WaPo on Virginia GOP: ‘Nut Jobs’ That Make Rick Perry Look Sane
On some days, it’s hard to tell whether The Washington Post is a newspaper or just a copy-and-paste Democratic Party newsletter. On the front of Monday’s Metro section, in a story with a modest headline – “Republicans hope to take Va. Senate” – Post reporter Anita Kumar spent the first five paragraphs (and the last five paragraphs) selling the Democratic Party of Virginia spin that the Republican nominees were “nut jobs” that made Rick Perry look sane. Inside the paper, the headline was clearer. “Democrats: GOP too extreme to win Va. Senate.” Here’s how it began: RICHMOND – Adam Light, a Republican running for state Senate in southwest Virginia, has advocated ending Social Security and Medicare. Former Del. Jeffrey M. Frederick, a GOP candidate in Northern Virginia, said Darwin's theory of evolution “was used by atheists to explain away the belief in God.” Dick Black, running in Loudoun and Prince William counties, was criticized by leaders of his own party in 2003, when as a delegate he sent fellow lawmakers pink plastic models of fetuses as they prepared to vote on an abortion bill. Democrats, behind in recruiting a litnd fundraising, think the conservative crop of Republican candidates selected last month to run in November gives them the edge they need to hold on to their thin majority in the Senate. “A lot of them are nut jobs,’’ Senate Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (D-Fairfax) said. “They’ve nominated a group that makes the governor of Texas look sane.” The Post website linked to the YouTube page “vademocrats” and a 2009 floor speech where Frederick spoke on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and said he preferred Abraham Lincoln (born on the same day). How is it strange to say Darwin's theory of evolution “was used by atheists to explain away the belief in God”? That's like saying it's controversial to say “the Bible was used to explain the belief in God.” As for Black's pink fetus models, this only means that The Washington Post thinks it's more “mainstream” to kill a baby than to save a baby. It's “creepy” to hand out dolls, but not creepy to vacuum out a baby's brains. Kumar buries the more relevant political facts on the ground which suggest the Democratic Party of Virginia is going to have a rough time trying to keep the Senate this fall. Paragraph 13 reads: “Thirteen of the 16 Republican senators seeking reelection will do so without Democratic opposition. But 16 of the 20 Democratic senators running for another term will face Republicans.” Then it's noted those “nut jobs” Light and Black are running in Republican-leaning districts. Paragraph 16 adds: “Republicans enjoyed
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