The Oozing Festering Sore of the Clinton Years Must Be Cauterized to Heal the US and Hillary-provided ProgDem "Bleach" Won't Do the Job

THE REAL NEWS TODAY IS THAT THE PROGDEM GRIP ON SOME OF AMERICA IS TIGHT. Ed Gillespie lost the Virginia governor's race on Tuesday, by a 9% margin. The GOP also seems to have lost the Virginia legislature, or will find itself in a virtual tie with Democrats. That is the bad news for the 2017 elections. We never expected to take the New Jersey governorship in a state that is a Blue as they get and in which Chris Christie was an anomaly. But...Virginia?? It has been a Red state since Reagan, and although recently tinged purple, the GOP had hopes to hold on to it by taking back the governorship form the Democrats. • • • THE VIRGINIA RESULTS. Virginia's Democrat Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam defeated former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie 54-45% on Tuesday. The Washington Post wrote : "Voters chose Northam...as part of a stunning Democrat sweep of statewide offices, including the lieutenant governor and attorney general. There also were widespread Democratic victories in the House of Delegates. The success of Northam and his ticket was fueled by unprecedented turnout among Democrats and liberals, who traditionally have sat out Virginia elections in nonpresidential years....In total, non-white voters made up 33% of the electorate....Northam’s victory was propelled by white, college-educated women; voters who are concerned about health care; the robust showing among Democrats; and voters who strongly disapprove of Trump, exit polls indicated. Gillespie never mentioned Trump during his concession speech, just as he almost never mentioned him on the campaign trail.” • We can add to the statistics that Northam won by 9% in a state that Hillary Clinton carried by 5% in 2016. And, looking at the county-by-county results, we see that Northam won in counties with high populations of college-educated voters and minorities (in Virginia that means mostly Black voters). Those are 'bedroom' counties in the north where Washing ton DC bureaucrats have become residents and counties in the urban area around the capital Richmond. Gillespie carried rural, white, and poorer counties in the west and south. • So, we can say that Northam's landslide victory is as much a sign of the state's growing geographic polarization as it is about a national backlash to President Trump and his administration. While Virginia had voted for Republican presidential condidates since 1952, it bolted for Obama in 2008 ands 2012 and for Hillary in 2106. This means that Virginia, once very Red, and then labeled Purple, has apparently become a Blue state, and will vote for Dmocrats as long as the demographics continue to show an increase in liberal Washington bureaucrats in the north and minorities elsewhere. • • • WHAT DOES IT MEAN? The mainstream media is calling the Virginia election result a "tsunami" for Democrats and a "whupping" of Trump. The GOP establishment neo-conservative National Review wrote on Wednesday : "The coming weeks will feature a lot of Trump-friendly Republicans insisting he has nothing to do with last night’s top-to-bottom shellacking of the GOP in Virginia, and a lot of not-so-Trump- friendly Republicans insisting he’s got everything to do with the electoral disaster." But, National Review's rattling off of the statistics tells the tale of a GOP voter base in Virginia looking for Republican candidates who are more interested in their welfare than in eternally re-fighting the GOP 2016 primaries and election of Donald Trump : "Gillespie actually kept his party more unified than Trump did; exit polls indicated that 95% of self-identified Republicans voted for Gillespie, compared to 88% for Trump. (Note that Virginia does not register voters by party, so all responses are best thought of as, “which party do you feel like you belong to today?”) White evangelicals were about as supportive of Gillespie (79%) as they were of Trump (80%). Those who live in households with guns were slightly more supportive of Gillespie (61%) than they were of Trump (59%). Gillespie narrowly won independents, 50% to 47%. Trump did a little better in that group last year, 48% to 43%. Gillespie actually did slightly better than Trump among blacks, 12% to 9%. No, the big difference of this year is that the Democratic base was fired up on a scale not seen since 2008. Yesterday’s Virginia electorate was 41% self-identified Democrat, 30% self-identified Republican, and 28% independent or something else. When the electorate looks like that, Republicans will get demolished every time." • BUT, perhaps the most intersting exit poll result is not being reported by the MSM. Breitbart wrote on Tuesdqy that "the first exit polls of voters in Virginia and New Jersey were released Tuesday afternoon -- and they reveal that six in ten respondents favor leaving monuments