Posted on 11/08/2005 10:58:20 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
There is an ugly set of accusations and counter-accusations going on between Sen. John Kerry and an author who claims that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. In Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them), Mark Crispin Miller argues that a conspiracy of GOP officials, voting-machine companies, and shadowy political operatives created, in the words of Miller's publisher, "a new Republican electoral strategy...not one overwhelming fraud but thousands of little ones" that gave the election to George W. Bush.
Last Friday, Miller took to the left-wing media to announce that John Kerry, who accepted the election results in his November 3, 2004 concession speech, now agrees with Miller that the vote was stolen. Appearing on Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now!" with host Amy Goodman, Miller said:
"Speaking of John Kerry, I have some news for you. On Friday, this last Friday night, I arranged to meet Senator Kerry at a fundraiser to give him a copy of my book. He told me he now thinks the election was stolen. He said he doesn't believe that he is the person who can go out front on the issue, because of the sour grapes, you know, question. But he said he believes it was stolen. He says he argues about this with his Democratic colleagues on the Hill. He had just had a big fight with Christopher Dodd about it, because he said, you know, "There's this stuff about the voting machines; they’re really questionable." And Dodd was angry. "I don’t want to hear about it," you know, "I looked into it. There’s nothing there.""
Miller breathlessly reported the news on his website with the headline "BREAKING: Kerry now believes the election was stolen." He further explained that, "Kerry's statement was not planned. He did not expect to see me. His sister, Peggy Kerry, purposely invited me to that fundraiser so that I could hand the senator a copy of my book. (She too understands the urgency of getting the top Democrats to push the issue of electoral reform.)"
If true, Miller's revelation would be major news: the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate taking up arms with the small fringe of conspiracy theorists who argue that the election was stolen. The only problem is that Kerry strongly denies it. Another lefty website, RawStory, got in touch with Kerry spokeswoman Jenny Backus, who said:
"I know Mr. Miller is trying to sell his book and he feels passionately about his thesis but his recent statements about his conversation with Senator Kerry are simply not true. The only thing true about his recollection of the conversation is that he gave Senator Kerry a copy of his book."
Miller maintains that his story is accurate, telling RawStory that Backus' comments were "contemptible" and "completely false." On his website, he headlined the story "Kerry goes AWOL again."
I wrote about Miller in The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy. Prior to his crusade to prove that the 2004 election was stolen, he was on a crusade to convince Americans that a powerful, well-organized theocratic movement, fronted by George W. Bush but controlled by a secretive group of right-wing religious figures, is working to establish Biblical law in the United States. Miller wasn't speaking figuratively; he wrote of a Republican-dominated United States in which adultery, for example, is punishable by death by stoning. In his latest book, Miller has combined his two areas of interest, arguing that the election-stealing conspiracy was carried out by Bush-supporting "theocratic militants." In his mind, apparently, it all fits together.
Miller is, by the way, a professor at New York University.
He can believe what he wants. He's the one that tried to steal it and he wasn't successful.
The RATS will never, ever, in a million years go for real voting reform. Half their base votes illegally and real reform would cripple them.
Really?
WAY TO GO KARL ROVE!!!! THAT's why you guys deserve to be in the White House; You're smarter than the Dems!
Kerry strongly denies it
I guess he hansn't gotten the flip-flopping out of his system yet.
My hunch is that Kerry, speaking off the record, said something like, "yeah, there was a lot of fraud going on and things might have been different if..." He probably didn't believe it, but you tend to say nice things in private to your supporters, even the whackjobs.
Wait a second? You mean that the Global Warming and Hurricane Katrina could have been avoided?!?!?! You mean that New Orleans would not be under tons of water? Our soldiers would be safe at home and Iraq would be the bastion of peace and solidarity in the Middle East? The world would no longer hate us... if Kerry hadn't been railroaded by the Bush Conspiracy Machine?!?!?
Oh, the humanity! What have we done to ourselves?!?! How could we have fallen for it all!?!?
We don't deserve such a great man like Kerry. No my friends. We got what we deserve.
(thank you! I'll be here all week!)
Oh, please God, I hope so!
A professor. At NYU. I'm still struck by the bias shown by people teaching our children and college students.
But, perhaps NYU has hired someone who has opposing views.
In my dreams, at least.
The only 'fraud' that gave the election to President Bush was the fraud of liberalism.
Funny to see Jenny Backus as the spokesman for Kerry on this issue, trying to douse the flames of raving leftist lunacy, because I well remember as the frequent TV spokeschick for Algore in the weeks after the 2000 election, Everytime I saw her on TV she was breathlessly trying to create a sense of crisis and pretend that Algore had a case.... she is a vicious airhead twit, but it's nice to see that she gets to try to sound reasonable against the further-left reached of the Demagogic Party!!
On any given day, yes.
Kerry flipped before he flopped.
The real shock of the '04 election isn't that Bush won, but that Kerry came as close as he did.
Dems never acknowledge massive voter fraud in their own precincts. Bill Sammon and John Fund have written about the way Gore in '00, and Dems in general, try to steal elections, and no eyebrow among academia or Pacifica Radio ever gets raised.
Is Jenny Backus the Democrat spokeshussy who doesn't even bother to brush her hair?
Their chant:
Bush is dumb.
Quale was/is dumb.
Reagan was dumb.
Eisenhower is only/was a dumb soldier. (after he decided to run as a Repub. instead of a Dim.
All Republicans are dumb.
They also hatched elaborate plots to steal elections in which they left no clues or evidence.
They keep winning elections.
Who's dumb????
Yah... as if all the illegals that go to the polls by the busload vote republican.
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