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October 11, 2008ACORN, Media & the Angry RightWe’re watching the press out-and-out lie in its reportage. We’re watching YouTube censor what may negatively impact their man. Networks will sell 1/2 chunks of airtime to the Obama campaign, but will not run an ad by his critics. Ann Althouse notes that basic accurate transcription appears to be beyond the press’ capability. No wonder the GOP rank-and-file are edgy, and angry. They know what “free speech” is. They’ve been gritting their teeth and respecting the first amendment for the last 8 years, watching the opposition say outrageous, hateful, incite-ful things with impunity. They’ve watched and tolerated it because it is the right of every American to say what they want, and that right is paramount. The rank-and-file (for all they’re derided as “nazis”) tend to respect that. The GOP base is watching the left declare, “free speech for me, but not for thee,” and now, they are getting pissed off. My Li’l Bro Thom and I were discussing the strange events of the last week, with GOP crowds expressing their anger, and members of the press - who one would think appreciate the first amendment more than anyone else - calling for censure-ship. I’m not entirely sure if Mary Mitchell means “censured”, there, or “censored.” To censure is to “officially rebuke,” and to censor is to completely shut down. I suspect Mitchell - who famously wrote just last month, “Sarah Palin makes me sick. I hate that she was able to steal Barack Obama’s mojo just by showing up wearing rimless glasses and a skirt…” would like to see both. Imagine that. A mojo so fragile it can be stolen by rimless glasses and a skirt. Anyway, so Thom, who is still susceptible to media spin once in a while - remember, he’s center-left - was beginning to buy the “oh, no, the GOP crowds are out of control; they’re all a bunch of hot-heads calling for blood,” narrative that the press - feeling unloved - has latched on to this week, quite ignoring the fact that things are pretty ugly in the Canada elections, too, which surely has nothing to do with McCain/Palin. I reminded him that a few random stupid idiots are no more representative of the GOP than are random idiots on the left - who broadcast the sound of gunfire when discussing the American President - representative of Democrats as a whole. I agree with him that the GOP does not help itself when the crowds get unruly. These are pictures and soundbites the press will gobble up and spin, and the GOP - who has watched the press control the national narrative for 8 years - should know that. But I also understand that the folks attending these McCain/Palin are finding some release after 8 years of frustration, watching the press spin any good news badly (think back to all of the times you read articles approximating the following: “Unemployment is 4.6% and the economy grew by 3% last quarter, but experts warn…” Or, “Experts expressed surprised at the good economic numbers…” Good news from Iraq has been embargoed; if the press could not report on American deaths and a gloomy outlook, they preferred not to write at all about the efforts of our troops - can you name a single Medal of Honor winner out of Iraq or Afghanistan? There have been stunning stories of real heroism coming out of these war fronts - mostly about young men and women from “heartland” America, but they’ve been all-but-ignored, rather than celebrated, because America was not supposed to feel good about any of it. And the fact that our shores have been safe for 7 years? Well, if the president had a D after his name, that might be laudable, but he doesn’t, so cares? Now, the GOP is trying to shed some light on the clear and important connection between Barack Obama and the corrupt ACORN - whose activities are on the verge of discrediting the election in 11, or perhaps as many as 14 states - and even Thom notices that their effort is “seen mostly as ‘another right wing attempt to smear Obama.’” Because you know, when the truth is uncomfortable, it becomes a “smear.” Well, of course it is being “seen as a smear” by the press and the Democrats. Just like protesters carrying pictures of a beheaded Dubya, or Keith Olbermann’s screaming are seen as acceptable expressions of free speech (which they are) while GOP anger is seen as “scary” and “inciteful” - which it is not. Obama himself admits his links to ACORN:
The ACORN disgrace is not being “covered” right now. It’s being “spun.” The press - whose charge it is to report on events without prejudice - cannot bring itself to seriously look at the fact that ACORN has utterly corrupted voter registration in some states - in Pennsylvania, a former State Supreme Court Justice says she is “not confident we can get a fair election” in the state come November.” I don’t know about you, but I find that pretty chilling. There is some indication that we’ve come to an end of our long and admirable history of peaceful transitions, decided by the electorate of the nation. What is happening, state-by-state in this election (and has been happening more and more each election cycle) is the gradual dissolution that right which we hold most dear: our right to self-determination. And it is happening, “from the inside,” as we see in Ohio, which - as I write this - has just received permission from the sixth circuit court of appeals to make voter fraud easier, instead of more difficult. There goes Ohio. The press cannot bring itself to “call for censure” of Jennifer Brunner, the Secretary of State of Ohio who openly tried to disqualify many GOP absentee ballots on shifty grounds, and apparently enables voter fraud.
