It is inconceivable to the solid suburban burghers of the Established GOP that "hundreds of thousands" of fraudulent voters could exist in the large states of this, the greatest country on God's Green Earth. In fact, FW, I daresay that people who maintain otherwise would not be considered "nice people" by the blue-haired coupon clippers who will vote for John Boehner and allow him to keep his safe seat after Karl Rove collects his fee. May God forbid that their bus breaks down in Watts or the South Bronx.
The truth of the matter is that in Michigan there are a hundred thousand bad registrations in Detroit alone. Who says so? The currently incarcerated ex-mayor, that's who. In Philadelphia the courts ....THE COURTS ... found 20,000 illegally registered legal aliens. "Too late," same court says. "Votes count." Care to venture how many illegal aliens are registered to vote in PA? Baltimore?, When the DOJ monitored the election, guess what, Maryland wound up with a Republican governor. California? If there are not at least 250,000 illegally registered illegal aliens in CACALA, I'll buy each one of'em a Tequila Sunrise . Florida? 50 Thousand double-dip voters ... at least.
What BO and the GOP also tend to ignore is that to steal a congressional seat, a mayoralty, a county commissioner spot, etc, the Democrats don't need hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes. Sometimes 500 will do! Or in the case of the Sanchez Sisters, 5-6 thousand, most of whom were "virtual voters" who lived at "virtual addresses" and who had many "virtual relatives," all duly registered of course. As Joseph Kennedy once said, "Buy only what you need. I am not paying for a landslide."
Hold it bartender, pour me one of those tequilas, too And give my Republican pal BO, the one with horse blinders on, a double.
Thanks for your reply. Whether or not you intended it, you cast some of the known trolls in an entirely different light. Iow, you opened my eyes to an entirely new possibility.
My tendency has been to look at trolls and Obots as pretty much identical/interchangeable entities. But what if they’re not? What if some trolls are Obots and some are Republicans?
To appreciate this possibility, imagine the following scenario. Suppose there was a very active, passionate grassroots Dem group, the equivalent (for them) of our own TeaParty. Suppose this group relentlessly hounded Reid & Pelosi, attacked them mercilessly and worked day & night to defeat them in the primaries. Suppose this group turned out to be a massive headache for the Dem establishment leadership. & even suppose they began to enjoy electoral success, knocking out at least some of the cronies of Reid & Pelosi, if not quite yet the big two themselves.
Now how or why would we, conservatives, hate that group? We would not like or appreciate their politics/platform, but we would view with glee the troubles they were wreaking upon Reid, Pelosi & the Dem establishment at large.
You know who would really hate them. Well, that’s obvious, isn’t it? The Dem old guard/ruling class would hate them. They would in fact hate them even more than they hate conservatives, if you can believe it. It would be sweet to watch.
So now focus back on what we do have. Namely, a TeaParty taking relentless a i m at Boehner and McConnell. & yes, they hate us. They hate us way, way more than they hate Dems. It’s deep & visceral. It’s not too much to say, it’s all consuming. The GOPe flat out *hates* the TeaParty.
So why would the GOPe not have their own set of trolls? They’ve seen to it that they have (taxpayer) $ to burn, & every conceivable perk. Surely they can spare plenty of interns and/or low paid aids to lurk on conservative sites. These people would not have to pretend to favor Republican principles overall. They aren’t passionate about them, but they could at least put up a convincing blind w relative ease. I.e.: they would find it easy not to sound or act like Dems.
What they would oppose is anything that makes the GOPe leadership uneasy or that casts them in a bad light. For instance, the GOPe is petrified of the ‘birther’ issue, so their troll flacks would mock & ridicule that.
The GOPe also doesn’t want to have to investigate voter fraud. If they did, one thing would lead to another and they’d end up having to endorse many TeaParty ideas/ideals. [I.e.: if it came out into the open to what degree Obama & co have cheated to win, even the GOPe would have to take a stand & act. That scares them witless, so they dare not open that door, not even a crack.]
I’m sure there are other issues GOPe trolls would attempt to finesse as well. Of course, they’d know to tread warily on amnesty. That might be too hot even for a pseudo conservative troll to handle. But anything else that serves McConnell’s & Boehner’s best interests would be fair game.
Or so it seems to me. I, for one, will never view trolls in quite the same way again. Thanks for engendering those thoughts. I’d have never considered them w’out your input.