Lowell Isn't Only Election

For John, BLUF:  Even if you believe such things, it isn't helpful to say them out loud.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Election Today In Virginia.

Does Ralph Northam Think 67% of Virginians are Racists?

From The Spectator, by Writer David Catron, 6 November 2017.

Here is the lede:

Democrat Ralph Northam wants to be Virginia’s next governor, but he evidently holds the Commonwealth’s voters in low regard.  Northam told a group of supporters last April that the people who want Obamacare repealed only oppose the law because “they never accepted who our President was.”  What does that mean, exactly?  Was he suggesting that Obamacare opponents believe Grover Cleveland is still President?  More likely, Northam agrees with the University of Baltimore professor who wrote in Salon that most voters revile the law “because it’s nicknamed after a black guy.”  If so, he believes two-thirds of Virginia’s voters are racists.

I am reasonably sure that the Democratic Party Candidate, Ralph Northam, does not think that two-thirds of Virginia voters are racist.  I know some Virginia voters and I don't think they are racists.

But, this kind of careless talk, like Ms Hillary Clinton describing half of Candidate Trumps supporters as Les Deplorables, both alienates voters and serves to divide our nation.  It is bad politics.  And it is bad citizenship.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff