I don’t know how Virginia’s coming gubernatorial race will turn out, but I do know that Terry McAuliffe has run an awful campaign. If he somehow survives, it’ll be solely due to the favorable electoral dynamics in the Northern part of the state, but man is he bad at this.
Do you see the case? McAuliffe had no response to parental opposition in school districts that covered up the sexual assault of their children and encouraged harmful ideologies on them. Instead of siding with parents or at least staking out a middle ground, he proclaimed that parents shouldn’t have a say in their child’s education. In an effort to make it easier for voters to accept his error, he went further and doubled down.
The latest instance really stands out for its absolute tone-deafness. Loudoun County also has a problem with books that encourage pedophilia or contain pornography. McAuliffe thought it’d be a great idea to call those books “award-winning” while excusing the entire scandal.
Let’s all take a look back, Folks.
Glenn is spending his final days of the campaign focused on banning award-winning books from our schools & silencing the voices of Black authors.
It’s possible to read the text and recognize these Trumpian whistles as they really are.
— Terry McAuliffe (@TerryMcAuliffe) October 25, 2021
I won’t post examples of what’s in the books in question here because I have standards when it comes to what I put in my articles, but trust me, it’s really bad, really graphic stuff. These garbage should never be accessible to children.
Yet, McAuliffe’s answer to the controversy is to choose to bring it up in order to defend it under the guise of racism. It’s like his political instincts don’t go any further than what leftwing Twitter can produce. You also have to love the mention of “Trumpian” there. This guy has nothing left except saying the word “Trump” over and over in a ridiculous attempt to paint Youngkin as extreme. If the latest polls are any indication, voters aren’t buying it, though.
To put a finer point on McAuliffe’s absurdity, the books that he’s defending were even deemed too “explicit” to be used in a TV ad.
Numerous Virginia high schools’ libraries included books with pornographic content. @IWV created an ad to raise awareness about this issue—but the ad was REJECTED as too explicit to run during the 11 p.m. hour on TV in Virginia.
WATCH our ad here: https://t.co/YKGGo3dwiQ
— Kelsey Bolar (Harkness) (@kelseybolar) October 25, 2021
McAuliffe might not like it but this is the real issue. Who decides who raises a child? Are the parents responsible or does it belong to an all-knowing and all-powerful government? McAuliffe has fully endorsed the latter, and it’s the reason he’s struggling. He ought to be running for the election. Instead, he’s tied with a Republican in a state Joe Biden won by 10 points.
His next response was to defend pornography schools. As they say, “That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see how it works out for him.”
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