Brunner, btw, is being advised by ACORN. Mary Mitchell is not calling for her “censure.” Depend on it, if Brunner were a Republican, and if she were trying to insist on voter identification, and if a court were upholding her, you would know her name; the press would be calling for her head. Somehow, in the twisted logic of this diabolically disoriented age, asking people to prove their identity before they vote is a “suppressive” and “intimidating” thing. The “scary” crowds at those GOP rallies are watching the fully untrustworthy press ignore or down-play activities that can shake the very foundation of our democratic freedoms; if the press is “afraid,” they should think about why the crowds are angry. As Rick Moran suggests, they should think about their culpability in the increasing ugliness we’re seeing on both sides. They should - perhaps - assuage the concerns of the right just a little, just a tad, by acting like real journalists instead of advocates and condemning thuggish electoral behavior, rather than ho-humming it. But perhaps the press is too far gone in their hunger for the November Trifecta: the White House, the Congress, and (quickly) the SCOTUS all in the hands of the left. Not in the hands of normal, rational Democrats, mind you; in the hands of the speech-suppressing, infanticide-supporting, tax-raising, government-growing, no-drilling, no nuclear power far left, who - apparently - are disinterested in creating all those new jobs. The GOP rank-and-file is watching the privileged and elite, rather comfortable and oh-so-sophisticated, “what is an outlet shop?” press - which does not even try to hide its disdain for middle America - do everything it can to advance an agenda that half the country is convinced will not serve it. They’re watching this same press - purportedly filled with smart, open-minded people - dismiss the reasoned reservations of half the nation over a spectacularly untried and ill-defined man of dubious association as either “ignorant” or “racist.” The crowds know they are neither “ignorant” or “racist.” They know that you can tell a lot about a man by looking at his friends. They also know that the things they dislike in Barack Obama are the very things they disliked about the caucasian Al Gore and John Kerry: the philosophy of government solutions over marketplace, the elitist disdain for their own values, and the sense that too much power consolidated in one party and enabled by the complicit press is simply bad for the country. The press tried to steamroller the American public into voting their man both in 2000, and again in 2004, but they were hobbled by Democrat candidates who were stiff and unlikeable. They finally have a candidate who is likable and they can’t believe that these stubborn people on the right are not falling in line and falling in love - as though the right might actually - gasp - have been voting its principles all this time. But they’re determined to win, and so yes, they’re sacrificing their credibility to do so, because they know that if they get the November Trifecta, credibility won’t matter any more:
Expect to see little actual reportage, but a lot of spin, about ACORN in the coming weeks. They’ll “spin” rather than report other stories as well. There is no way that - coming this close - the press is going is going to let this election slip through its fingers. Quite honestly, I don’t know if either of these men is up to the challenges facing the next occupant of the White House. That’s enough doubt to carry going into this election. We should not have to also worry about whether the vote count in each state has been corrupted. Meanwhile, AJ is looking at questions connected to Obama and Rezko that clearly won’t be answered before the election, and which the press will ignore, while they publish these bizarre polls. More here on Rezko and how he could hurt Obama if the press cared enough. More: Angry left boos Sarah Palin and her 7 year old daughter, Piper Related: http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/10/11/acorn-media-the-angry-right/trackback/ 29 Responses to “ACORN, Media & the Angry Right” |
October 11th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Well done…
Great post.
It is truly frustrating.
The last 8 years are not the only painful memories of watching the gross negligence in Democrat fraud. We experienced endless deceit growing from the 1990’s.
