Yesterday’s state election results were mostly unsurprising, although democrats are spinning the results as a national referendum on ‘a woman’s right to choose’ what gets injected into her body. Oops! Sorry! She only gets to choose what goes into her body if democrats give her permission first.
Anyway, the Wall Street Journal ran an ‘election roundup’ story this morning headlined, “
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear Re-Elected in Kentucky, and Democrats Have Big Night in Virginia.”
Governor Beshear’s re-election, even in red Kentucky, did not shock anyone. Had Cameron won, it would have been an “upset.” In like manner, Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves defeated democrat Brandon Presley (distant cousin to Elvis Presley). No gubernatorial upsets were reported.
The “Big Night” narrative in Virginia was that voters somehow “rebuked” Governor Glenn Younkin by failing to elect more Republicans, but the fact is, Virginia Republicans probably did as well as they could have hoped in the endless ocean of liberalism that is Virginia. The rebuke happened two years ago, when Younkin was elected along with new Republican gains in the state house, as voters’ pandemic message to woke school board policies, lockdowns, and mandates.
You could say Republicans failed to take advantage of voter’s frustrations, and I’d agree. Establishment Media is framing yesterday’s results as a referendum on abortion.
The ‘abortion’ narrative came together because Ohio voters roundly approved a pro-abortion constitutional amendment, Lord forgive them, and because democrats in various states never shut up about abortion during the campaigns. Democratic political consultant Ben Tribbett told the Wall Street Journal’s reporter, “This was an election about choice.”
Choice? The reporter didn’t ask Mr. Tribbett his position on choice about
vaccine mandates.
Les McCorkle of Williamsburg, 61, a self-described ‘independent voter’ who votes for democrats without thinking, ignorantly said abortion access was his top issue.
Even though he can’t get one. You know, just in case. “It should be a woman’s right. It’s
her body,” gushed McCorkle.
One suspects that two years ago, Mr. McCorkle thought unvaccinated women should be herded into wood chippers.
Republicans failed to properly deploy democrats’ heinous history on vaccine mandates whenever against abortion rights arguments. I’m dumbfounded that Republicans let democrats get away with all their insincere “right to choose” nonsense. What are Republicans afraid of? The tide has turned against jab mandates. People hate the jabs now; fewer than 3% bought into the boosters despite the CDC retooling itself into the world’s largest pharmaceutical marketing firm.
If the ‘abortion issue’ proves anything, it’s that Republicans must overcome their irrational fear about criticizing the CDC’s magic snake oil, and jam coercive vaccine and mask mandates down democrat throats whenever they start hypocritically chirping about bodily integrity.
The vaccines didn’t work! The mandates were for nothing!
Even though last night’s election results weren’t particularly surprising, it still feels like a wasted opportunity.
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