Posted on 11/17/2002 2:17:17 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
He may have lost his post as Senate Majority Leader and cost his fellow Democrats control of the Senate, but at least one advisor to soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle is calling last week's Democrat election debacle a victory.
"They [Bush and Daschle] went head to head for all intents and purposes, and Daschle won," the top Senate Dem's unnamed aide told the Washington Post Sunday.
He was referring to the South Dakota Senate race, which was widely billed as a contest between surrogates for Bush and Daschle.
Last week Republican candidate John Thune inexplicably conceded defeat to Democrat Tim Johnson without demanding a recount, even though the final tally showed Thune just 500 votes down in a contest swirling with allegations of Democratic Party vote fraud.
As usual, the Donkey Party has mistaken Thune's political graciousness for weakness, and is now calling the possibly stolen election was a significant win.
I thought I'd heard that the allegations of fraud at the reservations were still being investigated. The investigation was started by the FBI prior to the election, and a concession speech by Thune doesn't stop it.
Is that not true?
However, I wonder if he knows something we don't? Like there is a major FBI voter-fraud investigation in progress, and Johnson will not be seated in the (Republican) Senate in January?
There seems to be at least a fighting chance that we will see Senator Thune in 2003. (And it would be even sweeter if this moronic Daschle aide's spouting off to the press, basically rubbing our faces in their fraud and corruption, was what caused the Executive Branch to take a closer look at this election...)
I don't see how the President can let blatant voter fraud go unchallenged- since that is the one thing most likely to suppress Republican turn-out in 2004. (Why bother to go to the polls, if you know the fix is in already?)
Yes, that is what I wonder, too. If the voter fraud investigation has not been complete, a recount might not do any good. Except to maybe make Thune look like a gore clone.
On the other hand, Thune being gracious and waiting for the results of the investigation might make a big difference - as you say, even giving Thune the seat.
If the voter fraud investigation has not been complete, a recount might not do any good
Glad to know I'm not the only one who's been thinking along these lines. Remember, the man who handpicked Thune for this race is the same man who's been "misunderestimated" again and again. I'm hoping the other shoe has yet to drop.
Yes. The important thing is to uncover voter fraud. Crying about having lost the election unfairly doesn't resonate unless there is evidence that the election was rigged. The GOP gets that; the Dems don't.
The Senate District 16 voters gathered today demanded that the contested ballots be reviewed by an impartial third party and that their votes not be disallowed by the actions of an unaccountable partisan attorney.
We are rioting for our voting rights. What are you wimps out in SD doing? Never mind Thune. Start kicking some ass at the courthouse.
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