Curley: Liberals playing tricks on themselves, and it’s a treat for the rest of us

Happy Halloween! This weekend caps off a very spooky week for Democrats indeed.

While the country has had worse weeks since Biden took over in January, I’m not sure liberals have had a more embarrassing one.

Let’s start with the race that everyone is watching. Democrat Terry McAuliffe is running for governor of Virginia (again) against Republican Glenn Youngkin. Whether McAuliffe wins or loses on Tuesday, one thing is for certain: He has run a hilarious campaign. The closer election day gets, the more the former governor seems to be spiraling out of control.

The latest bizarro moment happened in Charlottesville when a group of “white supremacists” carrying tiki torches showed up in front of Glenn Youngkin’s campaign bus to “support” the Republican candidate. Twitter sleuths were able to discover, within minutes, that two of the five of these “Youngkin supporters” were actually paid Virginia Democrat staffers. Another one of the “white supremacists” was Black.

As the dirty trick unraveled (and the McAuliffe campaign began deleting their initial tweets of shock and faux outrage), suddenly The Lincoln Project took the rap for the failed hoax.

The Lincoln Project is best remembered, if at all, as a footnote to a footnote from the 2020 campaign – a boiler-room operation of anti-Trump grifters and bust-outs run by John Weaver, the group’s co-founder, who is accused of preying on underage boys. (Which was why Donald Trump Jr., in a memorable tweet Friday, described the group as “the Pedo Project.”)

Meanwhile, the Babylon Bee quickly photo-shopped a picture of the Youngkin campaign bus, with a member of the Ku Klux Klan in full regalia standing in front of it. Next to the Klansman was an inset photo of current Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam, who has been famously photographed in both a) a KKK hood and b) blackface.

Irony is somehow lost on modern-day Democrats.

This tiki-torch trainwreck came on the heels of a series of cringeworthy moments for Team Terry. After McAuliffe spent $60,000 to hire dodgy elections rights lawyer Mark Elias, a Fox News reporter reached out to the McAuliffe campaign for comment. The reporter, Tyler O’Neil, asked if McAuliffe was planning to contest the election results.

A McAuliffe spokesperson mistakenly sent back a reply clearly meant for a fellow staffer that asked, “Can we try to kill this?” as if they were dealing with such obsequious Democrat organs as the Washington Post or the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Are Terry’s gaffe-like ways rubbing off on his underlings? Also, if McAuliffe loses this election, which he clearly thinks he might, rest assured that challenging election results will be in vogue once again. Think “voter suppression.” Hanging chads, anyone?

Outside of Virginia, the news cycle wasn’t much better for Democrats. America’s crazy ex-boyfriend Andrew Cuomo was charged Thursday with groping a former aide and is expected to be arrested at some point next week. The New York Post gleefully reported Saturday on the front page that both his mugshot and fingerprints will be taken by the Albany police.

Smile, governor! This is for page one!

If you are interested in following the coverage of this scandal, Cuomo’s baby brother Chris has a “news” program on CNN. I’m sure they’ll be covering this topic wall to wall.

Speaking of CNN, has anyone seen Dr. Fauci lately? Normally I’d be thrilled to get a week off of seeing Dr. Doom on my television 24/7. But the timing of his absence seems odd considering the hype around a recent explosive story from the White Coat Waste project.

The taxpayer watchdog group alleged this week that the National Institutes of Health funded a lab in Tunisia that tortured and killed beagle puppies in the name of science. Surely Expert-in-Chief Fauci should be using his numerous television opportunities to address these scurrilous allegations. Please, someone check the green room at MSNBC and ask Fauci for a quote on this story.

But no one can take a week from bad to worse like Joe Biden. While his trillion-dollar plans (that are somehow also zero-dollar plans) hang in limbo, Biden made a pilgrimage to the Vatican. The president, being the devout Catholic layman that he is, appeared thrilled to meet with Pope Francis to discuss important topics like climate change.

Perhaps the pope asked Biden if the next time he showed up in an 85-car motorcade, could he make sure the vehicles are electric? After regaling the pope with his signature whispery, nonsensical story-telling, Biden headed on to his next opportunity to embarrass the country — the COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow.

This monumental event is set to welcome 30,000 official grandees who will shake their fists in the air about the inclement weather forecast for next weekend, after which they will eat lunch and then head home on their private jets.

Halloween might end this brutal week for the left, but I have a feeling the scary season is only beginning.

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/3nMfUyK