Posted on 10/14/2004 6:21:25 AM PDT by OESY
...Call it the sour-grapes insurance policy: If John Kerry loses, Democrats can always use their lawyers to say the Republicans stole the election again.
[T]he Kerry team, has said the campaign intends to be able to "fight five statewide recounts and still have funds available to the campaign." The ...local Lawyers Committee for the Kerry Campaign has raised $2 million to support recount efforts [and] set up its own nationwide legal network, in lieu of the usual local Democratic Lawyers Associations....
The lawsuits may materialize even in the wake of a decisive Bush victory: Democrats have learned that hinting darkly about the "illegitimacy" of a Republican president keeps their partisan fervor on the boil between elections....
In short, the argument is: Any time a Democrat doesn't the win the presidency, it's a miscarriage of democracy. That's a good line to fire up the base, and rationalize defeat to boot.
Of course, rationalizing is what lawyers do best. But you'd think vigilance against voter fraud would be a bipartisan issue. As "Stealing Elections" author John Fund points out, at least eight of the 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote in U.S. elections.
In fact, many of the Democrats' legal efforts and claims of disenfranchisement are meant to thwart attempts to stop ineligible voters. Jesse Jackson and the NAACP routinely complain that, if the felons in Florida weren't "disenfranchised," Al Gore would be president today.
Hey, Gore would be president if Canadians were allowed to vote, too, or if residents of heavily Democratic districts in Florida could vote twice. Too bad those pesky election laws have been used systematically to cheat Democrats of the presidency!
...If every election is now potentially reversible in court, the litigation lobby will finally have achieved its ascendancy over all three branches of government....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Dems invested a whole lot here in Fla., and it appears they've lost.
I'm working at the polls on 11/2 in Cocoa FL and I intend to take my camera to record any hanky-panky. I may forever be barred from working any future polls - but I REFUSE to sit back and let the RATS and their goons try and steal this election again. I encourage every concerned American to volunteer to work at the polls and document any questionable RAT activity.
Signed up to be poll watchers here in St. Johns County,
St. Augustine. We are highly Bush Country, except for certain areas in downtown St. Augustine where you see alot of Kerry Signs. Counting the bumber stickers.....Bush wins FL!!!
Please keep up the prayers for our President.
And call your RNC to see what you can do to help get our President reelected. They need people to make phone calls to the people that were sent absentee ballotts. We need to get out the vote.
We just have to start refuting LLL
'reporters' who would call exposure of Dem fraud
'disenfranchisement'!
However, the election rolls were not up to date. About one third of the voters listed were dead. That is an invitation to abuse. That's when busloads of union members show up late in the day to vote the dead people.
Does Florida require a photo ID to vote? I see nothing wrong with this requirement. You have to have a photo ID just to drive to the polls, why should people be allowed to vote with no ID? That would stop a lot of the hanky panky.
Rove says there will be poll watchers at every precinct in swing states.
Thanks, Al Gore, you BETRAYED this country, you PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!!!!! We will never have another national election that the results of which won't have to be settled in the courts after the shameless debacle of 2000.
Power to the lawyers, and the people be damned is the mantra of the new Democratic Party.
How algore almost stole an election .....
Bug-eyed Chad Search
Here is the ATLAs Logo
these are better:
And from my neck of the woods:
This is classic Soros. Fund multiple organizations. Some lobby for a candidate. Some claim to be "human rights" organizations. Some are street-action brownshirts. Now we're seeing a classic Soros style deligitimization campaign in action, in the USA. This is exactly how governments are overthrown. Loud campaigns and election losses are followed by claims of 'fraud' and 'disenfranchisement'. Then the supposedly neutral (but actually left-aligned) 'Human Rights Organizations' start upping the ante by calling for international oversight, UN investigations, etc. In the final stage the brownshirts are sent out to intimidate the population. The left-owned media describe a 'citizen uprising' over the attempt to steal the election. The actual winner is forced to leave to prevent bloodshed. The Soros surrogate (Kerry in this case) is installed in office.
If you think this can't work as Slobadon Milosovec (if you can get in to see him in prison). Or the former head of Georgia. Bush is to be the final trophy in the collection of Mr. Soros.
They are setting up to run this play here. A great book is "How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election" by Bill Sammon. They were just warming up in 2000.
CWII Ping. (If the ballot box is voided, the cartridge box is sure to follow. Again, look at Yugoslavia.)
I fear the "Democrats" have become the party of criminal enterprise and Marxist/Communist ambition to grasp power by "any means necessary"...
The stupid bastards don't realize how close they are to being on the receiving end of something a lot more "expressive" than a ballot.....and spelled nearly the same...
Semper Fi
BTTT
Bush in good shape in Florida
Florida GOP and rat voter turnout in 2000 and 2002
2002
2,828,288 56% GOP
2,172,702 43% RAT
2000
2,909,176 49 % GOP
2,907,451 49 % RAT
Approx. 750,000 less rats turned out in 2002 than in 2000.
This in spite of the fact that 2002 was supposed to be "revenge" against Jeb for 2000
Kerry is not going to do any better than Gore, a lot of people that voted Gore last time are for Bush, the same can't be said for the rats.
I guess its just a coincidence, but 2002 was the first year they used those computer voting machines, doing away with those pesky chads.
Could it be that the stupid rats haven't figured out a way to cheat these machines yet, could that be a factor in the mystery of the disapearing dems?
After all, its a lot harder for these foaming at the mouth socialist morons who "lose" ballot boxes or punch thousands of ballots after the polls have closed in order to put their fellow crooks over the top to fool a computer.
No wonder they are pissed
W should break 3,000,000.
BLOAT
and tomorrow.
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