As the Virginia Crisis Deepens, Will President Trump Make It Clear in His State of the Union Address that America Does not Tolerate Either Racism or Infanticide

HOW IS THE STATE OF THE UNION? IN VIRGINIA, NOT SO GOOD. Governor Ralph Northam has opened a Pandora's Box in the Old Dominion that nobody seems to be able to close. The original Pandora opened her box to let out all the troubles of the world. BUT, the last item that flew out was HOPE. And, conservatives are seeing hope from the troubles that Governor Northam has unleashed in Virginia. • • • VIRGINIA WAS MOVING LEFT. But,thanks to the Governor's double-barreled whammy, that Left swing of the pendulum may be reversing. Breitbart, as reported by Blabber Buzz, wrote on Monday : "In the space of one week Virginia’s Democrat Governor Ralph Northam may have managed to accomplish what years of Republican efforts have failed to do : put Virginia back in play for the 2020 presidential election. A bastion of conservative Republican strength from the 1970s until 2000, demographic changes and the huge growth in the Northern Virginia suburbs, home to a growing number of Democrat leaning federal employees, have changed the state so that Republicans have fared poorly in statewide elections over the past decade. The last Republican was elected governor in 2009, when Bob McDonnell, later convicted on bribery charges which were subsequently thrown out, won. Democrat Terry McAuliffe won in 2013, and Northam won in 2017. The last Republican was elected to the United States Senate in 2002, when Senator John Warner (R-VA) was re-elected to his final term in office. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won the state’s electoral college vote was in 2004, when George W. Bush carried the state by a nine point margin, 54% to 45% over the Democrat candidate, John Kerry. Democrat Barack Obama won the state by six points in 2012, and four points in 2012. Democrat Hillary Clinton won the state by five points in 2016. The state was trending further left in 2018 and 2019, but Northam’s conduct during the last week has changed all of that." • Former Virginia Attorney General and the 2013 Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Sunday, “It’s too early to tell,” if the Northam scandals will put Virginia more fully in play for the 2020 presidential election, “but it certainly hurts the Democrats. The combination of Governor Northam’s infanticide comment this week with the explosion over the racist photo from his med school yearbook has both energized conservatives and turned Democrats on their own. We will learn more about the impact on 2020 in the 2019 legislative races in which the entire General Assembly is up for election.” • Mike Rubino, who ran the Trump campaign effort in both the 2016 primary and 2016 general election, told Breitbart News Sunday : “Governor Northam’s missteps are a win-win for Republicans both in the Commonwealth and nationally. In Virginia, if Governor Northam decides to stay he won’t be able to govern effectively. If he resigns, the people of Virginia will get a Governor in current Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax who is so wildly out of step with the values and sentiments of the common Virginian that catastrophe will surely ensue. This is the gift that keeps on giving, the first big step to Virginia coming back into play for Republicans." • Prince William County Supervisor Corey Stewart, the 2018 Republican nominee for US Senate, told Breitbart News Sunday : “It completely upsets the apple cart for Democrats in Virginia, who used race to drive out voters against Gillespie for governor in 2017 and me for the US Senate in 2018. As it turns out, it was the Democrats who were the racists all along, and now everybody knows it. Democrats were planning on winning seats to take the majority back in the State Senate and House of Delegates in November 2019, and then to redistrict the entire state in 2020. Now all those plans are in the garbage can.” • Republican National Committee spokesman Steve Guest told Breitbart News on Sunday : “Our plan remains to go after every single vote. 2020 will be a clear choice for Americans : continue the pro-growth policies of President Trump that have delivered record low unemployment numbers or go with the dishonest and disastrous policies pushed by radical Democrats.” • Northam’s very bad week began on Wednesday, when he publicly supported a bill in the Virginia General Assembly that was characterized by critics as legalizing infanticide. His famously callous comment about the bill was that after the baby’s birth, the baby would be “kept comfortable” while “a discussion would ensue ” between the mother and the delivering physician. Breitbart News reported : "Discussing the controversy over Democratic delegate Kathy Tran acknowledging her bill would allow abortion when a woman was going into labor, Northam said, 'If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. 