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Posted on 07/10/2011 7:18:11 PM PDT by neverdem
Legislators finally passed a voter ID bill this session, only to have Gov. John Lynch veto it. This week former President Bill Clinton compared it to Jim Crow laws. We suppose that as long as you’re going to make up stuff to discredit the opposition, you might as well go all in.
Lynch vetoed the bill, he said, because it would create problems for people who wanted to vote. For instance, the bill gave people who didn’t have a valid ID on Election Day 2.5 days to come back with one. Lynch said that was just awful because “many town offices are closed or have only limited hours on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.”
According to Lynch, it’s an undue burden to make people do business at town offices during workdays.
He also said “State employees can use their agency-issued photo IDs to vote, but employees at private companies may not use their company-issued photo IDs.” So he thinks company-issued IDs are equal to state-issued ones? Sure he does.
But Clinton was even worse. He said New Hampshire’s bill was, like Jim Crow laws, a “determined effort to limit a franchise.” Really? It’s not a poll tax or a literacy test. It’s just a picture ID. If you can get to a polling place, you can get to a state office that issues — for free — photo IDs.
This disenfranchisement talk is just an attempt to smear the opposition, which is what too many people in politics do when they don’t have the facts on their side.
Well, if anyone should know about Jim Crow...it would be the Democrats...i mean are they that desperate that they have to recruit convicted criminals?
Well, if anyone should know about Jim Crow...it would be the Democrats...i mean are they that desperate that they have to recruit convicted criminals?
Keep voting GOP regardless, and you get the Bushes, who tax and spend and lead us to the otherwise unelectable Barack Obama.
And the GOP, seeing that voter ire, decided to give GHW Bush a walk in the primaries, and when basically handed the opportunity to slam dunk the campaign, turned away from all those voters who were supporting a Perot who dropped out of the race, and ran right to the liberal line (supposedly the middle.)
And 4 years later, they had Bob Dole lose his personality and stately walk his way into a no position campaign for the White House, which shockingly didn't gain much traction.
Political hubris on the part of the GOP to constantly forsake their natural base under the flag of 'well, they got no where else to go' is an awful way to run a campaign.
Vote third party, and cut off your nose to spite your face, e.g. teach GHW Bush a lesson for breaking his no new tax pledge, and vote for Perot. Get the detestable bent one signing the execrable Motor Voter Law.
I meant that as a general rule.
I used to be registered in NY's Conservative Party, but I switched by an Oct. 2007 deadline so I could vote against McCain in the March 2008 primary, IIRC. I wanted Fred Thompson. I had to settle for Romney. I liked McCain in 2000.
The RNC should have gone to closed primaries in as many states as possible. Only registered party members can vote in closed primaries, not even independents in states like NY. If some RINO loses to Obama in 2012, and the Tea Party movement loses its influence in the GOP, I'd be willing to bail on the GOP and its ruling class to replace it.
I was hoping the rats would join the Whigs. If it has to be the GOP, so be it.
Oh hell yes. People without an ID only have 17 months to get one before the next Presidential Election. I mean, like, totally, that simply isn't enough TIME. Especially for the DEMOCRATS!!! Put another way, people only have about 500 days left to get an ID before the next election. They won't do it, so that when the election is held, and they don't have their ID, the can claim that 2.5 days wasn't enough time to get an ID after the election!
It's crap for the right as we have been dragged to the left for decades, but the argument is the winner is too extreme.
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