Almost as if Liberal Democrats gave up any conception of honesty, believing in the Post Carter failure - Reagan Success, they had to lie to get ahead.
They have lied in manners beyond one’s imagination for the past two decades.
The MSM has simply done everything it can to help empower the Democrat Party. Did they ever report on the Clinton Administration’s Federal Loan Guarantees provided to Enron? Did they ever cover the overt Clinton lies in regards to the Rwandan Genocide? Did they even reference the Gorelick Wall, after the stunning attack on the WTC on 9-11?
And the Democrat efforts to steal elections is simply stunning. It is no wonder why Hillary Clinton wanted to give FELONS voting rights, as some Democrat Governors around the Nation have provided.
I will never forget after General Election of 2004, the Democrats led by Senator Boxer, influenced heavily by Michael Moore, undermined a legitimate National Election for only the second time in our Nations history.
It is simply disgusting. Such corrupt partisan greed.
The Democrats Partisans even tried to bring defeat to the USA’s admirable Mission in Iraq, one of sincere liberation of the Oppressed, for their own petty political gain. Nancy Pelosi actually dishonestly claimed Al Qaeda wasn’t in Iraq prior to the 2006 midterms. It was almost as ugly, as Bill Clinton waging his finger about his manipulation of his own Sexual Harassment Case.
But the true irony remains, as many in this Nation have fallen for the MSM “con”, and the overt fashion of politically correct imagery, Americans seem truly oblivious to the damaging policies pushed by the Democrat Party.
Not only did the Democrat Leadership in the 1990’s fail to address the rising threat of Radical Muslim Terrorism, as it threatened the Free World and the fine USA. The Democrat Party, led by the Clinton Administration, actually made it their policy to weaken the US Intel and Defense Capability after the first attack on the WTC in 1993.
Democrats have stopped the USA from investing in serious efforts to become energy independent, halting all efforts for acquiring more Domestic Fossil resources, and prohibiting developments in Nuclear Energy as well. This has led the USA to become truly vulnerable on so many levels.
But we now know, the Democrat Party also engaged in the most inept malfeasance in regards to Our Mortgage Industry, exploiting Fanny - Freddie, as well as the Justice Department to force the production in fatal LOANS which has eroded the confidence in Our Economy. These fools gave money to those who simply should never have been given such a burden, and now it poisons everything. The FANNY_FREDDIE_VIRUS is a monster. And the Democrat Party is entirely to blame, even preventing efforts by the GOP to reform this growing problem.
And yet, after three major Democrat FAILURES, vivid policy disasters that the Democrat Party has sincere hurt the American People and the future of this fine Democracy?
The Majority of Americans are blaming the GOP?
OH my…
It simply doesn’t make any sense at all.
Since Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took control of the Majority in Congress, we have watched the most juvenile DISASTER on Capital Hill.
The Democrat Party should never be given the chance to have powerful influence anymore.
They not only are completely irresponsible, (like Chuck Schumer’s pushing the lies of Joe Wilson - creating RUNS on Banks, etc.), the modern Democrat Party continues to push mindless policy which consistently proves misguided.
Democrat Partisans still seem more interested in providing the rights of US Citizens to terrorists, enemy combatants, killers, trying to destroy FREE SOCIETY, then they are trying to protect Americans.
And they are the ones who will be winning elections this NOV?
IT is too bad we have such a poor offering on TOP of the GOP Ticket, to advocate for the alternative to the Democrat FOLLY this year.
Perhaps Republicans should begin to tell big fat lies, like the Democrat Partisans.
Maybe in the next debate, John McCain should claim he was DODGING SNIPER FIRE IN KOSOVO…
October 11th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I presume since you are back in the saddle, Buster must be on the mend. Give him my best.
