Va. Gov. Northam�s medical school yearbook page shows men in blackface, KKK robe

[carpedm9587]

Not at all. Look at how liberals reacted to the false accusations against Roy Moore and Brett Kavanaugh.

There is not adequate information/evidence to call those accusations "false." At best, they are "unproven."

So - speculation....

[carpedm9587]

You're reading more into my comment than what I said or implied.

What exactly do you think I "read in" to your post?

[carpedm9587]

What a bizarre rationalization; basically "That looks like something I would have done, but that's not me in the picture." I mean... what?

He still chose to have the picture on his page - whether or not it's him - so still stupid and thoughtless. As for rationalizations, I've seen worse - I've seen better.

[Cow Poke]

Am I the only one who thinks that it's kind of stupid to call for someone to resign due to an offensive picture they made 35 years ago?

Was there some kind of preexisting dissatisfaction the Democrats had with him?

I saw an interesting discussion last night where one of the Dem strategists was bemoaning the fact that all this "Me Too" crap and "what he did 35 years ago" was coming back to bite them. After the Kavanaugh thing, and what they tried to make from his yearbook, they really had no other option. He's thinking it's time to back off 'ancient history', because people change.

[carpedm9587]

I saw an interesting discussion last night where one of the Dem strategists was bemoaning the fact that all this "Me Too" crap and "what he did 35 years ago" was coming back to bite them. After the Kavanaugh thing, and what they tried to make from his yearbook, they really had no other option. He's thinking it's time to back off 'ancient history', because people change.

They do - but if Kavanaugh actually did what he was accused of - that's a different animal, IMO. There's "stupid, unthinking, insensitive costumes" and then there's sexual assault. They are not in the same class.

That being said - it just dawns on me that this is the "medical school" year book. So I'd be very curious to how just how old he was when this picture was taken.

[Cow Poke]

They do - but if Kavanaugh actually did what he was accused of - that's a different animal, IMO. There's "stupid, unthinking, insensitive costumes" and then there's sexual assault. They are not in the same class.

That being said - it just dawns on me that this is the "medical school" year book. So I'd be very curious to how just how old he was when this picture was taken.

Kavanaugh was a teenager - they're expected to do really dumb stuff - this guy was 25 years old and a med school graduate (or close to it).

[Cow Poke]

Looks like he's gonna fight resignation...

[Cow Poke]

This is interesting...

Reminder: Ralph Northam Won After Calling Ed Gillespie Racist

On Friday, news broke that Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.) had a photo of him either in blackface or a Ku Klux Klan hood featured in his medical school yearbook. After a week of outrage over Northam's comments endorsing infanticide in cases of botched abortion, only this scandal finally led the governor to apologize.

Yet the news is particularly horrific because Northam ran a smear campaign against Ed Gillespie in 2017, and won the Virginia governor race after tarring Gillespie as a white nationalist. Gillespie had immediately condemned the white nationalists in Charlottesville. In a moment of supreme irony, Northam defended himself on Saturday by referencing his own denunciation of Charlottesville.

The Democrat sent out a disgusting mailer (which I received in the mail) tying both President Donald Trump and Ed Gillespie to the white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va.

Later, an ad presented Gillespie as a genocidal white supremacist. Northam reported the ad as an "in-kind" donation to his campaign.

The current governor at the time, Terry McAuliffe, accused Gillespie of having run the "most racist" campaign in Virginia history. Yes, he suggested Gillespie's campaign was more racist than the secessionist movement supporting slavery, the segregationists, and the opposition to interracial marriage. That's how ridiculous it got.

I don't know if Northam should resign over this. It seems he has decided not to. But at the very least, he should apologize to Ed Gillespie.

[Cow Poke]

Kavanaugh was a teenager - they're expected to do really dumb stuff - this guy was 25 years old and a med school graduate (or close to it).

I might add that, in all the recent psychology courses and seminars I've attended, the accepted age for "true adulthood" is set at 24/25.

[JimL]

The guy should have just owned up to what he did and apologised for it instead of trying to cover up his past mistakes. Had he done that then I'd say he'd have a case to stay on as Governor, but he is obviously lying about the whole thing which I think is disqualifying. He should resign now for the good of the party.

[Cow Poke]

The guy should have just owned up to what he did and apologised for it instead of trying to cover up his past mistakes. Had he done that then I'd say he'd have a case to stay on as Governor, but he is obviously lying about the whole thing which I think is disqualifying. He should resign now for the good of the party.

Please note that my amen of Jim's post here is not in error.

[Terraceth]

They do - but if Kavanaugh actually did what he was accused of - that's a different animal, IMO. There's "stupid, unthinking, insensitive costumes" and then there's sexual assault. They are not in the same class.

It's true that was far more serious, but the debated issue with Kavanaugh wasn't whether such a thing should disqualify him, but whether it happened to begin with. There's no doubt that in this case, the incident actually occurred. Another difference that's notable is that there the whole issue was about whether Kavanaugh would get a promotion to the Supreme Court. Very few were arguing that he should resign his current position as a result of the controversy. I don't know if the two cases are necessarily that comparable.

[NorrinRadd]

OK - there is a BIT of a difference between someone accused of sexual assault - and someone posing in a distasteful picture. As I recall, one of the British princes went to a Halloween party in a Nazi uniform. Kids do stupid things - without a real understanding/appreciation of the larger context. But sexual assault (assuming it happened) is a different order of magnitude, IMO.

Ah, the old "IF TRUE...!!!" technique.

I was talking more about stuff from Kavanaugh's high school yearbook. Silly, vague stuff they tried to use against him. Governor dipwad's stuff was about 7 or 8 years later in life and more explicitly "off-color," so to speak -- and still not worthy of demanding his resignation IMO.

[NorrinRadd]

I might add that, in all the recent psychology courses and seminars I've attended, the accepted age for "true adulthood" is set at 24/25.

That's what Teh Interwebz sez.

Sounds to me like an argument for raising the minimum voting age.

[rogue06]

I might add that, in all the recent psychology courses and seminars I've attended, the accepted age for "true adulthood" is set at 24/25.

That's when they say the brain has fully matured. I'm living proof that those numbers are off.