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WaPost: The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy [BARF ALERT]
Washington Post ^ | October 27, 2004 | Harold Meyerson

Posted on 10/27/2004 3:27:22 AM PDT by ejdrapes

The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy

With Election Day almost upon us, it's not clear whether President Bush is running a campaign or plotting a coup d'etat. By all accounts, Republicans are spending these last precious days devoting nearly as much energy to suppressing the Democratic vote as they are to mobilizing their own.

Time was when Republicans were at least embarrassed by their efforts to keep African Americans from the polls. Republican consultant Ed Rollins was all but drummed out of the profession after his efforts to pay black ministers to keep their congregants from voting in a 1993 New Jersey election came to light.

For George W. Bush, Karl Rove and their legion of genteel thugs, however, universal suffrage is just one more musty liberal ideal that threatens conservative rule. Today's Republicans have elevated vote suppression from a dirty secret to a public norm.

In Ohio, Republicans have recruited 3,600 poll monitors and assigned them disproportionately to such heavily black areas as inner-city Cleveland, where Democratic "527" groups have registered many tens of thousands of new voters. "The organized left's efforts to, quote unquote, register voters -- I call them ringers -- have created these problems" of potential massive vote fraud, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman James P. Trakas recently told the New York Times.

Let's pass over the implication that a registration drive waged by a liberal group is inherently fraud-ridden, and look instead at that word "ringers."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: mediabias; mediashillsforkerry; suppression; votefraud
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To: ejdrapes
The subtext is: "We are about to get our left-wing asses kicked at the polls and we know it."

This much hatred in print is about a stinging reality they are facing.

21 posted on 10/27/2004 3:43:04 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: ejdrapes
Republican consultant Ed Rollins was all but drummed out of the profession after his efforts to pay black ministers to keep their congregants from voting in a 1993 New Jersey election came to light.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall it, an investigation started about this, but -- though it found Rollins was guilty of some relatively small-time stuff -- it became apparent that the Dems were operating big-time. For some reason, the investigation dropped off the front pages.

22 posted on 10/27/2004 3:43:19 AM PDT by maryz
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To: ejdrapes

What lying scumbags! I hate these people and their shameful race card tactics! Granny's social secrity is getting cut 45% too.


23 posted on 10/27/2004 3:46:39 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: NavVet

Yep.

When Stalin wrote, it was easy to tell when he was about to tell a lie because he would begin the sentence "As is well known......."


24 posted on 10/27/2004 3:48:30 AM PDT by Skooz (Any nation that would elect John Kerry as it's president has forfeited it's right to exist.)
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To: ejdrapes

Number one way to figure out what dirty tricks the democRATS are up to, listen to what they acuse the republicans of doing.

Because after they get caught, they can then scream "well, everybody does it".


25 posted on 10/27/2004 3:53:03 AM PDT by machman
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To: ejdrapes

But nary a peep about the mountains of evidence for Democrat vode fraud.


26 posted on 10/27/2004 3:53:34 AM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: ejdrapes

Coup d'etat!?

Irresponsible overheated rhetoric unacceptable from a newspaper that expects to be taken seriously.


27 posted on 10/27/2004 3:55:19 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (hoplophobia is a mental aberration rather than a mere attitude)
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To: ejdrapes

This one editorial exhibits multiple neuroses and psychoses that it could be a study in abnormal psychology. Just a few: delusions of grandeur, projection, cognitive dissonance, paranoia, et al.


28 posted on 10/27/2004 3:57:11 AM PDT by Dr. Free Market
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To: ejdrapes

Riiiiggghhhhttt...there couldn't be any voter fraud in a state where voter registration cards are undeliverable, ACORN is involved, and people are forging registrations for crack cocaine.

The obvious race-baiting in this article is a prime example of the left's death throes. They've been on the decline since 1994 and they don't like it. Suddenly, rules don't matter, because it suits their purpose.


