By Steve Woodward
What to do about Mark Robinson?
Here are what my instincts tell me. Robinson is not a politician who has choreographed every step of his adult life toward amassing power.
That is a positive. That means he is not Kamala Harris. He is not Roy Cooper. He is not Josh Stein, his opponent in the race for governor, and one of the most toxic attorneys general in the nation.
Robinson is considered a fairytale story. He attended a Greensboro city council meeting in 2018, where he unleashed an oratorical masterpiece in defense of the Second Amendment. He was a working class citizen who took on the establishment. There are many such citizens but when you have the vocabulary and the lung capacity to rise up, folks notice.
Robinson was then swept into prominence by power brokers who salivated over the prospect of a black Republican running for Lt. Governor. This was a cunning strategy. In North Carolina, Lt. Governor is viewed as a benign elected office. It’s a position that does not appear on the average citizen’s radar. It was the perfect race in which to test Robinson’s “electability”.
So what then do you do in this moment in time when you are Mark Robinson? First, you feel like a lottery winner. You are not rich but your future is rich with possibilities. In this moment what do you do?
Do you interrupt the meeting with the power brokers to inform them that a business venture launched by his wife, Yolanda, ended up a tad sideways despite her intentions? Do you admit that bookkeeping irregularities are verifiable? (See reporting by The Daily Haymaker). Do you blurt out that, when they were young and in love, they conceived a child and panicked? Do you come clean that an abortion was performed even as now, years later, your Christian faith instructs that abortion is murder?
Here is what you can do. You can fight like hell. You can remind the public — and the salivating media — that candidates for public office often come from imperfect pasts. And every generation has its thresholds for what matters about a candidate’s past. In 1972 George McGovern’s vice presidential candidate was disqualified because he had been treated for mental illness. Today, Thomas Eagleton would be celebrated for overcoming the stigma.
Hillary Clinton was the inevitable heir to the presidency in 2016 despite her husband’s tainted legacy as a president who committed adultery and her negligence as Secretary of State during the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi. In the same year, Donald Trump defeated Hillary despite the media’s best effort to portray him as a sodomizing, tax evading racist.
Remember this: Russian collusion aided and abetted Trump on his way to winning the White House. Misinformation and disinformation was at heart of opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates. All of it was later debunked. Why? Corporate media is corrupt, dishonest and dysfunctional. Knowing this, must we rush to draft Mark Robinson’s political obituary? There is an American political icon who would advise against that. His name is Ronald Reagan. The media said he was an intellectual lightweight compromised by Communists in the 1950s.
Before we give up on Mark Robinson and allow a virulent Marxist to become North Carolina’s governor, why don’t we embrace what positive things Robinson can achieve to keep the state “red” and on a path toward prosperity, defying “woke” culture and government tyranny?
With Robinson in the governor’s mansion, backed by Hal Weatherman as Lt. Governor, Dan Bishop as Attorney General, and supermajorities in the General Assembly, our state’s potential is boundless.
What to do about Mark Robinson? Elect him.
I’m all in. Let’s fight fight fight fight
Let him go back to the beginning and rebuild a reputation based on his religious beliefs and demonstrate an ability to show some restraint to the natural urges and tendencies we have all had to overcome. Saying “I’m all better now” is not the same as living it. Do you not believe the attention, power and grifting opportunities won’t be ten fold as Governor? How do we put a man who has shown no interest or ability in knowing when to say no into a position like that? Run for city council Mark, let’s see how that works out for awhile.
Thank you for this insight.
So we should vote for the candidate that would mandate schools have the Ten Commandments posted on the wall but said IN A CHURCH, “some folks need killing”. Uh, no. He’s the definition of a hypocrite. Besides I think women should still be allowed to vote.
Please add context.
Gary,
I’m trying to understand your words, you are not clear. I hope that you have not been brainwashed and deceived by the propaganda of the left. I prey that you know the truth and have wisdom. You can find these things in the bible. Our country was founded on Christian values which used to guide the majority of us in our morality (right and wrong) until just recently. Our money rightfully states on the back “In God we trust”. Our Country would be a better place if the Ten Commandments were taught to our children not only by their married parents (man and woman), but reinforced by the school system. We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God but the goal is to be better and follow God’s wisdom.
I am a registered voter here in NC and plan to support Mark Robinson. The fake news media like CNN and WRAL have been trying to discredit and smear him for a long time. They do this because he has the courage and is a voice for the Conservative Christian values which are much needed by our state and our country. Unfortunately the left has been somewhat effective in spreading lies and disinformation to a significant population of low information voters. I am very disappointed in the GOP which need to stand by him and not allow the left to continually use propaganda to change the focus and narrative on the real story which is that the left wing news media and democrats are destroying this country with their policies. Just look at all the damage they have done with the deficit spending and the boarder. please pray for Mark Robinson and our country
Name one politician who hasn’t had some baggage of the past? It’s almost always democrats who launch some dirty trick JUST before a critical date in elections to SMEAR and kill their opponents’ candidacy–killing objective truth and balance in the process..
LOOK at what Mark Robinson is willing to stand up for: INNOCENTS IN THE WOMB who are BEING SLAUGHTERED BY THE MILLIONS with the full monetary support of the current athiestic state. Killing, done to primarily poor minorities, is to ‘rid us of the weeds of society’ per PP’S patron saint, Margaret Sanger. She instructed Hitler how to perform abortions, but Hitler never allowed an abortion past the first trimester. Does anyone know that???? So today, we’ve gone past the hells of Hitler, to the demonically inspired murder of pre-born children up to 9 months and after, in the latest state- sponsored eugenics/euthanasia visions of democrat’s utopia. Are all Hillary’s undesirables and ‘deplorables’ next?
LTGov Robinson stands FOR LIFE and because he and his wife had one while young and ignorant of what that meant, it remains a deep personal regret and know it was wrong. This explains his powerful support for LIFE today.
LOOK at Lt Gov Robinson’s strong stance against the transgender fad to offer Pied Piper fantasies to troubled, impressionable teens which ends up permanently, often painfully altering their God-given biological sex, so they can never ever be a normal man or woman again. He makes no excuses for his opposition to this nightmare for parents and gender confused children.
His unflinching support for FREE SPEECH AND GUN RIGHTS should cause any sane American in this state to support him, knowing that what democrats stand for today is a veritable preview of NO RIGHTS TO SELF DEFENSE OR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT.
I don’t care what he may or may not have said ten years ago, but I sure as hell care about what he clearly stands for today! He’s shown GREAT political courage to speak his mind!!! He knows right from wrong as God instructs all who will listen. Leftists don’t even understand the word SIN, unless it’s directed at Republicans.
Democrats have created a hell for the poor and the economically vulnerable in our nation and they HAVE TO BE STOPPED..
As Dr Peter Marshall, the youngest Chaplain to the U.S. Senate once said during WWII : “Christ or chaos” is the choice before us. Elon Musk is right,’ Kamala Harris is a Marxist’ and her foot soldiers, like Josh Stein, are cut from the same godless agenda.
My vote is FOR LTGOV MARK ROBINSON and former President Donald J. Trump along with the whole MAGA ticket!!! There can be no other choice if we are to protect the innocent among us.
Bonnie
IN GOD WE TRUST
W
Well said Bonnie