The Strange Juxtaposition of Virginia’s Cascading Scandals Versus Joe Biden, And What It Shows

Uh huh.

In the space of a week in early February, the public was stunned by revelations about each of the three highest statewide elected officials, all Democrats: the racist photo in the governor’s yearbook; accusations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor; and the attorney general’s appearance in blackface at a party in college. Protesters and news crews swarmed the Statehouse. Calls for resignations came from fellow Virginia Democrats, Republicans and even 2020 presidential candidates.

And then? “It just went poof,” said Natalie Draper, a librarian sitting in the back of a coffeehouse last week in Richmond. “It’s like it never happened.”

Mark Herring, the attorney general, has taken questions from the public on a few occasions since his own blackface scandal broke. But The New York Times stopped reporting on it.when he talked recently with reporters in Washington, after a Supreme Court hearing on gerrymandering, no one asked him about the episode.

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Democrats fully acknowledge that there is unfinished business in all this. But they cite the lack of resolution as a reason to slow down on those immediate calls for resignations.

The New York Times will claim that they don’t understand why the whole thing went poof… and why so many Democrats in Virginia want to slow down and not be pointing the finger at the guilty… Stencil that matter, the reason why The New York Times stopped reporting on it.

Why?

Because it was only hurting Democrats. Particularly, Democrats they couldn’t afford to lose.

Which makes a strange juxtaposition with the recent attacks on Joe Biden that I spoke of this morning, doesn’t it ?

Well, maybe not. As much as I’d like to suggest that these attacks on Biden are simply more of the same circular firing squad antics that we’ve come to expect from Democrats forced to live up to their own ever-changing rules, it’s more complex than that.

As I suggested this morning, the feeling amongst most watchers (even many Democrats) seems to be the Joe Biden returning to the White House would be a return to the Obama years, which given the success of Trump in terms of policy are being increasingly viewed as an abject failure, comparatively speaking.

And keep in mind, it all together depends on whether or not the subject at hand is going to cause the Democrats any problems with maintaining power.

For example, CNN called JFK’s sex life “legendary.”

These are the same people who gave full credit to Stormy Daniels, and the accusers of Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Bill O’Reilly, and Roger Ailes, to name but a few.

And how did Creepy Joe Biden, end up on that list? By way of the recognition that there was no way on God’s green earth he was going to win a general election even if he managed to win the primary. Certainly, Democrats can afford to lose Joe Biden, in the context of maintaining power… So my meaning is clear, I say again, it all together depends on whether or not the subject at hand is going to cause the Democrats any problems with maintaining power.

And how did the top Democrats in Virginia end up off that list? Because the Democrats couldn’t afford to lose them, because they would also lose their positions and therefore their power.

I’ll close on two interesting and seemingly contradictory notes. First, Joe Biden is still the leading candidates in terms of polling data. Secondly, he’s not declared for the office yet.