Posted on 10/21/2016 2:22:05 AM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
When Donald Trump refused to concede the 2016 Election in advance of Nov 8th, they all immediately turned on him. Hillary, Chris Wallace, the entire MSM (even Fox and the NY Post!), as well as the GOPe said that Trump was out of line with his refusal to concede beforehand.
How quickly they forget!
It's been brought up many times in these forums that Algore contested the 2000 election, but I haven't seen any mention of one of the most devastating 'contested' elections in American history ... that being the election 1860.
Not only was election 1860 'contested' but fully half the States went and immediately seceded from the U.S. because they wouldn't accept the outcome of a presidential election.
And we all know what happened afterwards ......
~ MM ~
Except they would use that to compare him to the slaveholders.
Meanwhile, they would refuse to report things about Robert Creamer, the thug-boss over the infiltration of Trump rallies, because his Democratic Party wife is an Illinois congresscritter who once defended the idea of former KKK clansmen running for office.
The question was nothing more than a set up for another distraction to avoid the real news via the Wikileaks revelations.
The hysteria by the GOPe and MSM does not make sense given that we are three weeks away from the election.
It also makes no sense given all the news about voter fraud, registering dead people to vote, tampering with machines, the Veritas tapes, past controversies like Bush-Gore in Florida, etc.
It is plain common sense to reserve judgement is it not?
If there had been Veritas tapes in other elections, nobody would have conceded.
At least half the states should have conceded after the 2008 election too. Would have saved us trillions.
whoops, succeed. Not conceed
Did Chris Wallace ask Pickles the same question? I missed it if he did, and have been annoyed about it ever since.
I’m also still annoyed by the question in one of the Primary debates asking the candidates if they would pledge to support the nominee. Everyone knew it was aimed at Trump. The man has been targeted since Day One.
If politics were actual horse races, Democrats would contest any race where their horse lost by as much as a full length.
secede
The five most famous disputed elections:
1800: The dispute ended in a dual between Burr and Hamilton. There’s a Broadway show about this election.
1824 Andrew Jackson called it “the Corrupt Bargain”
1876 Two sets of electoral votes were received from several states. The election was eventually decided by a 15-man commission 8 to 7 on a strict party-line vote
1960 stolen by the Democrats through election fraud in Illinois, as was later proven in court
2000 decided by the Supreme Court that they should stop the recount in Florida
The modern version of Democrat voter fraud started in 1876 when Democrats got caught trying to steal a single Electoral College vote. Unfortunately weenie Republicans of the day settled the disputed election by taking the White House and ending Reconstruction.
Try 1960 rather than 1860. Despite widespread vote fraud Nixon immediately conceded to JFK.
Nixon earned IOUs from the establishment for conceding graciously. That played a big role in the establishment pushing Nixon in 1968...because it was his turn...they owed him one. The establishment knew Nixon was a crook... but he was their crook ... a big government Republican.
In fact, Nixon did more to create big government than any other president in my lifetime. He did this by making the states dependent on the Federal government for money.
Common sense died long ago. Freepers may have it; but the rest of America doesn’t. If they did, SWMNBN would already be in jail. Along with the half breed and a whole host of criminals in the government.
seceded.*
BUMP!
The inside story on the 2000 Florida “recount”:
I know an attorney from Houston who flew immediately to Florida to observe the recount.
When he walked into the room, he noticed what looked like snow on the carpet under a woman’s chair.
She had sharpened a long fingernail to make a punch and was in the process of punching out hundreds of chads for Gore.
This is the origin of the “confusing, butterfly ballot” lie in the MSM. Every Bush ballot that she punched became a double vote that would be thrown out.
The attorney went to James Baker and told him, “If we don’t stop this fraud right now, we will lose the election”.
Now you know what really happened.
no doubt, darth
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