[Thank you, Joseph. He is feeling a little better. Missed two rehearsals in a row, which is unheard of for him, but the meds seem to be kicking in- admin]
October 11th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Dear Anchoress: I hope your son’s health is improving. I strongly suspect that some in McCain’s crowd, namely those spewing the most hateful rhetoric, are Obama-supporting plants designed to give McCain and Palin a bad name. I follow the Hillary-supporting PUMAs closely, and one wrote that she recognized a very vocal supporter of Obama (who she has seen at previous Democrat events, as she is a Democrat herself. This person “claimed” to be a Republican, and was saying some nasty things about Obama to incite the press to report how bitter the Republicans were. This is the rally version of astroturfing, to be sure. Yes, there are some right-wing crazies out there, but none behaving in quite the ultra-liberal cartoon-style manner as these people do. Too bad the liberal press won’t bother to investigate.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Palin gave a wonderful pro-life speech in Johnstown (just in case you didn’t see it).
October 11th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Hmmmmm. “The November Trifecta,” as you put it. Could be. A minor thing might be the resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine, shutting down talk radio, FOX News, and eventually most bloggers.
A more profound effect might follow.
In 1917 Russia had, you may recall, a democratically elected government under Alexander Kerensky for a short time before a more ideologically-committed faction silenced the press, intimidated the opposition, and took over.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I do wish, however, that you could keep clear the difference between “voting fraud” and “voter registration fraud”. If you do this and read the following closely:
Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County Election Board” with 57, 435 rejected for faulty information. Most of these registrations were submitted by ACORN, and rejected due to fake social security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, clearly fraudulent signatures, addresses that do not exist, and duplicate registrations. In one case, a man was registered to vote more than 15 times since the Primary election.
What you can see, and what the Judge should see if he had his buttons on, is the electoral system actually doing it’s job. The 57,000 bogus registrations were rejected, not accepted. That’s what’s supposed to happen. This means that “Donald Duck” will not be on the voting rolls and nobody is going to come into the polls, say he’s Donald Duck, and get inside a voting machine.
This is what happens when the system works, not when it fails.
If they were rejected from fake SSN’s, DOB’s, fake addresses, and duplication, it means that the Board of Elections is actually checking registrations against the secondary data bases, just like they ought to be. That’s why the secondary identifiers are there. And, presumably, the 200,000 that were accepted rather than rejected got exactly the same treatment. I see no reason to think otherwise.
It is obviously an immense nuisance and a strain on the employees to have to wade through all that bogus confetti. But a BOE has to accept the attempts to register in good faith until they are proven bogus, and they cannot reject them out of hand merely because the courier has an ACORN button on.
If you really care about voting fraud, what you want to look for are the places that report no rejected registrations from ACORN. That may easily mean that they are not checking the registration information. ACORN is country wide, so did this happen in your county? It might have. In all probability the answer is merely a phone call to your local Republican headquarters away.
Fair and free elections are everyone’s business, not just the media’s business, and the only place you can usually make it your business is in your own county.
["This is what happens when the system works, not when it fails." If hundreds of thousands of these things exist, AND Sec's of State signal that they're not too concerned about it, AND there are people determined to cheat - then the very scope and scale of the registration fraud will naturally become voter fraud. They can't all be caught, and that's what ACORN depends upon. admin]
October 11th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I’m no fam of Lou Dobbs but when I got into my car a few hours ago he was RANTING AWAY on the voter registration. He was actually losing it.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Let’s face it. Algore’s Florida fiasco of 2000 turned this nation into a Third World country.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Well, yes, no system is foolproof. But if people fear this so greatly, they should get involved–be an observer, be a pollworker, join the League of Women Voters, be a pest of yourself, make a nuisance of yourself at County Commisioner Meetings. That’s how Sarah Palin got her start.
But find out how it’s supposed to work when it’s done right, and then hold your local BOE accountable. And you will be in a much better position to judge where and when real voting fraud may be taking place.
The sad thing about the angry crowds at the McCain/Palin rallies is that they are pushing the candidates to attack the opponent even more stridently with ads and speeches.
It’s not working.
And where were they when the candidate needed them?
Go over to Pollster.com and look at the National Trend Chart [Click on the little blue USA in the lower right corner of the main map]. The red and blue lines are a summary of all the national polls across the entire year. After a week of “gloves off”, John McCain is now at his lowest polling average of the entire election. The Dow is sliding down faster than he is, but not by much.
