Another post about Jay Jones – but it’s not just about Jones
It’s not just what Jones said (which I covered already, here as well as here). His venomous hatred of Republicans – even to the point of wishing death on one Republican’s small children – and his failure to take responsibility for an extreme case of reckless driving, as well as the delay in his apology for any of it – should utterly disqualify him for the post of Virginia’s AG and he should drop out of the race. But to do that would take a sense of morality, decency, responsibility, and shame, which he so far appears to lack.
But that’s just Jay Jones. He’s just one person. What’s far worse is the failure of his fellow Democrats to demand he drop out. They pay lip service to expressing disapproval, but it comes with a “yes, but” about the rest. In other words, they support his candidacy. And it’s highly possible that enough Virginia voters will agree and end up electing him. It is shocking that this is how he’s polling even after the revelation of his vile behavior:
In the wake of their publication on October 3, Jones’ polling has suffered. According to an internal poll for the Jones conducted by Hart Research Associates and reported by The New York Post, Jones is leading Miyares 46 percent to 45 percent. The poll of 600 Virginia voters was conducted between October 4 and 6. This shows his lead declining from previous polling.
A previous Washington Post-Schar School poll last Friday for instance, conducted before the texts were published, showed Jones ahead of Miyares by 51 percent to 45 percent.
So some Jones supporters have deserted him. But not all that many. Of course, more and more people may have heard about him since. But still, it’s an indication of our general loss of moral compass.
This isn’t an uncorroborated unproven accusation of sexual harassment. This isn’t some college indiscretion. This isn’t something minor, nor is it disputed that he said or wrote these incredibly hateful and violent things indicative of a warped, sick mind. But such thoughts are now mainstream among many Democrats. I’ve heard death wished on Trump so many times, stated so casually and glibly that it seems the speaker assumes that of course everyone within hearing agrees, that it no longer surprises me.
And this from the party that likes to call Charlie Kirk a “hater.” From the party that supports rage at “micro-aggressions” so minute they can barely be discerned.
I honestly don’t know how decent people keep voting for Democrats.
Kate:
Some people would say they’re not decent people.
But I know them, and most of them are very decent people. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I believe it has mostly to do with their susceptibility to propaganda and the fact that their sources of news don’t tell them the bad stuff about their own side. Plus, most of the people around them feel the same way they do.
I have a BiL who was always moderate and non- political. Retired, stays at home and watches MSNBC all day. He’s turned into a rabid Trump hater, and now also hates anyone who is a Republican. Continually posts stuff from Occupy Democrats. I think he’s just one of many whose TDS fuels animosity towards any Republican and forgives any Democrat.
Sad part is most of his in-laws, and his favorite nephews are all conservative. He doesn’t seem to recognize what he’s doing to the family.
Physics guy.
Hard to look that and not see a need being addressed.
Nobody is that far out solely due a random choice of sources
Neo/Kate…
The “bubble” phenomenon you described Neo nails. Most leftist folks I know just don’t absorb information that doesn’t confirm their already established convictions.
In some, again in my narrow circle of lefties, it extends to Israel/Palestine. They write off 7th October as nigh justified because… Israel! Charlie Kirk had to be neo-Nazi and POTUS Trump is both a Russian plant AND Hitler at the same time.
Sigh… None so blind as those who see only what they want.
Have an elderly with no internet. TV news only. Not only is Trump bad, but she came to the conclusion he wants to rule the world. Like many, concerned about what will happen in future, while nothing in her life has changed.
Sure confused me, until I realized she watches the View.
Even supported by Gabrielle Gifford’s anti-gun PAC–remember the fake controversy about Sarah Palin putting her district in “crosshairs”?
I’m sorry but “very decent people” do not excuse and thus condone… the written desire that very young children be murdered. A desire to see children murdered is evil, period.
To excuse an indisputable evil is to make oneself complicit in that evil. Democrat voters need to be forcefully confronted with this, let them know what their vote now supports. Let none be able to truthfully say, ‘had I but known’…
Richard Aubrey,
Like I said, he changed after retirement and doing really nothing but sitting on the couch all day and absorbing MSNBC, CNN, and staying up late to watch Kimmel. A true product of propo brainwashing.
Like I said, he changed after retirement and doing really nothing but sitting on the couch all day and absorbing MSNBC,
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Frontotemporal dementia?
PHysicsguy,
I would ask what kept his thumb from checking different sources BEFORE he got converted.
Just at random, trying to keep up with the latest apps for finding something on your big screen, you’ll encounter lots of different stuff. But he eschewed all except the ones to which he’s glued permanently.
That’s the process which seems like something more than random.
Geoffrey Britain:
You’re missing 3 things. The first is that most of them will never hear such a story; their news sources are unlikely to cover it. The second is that if they happen across it, they’ll assume it’s a lie. One or the other of those things usually takes care of it. But if they somehow hear of it and accept that he said it or wrote it, they say one of two things (or both): he was drunk or otherwise under the influence, and/or the right is much much much worse – literally Nazis.
I have a lefty sister in Virginia. When I asked her about it she had not heard about it. And will likely vote for the man.
In support of Neo’s comment that even the decent Democrats might vote for Jones because they haven’t heard about the scandalous things he says (because he believes them).
https://notthebee.com/article/report-all-major-media-corporations-covered-virginias-jay-jones-story-for-a-total-of-63-seconds-since-it-broke
Full VIdeo:
Virginia Gubernatorial Debate: Winsome Earle-Sears vs. Abigail Spanberger
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/10/virginia-gubernatorial-debate-winsome.html
Too many Dems firmly believe that Republicans are evil. This is the success of the Dem Demonization Strategy, including lies about their opponents target.
This is combined with the half-truths most Dem media provider, true facts that support Dems, true facts that hurt Reps, and often ignoring any facts that hurt Dems, like the Jones’ fantasy of murder. Also ignoring or downplaying any facts that help Reps, like Trump’s brokering a Gaza peace plan, though I won’t trust it until the hostages are released.
The biggest problem with belief is confirmation bias, and all smart folk are smart enough to lie to themselves, and believe their own lies.