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.' ” • But, it was on Friday and Saturday that the state’s steady movement from purple to blue came into question. Here is Breitbart's report : "Friday afternoon, Big League Politics broke the story that included Northam’s personal page from his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. Four photographs, purportedly provided by Northam, were on the page. Three featured images of Northam, and the fourth showed two people, one a man in black face, the other a person in a KKK robe and pointed hood. Late Friday, Northam released a statement acknowledging that he was one of the individuals in the controversial black face-KKK photo. 'I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now,' Northam said in Friday’s statement. But less than 24 hours later in a Saturday afternoon press conference, Northam pulled a stunning about face, acknowledging that the black face-KKK photo was on his personal page in the 1984 yearbook, but denying that he was one of the two people in the photo. Even more bizarrely, Northam admitted at the press conference that later that same year -- 1984 -- he appeared at a dance contest in San Antonio, Texas in 'black face' as Michael Jackson. He said he created the black face by putting black shoe polish on his face, and won the dance contest for his moonwalk." • The calls for Northam’s resignation came from Democrats and Republicans alike -- as soon as the story broke. The NAACP, the Virginia Democratic Black Caucus led the calls, which intensified after Northam’s Saturday press conference, when both the NAACP and Virginia Democratic Black Caucus repeated their calls, and were joined by Virginia’s Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner. Despite the growing intensity of the demands that he resignation, Northam appeared on Sunday afternoon to be determined to hang on to his job as governor, "hoping that he will receive an assist from the media," according to Breitbart. • Appearing on CNN’s AC 360 late Friday, Cuccinelli noted : “It is not easy to remove someone from office anymore at the state level than at the federal level. You’d have to have the Speaker and the President Pro Temp of the Senate both address his inability to perform his job and, and I don’t think he’s at that point. The real question is, can he do anything in the role of governor any longer? I mean, this is, this is extraordinary and mind you, this comes during the same week in which he went on Washington radio and more or less said that he was okay with letting a child born alive die on the table.” • The bottom line for Breitbart is this : "As long as Northam remains governor, Democrats in Virginia will be subject to charges of ineffectiveness, hypocrisy, baby-killing, and racism. Northam himself has become the target of withering ridicule, as evidence by this biting tweet from the Free Beacon’s Charles Lehman, one of many memes that exploded across social media over the weekend : "Ralph Northam will now be kept comfortable while a discussion ensues." — Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) February 1, 2019. • Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax is just 39 years old. Fairfax graduated from Duke University and Columbia Law School. He worked on the 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore and on the Washington staff of former Senator John Edwards, the disgraced North Carolina Senator who tried to deny that he fathered a child with his mistress while his wife was being treated for cancer. The New York Times reports about Fairfax : "Mr. Fairfax made his first bid for public office in 2013, running a close second in the Democratic primary for attorney general. He is in the liberal mainstream of the party on most policy issues, from gun control and abortion rights to addressing climate change and raising the minimum wage. Republicans have been less entranced by Mr. Fairfax over the years -- he has been criticized especially for supporting a “Medicare for all” health care system -- but few of them seemed eager to speak ill of him on Saturday. During the 2017 race for lieutenant governor, Mr. Fairfax’s Republican opponent, Jill Holtzman Vogel, said during a debate that he was not informed enough 'to talk intelligently' about campaign issues. The National Rifle Association has given him an F rating." • As Breitbart clearly states -- the political bottom line is this : each day the Northam scandal continues to evolve, Republican prospects in Virginia continue to improve." • But, this is not the most important issue. The real issue is that nobody who supports infanticide at birth by calling it 'abortion' and has a history of blackface-tied-to-the-KKK photos and was nicknamed "coonman" is fit to represent the American people in any capacity. • Northam toughed it out on Monday, holding a regularly scheduled Cabinet meeting Monday morning that a source inside the meeting described as “solemn.” According to the source, Governor Northam specifically said that if he resigns, he would be resigning as a “racist for life,” and that the only