I would urge you to look very carefully at what is being fed by all this in the souls of McCain/Palin supporters. If it’s not working, what is it really for?
[This of course goes both ways, Joseph. The hate and nastiness we've seen from the left and the press for the last 8 years - it fed something, too. Which is one of the reasons you're seeing so much anger on the right. But the left seems not to understand this, because they're so convinced that - because they are "correct" in all of their opinions, their nastiness was justified. This is much more complicated than we realize, and the fault lies on both sides...but - and I will say this again and again - the press' willingness to overpraise one side and overcritique the other has a great deal to do with the high fever we're currently suffering. They have seriously abused a public trust. It WILL come back to bite them, sooner or later. - admin]
October 11th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Joseph,
The thing that bothers me about the number of ACORN-submitted fraudulent registrations is that if we’re finding so many, we can feel pretty sure that the actual number of frauds is far higher. In a close election they are nearly certain to make the difference. I don’t know of anyone who thinks that the fact that so many were detected means that all were detected and the system works.
You should have a look at what’s going on in Ohio, with the active aid of the Attorney-General and now the apparent complicity of the 6th Circuit. It’s not unique, either. This election is about to be stolen by a man who is probably a committed Socialist.
This is to say nothing of the actions the government is now taking to Socialize large segments of our economy.
It’s probably only the beginning.
I’ve often recalled that, some years ago, William Bennett was being pressed to run for president. He declined, saying that that would be like trying to reform the Mafia by running for Godfather. Then he added that, when people were ready to take up pitchforks and march on Washington, he might be their man. I wonder, are we there yet?
October 11th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I don’t know if the people at these rallies are plants or not, but it is not good.
If McCain tries to mollify them by saying something like Obama is a decent man I have disagreements with, he gets booed. If he does not then he gets blamed for the outbursts.
Is it fair? No, it is not. It is a double standard for sure, but that does not change the fact that if the media can make conservatives look like scary right wingers, they will.
So McCain is in a real sweet spot. Which ever way he goes, he is in trouble.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Hypocrites of the Left Laughing…
Americans are ticked off.
…
October 11th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Well, you can call me what you will, but I would remind the room to consider 2 Kings 6:17
We are not alone in this matter.
[Forgive me, Deej, but I don't get it. Horses and chariots? Please 'splain.- admin]
October 11th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Sorry, the point is dual. First, and this is why I said I expected to be called some things, is that we are a multidimensional people. There is spiritual warfare just the same as any other kind. Frankly, that is the only way to explain some of the things in our history, but what I mean here, is that we sometimes might believe that our prayers are psychological, just to reassure ourselves rather than actually speaking to and with a loving, omnipotent God.
I’m not about to say that God’s wearing anybody’s button, but I do believe He has interests in our affairs, and if we pray for intervention according to His will, then help we shall indeed receive. I am one of those old fuddies, who believes the stories in the Bible are factually correct, except where it is obvious that they are symbolic. I do not know what sort of help we will receive from the Lord, but I do know that if we ask, humbly and according to His will, we shall receive it and be glad of it.
The second thing is this - anyone who has been to my site (no plug, but it’s relevant) knows that the poll numbers are hinky. They do not comply with the requisite conditions for the 95% confidence interval they claim. Ergo, either the method or the data is wrong. I have been arguing this for weeks, but a lot of folks have been taking it for foolish optimism. But if you look at how both McCain and Obama are acting, where they are campaigning, it’s evident that neither of them believe the polls either. What’s more, use your common sense. How many Obama signs have you seen lately? How many people are showing up at Obama-Biden rallies, and how many at McCain-Palin rallies? Look at the internals of the polls from Fox, Gallup, or Franklin & Marshall, and you get a VERY different story than what is being broadcast in the media. We’re in a psyops situation, we’re being played, told it’s already over, and we’ve seen that before. The news calling Florida and Missouri for Gore while the polls were still open, the early calls in 2004 (as early ass 11 AM, when EVERY polling place was open) that Kerry was winning in a landslide. This time, the propaganda started much earlier and has been relentless. There are a LOT more people supporting McCain-Palin than are being announced. I’m not saying the polls are deliberately biased, but I also recall that in 1936, 1948, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1988, and 2000 that the election results were much different than what we were told to expect. I am no psychic, but I do know numbers, and I do study causality. Don’t be fooled folks, you all matter very, very much, and there are a lot of allies you don’t see unless you know how to look.
