Long ago, in a land far, far away (ok, it was Wyoming), I sat across from my husband at lunch, nearly in tears because someone online had threatened to release my information if I didn't stop fighting against the Left online. At the time, I was indeed a state employee, and they thought they could use this as a way to prove I was somehow engaging in unethical behavior by expressing an opinion online. This was 2010 (I told you it was a long time ago), and I was fighting the good fight against Obamacare, which, ironically, is in the news again today, so this just made sense for my VIP piece.
As I sat there eating bean dip and fretting, my husband said some of the wisest words I'd heard. He said, 'The first people over the wall always get bloody.'
In other words, those of us willing to fight, willing to be the crazy people jumping over the wall first, are bound to get bloody, or in my case, trolled, harassed, and stalked by Lefties who hated me. He didn't mean it literally, of course, but it resonated.
I was always the first person over the wall then, and gosh, I'm still the first person over the wall now. You'd think I'd have figured out at some point that MAYBE it's time to hold back and let someone younger and with fewer creaks and snaps in their joints hope that wall first, but OH NO.
Not me.
Especially living in Virginia, where winning any election as a Republican is a damn dogfight. Right now, the Democrats have a woman running for Governor who refuses to answer a simple question about men in little girls' bathrooms who has only pushed for RAGE, a man running for Attorney General who was not only caught going 116 mph in a 65 mph zone, but who also openly fantasized about shooting a Republican, and another woman running for Lt. Gov who lied about where she lived and who appears to love Palestine more than America.
And yet, even with all of that garbage on their ticket, they're leading. I think it's a lot closer than Democrats realize because even some Democrats have to see their ticket is a disaster and would spell nothing but despair for our Commonwealth.
Just as in 2021 (even though Democrats had a better ticket), plenty of people have told me it's pointless, that Virginia is blue, that I should give up, that Youngkin was a fluke, and so on. And yet... I just can't. I'm not sure if I'm just that stubborn or love Virginia more than I want to admit.
Plus, if I'm being honest, I really dislike losing. I'm competitive AF.
Never tell me the odds.
So if you're still with me, and I hope you are, please keep Virginia in your prayers - we need them now more than ever.
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