Posted on 05/18/2013 3:01:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
So there it is -- a hitherto-missing link in the chain of information that every Obamaphile was dreading.
Senior Obama administration officials knew that the Inspector General was auditing the IRS for political targeting of conservatives in June of 2012. The Treasury's general counsel -- that's right, William J. Wilkins -- was told on June 4, 2012 by the IG; Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin was informed shortly thereafter.
Neal Wolin was Tim Geithner's Deputy. That's the second-in-command at the Department of the Treasury. And Wolin had been around the block; he had held high government posts in the Clinton administration before the Obama one.
It is inconceivable that someone like Wolin would have learned of such politically explosive information during an election year and failed to inform anyone at The White House or on the President's campaign. The Obama administration kept this information hidden from the American people until it had to be revealed because of the pending IG report.
Would it have changed any minds had it been reported before the election? We'll never know, but it doesn't do anything to enhance the credibility of the President's reelection victory.
Surely, surely no one in the MSM had wind of this and sat on the story lest it hurt the Obama campaign.
Although it may be uncomfortable to bring this up, the presumption behind the "suppression of the vote" meme is that a considerable number of potential conservative voters couldn't get themselves to vote on their own initiative unless Tea Party groups were active enough to encourage them or aid them in some way. So why wasn't the level of self-motivated enthusiasm, if you will, of conservative voters reflected in a larger conservative vote? After all, it wasn't as if conservative voters were barred from casting ballots, at least not physically, although their votes in some instances may not have been counted due to other despicable practices on the part of the 'Rats.
Also, we have to be careful not to let the IRS shenanigans distract from our attention to other sleazy and illegal activities that the 'Rats used, particularly in the swing states, to rig last year's elections in their favor: methods that fall under the categories of election fraud and cheating. Aside from the more "traditional" types of fraud and cheating practices - e.g., voters casting multiple votes, votes cast for deceased or disabled people, voters voting on multiple days in multiple locations (taking advantage of "early voting" procedures), voters voting in more than one state, ineligible individuals voting, voters casting absentee and in-person ballots - there were also numerous instances of far more effective electronic hacking of voting equipment, such as optical scanners and touch screen devices. There were also obvious inaccuracies in reporting of votes, most noticeably the purported "shutouts" suffered by Romney in some predominantly black election districts in Philadelphia and Cleveland.
Again, let's not lose sight of the fact that although the IRS refusals and delays in granting tax-exempt status to conservative groups played some part in the purported election results last year, there were other factors at play in the purported outcome, including other patently illegal activities by the Obama machine and their affiliated groups.
Yes, but if Tea party Watchdog groups had not been hindered, the illegal practices that rigged the election could have been at least hampered by them.
Romney himself wasn’t exactly a bonfire of enthusiasm.
The term "suppression of the vote" is used b/c it is very relevant----it is the term Obamba continually used against conservatives in the campaign.
The O Team cunningly scared conservatives into thinking intelligent, rational, time-honored voter ascertainment techniques was "hatemongering" and "suppression of the vote."
At the same time, the Obomanations calculatedly suppressed conservative votes via the IRS (and God knows where else)---- they revved up their vote by using the "suppression" angle.
SUMMATION You cant use logic when dealing with the Obamatons----they are practiced con artists---and know every trick in the book.
True, but the major factor motivating conservative voters should have been replacing Obama. Romney had his flaws as a candidate, but it's fair to say that he did offer an alternative to Zero.
Should read: "Administration Planned the Targeting Before the Election". Criminals.
And he was still a pathetic candidate. The “He ain’t the other guy” attitude will give us another failure in the future.
Interesting point. Wasn't aware that Tea Party groups were providing watchdog services over 'Rat election fraud and cheating. If they do, I'm 100% for those kind of efforts.
But they knew.
Now that they are into the cycle where the schlumphs get punished and the brass get rewarded, they are breaking the law ~ in punishing the subordinates!
We may not even hear about it since IRS guys have to take their complaints through an in-house process long before they can ever file a complaint with Merit Systems Protection Board, and even then there are limits on what they can complain about and what MSPB can recommend ~ after all you wouldn't want MSPB dictating personnel policy to IRS when it involves their Confidential employee class.
Regarding voter turnout, Romney is shy of Bush' high of 64 million, as is McCain. The GOP-e may well want to blame that on Conservatives, or even Democrat cheating, but two doufouses in a row gets a doufous result on election day ~ seems to be clear to me we should be looking at the doufouses and avoiding that sort of candidate in the future.
The where handed out bonuses.
Competence in the act of destruction/destroying is much easier to attain then competence in building and creating something positive and sustainable.
The American Idea is both Positive and Sustainable. It was created by imminently competent men. B.O. is not worthy to carry their powdered wigs.
It takes genius to build something Mighty and Good and Strong. Any Fool can destroy what is already built.
"Suppression of the vote" is a phrase that has been parroted so often by the 'Rats in reference to alleged suppression of their own voters by Pubbies, that it should have lost all meaning to anyone with functioning brain cells by now, simply because there are almost never facts to back up such claims. It's been thrown around by them long before Obama was active in electoral politics.
The O Team cunningly scared conservatives into thinking intelligent, rational, time-honored voter ascertainment techniques was "hatemongering" and "suppression of the vote."
Any conservative who gets scared by them in such a way is fool. Reasonable people should know that the days of Jim Crow and barring blacks from voting, which the term "suppression of the vote" might evoke, are long gone. BTW, the large bulk of that real "suppression of the vote" back then was perpetrated by Democrats.
This assumes that there were no conservatives or groups with money, organization, and motivation to give as good as they got. That’s hard to believe, unless the real truth is that those “conservatives” with resources were working secretly for the Libs. In which case, we will never again win an election in our lifetimes.
I compare it to those annoying phone calls...that happen at dinner time...and it's a recording besides. Again and again and again.
It's unrealistic to ever expect a completely clean national, or even statewide, election. The gold standard is to minimize the fraud and cheating so that the winner of each race is the real winner as if chosen by each lawfully eligible voter who wishes to do so casting one and only one vote.
My intuitive guess is that the targeting of the Tea Party and other conservative groups had a small effect on the purported vote counts but that other methods of Democrat cheating and fraud, as outlined in my post # 21, had much more.
What about all those Freepers who said they would stay at home rather than vote for Romney. I’ll wager that some of those who stayed at home are the loudest critics today. I voted against Obama and I can hold my head high when I complain about Obama’s miserable record.
I don’t care. The simple FACT is that if the GOP tries to run a moderate again, they will lose again. None of the whining about last time means a damn thing.
” What exactly does Valerie Jarrett do in the WH? “
Uh....she RUNS it?
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