Well, that’s wordy but hopefully it makes some sense.
Semper Fi, it’s not just for jarheads anymore.
DJ
October 11th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
The Angry Right…
The Anchoress has a must read post that perfectly describes how I feel. It is too good to cut up and pull individual quotes from.
Go read it and feel free to come back and comment on it.
No tags for this post…….
October 12th, 2008 at 1:13 am
I hear you, Anchoress, and you know that I’m angry. It’s the Perfect Storm: it’s hitting us all around, and there’s no way out, but to sink into the ocean and never be seen again.
But there are three factors that tell me we might not be all alone in our outrage, things that the Press and the Obama campaign might well be ignoring to their peril.
1. Polling bias - DJ has explained it before, so I don’t have to.
2. The PUMAs - I’ve been going to PUMA-related sites lately. The overwhelming feeling among them is that Obama and his buddies have hijacked the entire DNC apparatus and given Hillary the shaft, so to speak. I have come to believe, strongly, that Hillary did believe the votes of the people counted more towards her popularity that the delegates, superdelegates, and cauci. But we all know that Obama hijacked all three, even to the point of intimidation.
I will NEVER forget, for as long as I live, the results of the TX primary and that of its caucus. Hillary won TX overwhelmingly: I know it, because I stayed late to watch the results, and woke the next morning to see the numbers from the State’s Election Results site. She and Bill campaigned all over this state, even into the Rio Grande Valley, which is traditionally Democrat to begin with. They took nothing and no one for granted among the voters here. In my neck of the woods, she made a campaign stop at the Nueces County Fairgrounds, which is right next to the main roads that take you up and down the Valley, even to Brownsville and Laredo. People drove by the thousands to see her there. By contrast, where did Obama decide to show up around here? At the American Bank Center, right smack in Downtown Corpus Christi, down the road from Texas A&M Corpus Christi (have you noticed he always gravitates towards college towns?), to be exalted as the Second Coming of JFK… The difference was like night and day here. Bill went to a Chamber of Commerce meeting here, and to a local radio interview, for his wife. Obama sent Ted Kennedy to Del Mar College. (Yep, a community college, with which I’m totally familiar.) The primary results spoke for themselves here. But on caucus night in this state, somehow, Obama’s people hijacked the whole process and had him win the TX delegates. I’d rather not say this here, but, WTF?
Look, Hillary is no saint of my devotion, but I think the words coming from these PUMAs have a lot of weight here. They too sense that a seriously nefarious influence has taken over their party, and that they cannot properly purge it without causing extensive damage. I saw what happened here in TX. There was NO WAY IN HELL that any Democrat with a sane mind here in TX would have consented to vote for Obama, but by sheer force. You don’t mess with Texans - not even TX Democrats. But somehow, Obama did. If I were one of these PUMAs, I’d be furious, too - and I would ask what kind of witchcraft did he use on the TX cauci.
I also have to mention that Hillary also won the FL and PR primaries. I know that the Puerto RIco primaries don’t count, but this primary gives me a good hint as to where the feelings of many of my own people towards the candidates are. Hillary took about 70 percent of the votes there. Obama didn’t have a chance. Almost the same happened in FL. There has been a massively growing population of Puerto Ricans like myself in FL, especially Central FL, and mainly from the Island, while others arrive from the Northeast. Both sides know Hillary rather well over there, being the Senator from NY and all. (Of course, her husband freeing FALN terrorists might have helped - to my shame.) We can tell you that we know a cheat and an user when we see one. Not to mention the Cuban-American community, some of which are Democrats. Will any of them openly support, let alone vote, for a Marxist? I don’t think so. Again, I think the PUMAs have very good reasons to be mad as hell.
