Posted on 10/30/2004 8:31:43 AM PDT by The Right Stuff
“We’re Gonna Sue” - A Kerry Coup - Part One
by Jennifer King, Managing Editor
October 29, 2004
"The Heretical Housewife"
The Kerry campaign recently announced a new strategy. Michael Whouley, the DNC’s elections operations operative and a (wink, nudge) Kerry “confidant” has publicly stated that the Kerry campaign has assembled an army of 10,000 lawyers and at least six “SWAT Teams” of lawyers and politicos waiting by fully fueled jets on election eve. When notified of a battleground state battle, the Kerry patrols will swing into action, jetting off immediately to file litigation in order to facilitate a Kerry victory. Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter has promised that the Kerry team will “hit the ground running” and she further vows that Kerry will not make the “mistakes” that Al Gore did in the 2000 election.
According to an AP article, Kerry’s campaign believes that Al Gore made several critical mistakes which allowed George W. Bush to “steal” the election. Gore conceded too early in Florida, according to staffers, and he never declared victory. Furthermore, Bush gained a crucial advantage when he started discussing the transition and his national security picks, making his Presidency appear assured.
Ah, where’s Doris Kearns Goodwin when you need her? Nothing like a spot of historical revisionism. Let us not forget how the 2000 debacle unfolded - first, the MSM - shilling as usual for the left-wing candidate - announced that Gore had swept Florida. This was an hour before the strongly Republican Panhandle polls closed, and it was in direct defiance of a request made by (Florida) Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Tom Brokaw was the first to announce Gore’s win at 7:49 pm, and the other networks quickly followed suit, even though 96 percent of the Florida vote remained uncounted. Lilewise, the polls in the Midwest and West wouldn’t close until later that evening. As the voting proceeded, a clear pattern was revealed. Shortly after the polls closed, if exit polling and initial results looked promising for Gore, the victory was instantly called. If the state was trending Bush, the networks said nothing. The networks triumphantly announced important Gore wins in Michigan and Pennsylvania (making, with Florida, the crucial “trifecta”) within three minutes, while remaining curiously silent on Bush’s victories in Tennessee (Gore’s home state) and Arkansas. While Rather, Brokaw and Jennings yucked it up over the impending Gore victory, a third of all registered voters in the Midwest and Western states had yet to vote. Disheartened voters got out of line and went home, further dampening Republican numbers.
During all this backslapping, the networks neglected to mention a critical development - the slow inexorable turn for Bush in Florida. As early as 8:45 pm, the Associated Press showed Bush ahead by 30,000 votes. By 9:45, Bush was leading by 130,000 votes. The networks completely ignored this turn of events, reliably still adding states to the Gore column while withholding states that Bush had won handily. Florida was not removed from the Gore column until 10:00 pm. Even though Bush was now leading by 150,000 votes, Florida was pronounced “too close to call” by the network chieftains and remained in official limbo. This charade continued for another four hours, while Bush remained heartily in the lead. Finally, at 2:16 am, the networks declared Bush the winner. Vice-President Gore phoned George W. Bush at 2:30 am in order to offer his concession. Meanwhile, the votes continued to pour in for both candidates, and by 3:11 am Bush’s lead in Florida had dropped to a mere 6,000 votes, enough to trigger an automatic recount. At 3:30 am, Gore called Bush to retract his concession. The MSM, with their slanted bias toward Gore and inaccurate reporting, disheartened Republican voters in the Florida Panhandle, the Midwest and the West. Who knows how many millions of votes they may have cost Bush. It also gave Gore a crucial advantage, allowing his winning of the popular vote. Democrat operatives quickly leaped upon this fact, arguing for the abolition of the Electoral College because the “guy with the most votes should win.”
