Posted on 11/14/2002 3:55:19 AM PST by Elle Bee
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:47:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
After the Siamese-Twin campaign he and Johnson ran...he's going to be tarred. It's kinda like being a Klansman at a lynching: most people won't believe you if you say "I didn't string him up, I was just holdin' this here rope when the poor nigra sorta suffocated."
Some of those Republicans voted for Johnson because they like split government. And some voted for Johnson because they may be registered as Pubbies but they vote for Dems. That will not change in 2004, and Dasshole is more popular and more powerful than Johnson.
If the RNC won't fight, neither do we.
Well said Franco...you have stated what all the armchair political stratagists on this thread have totally missed. The argument isn't about what may be right politically, but about what is RIGHT.
You: That's almost verbatim what folks were saying in 2000 about Ashcroft. Then Jeffords jumped the aisle.
That's a good point. I don't like this numbers game because there can be unpredictable events and I'd prefer right vs. wrong. But meanwhile I can see that those in power have to pick their fights. Discrediting the AmericanIndian vote could backfire. That Louisiana Senate race might be a cleaner way to get another Republican seat.
Meanwhile, I don't wan't the Republicans spending all of their time until the next election cycle contesting close elections and getting tough with Sadam. I want a dialogue about our porous borders. I want a PBA ban. If the Republican votes are already there, why not move on?
I'm so conflicted about this...
And what happened with the thread that was posted stating that according to South Dakota election law, any 3 voters in a precinct could ask for a recount? Was this ever done?
I am not so much concerned about this one election as I am about the implications of these kind of Rat practices which they obviously have no conscience about. To the Rats, the end justifies the means no matter how dishonest, illegal or even dangerous the means might be. Because of this, I can't stop thinking that this election, by a twist of fate, could have had a very different result.
Suppose that the race had gone as they expected it to in Georgia, Colorado and Minnesota leaving either South Dakota or Arkansas, 2 of the states where fraud was out of control, as a tie breaker. I'd venture the guess that it would have gotten very ugly and that the Rats would still be in power. In other words they would have been rewarded for their cheating with victory. As it turned out, they focused their energies in the wrong places leaving Republicans a comfortable margin of victory in states they thought they had in the bag and the results in South Dakota and Arkansas are irrelevant in the overall Rat picture. Neither are "significant" victories. All they have gained is 2 impotent senators whose legitimacy will always be in question. But what I fear is that dropping the ball based on having won the senate anyway establishes a bad precedent and does nothing to help us in our efforts to keep elections honest and above board. Every time they cheat and get away with it, and especially if they win, they are encouraged to step up those efforts in the future. Isn't it time we call the Republican party to account BEFORE the next election?
What a wonderful thread to read, again I am proud of freepers Knowledge, intellect and passion!!
That would be a huge mistake by the Dems. I'd demand a recount just to make them try to "beat" me up.
Something else must have Thune worried.
If anything, I think that now is an ideal time for us to pursue voter fraud and doing so may actually intercept efforts in the next election which will be no less important than this one was. Now we can work quietly behind the scenes with no particular election results at stake and when fraud is discovered, which it undoubtedly will be if the results in these 2 states are scrutinized, then blow it wide open and have in place even before the next primary a plan for countering it. Of course all this may be counterproductive if we don't get rid of motor voter and the Rats will never sit still for having their pet fraud vehicle overturned.
20,000+ saps bought little Tommies line about split govt,
If Red Earth and a dozen others go to prison, how likely is it that other will be tempted to hand out that $10?
South Dakotan's must routinely split their tickets or how else do you explain both Thune and Daschele winning overwhelmingly in the same election?
Thune has left himself in good position to challange Daschelle with George W. at the top of the ticket and a Republican Atlarge representative below. What is your call?
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