THE DESPERATION OF THE DEMOCRATS

EDITOR'S NOTE: Normally, this column runs 750 words and only 750 words. However, in light of the crucial importance of this election to the safety of not only the Western World in general, but especially the national security here at home in the United States, and given that I am something of an expert in these areas, I have made an exception to my 750-word limit rule today. I hope you will find it worth the read. - Timothy Rollins, Editor.

Approaching the home stretch to what is undoubtedly America's most important election in its history so far, we've witnessed over the years the degeneration of American politics to such a point that in the end, nobody may want anything more to do with the voting process. With so many voters alienated and flat-out enraged by the nastiness, hostility, outright physical violence and blood sport politics has become, it's easy to see why nobody wants to get involved.

However, it's essential that they continue to do so, and that they soldier on for a number of reasons, and not just because it's a fight for our nation's heart and soul. It's also a war of good versus evil. Edmund Burke best put it when he said; "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Such is what occurred in the 1992 and 1996 election cycles - historic in their own right - when Bill Clinton, due largely to Ross Perot, was able to back into the presidency with the majority of the American people voting against him both times.

Yes, folks, that's right. In both presidential elections, Bill Clinton failed to get a majority vote - that is, 50% of the vote plus one. The 2000 vote final count is still in dispute - not in Florida - where the final count gave President Bush a 537-vote win, but in places like California, where they refused to open and count absentee ballots, using the logic that if all the ballots were for Bush, that Al Gore would have carried the state anyway. However much that may be, one needs to keep in mind this very important truth; that had those votes been counted and added to the popular vote total, that California - the nation's most populous state - may have provided enough votes to put President Bush over the edge as the winner of the popular vote total as well.

With this year's vote, it's beginning to feel much like college football in the mid-1980's when the SMU (Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas) football powerhouse was always getting in trouble before the NCAA made its only use so far of the 'death penalty' on SMU's football program, which - mildly put - had gone severely renegade.

Just like Sports Illustrated describing SMU in preseason, I can describe the 2004 election reading like this: "Coming in seeded #2 are the Democrats, coming off a mind-numbing trip to the woodshed in the 2002 mid-term elections, seeking to recapture the White House they lost in the 2000 open seat. Suffice it to say, not only are all their starting lawyers back, but 10,000 more are waiting in reserve to fly anywhere nationwide to contest any election they can." Clearly, what we have here are a bunch of crybabies who have shown time and again that what they cannot win in the marketplace of ideas, they must litigate in the courts. Look no further than the case of Gore v. Bush, which decided who won Florida's 27 electoral votes. Yet Al Gore still - four years later - whines on this one - as do most Democrats - blaming Bush, blaming Ralph Nader, blaming anyone but Al Gore, the man truly responsible for losing the White House. Why? Because in losing his home state of Tennessee with its 11 electoral votes, he not only lost enough votes to get in the White House without Florida, he also became the first presidential candidate since George McGovern in 1972 to fail to win his home state. Even Walter Mondale - who has the personality of a doorknob - took his home state of Minnesota in Reagan's 525-13 clock-cleaning of 1984. How's that for humiliation??

This was recently evidenced by not one, but four mailings I've received so far from America Coming Together, an umbrella 527 organization making the push for and taking marching orders from the Kerry campaign and the DNC. Saying that there would be "green-jacketed Republicans" there who would seek to prevent me from voting, they instructed me to look for someone with an ACT logo if anyone 'hassled' me. Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) alone will be flooded with lawyers and third-year law students - all armed with cell phones, no doubt - to prevent valid challenges from being raised, especially if they sense a Kerry vote going down the drain.

What makes the Democrats so desperate and pathetic by observation and comparison are lots of things, but mostly registering the dead to vote along with convicted felons, and seeking to intimidate minorities into believing that Republicans are a bunch of rich, elitist folks who want to rob them of both their vote and/or their Social Security checks. The fact of the matter is, the opposite is true. If anything, the best description of differences between Democrats and Republicans is one a friend told me as a child, and that was a Democrat will give you a dollar, whereas a Republican would have you earn it. Either way you get the dollar; yet with the Republican, you also get the pride of the work ethic and boost of earned self-esteem and not the unearned feel-good garbage the public school system feeds our kids today. If you want to feel good about yourself, then do something to be deserving of it!

With campaign finance reform now the law of the land, you just knew there was going to be a hole large enough to drive a Mack truck through, and sure enough, the Democrats - headed by a generous donor named George Soros - a man I view as consummate evil, poured in millions upon millions of dollars in seeking to destroy the presidency of George W. Bush. Such unadulterated and seething hatred reveals the signs of a sick and deranged man who needs whatever professional help is available. With Democrats pouring their money into '527's' to propagate their lies, Republicans who believe in truth got in on the act, most notably the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (http://www.swiftvets.com), whose television spots were devastatingly effective against "Hanoi John" Kerry.

