Would Someone Teach Terry McAuliffe How to Grill? And Tell the Truth?
Virginia's Former Governor and ex-Clinton Bag Man is Having a Bad Week
Poor Terry McAuliffe. He's having a bad week. And it’s only Tuesday.
Virginia's former governor and Democratic nominee for his old job this fall (Virginia and New Jersey have state elections in November 2021) got off to a bad start with a goofy and weird barbeque video that he and his campaign posted on Twitter. Redstate.com has a good analysis along with the video.
I know a thing or two about grilling. First, the grill is unlit, yet burgers and hotdogs are arrayed across. Never put the meat on until the grill hits the right temperature. McAuliffe's shirt is very cool, but the weird, short, tiny spatula? He risks injury if he plans to use that when the fat really starts dripping from all those burgers on the fire.
People who grill know better. A photo op should at least make it look like you know what you're doing. Do they not grill much in New York, where McAuliffe is really from?
Second, Terry's latest rhetorical excess is about how he wants to make it easier to vote in Virginia than it is to buy a gun. That one is a whopper on steroids. I am now a registered Virginia voter, and it was so easy, I didn't even have to leave my laptop to register, and my voting precinct is a short walk away here in south Arlington. They do early voting here, which started in late September last year for the 2020 election.
But the last time I bought a lower for a gun that was being built for me, I had to fill out several pages of federal forms with a registered federal firearms dealer several miles from my former home. And as National Review's Jim Gerharty explains, there are 23 categories of people who are not allowed to purchase a firearm. One might think a former governor might know his state's gun and voting laws. They're not hard to research.
But now, the Washington Post's fact-checkers, who typically hold Republicans to a much higher standard than Democrats, gave McAuliffe 3 "Pinocchios" for splicing some video about past comments made by opponent Glenn Youngkin. To call it "misleading" is pretty kind. But what do you expect from one of the sleaziest operators in American politics? It is also a little early to air attack ads, in my humble view. Maybe because he is nervous about just how unaccomplished his record as governor was? Just a guess.
When you're losing the Washington Post, arguably the most pro-Democrat publication in America (it has stiff competition for that title), that's saying something.