[finnman69]

Ok let's break this out. Kennedy says Republicans prevented 357,000 voters from voting or having their votes counted.

He estimates 174,000 were not able to vote due to long lines. No. 174,000 (a highly inflated number to be sure) potential voters did not vote. End of story. If voters did not wait in line to vote or vote by mail, that's their fault.

72,000 not registered to vote due to registration errors. Again, the reponsibility falls on the voter to confirm they are correctly registered.

30,000 voters purged for not voting in previous elections. If you have not voted in more than two elections, you should verify yourself you are registered to vote.

10,000 voters discarded for standing in the wrong line. Too stupid to be allowed to vote.

5,000 turned away by GOP challengers. If they were turned away, they were not registered or valid voters.

So out of that big dramatic and inflated 357,000 potential voters that leaves 66,000 votes 'lost by 'faulty' voting machines. Even if I was generous and assumed there were some problems with voting machines, I would be the majority of this was due to idiot voters.

Kennedy says 357,000 votes

[depressed in 06]

And, all these Bolshecrat voters. Go figure.

[PeskyOne]

I thought I remembered that RFK,Jr. had been convicted of heroin possession, and while trying to find proof, I found an interesting biography at this site:

http://www.activistcash.com/biography.cfm/bid/2765

In the article, an attorney who had worked with him, said of him, "he separates himself from good science at times in order to aggressively pursue an issue and win.” The following two paragraphs also offer an insight into RFK,Jr. lack of character:

Kennedy’s harshest public thrashing to date, however, came from one of his closest colleagues, Riverkeeper founder Robert Boyle. Along with seven other Riverkeeper board members, Boyle resigned in 2000 after Kennedy insisted upon hiring a convicted environmental felon as the group’s chief scientist. At the time, Boyle told the New York Post that Kennedy “is very reckless,” and added that “[h]e’s assumed an arrogance above his intellectual stature.”

Reflecting on the episode later, Boyle gave the New York Times an apt summary of Kennedy’s attitude regarding his environmental crusades: “I thought he was thinking of himself and not the cause of the river,” Boyle said. “It all became his own greater glory.”

More than likely, Kennedy is still being reckless with the truth when he accuses Republicans of stealing the election in 2004. I suspect he has definitely "assumed an arrogance above his intellectual stature"!

[mjwise]

ROFL! This is news? I'm FROM Ohio, and western Ohio is, in general, quite conservative outside of heavily urbanized areas. It's like some sort of conspiracy that Kerry didn't clean up there! DUH! And whose ass did they pick that "long line - didn't vote" number from. If you're not willing to wait in line to vote or do not plan ahead to vote absentee, tough cookies. Your vote is as important as you want it to be. I was in Toledo on election day 2004 - and it was just a horribly cold, rainy day - my roommate at the time (a Naderite in 2000) didn't go and vote. I'm surprised THAT didn't get brought up too. But I guess you can't blame Republicans for the weather (unless it's a hurricane).

Crybabies through and through.

[edzo4]

was the 2004 election stolen?

No we caught dan rather lying and prevented it....

[darth]

Get ready for desperate dim efforts at fraud in 2006 & 2008. This propaganda is just to fire up their base and salve guilty consciences.

[driftless]

One interview I saw of RFK junior on tv a few years back convinced me that he was fanatic nut. I guess I have been proved right.

[Gaffer]

Was Mary Jo pregnant with tubby's baby?

[backhoe]

Now that the democrats have proven that they cannot win a national election, they have fallen back (in both 2000 and 2004) on the canard that the elections are stolen from them. If you can't win an election, make the public lose confidence in elections. Even NPR had Debunked this last week: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5422642

 

 A BAD REVIEW FROM DAN RIEHL: "NPR debunked it a week ago before it was even published."

 

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007107.php

Tinfoil Hats On Parade

Bobby Kennedy Jr has a turgid expose at Rolling Stone which purports to blow the lid off the 2004 presidential election by claiming that 350,000 Ohio voters were prevented from reaching the polling stations. This, unsurprisingly, has excited the entire port side of the blogosphere. However, when one begins to read through the argument, supported by a slew of citations but no evidence at all, it sounds like a very tired rehash of all the conspiracy theories we heard between November 2004 and January 2005...Kennedy's lead argument gives readers enough excuse to stop on the first page...And interestingly enough, that's exactly what two research firms looking into the exit poll debacle found...The Confederate Yankee isn't fooled...I note that Kennedy never once mentions Wisconsin, where real election-day dirty tricks and voter fraud occurred and actually resulted in prosecution. Perhaps that's because voter fraud that benefits Democrats fails to interest Kennedy. I look forward to his expose on the 1960 election that made his uncle President.   Comments (13)

[Fresh Wind]

Hey, Mr. Kennedy, did you know that if only a few thousand voters in New Hampshire switched from Kerry to Bush, Ohio wouldn't have mattered?

[Chi-townChief]

It's always great to see John F. Ketchup-Boy get his skinny anti-American ass kicked once again >>> http://www.ac4vr.com/reports/072005/ohio.html

[longtermmemmory]

This is the same lawyer kennedy who was/is advocating slap suits based on environmental "impact" against private individuals.

Essentially ADA for envirowackos. Thus any "individual" could hire a envirowacko group as a court compensated "expert" to sue anyone (corp or individual) for excessive environmental impact and have the target be forced to pay lawyer fees, expert fees, and consultation fees to supervise the corrections.

The man is not worthy of holding the briefcase of a law clerk.

[ShandaLear]

Hey Junior...you still riding in around in that private jet?

[AmericanMade1776]

As you read the article, You can almost tell that Robert Kennedy Jr, has just finished a fifth of whiskey.

[ladyinred]

This is what Al Gore did to this nation. I will never forgive that piece of cold bologna for pretending the votes weren't counted. In every election since, the rats pretend this again, and will as long as they don't win. If and when they win, voting will finally have been done right and fair.