Republicans -- for the Love of God's Creation, Speak Out Against the Democrat Racist Agenda of Infanticide

DOES ANYONE REALLY KNOW WHO AND WHAT DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR RALPH NORTHAM IS?? We take a look. But, first -- SPRING IS ON THE WAY. I know you've all been waiting breathlessly to find out what Pennsylvania's own -- and the ONLY real animal-world weather prognosticator -- Punxsutawney Phil had to say about Spring Saturday morning. Well, breathe easy. Here is my sister's report : "Phil just said, 'My shadow I did not see, so Spring is on the way.' Phil has been doing this since 1887 and this is only the 19th time he did not see his shadow. Way to go Phil!" I really hope this applies to Europe, too. AND, Groundhog Day always falls on the same day as Candlemas, February 2. Candlemas -- The End of Christmas. After both Christmas and the season of Epiphany, the end of the Christmas celebrations come on February 2nd, 40 days after Christmas, with Candlemas. It's called Chandeleur in French. All over Europe today, people celebrate the Purification of the baby Jesus in the temple at Jerusalem 40 days after his birth, the Jewish ritual after childbirth and for the firstborn son -- by serving crepes and pancakes -- any grain-based food. I had pancakes and bacon for supper on Saturday. If you missed it, you can still have pancakes or crepes to celebrate Candlemas. The festival is called Candlemas beacuse this was the day that all the Church's candles for the year were blessed. • Blessing newborn babies brings us joltingly back to Governor Northam. • • • NROTHAM IS A DEMOCRAT -- BUT CNN LABELED HIM (R). BizPac Review reported it on Saturday : "As CNN host Anderson Cooper reported the governor’s apology to his relatively small viewer base Friday evening, a chyron appeared at the bottom of the screen. That chyron read as follows : “Gov. Ralph Northam (R) Virginia.” Ladies and gentlemen, this is CNN : This subtle manipulation of the facts by CNN, which distorts the truth on a daily basis, triggered almost as much outrage as Northam’s photos for the simple fact that the far-left network controls so much of the airways. It is, as noted by Fox News, the only news network airing at every airport in America." • Here is some of the backlash -- "This is disgusting. All day I’ve seen Democrats try to smear Republicans by mentioning “Republicans” in tweets about Ralph Northam but this is another level of manipulation. This wasn’t a mistake. @CNN wants to subconsciously make viewers blame a Democrat’s racism on Republicans. https://t.co/DHK67EhgCS" /// "CNN labels bigoted, racist Democrat Governor Ralph Northam a ***REPUBLICAN*** CNN is propaganda for the Left. pic.twitter.com/j75iTtnHIU" /// "When you think CNN can’t go any lower, they run the Democrat Ralph Northam story saying he was a REPUBLICAN. They need another name other than fake news. Let’s call them what they are. LIARS!" /// "This is what Democrats do, re-write history. It’s no mistake @CNN is now falsely labeling infanticide, black face/KKK Ralph Northam a Republican. Nothing new. pic.twitter.com/U4trERRMrd" • • • NORTHAM : "I AM NOT A RACIST -- AND I WASN'T IN THAT PHOTO." Fox News wrote on Saturday that : "Embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam told at least one fellow Democrat Saturday that he was not in a racist 1984 yearbook photo of two men dressed in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan outfit -- despite admitting he was in the picture a day earlier -- and that he does not intend to resign, a dramatic twist in the face of mounting calls from members of his own party for him to step down. Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas' office told Fox News that Northam reached out to her to say that he is not in the photograph and that he would not be resigning. That came after the Virginia Democratic Party tweeted that it had received word that Northam would not be resigning over the photo as they believed he should." • If that sounds a lot like "I did not have sex with that woman," that's because it is very similar. Democrat President Clinton used the 'deny everything' tactic to save his skin and presidency. Governor Northam is noy trying the same tactic. • Fox News says : "The New York Times reported that Northam had spoken to multiple state Democrats, and had also been calling former classmates at Eastern Virginia Medical School to get more information about the picture. The photo, on Northam's page and showing the two men in racist garb, was first published by Big League Politics Friday. Fox News obtained a copy of 1984 yearbook page from the Eastern Virginia Medical School library in Norfolk. On Friday, Northam released a statement initially saying that the photo was of him -- although he did not say which man was him. He apologized in both the statement and a later video statement, calling the photo 'racist and offensive,' but vowed to continue in office despite the increasing pressure for him to step down. 