By Electing Child-Murder Fantasist and Cop-Murder Enthusiast Jay Jones, Democrats Have Chosen Violence

At some point, they will succeed in convincing us that the path to political victory runs through rivers of blood, and won't that be fun.

Virginia voters just handed the state's top law enforcement job to a man who fantasizes about shooting Republicans in the head. Democrat Jay Jones, a former state delegate with a history of unhinged remarks, narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Jason Miyares on Tuesday, winning 51.6% of the vote with 80% of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. His victory marks a stunning comeback for a candidate who spent the final stretch of the campaign explaining away violent threats and a sketchy community service arrangement tied to a reckless driving case.

Jones's troubles began when 2022 text messages surfaced in which he told then--Republican colleague Carrie Coyner he'd give former House Speaker Todd Gilbert "two bullets to the head" and "piss on his grave." Coyner also recalled Jones remarking in 2020 that "the deaths of a few police officers could save other lives."

Just two days before those texts leaked, court records revealed that Jones had satisfied a reckless driving sentence -- after being caught going 116 mph in a 70 -- by logging half of his required 1,000 hours of community service with his own political action committee, Meet Our Moment. Prosecutors later appointed a special investigator to look into whether Jones misrepresented those hours. The deal spared him jail time and left him with only a $1,500 fine.

Miyares, whose mother escaped communist Cuba and who made history in 2021 as Virginia's first Hispanic attorney general, ran on law and order. But Democrats rallied around Jones despite the violent rhetoric and ethics questions, proving once again that partisan loyalty trumps basic decency.

David Strom lashes left-wing AWFLs -- nasty, vile women who pretend to be the nation's Moral Vanguard but who are in fact simply brutish, whorish enforcers of the Party line -- for their hypocrisy in whining about Trump's grab-'em-by-the-pussy locker-room braggadocio while electing a man who wants his political opponents' children shot dead.

I hope you are proud of yourselves. You sure "owned" Donald Trump and MAGA.

Yep. We hear all the time about decency being on the ballot and how "grab 'em by the pussy" was totally disqualifying. Trump is mean. He doesn't conform to the country's norms.

Women, in particular, are all about decency, norms, and kindness I am told, and the vote totals clearly show that. [Sarcasm. See exit polls below. -- ace]

I don't know what to say anymore to you guys, except that I don't recognize the country I grew up in. Virginia Democrats elected a governor who encouraged people to embrace their rage and gave the nod to a man who said that he would put two bullets in the head of one of his colleagues and be happy to see his children die in their mother's arms.

Only 46% of Virginia voters thought that was disqualifying, and as far as I can tell, every single one of them was a Republican.

Via Steven Green at Instapundit:

Orwell remains undefeated:

BTW, I did something yesterday that I'm not sure was the right thing. About midday, I saw the betting markets moving slowly, and then more decisively, to predict Democrat wins across the board. I know some of you saw them too. But I didn't want to mention them because, in case they were wrong, I didn't want to pull a Dan Rather Florida call and depress voting.

I don't know if just embargoing information was the right call. I did say I was feeling negative about our chances, without saying why.

As you can probably tell, I'm in a rancid mood. This is the one race I thought we'd win.

How are you? Do you have more perspective and equanimity than I'm managing to show?

posted by Ace at 12:33 PM

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