In their efforts to limit free speech through 'campaign finance reform', Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) opened a Pandora's Box with these 527's that cannot be closed, and frankly, that has become a good thing. The American people aren't the mindless dolts that ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC wish them to be. With FOX NEWS, Free Republic, and other web magazines and bloggers maintaining a vigilance of truth, the harpies in the mainstream press can no longer get away with their continuous lies or selective reporting. There is now an accountability factor that wasn't there previously, and like Martha Stewart in prison, this is also a very good thing.

Expect the Democrats to do anything, say anything they can to steal this election, because they'll try their best to do just that! Be sure to vote legally, but only once next Tuesday. Vote as if your life depended on it, because it very well might! ***

"In their efforts to limit free speech through 'campaign finance reform', Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) opened a Pandora's Box with these 527's that cannot be closed, and frankly, that has become a good thing. The American people aren't the mindless dolts that ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC wish them to be. With FOX NEWS, Free Republic, and other web magazines and bloggers maintaining a vigilance of truth, the harpies in the mainstream press can no longer get away with their continuous lies or selective reporting. There is now an accountability factor that wasn't there previously, and like Martha Stewart in prison, this is also a very good thing.

Expect the Democrats to do anything, say anything they can to steal this election, because they'll try their best to do just that! Be sure to vote legally, but only once next Tuesday. Vote as if your life depended on it, because it very well might! *** "

Excellent commentary! Very well said. Thank you for posting this!

If you recall the media tried to give FL to Gore in 2000
VNS was a private consortium owned by
ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC.
4 of the 5 of the networks and cable newsrooms
(only ABC waited till both time zones closed)
"announced" Gore had won
BEFORE the 2nd time zone in FL had closed.
This cost President Bush votes in the FL panhandle.

I was at a friends house and the State of FL election website results showed President Bush was winning

In fact, the networks which called Florida for Gore did so early in the evening—before polls had even closed in the Florida panhandle, which is part of the Central Time Zone. NBC called Florida for Gore at 7:49:40 p.m., Eastern Time. This was 10 minutes before polls closed in the Florida panhandle. Thirty seconds later, CBS called Florida for Gore. And at 7:52 p.m., Fox called Florida for Gore. Moore never lets the audience know that Fox was among the networks which made the error of calling Florida for Gore prematurely. Then at 8:02 p.m., ABC called Florida for Gore. Only ABC had waited until the Florida polls were closed.

About an hour before the polls closed in panhandle Florida,
the networks called the U.S. Senate race in favor of the Democratic candidate.

The premature calls may have cost Bush thousands of votes from the conservative panhandle, as discouraged last-minute voters heard that their state had already been decided;
some last-minute voters on their way to the polling place turned around and went home. Other voters who were waiting in line left the polling place. In Florida, as elsewhere, voters who have arrived at the polling place before closing time often end up voting after closing time, because of long lines. The conventional wisdom of politics is that supporters of the losing candidate are most likely to give up on voting when they hear that their side has already lost. Thus, on election night 1980, when incumbent President Jimmy Carter gave a concession speech while polls were still open on the west coast, the early concession was blamed for costing the Democrats several Congressional seats in the West, such as that of 20-year incumbent James Corman. The fact that all the networks had declared Reagan a landslide winner while west coast voting was still in progress was also blamed for Democratic losses in the West; Congress even held hearings about prohibiting the disclosure of exit polls before voting had ended in the any of the 48 contiguous states.

Even if the premature television calls affected all potential voters equally, the effect was to reduce Republican votes significantly, because the Florida panhandle is a Republican stronghold. Most of Central Time Zone Florida is in the 1st Congressional District, which is known as the "Redneck Riviera." In that district, Bob Dole beat Bill Clinton by 69,000 votes in 1996, even though Clinton won the state by 300,000 votes.

So depress overall turnout in the panhandle,
and you will necessarily depress more Republican than Democratic votes.

A 2001 study by John Lott suggested that the early calls cost Bush at least 7,500 votes,
and perhaps many more.

At 10:00 p.m., which network took the lead in retracting the premature Florida win for Gore?
The first retracting network was CBS, not Fox.

Over four hours later, at 2:16 a.m., Fox projected Bush as the Florida winner,
as did all the other networks by 2:20 a.m.

At 3:59 a.m., CBS took the lead in retracting the Florida call for Bush. All the other networks, including Fox, followed the CBS lead within eight minutes. That the networks arrived at similar conclusions within a short period of time is not surprising, since they were all using the same data from the Voter News Service. (Linda Mason, Kathleen Francovic & Kathleen Hall Jamieson, “CBS News Coverage of Election Night 2000: Investigation, Analysis, Recommendations” (CBS News, Jan. 2001), pp. 12-25.)

The big 5 media TV and Cable newsrooms are the real threat to the 2004 election.

..."Early on Tuesday, November 7th 2000, TV stations and various media based in Florida reported that Gore has won Florida which was a big surprise for everyone because of strong republican support. Bush's brother Jeb is governor there and Florida usually gives support to the Republicans. Some of them questioned that and during the night CNN showed 52% Bush's lead over 46% for Gore. It is almost impossible to believe that media could have been that blind and biased to report Gore's victory."...

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