state, where, in 1619, the first slave ship arrived at Point Comfort with men and women from Africa who would work the plantations until the Civil War ended, 250 years later.
One cannot rewrite history.
Four of America’s first six presidents — Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe — were Virginians. All were slave owners. Richmond, the capital of Virginia, was the capital of the Confederacy. The commander in chief of the Confederate armies was a Virginian, Robert E. Lee.
Northam attended Virginia Military Institute, where Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall”) Jackson had been Instructor of Artillery. The VMI cadet corps fought proudly in the Battle of New Market.
The most memorialized of Virginia’s heroes, in its monuments and statues, are colonists, Revolutionary War and Confederate soldiers and statesmen, and 19th- and 20th-century senators and governors. Almost all supported slavery or segregation.
When the Warren Court outlawed segregation in 1954, Virginia and the South replied with the Dixie Manifesto, declaring open defiance and “massive resistance” to the court order to integrate.
Not until Nixon’s presidency was the order carried out.
In recent years, there has been a running debate about what kind of country America is.
Is she a blood and soil nation, a separate people, with their own unique history, heroes, holidays, language, literature, myths and music? Or is America a propositional nation, united solely by its values, whose mission it is to transmit these values to mankind?
The question raised this weekend, however, is even more divisive.
Is America a good country, or has she, like Virginia, such a past of sins and crimes as to make her eternally ashamed and for which she should make eternal amends? Does America owe the world?
Should Western civilization be held responsible for what it has done through the centuries to persons of color the world over? Should we conduct a purging of monuments to all of America’s “white racists,” as antifa and its allies are determined to do in Virginia?
The Democratic Party may believe that by throwing Northam to the wolves it will satisfy these forces. It won’t.
We are at the beginning of a Kulturkampf to purge America of all monuments and tributes to the white males who created, built and ruled the country, and once believed that they, their nation, their faith, and their civilization were superior to all others. And, without apology, they so acted in the world.
Those two guys drinking beer in blackface and Klan robes and a hood thought they were being funny, but to the unamused members of a radicalized Democratic Party, there is nothing funny about them.
And, after Northam, these intolerant people will demand that the Democratic Party nominate a candidate who will echo their convictions about America’s past.
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Pat poses the particular problem – patriotic Patrimony persists or perhaps perishes – precisely.
Beyond his, as usual, keen analysis leads to the foregone conclusion that Ralph “Coonman” Northam is leaving the office of governor of Virginia. Whether he wants to or not; if he has to be dragged kicking, screaming and crying. He will go in shame. A Rayciss & a baby killer.
The double whammy. He’s toast.
The Jackals will have their feast and the Hyenas will laugh.
But do they realize they are eating their own diseased flesh? Why would they laugh at that? Ugh… Damn Carrion Eaters. Bleh.
Exactly WHO is the author and finisher of America’s story? Was he there to see the cornerstone placed on the foundation?
A Christian Zionist friend whose willingness to stand on her faith and her principles causes me pause at mocking her beliefs said the word “remnant” while discussing her upcoming trip to Israel. It gave me chillbumps.
Does this spectacle not seem like a bit of an Isaiah moment? Are we no longer allowed to make mistakes and learn from them? Must we wear the albatross into the promised land?
Here’s a governor conservatives hate with a past mass man has been taught to abhor. Who was Al Jolson?
Not Job.
Maybe Jeremiah, listening to Rachel crying. Do you know why she still cries near the spot where Jeremiah watched the Israelites stroll off toward Babylon? I assume it was for having the bad luck to have been born Leah’s sister. Who does that to one’s own sister?
They are also after his ‘culled house boy’ Lieutenant Governor for a sexual assault – years ago. It’s great to see the Democrats eat their own. This is like cannibalism.
What was particularly great was to hear Coonman Northam grovel.
Sho’ nuff.
Usually, I hate this destructive, pointless chaos, but it’s a dummycrat stooge, so I approve.
