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The Left Promotes Assertions That Turn Out to Be False
Real Clear Politics ^ | June 11, 2006 | John Leo

Posted on 06/11/2006 6:47:01 PM PDT by kellynla

Writing in Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assures us that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. This popular conspiracy theory has attracted many Democrats, from the clearly unbalanced to John Kerry himself. (Professor and activist Mark Crispin Miller of NYU says Kerry told him he believes the election was stolen.)

Kennedy thinks it's fishy that the recorded vote didn't match the exit polls in four battleground states where Kerry was supposedly ahead. He also thinks the Republicans discouraged voters by creating long lines at voting stations in heavily Democratic areas. But bitter surmise isn't proof. And according to a long and detailed analysis on Salon.com -- no hotbed of Republican thought -- the evidence Kennedy cites isn't new, and his argument is filled with distortions and the deliberate omission of key data.

Why would Kennedy damage his credibility this way? This may not be breaking news, but if an assertion reflects a widely shared emotion, it can make great headway in this culture without any need to prove its truth. We have been through this many times. The 2000 election was allegedly stolen, though no credible investigation backed up the claim, not even the one by the Civil Rights Commission, which was then firmly in Democratic hands

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004election; barkingmoonbat; conservatism; conservatives; conspiracy; conspiracytheory; duh; election2004; left; lyingliar; rfjjr; robertfkennedyjr; rollingstoned; sedition; usefulidiot
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To: WFTR
"The missing WMDs are likely missing because the Iraqis knew that we were coming for months."

It was a great help that senator J Rockefeller went to Syria and warned them. What a POS!

41 posted on 06/11/2006 8:24:34 PM PDT by cibco (www.streachfuelmileage.shorturl.com)
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To: Personal Responsibility
Conversely, I find it fishy that the exit polls were so skewed toward Kerry when compared to the real result.

Bingo. The exit polls were used to manipulate the late hours of election day to make republicans feel that Kerry was a done deal.

42 posted on 06/11/2006 8:28:16 PM PDT by Texasforever (I have neither been there nor done that.)
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To: kellynla
"Kennedy thinks it's fishy that the recorded vote didn't match the exit polls in four battleground states where Kerry was supposedly ahead"

This one always gets me. How exactly is it mathematically possible for a random sample to more accurately predict the results of the election than the final numbers themselves? Circular reasoning at it's best.

43 posted on 06/11/2006 8:46:12 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Show them no mercy, for you shall receive none!)
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To: kellynla
from the clearly unbalanced to John Kerry himself.

Why create a distinction where there is no difference?

44 posted on 06/11/2006 8:54:26 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: weegee

The Kennedys have been expoiting"voting irregularities"for years.Joe Sr. taught them to win at any cost.


45 posted on 06/11/2006 9:03:25 PM PDT by Thombo2
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To: kellynla
Whatever democrats accuse of is always true of THEM..
Illegal and legal aliens have been voting for a long time now , I think..
Especially apropo of 2006 and 2008.. Republicans better SLAP themselves AWAKE...
Most/many seem to oblivious to this.. Illegal and legal aliens will become republicans when hell freezes over.. i.e. 20 PLUS million strong(voters)..
46 posted on 06/11/2006 9:03:26 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: kellynla

bump


47 posted on 06/11/2006 9:16:55 PM PDT by swmobuffalo (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
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To: Wycowboy

"Who's John Kerry????"

"Vietnam hero I think. At least that's what some say. Larger than life type of guy they say."

Isn't he French and doesn't he marry wealthy women and widows? Something related to hotdogs comes to mind for some reason.


48 posted on 06/11/2006 9:18:25 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: DemforBush

You forgot Zell Miller of the present.


49 posted on 06/11/2006 9:38:39 PM PDT by cibco (www.streachfuelmileage.shorturl.com)
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To: cibco

Yeah, Zell counts too. I was just thinking back to when he had some company in the party.


50 posted on 06/11/2006 9:51:50 PM PDT by DemforBush
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To: kellynla

They stole it from us!!!

51 posted on 06/11/2006 11:25:14 PM PDT by TUAN_JIM (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: weegee

For rats the truth is that which advances their goals. Facts are irrelevant.


52 posted on 06/12/2006 5:02:17 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions)
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To: weegee
Well Kerry did a lot (of lying) to help Vietnam win the war<>/i>

Viet Nam did not win the war. It was not a war between Viet Nam and the USA.The Communists won the war in Viet Nam that was fought when NORTH Viet Nam invaded and ultimately conquered SOUTH Viet Nam. I have met and conversed with old soldiers from the NVA and FLN who believe that Viet Nam, in fact, lost the war- to the Communists. The people of Viet Nam, the ones I met from both sides of that war, hold NO grudges against Americans because they see America as having been helping at least some Vietnamese and as not desiring to colonise or rule Viet Nam. The Chinese are the comparison.

53 posted on 06/12/2006 5:34:14 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: edpc

Being a Democrat IS being clearly unbalanced.


54 posted on 06/12/2006 5:39:12 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
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To: bt_dooftlook

Machine run big cities of both parties have traditionally cheated massively and even semi-openly. At the present time all such cities are in Democrat hands which makes the cheating pretty one-sided.


55 posted on 06/12/2006 5:45:54 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: kellynla
The Left Promotes Assertions That Turn Out to Be False

In other news, the sun rises in the east.

56 posted on 06/12/2006 5:50:05 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (screw the media. islam. the left. and the world cup, too.)
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To: ThanhPhero

I agree with your clarification.


57 posted on 06/12/2006 6:14:49 AM PDT by weegee ("Hitler dead in bunker by own hand, war rages on")
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