3. Anecdotal evidence - I keep seeing this all over the Web. The guy or gal who talks to relatives and/or friends, lifelong Democrats, who have decided to vote for McCain. The people who would not dare to put a McCain bumper sticker in their car for fear of intimidation and/or a nasty encounter with an angry driver. Hey, I don’t express my politics in my car. I’m too conscious to do that. But I keep my memorabilia at home. And exercise my sacred right to vote, because I know that’s what counts. People don’t like bullies, and many have come to the conclusion that the bully here is not John McCain, but Mister Hope and Change himself, and his buddies. After the abuse Sarah and her family have taken from the media and Democrats, a lot of people seemed to have come to the conclusion that they don’t want to be associated with the media or the Dems. I know these are just isolated incidents. But how many more will we not see that are the same way?
Something tells me that, if the election goes for Obama, too many people will know in their guts that he got the White House by sheer crook. It won’t be just Republicans saying it, but many Democrats who have been silenced by their own party. Carville has been implying about riots if Obama loses. I’d say that a civil war may be coming if Obama wins. There have been reports here in TX of people buying extra guns and ammo for the Fall, and I’m not talking for hunting season. Something tells me, from my own experience of living among Americans for eighteen years, since age 17 when I began college, that too many Americans don’t want to take their cherished system into the ditch that has swallowed too many Third World countries’ electoral systems. And no, no sane American will ever give the reins of national power to people who consort with terrorists, even domestic ones, let alone Marxists. (We fought a Cold War because of it, remember?) Based upon all of the reports of voter registration fraud in as many as fifteen states by Obama’s cherished ACORN, Obama might well be taking us into a serious ditch from which we might not able to climb out of.
This is what’s angering me. What angers me even more is that too many people have been bewitched by that man, and that they will wake up when they’re deep into the alligator’s swamp and trapped too well for them to get out.
Satan must be laughing his butt off at us.
[Newton, if he is, he's laughing because we're dithering instead of trusting the longview. I say take the longview and laugh back at him. He can't stand being mocked. - admin]
October 12th, 2008 at 7:06 am
betsybounds, what is supposed to be happening is that every registration card must be looked at for flaws, by comparison to the prior rolls, the addresses in each presinct, the SSN database, and the DL database for DL numbers and DOB’s. Now Bruner is tangled up in an issue about when a separate set of such data should be transferred to the BOE’s to allow them to do this. The story in the Columbus Dispatch makes clear that the BOE’s already have this information:
“The panel noted that the process of matching voter information with state and federal records has been in place since 2007, and that the details about mismatches are available to counties on individual voter records, even if not in one list.”
Now it may not be convenient for them, but if they already have this data, it is their responsibility to apply what they have, not Bruner’s to supply them a new set or to do their job for them, which is what the suit asked.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:11 am
A year later: Whining Still Doesn’t Work…
I used to be a ‘Signs and Portents’ kind of guy.
But that gets old. Chris Hitchens is right: there’s no there there.
If I were still superstitious, however, I’d make a big deal out of the fact that exactly one year ago today, I …
October 12th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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October 12th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Newton,
So basically I must not be in my right mind, is that what you’re saying? And, because no body can support anyone other than your candidate, we should all be held at gunpoint, and the election overturned?
Wow, that is supportive of the bill of rights.
You know, I must be really naive. When the left says that it’s the end of the world if McCain wins, I laugh- did the same after Bush. When the right says that it’s the end of the world if Obama wins, I laugh too, cause you know what? It’s bunk. The world will remain the same, regardless. Both are good men, who want to accomplish the best for America. It’s just the way they’d go about it, and what that best is, that they disagee on. If you’re so lost that you can’t see that, well then I feel sorry for you.
Obama is NOT the antiChrist. But you probably won’t believe me, because you’re so certain that he is.
October 12th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
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October 12th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
stephanie,
Did you ever saw me say, anywhere here, that Obama is the antichrist? I have NEVER said anything like that here! In fact, and the Anchoress has seen it, I have said - and I still believe - that he’s not That One. Just ask her.