The communists created this Either/Or system of cultural dialectic in which all shames and sins must be trotted out and deconstructed and any institution must be dragged to an autopsy where it is fully dismembered, its organs weighed, and its long, long list of crimes and sins exposed. If Northam’s only sin ever were that picture, under the Cultural Marxist dialectic, that picture is enough to bring him everlasting shame and misery. They’ve created the perfect system of criticism, backed by synthetic mobs of outraged twitter nobodies, in which they can target anyone or anything, discover an imperfection, and use that imperfection to completely damn that target to hell. No appeals, no excuses, no explanations, and no mitigation or explanation. The only exceptions are the very rare useful idiot or special person, such as a Biden or Klinton, who can get touchy-feely with an underage girl or state a black politician would have been fetching him coffee a few years ago or rape a woman and see no meaningful public outrage. You can see how it works with Klinton, especially, because even when there is some outrage, the media is there to keep it quiet. They fill a unique role as the thought leaders of the whole thing, signaling to the Communists what they should think as the COMINTERN was the daily worldwide mouthpiece for Stalin. This system will be in full operation as the election comes, covering for darlings who get caught with their pants down or wrecking their ambitions according to the owners’ whims.
So as long as the Communists are devouring their own, I’m happy. I can’t change the system, but I can enjoy seeing it grind up its own hapless devotees.
The communists created this Either/Or system of cultural dialectic in which all shames and sins must be trotted out and deconstructed and any institution must be dragged to an autopsy where it is fully dismembered, its organs weighed, and its long, long list of crimes and sins exposed. If Northam’s only sin ever were that picture, under the Cultural Marxist dialectic, that picture is enough to bring him everlasting shame and misery. They’ve created the perfect system of criticism, backed by synthetic mobs of outraged twitter nobodies, in which they can target anyone or anything, discover an imperfection, and use that imperfection to completely damn that target to hell. No appeals, no excuses, no explanations, and no mitigation or explanation.
What a great post!
The democrats probably had that photo for years. They pulled it out to get rid of Northam after he fucked up and made it obvious that they support infanticide.
Bingo! It was a trial balloon and it failed, temporarily.
“Should Western civilization be held responsible for what it has done through the centuries to persons of color the world over?”
Oh for crying out loud! Western civilization isn’t the only civilization to have slaves. This has to stop, this insistence that we forget that slavery is as old as the oldest profession.
This is not about Northam’s alleged racism. This is about controlling the narrative. If this thing had not been exposed the governor’s discussion about infanticide would still be going on.
This was a trial balloon to see if society is ready for a New Eugenics. Once they get society to accept the killing of newborns because “Defects”, the next step is to get society to accept killing any living being that does not fit into their idea of who is a productive member of society, or who is “valuable” according to the “elite”.
I’m not buying it. The title is correct but the objective is us.
amen, flea–
Was the Klan a street level enforcement unit for the Democrat party? The ANTIFA of years past.
How is that lost in all of this?
The timing is awfully coincidental, they (DNC) knew all of this before and buried, why now? They are not eating their own for lack of better fare. There is some other reason for his demolition, the picture is but a tool.
Isn’t this the guy who campaigned as as caring, country Doctor? His opponent was portrayed as a racist whose supporters wore MAGA caps, drove pick-up trucks that sported confederate flags while attemting to run over black and Brown children. As Harry Reid would say “well, it worked didn’t it’s.
BTW the Lt Gov involved in some past or present sexual assualt/harassment findings, investigations or accusations, Isn’t he a black male? Nothing to see here let’s just move along.
Prusmc..
Black men don’t know it yet but they are the next Expendables and Deplorables.
Black men should be the number one proponents of getting the wall built. Most have no idea their beloved Demon rats are planning to replace them with whatever marches up from the south within the next few years.
northam is a pos but i hope he has guts enough to ride this out–35 years ago,wth?
also,if he stays it will probably be because the polls turned in his direction,which is a good thing since it will mean people aren’t quite as clueless as the politicians believe they are–
this came in this am–
they’re going to try & go after trump next–
1 minute video of trump ,innocent to us,evil to them–
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/videos/2019_01/the_rasmussen_minute_revisited_trump_s_racist_past