Posted on 08/04/2006 6:38:07 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Remember how the Democrats were oh so happy over the candidacy of Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996? Well, that was because Perot siphoned votes away from Repbublicans. Now that the Green Party has qualified for the statewide ballot in Pennsylvania, the Democrats and the DUmmies are absolutely OUTRAGED, mainly because they know the Greens will take votes from them as Ralph Nader did in 2000. You can watch just how upset the DUmmies are over the Green candidates in Pennsylvania in this THREAD titled, "It's official (TPM) GOP aided Green Party in PA. . ." So let us now watch the DUmmie anger over Greens on the ballot in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting Democrat aid to qualifying Libertarians for the ballot, is in the [brackets]:
It's official (TPM) GOP aided Green Party in PA. . .
[It's official---DEM aided Libertarians in the other 49 states.]
OK, we've done it. We've nailed it down: Every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative -- except for the candidate himself.
[GASP! What a dirty Republican trick. Getting more choices on the ballot. And speaking of choice, I now note there is a pro-choice candidate on the PA ballot for U.S. Senator. Hee! Hee!]
The Luzerne County Green Party raised $66,000 in the month of June in order to fund a voter signature drive. The Philly Inquirer reported yesterday that $40,000 came from supporters of Rick Santorum's campaign (or their housemates). Also yesterday, we confirmed that another $15,000 came from GOP donors and conservatives. Only three contributions, totaling $11,000, remained as possible legit donations.
[Were these contributions illegal? No? Then END of story.]
Slimy. Still, it's politics.
[It's slimy to allow for more CHOICE on the ballot?]
I think this is pretty low even for politics.
[Not quite as low as ILLEGALLY keeping the polling places in St. Louis OPEN after closing time.]
This is why Richard Reardon did not become CA governor It is far from slimy, it is strategic campaigning. If the voters are going to fall for it, then they deserve what they get. In the 2002 California election Gray Davis knew that he could not beat Richard Reardon in a statewide election, but he also knew that he could defeat Bill Simon, Reardon's Republican primary competitor. Democrats sent money to Simon, staffed phone trees, even walked districts for Simon. Simon got the nomination and the republicans lost the statewide election.Republicans in California are so completely screwed up that they fell for the trick, hook, line, sinker.
[But when Republicans spend a few bucks to help the Greens qualify for the ballot in PA where the petitions necessary were purposely set high by the Democrats, that is somehow a slimy outrage?]
Why does Santorum and the Pubs think it's good for them to have the Green Party on the ticket? I don't understand????
[If you have to ask then I can't explain...DUhmmie.]
the green party siphons progressive votes away from the dem candidate.
[Or, in my vicious rightwing patois, they siphon leftwing liberal lunatics away from the Democrats.]
I honestly see this GOP scam as a last ditch effort!
[Getting more candidates on the ballot is somehow a scam? Was the Perot candidacy also a scam?]
Not surprising, but did the Greens know it was dirty money?
[Democrats seem to have no problem accepting George Soros dirty money.]
Some official of the Green Party was on NPR praising Santorum for supporting "ballot access."
[Shame on Santorum for supporting ballot access.]
There is absolutely no excuse for the Green Party allowing itself to be used as a front for Republican dirty tricks, and there is no way this campaign was not aware of who was supporting them. Hell, they had to report it themselves. The Greens involved should be held directly and publically accountable for accepting this funding, and for failing to disclose to their supporters who was actually funding them. And let's not forget the Republicans, who had to be the muscle behind this scam and who funded it with five figures of backdoor donations. Everyone involved in this should be scurrying back under a rock.
[And hide their heads in shame for supporting ballot access.]
If the Dems loose, it will be because of Diebold and/or their own weak positions.
[Already lining up your post-election excuses?]
I know people who vote for Greens and other "off-party" candidates. Some of them have admitted they will vote a third party just to be cool and "fringey." And I know they're not alone. There are plenty of third-party voters who are nothing but immature and uninformed, so there's nothing that differentiates them from more "mainstream" voters. An uninformed voter is dangerous, period, even if they're voting Green. So for many, it has nothing to do with being dissatisfied with the Democratic party. It has everything to do with trying to stand out.
[By definition, all DUmmies are uninformed.]
We don't need any help from the GOP to make us look out of touch.
[You do just fine in this regard all by yourselves.]
GIVE BACK THE FUNDS OR WE WILL DESTROY YOU, GREEN PARTY!
[GIVE BACK THE FUNDS, GREEN PARTY, OR WE WILL SOIL OUR DIAPERS!]
