Not too long ago, Virginia Republicans, under the rule of now-disgraced Governor "Transvaginal Bob" McDonnell, said in no uncertain terms that Democrats in the Old Dominion were irrelevant. Democrats, they were sure, had no bench, and no hope of ever overcoming the natural electoral advantage that the state GOP had.
What a difference a decade makes. Here's the latest reason we know: A pro-gay-rights Democrat has won a special election to fill the State Senate seat left vacant by newly inaugurated US Representative Jennifer Wexton, who in November kicked Republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock to the curb. Jennifer Boysko didn't just eke out a victory — she won by 40 points.
And now Democratic Governor Ralph Northam will need to call a special election to fill Boysko's House of Delegates seat. Will Virginia Republicans even run anybody?
Meanwhile, the last two Republicans to have run statewide, Corey Stewart and Chinless Ed Gillespie, are riding off into the sunset — Stewart to quit politics and be a white supremacist full-time, and Chinless to return to the B-list political talk-show circuit. And what about Transvaginal Bob? After all these years, he's filed for divorce. (Bob's apparently just figured out that Maureen was an embarrassment to him. Not bright, that one.)
Well, maybe the Republicans will find a candidate for Boysko's legislative seat after all. Surely there's some lonely Stewart knock-off who, undaunted, will pledge to wage vicious social-issue warfare in multicultural, progressive Fairfax County. He'll be tilting at windmills in a sea of blue. We cats PURR.
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