It's time for Atlas to shrug.
Posted on 12/17/2008 2:54:32 PM PST by Syncro
ONE PLUS ONE EQUALS 20 EXTRA VOTES FOR FRANKEN
December 17, 2008
It's bad enough that the Republican Party can't prevent Democrats from voting in its primaries and saddling us with The New York Times' favorite Republican as our presidential nominee. If the Republican Party can't protect an election won by the incumbent U.S. senator in Minnesota, there is no point in donating to the Republican Party.
The day after the November election, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman had won his re-election to the U.S. Senate, beating challenger Al Franken by 725 votes.
Then one heavily Democratic town miraculously discovered 100 missing ballots. And, in another marvel, they were all for Al Franken! It was like a completely evil version of a Christmas miracle.
As strange as it was that all 100 post-election, "discovered" ballots would be for one candidate, it was even stranger that the official time stamp for the miracle ballots printed out by the voting machine on the miracle ballots showed that the votes had been cast on Nov. 2 -- two days before the election.
Democratic election officials in the miracle-ballot county simply announced that their voting machine must have been broken. Don't worry about it -- they were sure those 100 votes for Franken were legit.
Then another 400-odd statistically improbable "corrections" were made in other Democratic strongholds until -- by the end of election week -- Coleman's lead had been whittled down to a mere 215 votes.
Since then, highly irregular counting methods have added to Franken's total bit by bit, to the point that Coleman is now ahead by only 188 votes.
As long as Coleman maintains any lead at all, Republicans don't seem to care that Coleman's advantage is being shrunk by laughable ballot "discoveries" and disreputable standard-switching from precinct to precinct -- depending on which method of counting ballots is most advantageous to Franken.
Consider a few other chilling examples of Democrats thieving their way to victory over the years.
In 1974, Republican Louis Wyman won his race for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, beating Democrat John Durkin by 355 votes. Durkin demanded a recount -- which went back and forth by a handful of votes until the state's Ballot Law Commission concluded that Wyman had indeed won by (at least) two votes.
Wyman was certified the winner by the New Hampshire secretary of state and was on his way to Washington when ... the overwhelmingly Democratic U.S. Senate refused to seat Wyman.
Despite New Hampshire's certification of Wyman as the winner of the election, this was the post-Watergate Senate, when Democrats could get away with anything -- up to and including a prank known as "President Jimmy Carter."
The U.S. Senate spent months examining disputed ballots from the New Hampshire election. Unable to come up with a method to declare the Democrat the winner that didn't require a guillotine, the Senate forced New Hampshire to hold another election.
It was a breathtaking abuse of power. New Hampshire had certified a winner of its Senate election, but it was a Republican, so the Democratic Senate simply ordered a new election.
Demoralized Republicans stayed away from the race and, this time, the Democrat won the re-vote.
Even more egregious was the Indiana House race in 1984. On election night, the incumbent Democrat Frank McCloskey appeared to have won a narrow victory of 72 votes. But after a correction was made in one county, it turned out his Republican opponent, Richard McIntyre, had won by 34 votes.
McIntyre was certified the winner -- which is when the trouble usually starts for a Republican.
Again, a majority Democrat House refused to seat the certified winner in a close election. I'm sure it was just a coincidence that the winner was a Republican.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
It's time for Atlas to shrug.
PWD from Lake Charles, East Texas, USA
December 9, 2008, 2:33 AM Coming JANUARY 6 (NEW DATE!) . . . - GUILTY: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
NOTE THE NEW PUBLICATION DATE!
Set your watches to see how long it takes liberals to come up with a new conspiracy theory about the changed publication date. (It was a decision of the publisher's marketers.)
We live in a day and age in which women are more manly than most men. A Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter ticket in 2012 would rock this nation and restore our Constitution like no other male politician of this, or the last, century.
I read that book many years ago, twice.
I feel like we are living inside the story now.
I’m wondering if it might not be better to let the Dems control all the levers of power. They’re close enough as is, and this way they won’t be able to blame the Republicans when the economy melts down. You think people were in a mood for change 6 weeks ago...wait until there’s a real market collapse and a depression.
Folks, it ain’t gonna be pretty. Take a look: http://market-ticker.org/archives/692-The-Idiocy-of-Bernankes-Bubbles-and-CNBS.html
That being said, the very idea of a Senator Franken turns white what little hair I have left. He’d be the Bella Abzug of the Senate, an object of utter ridicule...just what the “world’s greatest deliberative body” needs (nah, no hubris among senators, none at all).
Isn’t that the date the new ultra leftist congress starts?
Ann Coulter Visits NYU to Deliver Predictable Stand-Up Routine
[VIDEO: apparently no "broken jaw"]
Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:33:05 AM · by RonDog · 72 replies · 2,208+ viewsNYU Local.com ^ | December 11, 2008 | Ned Resnikoff
Another great Ann Coulter bulls-eye column.
The Minnesota Democrats are definitely going to steal the election for that loon, Al Franken - or else it’ll be so close that the Democratic senate won’t seat Coleman, as Ann suggests may occur. I’m thoroughly disgusted at the way Minnesota voters, not to mention the RNC, allow this to go on. At this rate, the GOP will soon become irrelevant and we’ll end up being another failed socialist country that is run by idiots. Maybe that’s our fate. It sure doesn’t look good.
Since the gutless spineless——republicans won’t fight it why don’t they just declare franken the winner and save the demorats all the trouble of “finding” enough votes for fanken to take the seat. There is no doubt of the results.
Another great Ann Coulter bulls-eye column.From FReeper Seadog Bytes:The Minnesota Democrats are definitely going to steal the election for that loon, Al Franken...
I just wish I could get all my Ann Coulter books autographed.
More like Atlas Barfs for this.
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I thought they were going to announce a winner on Dec15.
QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN December 12, 2008, 12:58 AM MY VIDEO BIRTHDAY CARD! - from Pop Modal: Ann Coulter: A Celebration!
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My kids @40 years old, are Conservatives all the way, but do not have a clue that we are losing our Country.
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