The Greens worked specifically to make Gore lose in Florida in 2000. With full cooperation from the GOP (via Rove). Mission accomplished. And people wonder why third parties are not embraced in the U.S.
[Except when the Democrats embraced Ross Perot when he was running for president.]
90,000+ Green votes in Florida. Less than one half of one percent would have saved our country a lot of pain. Florida was clearly in the jeopardy column for Gore and yet in the final weeks of the "race", Nader, out of state Greens, and of course GOP "Greens" spent a lot of time and money there. Statistically, that one half of one percent would have voted for Gore (not for Bush, nor not voted at all) if it wasn't for the effort of the above individuals and groups.
[Those thoughts still haunt Al Gore nightly. Of course, Gore would have still won if he only carried his HOME state.]
I've seen it before on Aintitcoolnews.com.
A thread gets posted and people try to be the first to post, simply saying "first".
Sorry, PJ. Both parties here in PA are happy to make ballot access difficult for third parties. For this race, by law, the Dem and GOP candidate needed 2,000 signatures. A third party or independent candidate needs 67,000 signatures to qualify for listing on the ballot.
It's not just Democrats in on this.
SD
They are a bit childish (I usually try to post content, even if it's just a joke), but they do help keep the thread "bumped". It doesn't take much to skip over them, so I don't let them bother me.
Or "Thousand"?
LOL
Ditto at Slashdot.org -- though the moderation and subscription features do a good job of supressing them.
Is this really the official PA Green Party logo?
It looks like they stole the green keystone bitmap from PennDOT and pasted a flower on top of it. Pretty lame.
SD
According to Google Images that is the real PA Green Party logo.
Your point is well taken. I plead guilty at times. But it's Friday. It's also just another way to say to the pinger that you got the ping.
Into the top 40 Like Kasey Kasem on a Hoverround Scooter!
Pretty standard "green" or "progressive" behavior -- 1) dependency on the government; 2) taking what they want even if it doesn't belong to them; and 3) being lame.
I've watched politics for a long time, and I suppose there are some who will agree I know something about history.
Given what has happened in the past--history does not "repeat" itself, but people in all times and places continue making the same mistakes, over and over again--I get the sense that as the Democratic Party marginalizes itself, moving further and further left, the Republican Party similarly shifts left, leaving an open space on its right.
I doubt if it's the libertarians, but something somewhere somehow will emerge to fill that vaccuum on the right.
The Democratic Party probably has one election left in it, after which it will fall into the dustbin of history, as did the Know-Nothings and southern segregationalists.
If the Democrats make inroads during the 2006 mid-term elections--inroads significant enough to damage the last two years of the current administration--the reaction will inevitably follow, and after 2008, the party's just about over.
Ditto for the 2008 presidential elections, if the Democrats fail in 2006, but make inroads two years later.
What constantly amazes me about the left is that they refuse to acknowledge a basic fundamental elementary law of physics--for every action, there is an equally strong reaction. Everything, all, in life has consequences.
SD
I signed a Green petition that a guy offered me outside my office building. I felt that I had to given the angry reactions the guy was getting from some of the people he asked. One guy yelled at the questioner that "you guys caused the war by getting Bush in!!!".
I relished that signature. Every little bit helps, I guess....
At first, the first millisecond or so, I thought it was something from.....Kansas, the sunflower state.
If the Greens become the party of choice, that could become the vehicle of choice!
It's nice to see the infighting:
"This is the Democratic Underground and as policy states we support Democrats - you want some sympathy I'm sure there is a green underground out there somewhere"
"There is absolutely no excuse for the Green Party allowing itself to be used as a front for Republican dirty tricks..."
The translation for this newspeak is: There is absolutely no excuse for the Green Party (or anybody) to oppose us!
Aw, what the heck. One more song to the tune of 'Love is Blue'...
"Blue, blue, my states are blue;
Blue are my states that’s all I can say;
Gray, gray, my chances are gray;
To win in a state that won’t vote my way.
Red, red, DU’s all red
Sleeping all day then log-ins from bed.
Green, green, more votes may be green
Thanks to some cash from Karl Rove’s machine.
When we met how bright the sun shone
Then he tossed me this big election bone.
Black, black, DU’s ire is black
Thinking we’ve stabbed ‘em all in the back.
Blue, blue, my states are blue;
Blue are my states, and they’re oh so few."
Personally I find it rather amusing, so I don't mind to much. My favorite is "top 1,000?"
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