way he can clear his name is to stay in office and convince people that he is not in that photo and that the photo does not represent who he is. Breitbart reports that at a later all-staff meeting, Northam said he needs more time to decide his path forward. A Virginia Democrat briefed by multiple officials who were in the meeting told CNN that the meeting was intense, with both Northam and his chief of staff described as “emotional.” The Virginia Democrat told CNN that Clark Mercer, the governor’s chief of staff, told other senior aides that they owed it to the governor to stick with him as he looks for a way to clear his name. BUT, the rally-round-the-Governor movement is clearly not happening. There is no sign of support for the Governor, and he must have that if he hopes to meet his own personal standard of staying on only if he can continue to effectively govern. Monday morning, protesters gathered outside the governor’s mansion in Richmond. And, reportedly, Northam hastily called a meeting of his top administration officials of color on Sunday night to see if anyone with deep ties to him would be willing to stand by him during a firestorm of controversy over a decades-old racist photo. The meeting did not go as Northam hoped. Not one person at the gathering told the Governor he should stay and fight. • “The press conference on Saturday probably was the end of the story for him. That was really not what he needed to do to address the situation,” said Karen Hult, who heads the political science department at Virginia Tech. “I’m afraid the die is cast at this point.” But, the Republican speaker of the state House of Delegates, Kirk Cox, said it was unlikely his chamber would move to impeach Northam. Impeachment requires a majority vote in the House of Delegates, and removal from office would require the votes of two-thirds of the state Senate. Cox told reporters on Monday : “Obviously on impeachment, that’s a very high standard. So, I think that’s why we’ve called for a resignation. We hope that’s what the Governor does. I think that would obviously be less pain for everyone.” • AND, when the gods of politics take their revenge, it is sometimes brutal and swift. While Northam was struggling to survive, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax was confronted with a report on the same website that broke the Northam story -- Big League Politics -- that accused him of sexually assaulting a woman at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004. In a private Facebook message posted by the website, the woman alleged sexual assault by a statewide officeholder whose identifying description match Fairfax. Fairfax’s top aides denied the allegations in a pre-dawn press release, and Fairfax, who was unmarried at the time, met with reporters to deny the allegations. He acknowledged a sexual encounter with the woman, though he said it was consensual. Fairfax told reporters on Monday : “That allegation is completely false. It’s completely uncorroborated. This person, a year ago, came to the Washington Post with this very same allegation. They made the decision not to publish the story because it was not credible, because it was uncorroborated, and what we know is that it is false and defamatory.” In a Monday post, the Washington Post said the woman had approached the paper after Fairfax won election in 2017. The paper was unable to corroborate her version of events, though the Post said Fairfax’s initial characterization of her account as being riddled with “red flags and inconsistencies” was not accurate. Asked whether he believed Northam or his allies were behind the renewed interest in the story, Fairfax said he did not believe the “smear” was a coincidence. Fairfax said he had not spoken to Northam for a few days. • TheHill reported on Monday that Virginia Democrat Representative Gerry Connolly said Governor Northam is "a man without a country,....This needs a little bit of time for the Governor to understand that his moral authority has collapsed." Connolly made his comments on MSNBC's Meet The Press Daily, adding, "And his ability to govern...is nonexistent. The Governor can't go to the General Assembly and advocate for an amendment or a bill with any credibility." Connolly added that Northam's "own party has abandoned him" and predicted that no candidate on the ballot in state elections this November would want to be associated with him. "He’s a man without a country right now. And I think he’s going to see that in short order." • That, dear readers, is what political chaos looks like. And it is happening to the Virginia Democrat establishment that was sure it was on its way to total power in the Commonwealth. • • • WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS? Has the GOP establishment lost all sense of political savvy? Or, do they simply not care to force the Democrat elites to admit that they lead a Party that is rife with supporters of infanticide and veiled racism. I cannot imagine any two issues that could do more for the future of