There are two people that Obama reminds me of. One is Hugo Chavez, with his “Bolivarian” revolution - which is not even Bolivar-inspired, but Marx-inspired. The other one is Robert Mugabe. The sad thing is that all this thuggery we are all seeing coming from the Left, even to the point of infiltrating the opposing camp to damage their reputations, is plenty common in Third World countries where their electoral systems can take much worse turns than here. I have seen things like that happening in Puerto Rico, of all places. Families divided against each other. Places vandalized. People hurt. And that happens even though there’s a much higher voter participation rate there than in any of the fifty States of the Union. At least, we have the Constitution to temper us. But in other places, that’s not the case.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
“The sad thing is that all this thuggery we are all seeing coming from the Left, even to the point of infiltrating the opposing camp to damage their reputations…”
Umm…I know some people think that’s the case, but is it confirmed? I’ve heard it here, that some think that the people who are particularly nasty at rallies are, in fact, Obama supporters trying to make the right look bad, but is there any proof? Cause of that I have seen nothing, which makes me as inclined to believe that as I am to believe that “the right is conspiring to bring down the economy to makwe the Democrats look bad and to give them a real mess to clean up if they do win”
To clarify- not at all.
[I think these things are hard to prove, and I would urge caution in simply believing every charge, but on the other hand, there is some cause to wonder...nothing wrong with wondering. -admin]
October 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
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October 13th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Agreed, anchoress, that you can wonder. But I was objecting to it being stated as fact by Newton. Sadly, if it could be bad behavior by the Dems it’s treated as fact, but if it could be bad behavior by Repbulicans, well then we should wonder. Seems like a bit of a double standard to me…..
I was thinking of this last night… In the 35 years I’ve been alive, the Republicans have had the top spot for 23 years. The country is (and has been my whole life) split evenly- so the other half has complained. Sometimes loudly, sometimes rudely-and yes, sometimes in a flat out unacceptable manner. But the level of anger in response just doesn’t, to me, seem to fit.
And this hysteria every election about if the dems win it’s stolen…seems a little over the top. it’s like, because republicans don’t support the Democrat rhetoric, no one could…thus it’s impossible that they could actually win by their merits.
Hard not to think there’s a hidden element at work- IIRC, the only presidential politician actually found guilty of anything like this would’ve been Nixon-who was not a democrat.
["Agreed, anchoress, that you can wonder." - But Stephanie, shouldn't YOU wonder, too? Just as one can be too fast to accept this notion...one can also be too fast to dismiss it.
"Sadly, if it could be bad behavior by the Dems it's treated as fact, but if it could be bad behavior by Repbulicans, well then we should wonder." - That's precisely the situation and it goes both ways, Stephanie. A few catcalls from ignorant people at GOP rallies, and the press starts crying "jackbooted nazis." Assassination fantasies, lurid pictures of Palin being beaten up, etc...that's all just "free speech." It goes both ways. Once again, it is the press that creates the double standard. The press is at fault for a great deal that is wrong and out of kilter in this election and the nation, right now. -admin]
October 13th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Anchoress,
I didn’t necessarily mean “you” in the literal sense. But since so many of the people here are defending the anger, I guess I accept that the anger exists, and is expressed. I don’t really wonder, any more than I wonder if the poor behavior I see or observe at liberal gatherings are being conducted by plants. I pretty much figure they’re our nuts :-), and assume the same.
I’m actually not that excised about people ranting so much as the notion that if they’re disruptive, they MUST be dem plants to make republicans look bad. It COULD just be republicans behaving badly- and we dems have enough of our own of that for me to do more than tsk at that. The press does creates one double standard- but republicans create their own, too, in opposition of the one the press creates.
Isn’t the truth usually somewhere in the middle? Why does everything HAVE to so extreme?
[It would be great if it were not so extreme. But let's face it - you have your nuts. We have ours. The press says your nuts are ok and ours are "dangerous." I don't think republicans create "their own" any more than the Dems create "their own." Remember...the press ARE the dems! - admin]
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