'Earlier today, a website published a photograph of me from my 1984 medical school yearbook in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive,' he said. '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.' " This video is available at < https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/1091510484468146176 >. Governor Northam said in the video : "My fellow Virginians, earlier today I released a statement apologizing for behavior in my past that falls far short of the standard you set for me when you elected me to be your governor. I believe you deserve to hear directly from me." He said in the video that he has spent the last year as governor fighting for a Virginia “that works better for all people” and added : “I am committed to continuing that fight through the remainder of my term and living up to the expectations you set for me when you elected me to serve.” • But Democrats both in Virginia and nationally lined up to call for Northam to resign. On Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Northam to "do the right thing" and called the photo "racist and contrary to fundamental American values." Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, another Democrat, tweeted : "This has been a heartbreaking day. Ralph Northam is my friend and he served well as my Lt. Governor and as Governor. His actions on display in this photo were racist, unacceptable and inexcusable at any age and any time....The situation that he has put himself and the Commonwealth of Virginia in is untenable. It's time for Ralph to step down, and for the Commonwealth to move forward." The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus said in a statement that the yearbook photos “rip the scabs of an excruciatingly painful history and are a piercing reminder of this nation’s sins. Those who would excuse the pictures are just as culpable.” The group said it felt betrayed by Friday's revelation and said the legacy of "slavery, racism, and Jim Crow has been an albatross around the necks of African Americans for over 400 years." • Democrat 2020 presidential wannabes also called for Northam to step aside. Cory Booker tweeted : "These images arouse centuries of anger, anguish, and racist violence and they’ve eroded all confidence in Gov. Northam’s ability to lead. We should expect more from our elected officials. He should resign." Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted : "There aren’t two sets of rules for our friends and our foes : Right is right and wrong is wrong. Americans deserve to be respected by their leaders, and racism cannot be excused in our government or anywhere else. Having seen the photo, I believe Governor Northam should resign." Senator Kamala Harris tweeted : "Leaders are called to a higher standard, and the stain of racism should have no place in the halls of government. The Governor of Virginia should step aside so the public can heal and move forward together.” Former Vice President Joe Biden, also considering a 2020 run, tweeted : "There is no place for racism in America. Governor Northam has lost all moral authority and should resign immediately, Justin Fairfax is the leader Virginia needs now." • Virginia GOP Chairman Jack Wilson saying his pledge to fix the damage wasn’t enough. Wilson told CNN : “It’s not enough, it’s not acceptable and clearly we cannot establish a double standard. If this were a Republican governor, the calls for his resignation would be fast and furious and widespread. He just basically lost the moral ability to lead the Commonwealth and so he should resign for the good of the Commonwealth.” On Friday, Virginia’s Republican Party said that the picture was “unforgivable” and made reference to the abortion controversy, with a tweet : "What Ralph Northam did was unforgivable. Given his statements on the right to life coupled with the most recent revelations, he has lost the moral authority to continue to govern and should resign immediately." • • • NORTHAM ALSO SEEMS TO FAVOR INFANTICIDE. The calls for Northam's resignation based on his racist medical school yearbook came a day after Northam sparked outrage -- but no noticeable calls for his resignation -- with his comments about a controversial abortion bill that one sponsor had said this week could allow women to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment before birth. Northam, a former pediatric neurologist, was asked about those comments and said that third-trimester abortions are done with “the consent of obviously the mother, with consent of the physician, multiple physicians by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities or there may be a fetus that’s not viable. So in this particular example 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.” While the intent of Governor Northam's comments was not clear, conservqtive commentators and lawmakers took the remarks to mean he was discussing the possibility of letting a newborn die -- or even killing it outright. Northam pushed back, with his office saying his comments were limited to actions physicians may take in the case of “tragic or difficult circumstances” such as a non-viable pregnancy or “severe fetal abnormalities.” He later tweeted: I have devoted my life to caring for children and any insinuation otherwise is shameful and disgusting.” • Here is what Canada Free Press had to say about that : "We’ve finally regressed to the Nazi T-4 Program in all but name. You know, where we get to murder all 'life unworthy of life.' That was the Nazi line which ok’d doctors to sign off on mental illness, chronic alcoholics, folks with gross anatomical abnormalities, folks with incurable diseases, people with STDs, babies with birth defects, babies afflicted with hydro- and macro- cephaly, babies with Down’s syndrome, and send them to places like Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hadamar, Hartheim, and Sonnenstein." • The Democrat Party did not seem to think about this -- or do the Democrat elites brush off the burgeoning infanticide laws in Democrat-controlled states as an inconvenience?? AND, where are the