29 posted on 10/27/2004 3:57:53 AM PDT by edpc
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To: ejdrapes

Not every vote should count.
We have one person/one vote in this country, if one follows the rules accordingly.
If WaPo doesn't like it, perhaps they should organize a political party, run for office, and attempt to change the rules to their liking.


30 posted on 10/27/2004 4:04:24 AM PDT by mabelkitty (W is the Peoples' President ; Kerry is the Elite Establishment's President)
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To: Dr. Free Market
I like this part: "I can come up with only one other president who sought so assiduously to undermine the basic arrangements of American policy (as Bush has undermined the New Deal at home and the systems of post-World War II alliances abroad) with so little concern for the effect this would have on the comity and viability of the nation. And Jefferson Davis wasn't really a president of the United States. "

Bush is a racist Confederate Texan, see?

31 posted on 10/27/2004 4:09:52 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (What Is Best In Life? To crush your enemies and see them driven before you)
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To: ejdrapes

If you ever doubted that the gloves are off...this article is proof.


32 posted on 10/27/2004 4:16:11 AM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: ejdrapes
In Ohio, Republicans have recruited 3,600 poll monitors and assigned them disproportionately to such heavily black areas as inner-city Cleveland, where Democratic "527" groups have registered many tens of thousands of new voters. "The organized left's efforts to, quote unquote, register voters -- I call them ringers -- have created these problems" of potential massive vote fraud, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman James P. Trakas recently told the New York Times.

This is exactly as I predicted: the Dems are spinning the efforts to stop vote fraud as "suppressing voters".

Expect them to get more and more vocal about this around election day. Watch for cries of "disenfranchisement, intimidation," etc. if you question a person's "right" to vote twice, vote for the the dead, vote in multiple precincts, etc.

Any ideas on how we can prevent/stop vote fraud without the Dems turning it into a "victims" issue?

33 posted on 10/27/2004 4:21:22 AM PDT by wai-ming
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To: ejdrapes

Let's pass over the implication that a registration drive waged by a liberal group is inherently fraud-ridden, and look instead at that word "ringers."




Note to Harold, when you have more registered voters in a precinct that you have People over the age of 18, YOU HAVE FRAUD TAKING PLACE.

What a genius!


34 posted on 10/27/2004 4:21:44 AM PDT by Area51 (Diapers and Politicians need to be changed-For the same reason)
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To: Captain Rhino
About the author:

Harold Meyerson is editor at large of the American Prospect and political editor of L.A. Weekly. His column appears on Wednesdays, and he can be reached at meyersonh@washpost.com.

35 posted on 10/27/2004 4:25:11 AM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: MadAnthony1776

Well with an honest lawyer leaders like Gov. Doyle and Peg 'the puppet' Lautenslagger on the job
not to worry...


36 posted on 10/27/2004 4:25:24 AM PDT by joesnuffy (America needs a 'Big Dog' on her porch not a easily frightened, whining, French,"Surrender Poodle"..)
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To: ejdrapes
Republicans are spending these last precious days devoting nearly as much energy to suppressing the Democratic vote as they are to mobilizing their own.

I guess efforts to catch shoplifters are suppressing commerce.

37 posted on 10/27/2004 4:25:34 AM PDT by jimfree (Cleveland rocks! (My venue for 72 hours in Ohio))
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

The subtext is: "We are about to get our left-wing asses kicked at the polls and we know it."

Rejoice and Be Glad takes on a whole new meaning. That's exactly what it means!!!!! Yipeeeeeee


38 posted on 10/27/2004 4:26:04 AM PDT by SaintDismas (Jest becuz you put yer boots in the oven, don't make it bread)
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To: wequalswinner

The author, Harold Meyerson, is the Vice Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. In other words, he is a Marxist.


39 posted on 10/27/2004 4:42:03 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: Beckwith

"And the evidence for these conclusions is?"

They don't need any edvidence; *accounts* is all they need.

"By all accounts..."


40 posted on 10/27/2004 4:57:27 AM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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