Thune holds off on recount (chad checking a possibility)

Rapid City (SD) Journal ^ | 11-07-02 | Denise Ross

[Post Toasties]

See my post 99 why I think Thune would probably be toast if he went up against Daschole in 2004.

[PhilipFreneau]

According to the Secretary of State web site, the election totals were as follows:

Senate: 337497
House: 336616
Governor: 334545

Doesn't that seem odd to you?

[unspun]

FREEP!

Please write to the Thune Campaign and urge them to demand a full recount and investigation.

email: info@johnthune.com
Web site contact form: http://www.johnthune.com/Contact.asp
telephone: 605-339-4838
NRSC: http://www.nrsc.org/nrscweb/feedback/

My own email to Thune campaign...
To: info@johnthune.com

Dear Rep. Thune and senatorial campaign:

Considering the examples of voter fraud, marking ballots, burned absentee ballots, etc. in South Dakota, I urge you
to demand a full recount and investigation.

With all due respect, this is not about you. This is not about your sense of humility.

This is about justice. It is also about critical policies for our nation and the political power required to enact them.

Please honor those who have legitimately voted for you, by standing up for your election.

Regards,
Arlen Williams
http://www.unspun.info
_________________________________________________________
Also, links to Federal Election Commission and DOJ:

http://www.fec.gov/
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/misc/contact.htm

[GOPcapitalist]

What is with all these Liberatarian votes that look like they cost Thune the election. Does anyone have the capacity to think up there?

The libertarian votes are an issue of concern indeed because they represent a fundamentally irrational action that cost a Republican this seat. Be careful about bringing up that news around here though. You may find yourself surrounded by a small crowd of rabid libertarians, every one of them screaming down your throat about how Thune's narrow loss was the fault of everybody BUT them.

[GOPcapitalist]

Don't start, the Libertarians are HAPPY that they helped elect a socialist.

Sadly that appears to be the case. The losertarian response to this one has been generally self-contradictory so far. Mention that Thune lost by their vote margin and they'll likely respond by desparately trying to convince you that Thune lost due to everything BUT the libertarians. Seconds later you'll see the same losertarians declaring that maybe Thune would have won if he'd listen to their ideas, and citing his victory as a deserved consequence of not pandering to them - a virtual admission of exactly what they just claimed not to be the case. Some of these people are beyond help, and I say this as a libertarian-minded GOPer from the Ron Paul wing of the party.

[tamikamaria]

I'm not saying Thune and the Republicans should do nothing. I'm saying they need to do it in the right way.

What we need here is some strategery. Everybody though Bush should have went into Afghanistan on Sept. 12, 2001 with guns blazing. He didn't. He was patient, he gathered evidence, he took time to find the right way to go in, he gave the Taliban more than enough opportunities to give up. When they didn't, he could say to the world "Hey we tried our best to resolve this peacefully, now we have no choice but to take them down."

That's the kind of thinking we need in South Dakota. Investigate this quietly and thouroughly, leaving no stone unturned. Find so much evidence that there's NO WAY anyone, not even the people on the Reservation, can doubt that Johnson and the Democratic Party cheated. Show the Indians how they were used, show them the Democrats don't really give a s**t about them, and show the Rinos who voted for Johnson what kind of man they really supported. Show them that Thune was cheated big time, but that he was gracious in defeat.

If they can do that, I think Thune and the Republicans will clean Daschle's clock in 2004, even on the Rez.

[Post Toasties]

It appears Daschole was rubbing it in about the Senatorial spot the 'Rats probably stole from Thune at his just completed press conference, calling it a 'success story'.

Is Thune going to take that lying down? I certainly hope not.

[wny]

Let's let the demholes kepp the seat if they let us beat up Daschle.

[tamikamaria]

I hope not either. If Daschle and Johnson are stupid enough to keep bragging about this election and the fraud is proven and exposed, they will have signed their own death warrants. What could be sweeter than that?

I hope you don't think I want Thune to give up. I don't. I think he was cheated, there's just not enough proof right now. When they do have the evidence, I hope they crush Johnson, Daschle and the SD Dems.

[goody2shooz]

One ringy-pingy!