WaPost: The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy [BARF ALERT]

Washington Post ^ | October 27, 2004 | Harold Meyerson

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

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.

[maryz]

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.

[AmericaUnited]

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

[Skooz]

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......."

[machman]

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".

[Junior]

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

[FreedomPoster]

Coup d'etat!?

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

[Dr. Free Market]

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.

[edpc]

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.

[mabelkitty]

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.

[SauronOfMordor]

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?

[lainde]

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

[wai-ming]

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?

[Area51]

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."

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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!

[lainde]

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.

[joesnuffy]

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

[jimfree]

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.

[SaintDismas]

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

[gaspar]

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

[7.62 x 51mm]

"And the evidence for these conclusions is?"

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

"By all accounts..."