to Confederate soldiers in place. Virginia exit poll (first wave) -- Monuments to Confederate leaders on government property should be...Removed 36%; Left in place 60%." How that fits into the Democrat tsunami fantasy isn't clear. But, it certainly tells us that there are a lot of Virginians ready to listen to a carefully presented Republican agenda, if it is told by candidates who both support President Trump as party leader and are running in 2018 -- AFTER the GOP has repealed and replaced Obamacare with a return to reasonable market-based but consumer-protective healthcare program AND a tax reofrm that clearly gives middle class Americans the break they so desperately need. • The trouble with this scenario is that Trump and his supporters will have to bend to the breaking point the arms of the GOP elites and #NeverTrump Swamp Creatures who control the congressional agenda now. • • • 2018 IS NOT TOO LATE TO BRING JUSTICE TO THE CLINTON PROGDEM CABAL. The mainstream media would like Americans to believe that Hillary and Bill's Uranium One scandal and Hillary's DNC and email horror stories are a thing of the 'distant past' and better forgotten so that AMerica can move on. But, 'moving on' requires -- much like personal grieving -- a finality that allows the pain to be replaced with the conviction that everything has been settled with truth and dignity. • American Thinker's ever-perceptive editor Thomas Lifson took on that issue obliauely when he wrote on Tuesday that : "Donna Brazile wanted only to rehabilitate herself and cash in on writing the first tell-all from the Clinton inner circle. But she knew they have unpleasant ways of making problems go away, so she needed some insurance against the worst sorts of retaliation. Her cryptic mentions of Seth Rich and subsequent refusal to elaborate on the subject may be a signal that killing her would set off mutual destruction. Over the weekend, she confirmed that we crazy right-wing conspiracy nuts were correct in our worst suspicion: Seth Rich, it was reasonable to suspect, had leaked the DNC emails to WikiLeaks and was rubbed out to send a message to other canaries who might get in the way of Hillary's juggernaut. The killer(s) left his valuables behind, signaling that this was no robbery gone bad." Lifson wroet that at the time, "Brazile got the message. She shut her mouth and followed instructions, even shaming people who shared her worries about the murderous ruthlessness, seen in her tweet on May 21 : "Seth Rich was a hard worker and proud to be an American. This desire to scar Seth's legacy to his country and party is shameful." In the release of her book, Brayile, says Lifson : "implies that she admits she shared our right-wing conspiracy nut fears about the possibly murderous nature of the Clinton Machine. Saturday, the Washington Post published this from her pending book : 'Brazile writes that she was haunted by the still-unsolved murder of DNC data staffer Seth Rich and feared for her own life, shutting the blinds to her office window so snipers could not see her and installing surveillance cameras at her home. The following day, when she was providing video, she spoke in code, telling George Stephanopoulos (transcript) : 'They don't know what it was like to be over at the DNC during this hacking. They don't know what it's like to bury a child. I did, Seth Rich.' " • Lifson concludes that : "Unless she is an utter fool, evidence of serious crime is secreted somewhere with an auto-release arrangement upon her death." The Democrat lapdog mainstream media are ignoring this part of Brazile's revelations, emphasizing the "rigging" charge and noting that Brazile is now trying to say she never used the word "rigged," even though it is in her book. • Another American Thinker columnist, Daniel John Sobieski, asked in a Wednesday article -- "Does Donna Brazile Know Who Killed Seth Rich? For Sobieski, that is the real bombshell lurking in Donna Brazile’s stunning interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos about her new book Hacks -- her cryptic references to murdered DNC IT staffer Seth Rich and her statement that she took the precautions one takes when one fears for their life. Sobieski says : "So far, speculation about the unsolved murder of Seth Rich have been dismissed as right-wing conspiracy theories but Brazile’s references to him in the light of all that has come out about Wikileaks, the Fusion GPS dossier, and Hillary’s purchase of the DNC that rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, may be a key to a missing piece of this whole puzzle....Why did Donna Brazile fear for her life after Seth’s Rich unsolved murder? Were these cryptic references a way of warning those who she feared might do her harm that more would be revealed after her possible demise? Only Donna Brazile can elaborate, and it is doubtful she will at this point." • As Sobieski points out, Seth’s murder remains a mystery with