Posted on 06/11/2006 6:50:07 AM PDT by Military family member
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the exit polls, which predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush -- and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded. Republicans derided anyone who expressed doubts about Bush's victory as nut cases in ''tinfoil hats,'' while the national media, with few exceptions, did little to question the validity of the election. The Washington Post immediately dismissed allegations of fraud as ''conspiracy theories,''(1) and The New York Times declared that ''there is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale.''(2)
But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad(3) never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote(4) -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations.(5) A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states,(6) was discovered shredding Democratic registrations.(7) In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes,(8) malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots.(9) Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment -- roughly one for every 100 cast.(10)
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
It's proof that they have nothing of substance of their own, here and now, in the real world, to offer anyone; least of all anything constructive. So they reach back for inspiration to write a soap opera, complete with stock heros and villains, to hook people's emotions. Art imitating life imitating art....etc.
Do you remember the Clarence Thomas witch hunt? The whole theme of whatsername's "allegations" was something dug out of the court records in St. Louis or somewhere. In other words, it was a rewrite and reapplication of what might have once happened or almost happened or that someone dreamed up. But it certainly had nothing whatsoever to do with the reality of the day: Clarence Thomas' clear suitability to be a Supreme Court Justice.
The left cannot survive without the media for long, although, without its coercive powers, they will resort to escalating force.
Oh, please, Robert Kennedy, Jr. is a a nut case, as all Kennedys are after JFK and RFK (Teddy, the murderer and drunk, RFK, Jr. the head case and buffoon and Patrick, the druggie and late night voter!!! Some family history, and the idiot in new England actually elect these poor excuses for human beings. Go Figure!!! Actually JFK and RFK would be ashamed of these morons!!!
No, was the 1960?
Anytime the Dems are unsuccessful in stealing an election, they immediately accuse Republicans of having stolen it.
They are so busy with conspiracy theories and trying to outfox a ghost enemy that they are having trouble coming up with anything viable.
But they have great rage. And with each defeat the rage is growing.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/the_left_promotes_assertions_t.html
I think we are susceptible, as humans, to behave like animals. The party that plays to that weakness is the party to fear.
Correction: ...is the party to fight.
The GOP steals every election the the dims lose and they don't understand why they're called 'dims'...
I sure enjoyed it. Only thing better would be to hear the audio version recorded by Helium Boy himself. /schadenfreude
Jeez-a-loo, this nut job brought up everything except the shooter in the grassy knoll !!
Isn't that the psychological term, projection?
...just another Kennedy who's been drinking again.
Republicans preventing the Democrats from stealing another election = "stolen election".
cousin, William Kennedy, who was sued for rape, 1991, Florida (in same house with Uncle Teddy)
son of Rbt. Kennedy - seen at Marilyn Monroe's on her last day - (big fight, and lots of extenuating circumstances,)
Nephew of Uncle 'the swimmer' Kennedy, who left Mary Joe to drown...
and who knows how much more we'll never know
What;'s that saying about "something in the genes?"
And Rendell pulled a cutie that delayed the military vote so's they couldn't get the votes back in time to count
And New Mexico pulled it's regular fraud - but were frustrated because they didn't estimate correctly how many extra votes they would need to suddenly "find' - and couldn't scramble quick enough to make 'em up
and then there Washington state, and and and
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