The next phase of the strategy was hurriedly implemented. At 6:00 pm on Tuesday, TeleQuest, a telemarketing firm was hired to call Palm Beach County Democrats in order to postulate that they may have been confused by the so-called “butterfly ballot” and may have voted for Patrick Buchanan instead of Al Gore. 5,000 voters were called and several hundred complained to the elections board. Jesse Jackson and the usual suspects immediately jetted down to Palm Beach County in order to protest - with preprinted yellow signs obligingly made up by the AFL/CIO. As the chad counting continued however, something completely novel and unexpected occurred. Republicans actually - for once - fought back. ***
© 2004 Jennifer King
The lawyers are waiting on jets? hmm I wonder where. lol
People for the Communist Way already have a news conference scheduled right after polls close to detail all the evil GOP stunts the GOP did to disinfranchise voters on election day.
They have the lawyers, we have the guns. I wonder who wins that "coup?"
THe names of the lawyers will be on the pleadings along with their office adresses.
I saw that on C-span last nite. They're going to have T.V. cameras at the ready and cell phone hook ups. This is scary.
Praying for Bush to win "by a landslide". Let there be no doubt. Please, Lord, if it is your will, grant us this blessing. All glory and praise unto you.
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I wonder where.....I agree, it needs to be a large enough margin of victory that Kerry (who's also already declared that he's going to declare victory no matter who wins) can't pull it off.
Of course, my "coup" scenario is only a hypothetical, but one protected by the U.S. Constitution.
So what's the margin of lawyer beyond which Bush clearly must win? If Kerry gets 2 popular votes (1 in North Carolina and 1 in Massachusetts), will he sue?
Or should we just presume automatically a president-elect Kerry. Once he makes his victory speech, the President must concede the election--preferably beforehand--under the rules of general decorum in politics.
This could be interesting for a couple of reasons, one of which is that I heard (I believe Judge N on Fox said it) that the Dims have sent a bunch of lawyers to Fla, the problem is they don't have a license to practice law in Fl, therefore, the cannot file lawsuits, etc. My thoughts on this are that 1) they'll try, and 2) they can always do other things (poll watching, etc.) and assist Fl lawyers.
Kerry supporters, in their delusional world, think the time's drawing nigh when they can take over the U.S. government and establish a Lunatic Fringe Leftist as de facto dictator. They would find enthusiastic support in the anti-American leaders of the Third World and America's purported allies in Europe who dream of gaining some measure of control over the world's sole remaining superpower.
Fortunately for the world, the American people are smarter than that. It won't happen. But reality won't stop The Anti-American Dream.
Reality has never interfered with the imaginings of the Left. If they weren't delusional they wouldn't be Leftists in the first place.
Bump on every point.
The early call of Florida for the Democrats was deliberate and planned. Given the actions of CBS can anyone doubt that now?
I knew from the get go that something was up. This nervous female anchor kept repeating over and over that she hoped they would commit few errors during the evening. So I knew a staged error was coming.
The 2000 election theft attempt of the democrats was a well co-ordinated effort involving MSM, the democrats election co-ordinator Daly, as in Chicago's vote fraud king, Mayor Daly's grandson. Lest anyone fail to remember Mayor Daly remained in office for years due to stuffing ballot boxes.
At least 2 million bogus votes, most likely far more, where placed in swing states from the Atlantic to the Pacific. To have their plan fail and fall short has enraged them to the point of hysteria and torn away the masks of respectibility, accountability, and legitimacy the vipers in the MSM wore. The democrat politicians have been shrill, over the top, and hysterical since.
You can bet they have done everything they can to assure they don't fail this time. In counties in swing states across the nation such as Ohio, there are more registered voters than population. In the 2000 election there were 5,000 more ballots cast than registered voters in New Mexico. This election is going to be a horror show.
I think that this is a HUGE mistake for the Democrats. I really think Americans were willing to accept this crap once, but two consecutive Presidential elections?!? It will turn people from the party in droves.
I agree that they will flee from the party but I am hoping that the GOP has some things planned for retaliation!
A guy I work with is one of the lawyers and I think he is going to New Mexico. I overheard him telling someone yesterday that they hope it will be close so they can take legal action. Sound like they don't plan on winning, just hoping to be close.
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