the Republican Party than to stand with America in refusing to accept either infanticide or racism. But, we are witnessing a GOP that seems to be shrugging its shoulders. • • • IS HILLARY CLINTON PUSHING THIS ABORTION ASSAULT? She's pushing her agenda that states -- as she told America on ‘Meet the Press’ : “The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights, even up to the hour he/she is born.” Hillary Clinton continues to imply that she supports abortion on demand, for whatever reason a woman decides to terminate her pregnancy.” Judi McLeod of Canada Free Press pointed out on Monday that : "Proof of Clinton’s full running ‘Presidency From the Sidelines’ came in with the blood red tide of the stunning new ‘Reproductive Health Act’, announced last week by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The mysterious, vaguely described, non-physician 'licensed health practitioners' now enabled by law to perform abortions -- up to and including the point of birth -- are graduates of the Clinton Health Access Initiative....'No one seems to be focused on the nurses and midwives’ addition to this bill, who coincidentally have been trained by the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Partners in Health, Planned Parenthood, and the Ivy League schools, for over two decades. (dcdirtylaundry, Feb. 3, 2019).' " Garrison on January 17th received another 30-day suspension from Facebook for sharing this article. He said : "The truth is a violation of community standards." • Garrison's article suggests that the groundwork for the New York ‘Reproductive Health Act’ began back in 1993 : “Clinton Foundation: Clinton Health Access Initiative, Clinton Global Initiative, and Clinton Climate Initiative, Planned Parenthood, Partners In Health, Ivy League Schools. There are lawsuits pending in at least nine states, challenging who can perform abortions, so as to expand it to nurses and midwives. Planned Parenthood has a suit going in Idaho, Maine, Missouri, and Wisconsin. In 1993, Planned Parenthood launched the Clinical Training and Research Initiative to expand the number of clinicians trained to provide abortions. They did this in partnership with family medicine and obstetrics/gynaecology resident training programs in New York City. They train nurses, certified nurse-midwives, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians through Planned Parenthood affiliates and contracted residency programs. For over two decades, they have been staffing up nurses and midwives, for this very day. Think about that. This training does not stop at New York City. Their reach is global, and they have been working with international alliances for 45 years, providing clinical training to increase access to abortion services in other countries. Guess where else they have been focusing their efforts, more recently? The Caribbean region. The Clinton Climate Initiative and Branson’s Carbon War Room have been working on a Ten Island Challenge in the Caribbean since 2012, which has long since increased beyond just ten islands....Coincidentally, 10 of the islands the Clintons and Branson are setting up solar farms on, Planned Parenthood has set up the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation (CFPA) on those islands as well. Clintons, Branson, and gang are operating on these islands, as well as Comoros, Seychelles, Mauritius, Puerto Rico, and likely more at this juncture in time...In fact, that same year in 2012, the Clinton Global Initiative announced that Planned Parenthood Federation of America was committing to combat the vulnerability of youth to unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, HIV/AIDS and other STDs, as well as cultural taboos around age and sexuality. They planned on training youth leaders in the US, Africa, and Latin America. The same year they launched their training initiative in 1993, Planned Parenthood touted this on their website : 'President Bill Clinton worked to make abortion 'safe, legal and rare.' He ended the 'Gag Rule,' instituted by the Bush Administration, which prevented women using federally funded health centers -- primarily poor women -- from getting the information they needed to make informed choices about unintended or health-threatening pregnancies. President Clinton reversed the 'Gag Rule' in his first week in office." • In 2017, President Trump signed an executive order bringing back the 'Gag Rule.' This rule prevents federal funding to clinics that provide abortions or refer patients to places that do, as well as cuts foreign aid from going to groups that provide abortion services. Garrison says : "This is a direct hit to Planned Parenthood and their affiliates. But whether it’s abortions at home or in foreign lands, it’s your money that is paying for them. Planned Parenthood receives $500-million a year in taxpayers funds and $30 million per year goes directly to Democrat election campaigns. Incredibly Planned Parenthood is a 501(3)C nonprofit. The Trump administration should revoke their charitable