There Is a Santa, But Is There a Virginia?

The contenders in the Old Dominion’s governor’s race are a leftist female from New Jersey and a conservative, Christian woman from Jamaica—the latter being a legal immigrant. A bona fide Virginian who runs for, let alone wins, political office in the state is a rare bird these days. Fifty-one percent of the members of the Virginia House of Delegates and 49% of the state’s senators were born outside the commonwealth, and many of those who were born in Virginia have Northern roots. They are Virginians in name only. While the birthplace of the current occupant of the governor’s mansion, Republican Glenn Youngkin, was indeed Richmond, his great grandfather, who bore the unfortunate name Ulysses Grant Youngkin, was an Iowan. In short, there isn’t much Virginia to be found in the state government of the Old Dominion. Increasingly, Yankees seem to be running the show in the land of Washington and Lee.


That said, the so-called moderate Youngkin is far better than his predecessor, the deracinated native Virginian Ralph Northam. Youngkin’s Lt. Governor, Winsome Sears hopes to win the election on November 4th making her his successor. She is not a paleoconservative as some would hope for, but her victory on that Tuesday would postpone the complete ruination of the commonwealth for a while longer. No matter which candidate wins, Virginians will have to endure the off-putting and endless talk about the first woman to be elected to the highest office in the Old Dominion. Still, it would be better if the better woman Winsome Sears prevails. Unlike her opponent, Sears has taken a stand against the currently proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution that would legalize what is in effect infanticide.


When confronted with this enormity at the October 9th debate between Sears and Spanberger, the latter, employing one of the de rigueur diversionary tactics of the leftwinger, smirked and prattled on about women’s healthcare and other irrelevancies. Spanberger also believes that illegal immigrants should not be deported. And, to say the least, her views on transgenderism are disturbing. In short, the Jersey Girl is not right for Old Virginny even if Old Virginny ain’t what she used to be.