national Black leaders calling these creeping abortion-to-delivery laws for what they are -- the massive murder of Black Americans' babies. • • • ACT THREE -- I AM NOT IN THAT PHOTO. Northam's Act One was 'I am deeply sorry for being in that photo.' His Act Two was ' I don't know which person I am in the photo.' • Now comes ACT THREE -- 'I'm not in the photo.' TheHill reported that Governor Northam denied Saturday he had any prior knowledge of the racist picture that appeared on his medical school yearbook page and rejected bipartisan calls for his resignation. At a Saturday press conference, Northam said : “I am not and will not excuse the content of the photo. It was offensive, racist and despicable. When my staff showed me the photo in question yesterday, I was seeing it for the first time. I did not purchase the [Eastern Virginia Medical School] yearbook and I was unaware of what was on my page....When I was confronted with the images yesterday, I was appalled that they appeared on my page, but I believed then and now that I am not either of the people in that photo....I recognize that many people will find this difficult to believe. The photo appears with others I submitted in a page with my name on it. Even in my own statement yesterday I conceded that based on the evidence presented to me at the time, the most likely explanation that it was indeed me in the photo. In the hours since I made my statement yesterday, I reflected with my family and classmates and affirmed my conclusion that I am not the person in that photo.” • During the 40-minute press conference, Northam calmly rejected the pleas for him to leave office, suggesting doing so would be the easy way out : “If I were to listen to the voices calling on me to resign my office today, I could spare myself from the difficult path that lies ahead. I can avoid an honest conversation about harmful actions from my past. I cannot in good conscious choose the path that would be easier for me in an attempt to duck my responsibility to reconcile. I took an oath to uphold this office and serve the people of this commonwealth to the best of my ability. As long as I believe I can effectively fill that task, I intend to continue doing the business of Virginia.” • While denying he appeared in the photograph in question, the Governor admitted past mistakes he said were racially insensitive, including darkening his face as part of a Michael Jackson costume for a dance competition. Northam also addressed the nickname “coonman,” which appeared below his image in the yearbook, saying it was bestowed upon him by two older students whose “motives or intent” he did not know. Northam put some of the blame on the incidents on “the place and time that I grew up,” suggesting that such practices were “commonplace” in 1984. But former Governor Douglas Wilder, a Democrat, would be elected lieutenant governor just two years later, becoming the first Black statewide elected official in Virginia’s history. • Shortly after the press conference concluded, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez released a statement doubling down on calls for Northam to leave office : “His past actions are completely antithetical to everything the Democratic Party stands for. Virginians and people across the country deserve better from their leaders, and it is clear that Ralph Northam has lost their trust and his ability to govern. It’s time for Ralph Northam to step aside and let Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax serve Virginians as their next governor.” BUT, Lieutenant Governor Fairfax did not appear to have any desire, at least publicly, to supplant Northam, saying in a statement he was “glad” the governor apologized : “The Governor needed to apologize, and I am glad that he did so. He also reached out to me personally to express his sincere regrets and to apologize. I have worked closely with Ralph Northam over many years. He has been a friend to me and has treated my family and me with hospitality and respect. At this critical and defining moment in the history of Virginia and this nation, we need leaders with the ability to unite and help us rise to the better angels of our nature. I remain committed to serving and helping to heal the Commonwealth moving forward. Now more than ever, we must make decisions in the best interests of the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia.” • • • VIRGINIA DELEGATE TRAN HAS "SAFETY CONCERNS." BizPac Review reports that : "Democratic state lawmakers had to table the event in Lorton on Saturday which was to have constituents meet with state senators Scott Surovell and George Barker as well as Delegate Kathy Tran, a co-sponsor of Virginia’s Repeal Act, a bill that sought to loosen restrictions on third-trimester abortions, Fox News reported. 'Unfortunately, we are postponing our joint legislative town hall meeting scheduled for Saturday, February 2 due to security and safety concerns for our constituents who planned to attend as well as participants coming to youth sports activities at South County High School,' Tran wrote in a post on Facebook. 'We value talking to constituents about their concerns for our community and how we can help address them,' the first-term delegate from Fairfax County continued. 