How It All Falls Apart

One of the sub-themes of good guys vs bad guys stories is that the bad guys often self-destruct through the instrumentality of self-: selfishness, self-absorption, self-pity, self-enrichment, and a few others.

And right here in real life we’re seeing the same thing happen with the Republicans, as Amanda Chase (R-VA), a losing candidate in the Virginia GOP gubernatorial last week – only third place – and a self-proclaimed “Trump in heels!” political animal, is making it clear that her loss isn’t ending her campaign for the Virginia governorship:

I want to begin by saying THANK YOU to ALL of my volunteers, supporters and amazing staff for their selfless commitment, hard work, sleepless weeks and grinding it out for 15 long months all because you believe in a cause that is much bigger than us: God, country, faith, freedom, individual liberty, religious freedom and putting an end to this tyrannical reign of a spineless Governor who has decimated our beloved Commonwealth.

Thank you for believing in me. While we came up short in yesterday’s rigged convention that allowed only 53k registered voters to choose our next Governor out of 1.9 million Virginians who voted for President Trump; God is still in control.

While I will have more to say in the days ahead I’m spending the rest of the week at the beach …

Notice how she clings to God, assuring the base that she’s in good with the Divine. Given the ascendancy of the clerics in power and influence in the Republican Party, this is a necessary proclamation on her part. And she’s not done with God yet:

Obviously, yesterday’s results weren’t what we were expecting. That said we both have peace knowing God sees the future and He is in control.

Because that relieves you of responsibility. But there’s even more!

The rest of this week we are going off the grid to reconnect, pray and ask God for direction.

So Chase is doing her level best to spread dissent and doubt about her own political party. She presents no evidence, you’ll notice, but instead points to God, which is even better than Trump did, who just stated that elections were rigged with neither evidence nor pointing at the Divine, which incidentally could manufacture just such evidence – if the Divine exists.

At this point, I’d say the Democrats, if they can nominate someone competent who doesn’t have skeletons in the closet, past or future, are a lock for the gubernatorial contest – and possibly for picking up a few local seats at the city and state levels. Why? Because the Republicans, if they take Chase seriously, will become disgusted with the entire political process and walk away.

As they should. Unless Chase can come up with credible evidence of cheating, the voters should reprimand her and the Party, and this is how you do it. The Party should never have given her any encouragement to run without evidence that she was willing to play by the rules.

If Chase really is Trump in heels, then this is all about her ego, because that’s all Trump is about. No nods to competency, legacy, or anything the voters will value. Chase wants to be governor because it’ll be good for her ego and it’ll prove that God favors her.

And thus we see one of the poisons of permitting the Divine get involved in politics.