Abigail Spanberger has to give us something to vote for, not just against

I have had it up to, wherever, with Virginia Democrats telling me, several times a day, everything that Winsome Earle-Sears is doing wrong. Main issue for me here being: they never tell me what the person who I want to be governor, Abigail Spanberger, wants to do that’s right.

This is pretty much what Democrats do these days – these days being, since 2015, when Donald Trump made his way down the escalator.

We’re 1-for-3 in presidential elections running against Trump and what he stands for since, with a win in the 2018 midterms, and a draw in 2022.

In Virginia, we’re 1-for-our-last-2 in gubernatorial elections, the win being putting the plain goofy Ralph Northam into the governor’s mansion, which we came to regret when the blackface yearbook photos emerged, and he rode out everybody pleading with him to resign – ahead of making himself the hypocritical face of the COVID lockdowns.

Terry McAuliffe bumbled us into having the even goofier Glenn Youngkin replacing Northam, running the absolute most bass-ackwards political campaign in modern history to get us there.

Seriously, running as the inevitable winner worked so well for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and 2016 that McAuliffe, a Clintons confidant, cleverly avoided presenting anything resembling a blueprint for what he’d do, other than not be Donald Trump, who of course wasn’t on the ballot.

And here we are, again, now four years later, and, OK, what, exactly, is Abigail Spanberger doing to get us on her side, other than not having her people tell us that she is neither Donald Trump, nor Winsome Earle-Sears?

Youngkin won in 2021 not because he got more people to vote for him than had voted for Trump in Virginia in 2020 – in fact, he got 300,000 fewer votes than Trump did in Virginia in 2020 – but because McAuliffe got 800,000 fewer votes than Joe Biden did in Virginia in 2020.

The lesson from that should be: you’ve got to give people a reason to vote for you – and more than that, put a sign in their front yard, tell their friends and family that they’re going to vote for you, volunteer at the local party HQ or sign up to knock on doors.

It’s not enough to just say, Hey, I’m not the other guy, the other gal.

People were struggling to make ends meet before the Big Ugly Bill; now, millions of people are going to lose their access to healthcare, to food security.

Millions more who are a car accident or extended illness away from getting hopelessly behind on their bills won’t have a safety net.

Affordable housing isn’t a concern for the 1 percent who will get huge tax breaks.

Caps on student-loan debt aren’t issues for their children, though they are concerns for ours.

We get it – the other side is responsible for where we are now.

What are you going to do, Abigail Spanberger, to get Virginia back on the right track?

And please tell us more than, Well, I’m against what they’re doing, because Ralph Northam said the same thing, because Terry McAuliffe said the same thing, and all we got out of them was eight years of them trying to stay in office.

That’s all politics seems to be to most people – two groups of rich people fighting amongst themselves for the ability to control which one of them gets the bigger piece of the pie.

Voting for Abigail Spanberger has to be about more than having our person in office who won’t do anything to fix things, as opposed to having the other person in office who won’t fix things.

If what we’re getting now is what we can hope for, we’re doomed.

And, final note here – stop asking me for money!