'We had looked forward to continuing this dialogue and sharing legislative updates this weekend. While we are very disappointed to have to make this decision, the safety of our neighbors and constituents is paramount. We will update our constituents once our town hall is rescheduled. We will continue to make ourselves available to hear our constituents’ priorities, including those with differing opinions.” • Virginia Democrat Governor Northam stepped into the mess as well, commenting on Tran’s bill while appearing to suggest leaving babies to die even after birth. • The online comments were many -- "We only heard what you said, which is that you’d allow babies to be killed while the mother is going into labor, and it only goes further downhill from there. Honestly, do you people not know the controversy is stemming from VIDEO OF YOU SAYING THESE THINGS?" /// "There is no medical condition in a mother or unborn baby that necessitates a late term abortion. Anytime a Democrat claims 'health of the mother' as a reason to support late term abortion... they’re lying." /// "Sorry. Your bill speaks for itself. This time, we didn't have to pass the bill to find out what was in it." /// "Kathy Tran's defense to this video will now be--Who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes and ears?" /// "The extremists on the Left conveniently change their tune when there's a backlash. But the agenda remains the same." • • • UNCLE JOE BIDEN MAY BE IN RACIST TROUBLE. BizPac Review reported on Saturday that : "Former Vice President Joe Biden and a possible candidate in the next presidential election formerly argued that integration would keep Black people from fully embracing their identities and rejected busing as an attempt to desegregate schools. 'I think the concept of busing...that we are going to integrate people so that they all have the same access and they learn to grow up with one another and all the rest, is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride,' then-Senator Biden said in 1975 after facing criticism from white voters, the Washington Examiner reported Friday. Desegregation is 'a rejection of the entire Black awareness concept,' Biden said, according to the Examiner. Biden was a Delaware Senator from 1973 to 2009." • BizPAc Review compares these statements to those Biden made during his 1972 run for Senate, when he supported the federally-mandated practice of busing. Biden previously claimed he knew segregation and busing were terrible things, but flipped-flopped on the issue following voter backlash, according to the Examiner. He described busing in his 2007 biography as a “liberal train wreck” that tore people apart in the 1970s. Biden said in September 2008 that the fight for civil rights has been a staple in his political life after he was selected as Barack Obama’s vice presidential candidate. “The struggle for civil rights was the animating political element of my life,” Biden said, according to the New York Times. • • • ARE WE SEEING THE SURFACING OF A DEMOCRAT CORE BELIEF?? A core belief that infanticide is okay and that being racist to win elections is also okay. • American Thinker's Ed Timperlake wrote on Sunday : "We see the true core beliefs of these people in the wake of Northam's medical school blackface and Ku Klux Klan photo scandal, and his even more scandalous statement defending infanticide....it's simply stupid and awful. But it seems to go beyond that, representing a historic sea change in the political landscape. First, the Governor advocated the actual murder of a baby, positioning the Democratic Party itself into that stance. That was evident from the spot-on critique of the matter from Senator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican : 'This is morally repugnant,' Sasse said. 'In just a few years pro-abortion zealots went from ‘safe, legal, and rare’ to ‘keep the newborns comfortable while the doctor debates infanticide.’ I don’t care what party you’re from -- if you can’t say that it’s wrong to leave babies to die after birth, get the hell out of public office.' Yet the governor’s position on baby murder only drew the normal political theater of “blah, blah, blah” -- words of criticism without any call to resign. With no call to leave office, it was the expected normal political theater of shallow and meaningless political posturing by his fellow elected Virginia Democrats, which include Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, and Commonwealth Attorney General Mark Herring." • BUT, then, says Timperlake : "The photos of his medical school yearbook page came out. Suddenly, everything changed. As many throughout America could see in a bumbling and soon to be amazing historic press conference, Governor Northam not only tried to walk away from his horribly racist yearbook picture, he also showed a willful blindness on his VMI nickname of 'coonman.' How could his defenders use the fact that he was a Virginia Military Academy graduate and Army doctor to defend his not resigning over the infanticide advocacy, and then pivot at light speed to call for his resignation only when the nickname and the photo came out? Senior elected officials in Virginia, and others who had previously defended Northam's integrity by referencing his being a VMI grad and Army doctor found themselves at a truth- telling moment. These Democrat hollow men came out to criticize and call for resignation because they had the picture. It was only when this picture was made public that they all changed their position. What they are now advocating is essentially : Leave, just leave, you fool, before you totally damage our party's political brand." • Ed Timperlake calls out the Northam affair for what it is : "In my opinion, the Democratic Party is the party of certitude, with a trust us, know-it-all attitude on many