Inexcusable but not disqualifying

CNN reports:

Top Virginia Democrats have sharply criticized attorney general nominee Jay Jones but are stopping short of calling on him to leave the race after newly revealed text messages showed he suggested that a colleague be shot.

Gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger and lieutenant governor nominee Ghazala Hashmi called Jones’ texts inexcusable, as did Virginia’s two Democratic senators.

Don’t you love the double speak – saying his texts were inexcusable, yet they still think he would suitable to be Attorney-General!

Let’s look at what he texted:

“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” the text reads in part, referring to Gilbert and the two dictators.

Actually that part isn’t that bad. This is a sort of meme/joke which you hear a lot. Normally it is Hitler, Stalin and someone else – a bad taste way of saying how much you dislike someone.

What is more disqualifying is saying about his opponent:

• “I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves”
• Hoped their children would die so they feel pain personally, so they move on policy
• Said the parents are evil and breeding little fascists

It is one think to do a bad taste meme. But he seriously argues for the death of children to teach the parents a lesson. The fact the Democrats won’t unendorse him is a mistake, and hopefully one the voters will punish them for.