Posted on 10/22/2004 9:34:40 PM PDT by concretebob
On October 21, the Associated Press reported: "Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency."
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Let's just skip over the fact that odds are the guy ordering the fire-hose treatment was a Democrat.
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The Myth of the Disenfranchised
It’s not the government’s fault if you can’t properly fill out a ballot.
On October 21, the Associated Press reported: "Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency."
The prior Sunday, Eric Holder, a member of the Democrats' "Election Task Force," told Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday, "If every vote is allowed to be cast, and if every vote is counted, John Kerry will be president within a day of that election."
Wallace chuckled at what he thought was so much partisan bravado. "Well, I don't know how you can guarantee that," he said.
"You heard it right here," Holder responded coldly. "If every vote is allowed to be cast and every vote is counted, John Kerry will be president."
Meanwhile, in Missouri the Democratic front group Americans Coming Together hands out fliers depicting an African American on the receiving end of a fire-hose blast. "This is what they used to do to keep us from voting," the piece reads. On the back is a list of alleged incidents of recent voter intimidation, with the line, "This is how Republicans keep African-Americans from voting now."
Let's just skip over the fact that odds are the guy ordering the fire-hose treatment was a Democrat.
The Democrats' voter manual instructs party operatives to "launch a pre-emptive strike" by charging voter intimidation even if there is no evidence any such thing is taking place.
And of course, a standard line of John F. Kerry's is, "Never again will a million African Americans be denied their right to exercise the vote in the United States of America."
That's a nice general sentiment, and I would be in total solidarity with Kerry if he were referring to Jim Crow or the days of slavery. But he's talking about the 2000 election. And there is simply no evidence that one million African Americans were denied their right to vote in 2000. Indeed, John Fund, the author of the eminently comprehensive and thoughtful book Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud is Threatening Democracy, has implored the NAACP, the ACLU, and the Democratic party to provide him with real-life examples of blacks — or anybody else — who were specifically disenfranchised. Alas, like the "real killers" O.J. Simpson is still searching for, Fund's quest has remained unfulfilled.
In 2000, Janet Reno — still the attorney general — dispatched crack squads to highlight the crimes against democracy the Democrats had been touting. They came up empty, too. Indeed, even Al Gore's lawyers — who saw nothing wrong with trying to squelch the votes of Americans serving in the military — failed to cite a single example of the allegedly "pervasive" disenfranchisement Democrats claimed had taken place. You always know something's fishy when party hacks say one thing in front of cameras and another in front of judges.
Now, obviously, the GOP is hardly pure on such matters. The reports that a firm in Nevada allegedly tore up the registration forms of Democrats and Independents is just one small example of how both sides play games with the rules. And, admittedly, in 2000, Florida Republicans did over-purge the rolls of felons. Yet during the same election, Democrats kept polling places in Missouri open late in Democratic precincts. And in South Dakota they probably stole the Senate election from the GOP by using the Indian vote "creatively." Undeniably, both parties have played fast and loose.
But there's a huge difference between the two sides' tactics. The Republicans' lawyers aren't preemptively declaring the election is fraud if they don't win. Simply put, they aren't trying to undermine the legitimacy of the American political system. The Democrats — who constantly decry Bush's "politics of fear" even as they warn of a draft and tell blacks they'll be disenfranchised — have taken the position that a Bush victory is by its very nature proof of voter fraud. That is the Holder Doctrine. If all the votes are counted, Kerry wins. Period. If Bush wins, the votes must not have been counted.
Already, in state after state, the Democrats have said that voter confusion over how to vote constitutes voter disenfranchisement. But, as George Will recently noted, disenfranchisement is something the government does to you. It's not something you do to yourself. If you can't figure out how to fill in the ovals or punch the chads — and some minority of voters will always botch it — that doesn't mean your right to vote was rescinded. It means that you didn't take your right to vote seriously enough to pay attention to the instructions. Democracy requires two things: an electorate that takes its responsibilities seriously and small-d democrats of all parties who take the process seriously.
Judged on these two criteria, it's hard to see how the Democrats can call themselves democrats.
DISENFRANCHISMENT is the biggest word Jessie Jackson ever learned; and He uses it at least 7 times in eash paragraph he speaks.
FMCDH(BITS)
It's not a myth, our military voters are being disenfranchised again this election.
Promulgating the disenfranchisement (which has been defined down to so little as asking a voter to prove he is who he claims to be) lie serves three ends for the Left: mobilize the black vote, render a Bush victory "illegitimate" and divert attention from the voter fraud scams they have thrived on for decades.
As pathetic as this is, we understand their desperation. Socialism has lost its allure and their candidate is not trusted to wage the war against Jihadistan.
alt hitman: Since Oct 23, 2004
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Without confirmation does it matter who Kerry names?
you got that right. It frustrates to no end that the ONLY disenfranchisement will be the Military vote. Bush's people are so naive for not understanding just how evil the left is. God forbid if Bush loses, but if he does, it will be because the Republicans truly don't have the will or sense to be as tough on the lawbreaking left as they are on the WOT. The Left is pure evil and have one goal - to destroy our great Republic.
I would worry more about this early voting bull crap...The press is already doing exit polls....If anything voting should be made difficult. This election is a vote "scam" nightmare.....Don't read me wrong I am voting for Bush...but I would bet my last penny...he will be defeated by fraud and there will be nothing we will be able to do about it. Unfortunately I think we will wake up the kerry in the whitehouse Nov 3rd.
The ultimate responsibility for getting the ballots to the troops lies with the state of their residence.
Thanks...I was on that thread. This happens every election.
Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder said investigators have no credible evidence under the Independent Counsel Act against the Clinton administration in its decision to allow Loral to export a communications satellite to China.
I don't understand how a President that understands the danger of terrorism so clearly, can be so blind to the evil, in the form of the democrat party, that is right here in our face.
Exactly. The left is going all out to steal this election and there is NOTHING that will stop them. The MSM will not cover any irregularities. The fix is in. My stomach is in knots realizing the fix is in and there is not a damn thing we can do. I fear for the future of our once great Republic. 70% of what the Federal govt does (depts of Labor,Interior,Education,Environment,etc) is wholly unconstitutional. If you look at the big picture it seems so foolish to believe Socialism can ever be rolled back in this country. These past weeks, I have concluded the MSM is more of a threat to the survival of our country. The left is the cancer within that is sapping Liberty from our nation. The left HATES the U.S. and utterly hates Bush. I fear the Bush team's naivete will cost him the election. The parasite class is winning. This next week will be so defrocking.
Exactly. The left is going all out to steal this election and there is NOTHING that will stop them. The MSM will not cover any irregularities. The fix is in. My stomach is in knots realizing the fix is in and there is not a damn thing we can do. I fear for the future of our once great Republic. 70% of what the Federal govt does (depts of Labor,Interior,Education,Environment,etc) is wholly unconstitutional. If you look at the big picture it seems so foolish to believe Socialism can ever be rolled back in this country. These past weeks, I have concluded the MSM is more of a threat to the survival of our country. The left is the cancer within that is sapping Liberty from our nation. The left HATES the U.S. and utterly hates Bush. I fear the Bush team's naivete will cost him the election. The parasite class is winning. This next week will be so defrocking.
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