Did you hear the news? A group of young men acted like…young men. STOP ALL THE PRESSES!

The funny thing about politics is, if you are not principled or honest, you often find yourself in situations where you have to act surprised by the obvious and shocked by the normal. “My opponent is hitting me on an issue that makes me look bad and could hurt me with voters. This is beyond the pale,” said a long line of losing candidates.

It’s a desperation found almost exclusively in politics, usually from the side with the most pathetic candidates or policy positions. That just so happens to be where Democrats find themselves these days in the 2025 elections.

The governorships of New Jersey and Virginia are up for grabs, and both races really are up for grabs – polls have them both close and getting closer.

New Jersey has Democrat Mikie Sherrill, a Member of Congress who claims she can’t even remember if she made multimillion-dollar stock trades in recent years. She’s also been outed as a disgraced former cadet at the Naval Academy, having been barred from walking in her own graduation as punishment for her participation in a cheating scandal.

Rather than try to explain exactly what she did, Sherrill is complaining about the information about her sketchy past getting to voters. In a fundraising email, Mikie wrote, “This is a wildly unprecedented — and........

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