parading around in either blackface or KKK regalia that he kept secret until this afternoon and think there should be consequences beyond "Well, we don't have any evidence that he's done anything really racist since then, so leave the guy alone" are sheep?

...the water, and like a bunch of brainless fish we eat our own.

Three times this week I have heard that a RW source brought down one of our imperfect Democrats.

I read here that Roger Stone was the source of the info that triggered the Dem takedown of Al Franken. I saw on the news tonight that a RW source brought out the yearbook that is going to destroy a Dem governor. And the Orange Monster's own voice boasting that he had "caught Elizabeth Warren in a Pocahantas trap" after she apologized to the Cherokees for having the nerveless gall to repeat a family legend she had heard as a child.

Get the picture yet?

there would be nothing for republicans to find besides, he has done nothing in his life to show people he is remorseful.

...the same damn tricks over and over and over. Squirrel!

Meanwhile, the Mad King is undoing 50 years of nuclear treaties. and 70 years of other treaties and alliances.

Is there ANY possible way we Dems could declare a truce with each other just long enough to take back our country and government? No?

Right. Squirrel!

You've said exactly what I've been thinking.

as a joke, to make his friends laugh. (Or a white hood, for the same reason.)

And then he was too sheepish to apologize for his mistake at the outset of his first run for office, so he could get the issue behind him.

He’s no Muskie, Gore or Franken. Ex GOPers do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

deafening, and disgusting. A leopard does not change their spots.

despite his actual combat experience.

Well, either I or my brother or sister did. We were a year apart in age and we sort of functioned as a gang. So on this occasion, we were maybe ages 8, 9, and 10. But we had the great good fortune to be raised by a sixth grade teacher and a machinist. We were immediately lined up in front of our parents, questioned as to where we had heard that word (somebody mumbled "at school&quot , and instructed that that was an extremely rude word, and we were never to use it again. Ever. And we never did. Eventually, we learned about the history of African Americans in this country, and were appalled. But at the age of 8, there was a hell of a lot I didn't know. And it's possible to attain much greater ages in this country, like 45 or 89, and still not know the history of your own country.

And so what I want to know about Gov. Northam is, what has he done with the rest of his life? He's a Democrat. That's all I really know about him, but I shall look him up now, and see what he's been up to. I am also aware that it's harder to get elected to office as a Democrat than as a Republican, and that there are good reasons to suspect just about everything the Republicans do politically. Among other things, Republicans like to pretend that once anyone has committed a sin, like sen. Robert Byrd, or Pres. Bill Clinton, there is no forgiveness, no going back, no forward progress, and they must be immediately cast into political hell, and removed from office if possible. In short, this whole Northam incident stinks of Republican politics.

And this aspect of Republican politics is infectious, like measles. Some Democrats have caught it, and are prepared to throw the Governor, or the Senator, out with the bathwater. Democrats are not obliged to prove their saintliness from birth. We want their current selves: their education and experience and energy brought to bear on current problems, like the difficulties African Americans still face if they want to cast a vote AND have it counted. Elected officials owe their power to the voters who voted for them, and elections ought not to be easily nullified. Everybody: count. to. ten.