Sorry Ralph

Full statement demanding that Governor Northam resign immediately. pic.twitter.com/XEf0H6HvOf

— Virginia Democrats (@vademocrats) February 2, 2019

Gov Ralph Northam (D-VA) will have to resign. Stay tuned for all hell breaking loose if he doesn't.

The statement:

And I don't really care about all the tearing at clothing and the gnashing of teeth going on in the halls of power as the operatives try to position things in a way that minimizes the damage and squares things up with blah blah blah. Stop it. Just stop that shit.

Northam fucked up. 35 years ago - when he was 24 years old. I fucked up in somewhat the same way. A lot of us fucked up like that. We told and retold "black jokes", and laughed our asses off, and we tho't using the N-Word meant we were "just keepin' it real". We believed we weren't being the racist assholes we were actually being. 

"It was just a joke".

All of that is by way of explanation and not excuse. Because there is no excuse, because there can be no excuse.

I can say oops, and try to do better, but I'm not the Governor. I'm not the guy everybody has to be able to count on not to be that racist asshole - and not to have been a racist asshole - and at least to have not covered up being that racist asshole.

Seriously - when do these "political smart guys" finally learn that it's the cover up that comes back to fuck 'em?

The feeling of betrayal will never go away. Some will artificially nurture it as a useful political weapon, but for the people who matter - the people who believe public service is an honorable thing - they won't forget or forgive. And they shouldn't.

Northam is done.

And I think we'll be OK with Justin Fairfax.