status -- defund and defang them." • Meanwhile, Clinton has found a cloud to hide under by demanding that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam resign in feigned outrage over the 35-year-old racist pictures on his Yearbook. In this, Hillary is just like all other Democrats -- they are 'outraged' over Northam's racist past, but they say not one word about the infanticide-hiding-as-abortion laws their fellow ProgDems are pushing in states they control. The real President Trump should tell Clinton in both words and action that “Enough is Enough!” • • • DEAR READERS, as we await President Trump's State of he Union address, we should remember that the Republican establishment is standing by, passive, while the radical Democrat elite is advancing without pause. American Thinker calls it "institutionalized stupidity in the face of evil." It is hard to explain why Republicans believe they can fight these Progressives, socialists, communists, Marxists, anarchists, Islamists, and all the other identity politics groups operating under the protective umbrella of the Democrat Party. They share one goal -- the destruction of America. American Thinker states : "It would not be an overstatement to say that war is being waged against our nation -- a war the Republican Party refuses to acknowledge, and therefore will not fight....those in power on the right appear utterly clueless, cowardly, and/or complicit despite the brazen, in-broad-daylight enormity of this assault. The tactics the left employs are wide-ranging, from outright violence to big tech fascism and everything in between. It’s like an anti-American monster machine with highly coordinated moving parts rolling across the country, targeting institutions, individuals, and ideas it finds 'offensive' or 'divisive.' Many on the right chronicle these events, acting like war reporters, while the left wages the actual war. Ruthlessly. And without relent. What we are witnessing is chilling, surreal, and all encompassing in its threat. The left is the force behind the breakdown of the traditional family, an education system that brainwashes students, the dismantling of free speech, the infiltration of Islamic supremacists into every major institution, Godlessness, lawlessness, and manufactured madness. And when the left fights, they fight to win." • And, it seems the GOP will not fight at all. Listen to Paul Harvey’s 1965 broadcast “If I were the Devil,” and you will see the truth of today. You can access the Harvey You Tube video at < https://youtu.be/0NV0gk7KpEg >. • That is why I am pounding away on the infanticide issue. Ther has to be a place where we conservatives, we Americans, turn, stand, and fight. If it is not because the enemy is making it legal to kill our newborn babies, then where would we stand and fight?? as Paul Harvey said long ago, "We have truth and God on our side." Why are we not using those powerful weapons of truth and justice -- and the universal taboo of murder??? Why? • On Monday, Canada Free Press published an open letter written by David Martin of Our Lady's Workers in Southern California. The letter was addressed to President Trump : "We ask that you use your State of the Union address to encourage the nation to combat this heinous attack on life, for it most certainly will elicit God's blessing and will be a powerful spur in your plan to Make America Great Again." • It was no coincidence that on January 22, 2019, the 46th Anniversary of Wade. vs. Roe, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the historic American atrocity called the “Reproductive Health Act” that guarantees women the “fundamental right” to have an abortion until the birth of the baby, for any reason, and with all criminal aspects eradicated. Martin states : "We now have legalized infanticide in America, and this could be leading to that time when women will be given the option to 'try their baby out' for a week before deciding whether or not to keep it or return it to the surgeons for ‘termination.’ " • That may sound ludicrous -- but how many millions of European Jews stayed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s because they thought the Holocaust could never happen?? • Vermont, Rhode Island, and New Mexico seem on the verge of joining the infanticide trend that NY Governor Cuomo started. They are tolling the death knell for America with this abomination. We must act now to put out this fire of infanticide-cloaked-as abortion. David Martin says it : "A great nation does not allow the enemy to murder its people, no more than it allows revolutionaries to break through its borders....Mr. President. This all-important endeavor of seeing to the life and safety of our country must begin with the unborn." • America has finally arrived at its critical crossroads. We conservatives, we Republicans, we Christians, we Americans will fight back and defeat infanticide, and its particularly pernicious effect on Black Americans, or we will give up and allow America to be murdered along with its newborn babies.