issues, science and medicine included. Thus, we all have to accept, in our need for medical assistance there is such a thing as an arrogant doctor. But no person in America has to accept the fact that there is such a thing as an arrogant and stupid doctor, and Dr. Northam is the new poster person for that role. So far he has violated the VMI Honor Code, by making two factually contradictory statements. First, his contradictions about the picture. It is me in the picture, and then, it is not me, and oh yes, how did it happen? Regardless of the ultimate truth, he lied, and the VMI Honor Code states : “A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, nor tolerate those who do.” He has disgraced his Army commission because I doubt he would have been admitted into the modern truly colorblind Army if a recruiting officer had seen the photo, even around 1984. Finally, serving as an active duty Army doc, had he killed a living, breathing, baby intentionally, he would have not had a chance to be Governor because he would still be in Leavenworth military prison. As far as calls for him to leave, who knows what he will do. If he doesn’t, the well-known ending to “The Hollow Men” may foreshadow the problem the modern Democrat Party finds itself in : "This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper." • • • DEMOCRAT PARTY AND INFANTICIDE. Canada Free Press journalist Judi McLeod has another idea. "Call for the Immediate Resignation of Dr. Ralph Northam, American Academy of Pediatrics" is the title of her article. McLeod says : "God Almighty is the giver of all Life and Light, and no matter how hard their wicked legislation pushes for Post Birth Abortion, Governors Andrew Cuomo (New York), Ralph Northam (Virginia) and Gina Raimondo (Rhode Island) will never get away with it. Snuffing the lives of innocent little babies up to and including the moment of their birth is the monstrous act of codifying cold-blooded murder. Trying to cover up out-and-out murder with the fallacious alibi they’re doing it to protect women’s rights to reproductive health care is Progressive politics gone way too far." • Feminist ‘Catholic’ Raimondo is only the latest in the abortion-to-delivery camp. McLeod points out that Governor Raimondo wrote a January 29 letter to Chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary Robert Craven [cited in LifeSite News, February 1, 201] : “I write in strong support of House Bill 5127, which would enshrine the important provisions of Roe v. Wade in state law....I support efforts to protect Rhode Island women’s right to reproductive health care. This bill maintains the status quo in Rhode Island as it has existed for decades, but is important now in light of uncertainty about changes that may come from the Federal government.” • There have been no calls for Governor Raimondo to resign over her support for a quasi-infanticide position on abortion. • Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam has said he doesn’t regret his abortion comments, calling insults directed at him “disgusting.” • No Democrat voices were raised in opposition when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo lit up the One World Trade Center -- where 3,000 innocent people lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attack -- in a hideous pink light to celebrate New York state's newly passed infanticide abortion law. • Progressive Democrat politicians just do not care not about babies or about infanticide -- or about the murder of unwanted newborns, for that matter. They freely attack the Right to Life Movement, but they have not been able ot stop it. The Movement increases in number by year and McLeod says it "carries an unwavering candle whose flame is impossible to gut even with all the huffing and puffing sent blowing its way. Yes, the Progressive Left, which exploded in tyranny within a month of regaining House control in Midterms 2018, is now going all out to get rid of babies in all late stage abortion, even allowing 'licensed health practitioners' in on the act. They aren’t saying that among the 'licensed health practitioners' will be money-grubbing Planned Parenthood. Bold and unrelenting as they are, this is one battle in which the Progressives are doomed to finally hit rock bottom. Keeping them in perspective means imagining them as they really are : akin to a bunch of flop house floozies trying to turn God’s millennia old World on its ear." • Meanwhile, Northam has vowed to not resign, insisting he will serve out his term. McLeod's point is this : "Only the American Academy of Pediatrics, motto of which is “Dedicated to the health of all children,” to which Northam owes accountability, can effectively bring about his his resignation. Call for the immediate resignation of Dr. Ralph Northam, fellow pediatricians. Do.it.for.the.children." • • • DEAR READERS, Where are the Republican leaders standing up to tell America that DEMOCRAT politicians are killing babies, and disproportionately Black babies. Where are the Republican leaders who are standing up to tell America that DEMOCRAT governors agree with the killing and that one of the Democrat governors even has a history of appearing in blackface when he was nicknamed "Coonman." WHERE is the GOP??? This is not politics. It is Criminal Law 101. It is infanticide. It is -- to call it by its name -- murder. And, it is accompanied to the death chambers by an overt and undiminished segregation-era racism that is as old as the Democrat Party. • For the love of God and His Creation, Republicans, speak up !!!