no apparent motive, not even a robbery gone wrong. The Daily Caller Investigative Group observes in a piece titled “Donna Brazile Has A Theory About Who Killed Seth Rich” : "From her book Hacks : 'I felt some responsibility for Seth Rich’s death. I didn’t bring him into the DNC, but I helped keep him there working on voting rights. With all I knew now about the Russians’ hacking, I could not help but wonder if they had played some part in his unsolved murder. Besides that, racial tensions were high that summer and I worried that he was murdered for being white on the wrong side of town. [My friend] Elaine expressed her doubts about that, and I heard her. The FBI said that they did not see any Russian fingerprints there.' Brazile repeatedly returns to the subject of being haunted by Rich’s murder, even though other Democrats have pounced on anyone who suggested that the murder was anything other than a robbery gone wrong. The DNC data staffer was killed days before Wikileaks began publishing its emails, and his valuables were not taken." • Sean Hannity interviewed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who denied that hacked emails from the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta were stolen and passed to his organization by Russian state actors. Assange told Hannnity : "Our source is not the Russian government." Hannity pushed Assange : "So in other words, let me be clear, Russia did not give you the Podesta documents or anything from the DNC?" Assange answered : "That's correct." • Then there is the strange refusal of the DNC to allow the FBI to access the DNC servers. Sobieski says : "Seth Rich, being a DNC IT staffer, if he did not provide the documents and emails to Wikileaks himself, might have been in a position to know who did and how. We do know the DNC denied the FBI access to the server that was allegedly hacked by the Russians." A senior law enforcement official told CNN the DNC "rebuffed" a request from the FBI to examine its computer services after it was allegedly hacked by Russia during the 2016 election : "The FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC officials the necessity of obtaining direct access to servers and data, only to be rebuffed until well after the initial compromise had been mitigated." • Perhaps, surmises Sobieski, "Donna Brazile knows more about what the DNC was trying to hide from the FBI. Her shocking revelations in her book may be the tip of a rather large and unnerving iceberg. Perhaps Donna Brazile has an idea of who killed Seth Rich and why and that’s why she fears for her life." • • • DEAR READERS, where does all this leave us? With a lot of work to do for the victory we know we can win in 2018 -- IF we work hard and never give up on any corner of America -- no precinct or town or county or state. And, we need to drive home to our elected GOP House and Senate members that they work for us and were elected to help President Trump carry out his agenda. That does not mean lock-step blind odedience, but it does mean providing the votes for the crucial programs that will make a 2018 victory meaningful for Americans -- tax reform, Obamacare repeal and replacement, a budget for the Wall. It also means that -- instead of becoming weak-kneed and timid every time Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi or their minions waves an attack in their faces -- the GOP leadership responds forcefully. It means that the congressional investigations of the unending list of possibly crimiinal activities by the Clintons and the DNC must result in referrals to the Justice Department with recommendations for prosecution. And, it means that Attorney General Jeff Session must step up to the plate and do his job -- whether it means appointing special conusel or referring dossiers to the FBI for criminal investigation. • To have a leader like Trump and resolutely refuse to acknowledge, let alone use, him to win is what #NeverTrump is all about, and they need to be eliminated if they don't deliver for Trump before the 2018 elections. • Victor Davis Hanson -- an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare -- says : "We are in a war of competing visions." In Hanson's view, recent intraparty squabbling is "irrelevant" noise, compared with the "existential war for the soul of America." Hanson sees the 2016 election as a "Rubicon moment" -- "the die had been cast, and those who were fearful where America had been headed had no choice but to follow him through the river. Either Trump succeeds with his agenda, or we go the way of Europe." Trump is truly leading a "war of competing visions," with all the marbles on the table. • If some of the Clinton-related proceedings result in acquittals -- that's okay. But, the open oozing festering sore of the Clinton years must be cauterized in order for America to "move on" and cross the Rubicon. No amount of Hillary-provided Progressive Democrat "bleach" will do the job.