Posted on 05/25/2008 8:02:23 AM PDT by wm_tate
Don’t forget the 2004 Washington State Governors race where Democrats kept “finding” “misplaced ballots” in Liberal King County, until Christine Gregoire was declared the winner (it took three tries).
A commonly heard phrase here then was, “That’s payback for 2000.”
The Sopranos was such a good show, that I held my nose and subscribed to HBO depite Bill Maher, and a lot of other intolerable crap on the network. When The Sopranos finished I could not drop my subscription fast enough, and I doubt if there will be anything they broadcast that could get me back as a paying subscriber.
Concerning the 2000 election my state of Wisconsin was won by Gore with a less than five thousand vote difference out of more than two million cast. Afterwards reports of Dem vote fraud in Milwaukee were confirmed. One Dem operative openly bragged about passing out smokes to people in Milwaukee to vote for Gore. Would a recount have made a difference? Who knows. Gore might have still squeaked it out, but the fact is Republicans never demanded anything like what the Dems demanded.
I was a voice crying here in the Florida wilderness when the push was made to go to 'all-electronic' voting after this fiasco. I said then and say now that voting without any capability of recount of physical ballot is a massive open door to fraud. We are now seeing a costly effort to replace what was bought in haste with something more 'palatable'.
I want to see an 'electronically readable' paper ballot that uses indelible ink to mark the ballot like standardized tests. Yes it is not perfect, nothing is. But it would take a party hack a LOT LONGER to work their mischief there. I'm wondering if someday, in a death's bed confession, we'll have one of these hacks confess.
Somehow I doubt that "Recount" will delve into the teams of lawyers the DNC sent into every Florida county to dispute absentee ballots. They were actually high-fiving each other every time they got a ballot thrown out.
I’ll bet they repeat the same line that Leslie Stahl used in her 60 Minutes piece on Antonin Scalia, that the 5-4 vote amounted to “handing the election to George Bush.”
-Wm Tate
http://www.atimelikethis.us/
my plaintive cry from the heart, "why have we let the libs get control of the MSM???"
If it's any consolation, "we" didn't. At least unless you are a lot older than I am - and I'm retired.The Right to Know presents my thesis on why journalism is "liberal."
The thirtieth reply on that thread discusses William Safire's take on the transformation of the meaning of the word "liberal" from its traditional pro-freedom meaning (still current outside the U.S.) to the socialist, anti-freedom meaning Americans are familiar with and contemptuous of.
They took out a lot in deference to Bill Clinton and his temper. He demanded that they delete a lot of damning info.
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