compiled from media sources by Dan at Gaypatriot.
Remember, though: before you get all ‘whiney’ and whatnot, most of those who have been fraudulently signed up to vote will probably be too drunk or hopped up from huffing aerosal to vote anyway. So, like, what’s the big deal? If anything, the “intense scrutiny” brought about by these allegations of voter fraud are likely to hurt the Democrats, who are the ones engaging in it, so who are you to complain?
I mean, this is none of your business, really, is it?
So please, can’t we just move past this procedural nonsense, wingnuts, and get on to the issues? It’s like all you conservatives care about is “fairness” — which, as those of you who’ve read your Stanley Fish realize, is but another of those right wing code words meant to maintain bourgeois status quo based on Enlightenment ideas that have been successfully coopted and owned by the white power establishment. The only “fairness” is to break from the pernicious ruse of fairness.
Let’s talk about healthcare; let’s talk about the need to remove guns from the hands of honest citizens. Voter fraud is not an “issue.” It’s a symptom of the conservative cancer on the body politic, and should be dealt with by the coming socialized planning system.
STAY FOCUSED PEOPLE! FOR FREEDOM!
Conservatives are the real ones who steal teh elections even if they win fairly, because conservatives are teh hella evvvvvuuuuuullllll. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSHhh!111!!eleventy.
Had to do it.
Mark Steyn, at the Corner:
Which is the point. Saul Alinsky:
The question seems to arise, how do you outlaw the intentional gamer-to-failure of the system?
Let’s not forget the argument that it’s really Karl Rove who’s been corrupting these poor ACORNs into filing all of these false registrations in order to make the organization look bad.
I mean, come on — it’s not like good progressive democrats would ever engage in these kinds of shenanigans, right?
This is going to be bad, isn’t it?
The Anti-Contract With America, 1994 in reverse?
The Left is already crowing about how they are going to attack policies from Reagan’s first term. They are currently going full tilt at deregulation.
Fairness Doc., SCOTUS just icing on the cake.
Some where recently at a link I cannot find. Sorry. I read that ACORN doesn’t care if these fraudulent people vote or not. The idea, as they did to welfare offices in NYC in the 70’s?, is to so clog up the system that it doesn’t function. Then sue and agitate to discredit the whole idea of that there can ever be a “fair” election.
If elections are discredited and considered a corrupt thing then why bother with them at all? That is the strategy. Gore 2000 may be the kick off for this idea.
“Then sue and agitate to discredit the whole idea of that there can ever be a “fair†election.”
Sort of like that movie, ‘The Life of David Gale.’
Agitate for defeat in a war you voted for, so the country never goes to war again.
Fix the mortgage system socialist style so it infects the market and then call for regulation across all industries.
Any one else starting to feel like a truther, but in a non-insane sort of way?
“The question seems to arise, how do you outlaw the intentional gamer-to-failure of the system?”
You can’t using logic or rules. See “Godel Escher and Bach” on how logical rule based systems can’t capture all of reality and always have a critical failure point. Common sense is needed to break through that barrier. Seems to be in short supply in politics lately.
That’s one reason Palin is hated so, She has it.
“how do you outlaw the intentional gamer-to-failure of the system”
Anoint a lightbringer to the reigns of power.
You know what’s funny is I have seen people post on the internet such gems as “They are only fraudulent registrations, it is not like those people are not going to show up on election day and vote”. These same people screamed like a 12 year old girl denied her Hanna Montana concert ticket at imaginary Diebold conspiracies. They have long ago jumped the shark on any sane political discourse why is this any more surprising? I mean once you start making up excusing 20 years in a racist church it is not like explaining away election fraud is a fantastic leap of their imaginations.
“I mean once you start making up excusing 20 years in a racist church it is not like explaining away election fraud is a fantastic leap of their imaginations.”
After Liberal Fascism came out, I checked out the Salon review and stayed a while to read the batshit hysterical comments such as “Conservatives are liars by nature I don’t even need to read this book its full of shit b/c its written by a conservative” and other such tautological groupthink. I think that seeing/knowing Wright was debuted on Hannity is enough for ‘those’ libs to say I don’t give a fuck what Wright says, Hannity thinks he’s bad, so I’m for Wright.
What would be cool would be if ACORN was out getting people extra driver’s licenses. Man! 73 driver’s licenses! That’s 72 big nights out!
There will be no consensus Common Sense as to ACORN when you have a party in Congress that will attempt to write into a catastrophic financial failure rescue plan a provision to fund organizations exactly like it and neither exhibit nor suffer any shame in the act.
read the batshit hysterical comments such as “Conservatives are liars by nature I don’t even need to read this book its full of shit b/c its written by a conservative†and other such tautological groupthink. I think that seeing/knowing Wright was debuted on Hannity is enough for ‘those’ libs to say I don’t give a fuck what Wright says, Hannity thinks he’s bad, so I’m for Wright.
sashal was there, huh?
“sashal was there, huh?”
Well it is only a few lines of code, so yea.
I have had conversations with people that excuse the entire Wright fiasco. It is sickening to hear normally sane people try to mitigate or excuse Wright’s views while at the same time saying “Well that is his preacher not him. Wright is not running.” These normally sane people would rightfully be outraged to the 10th power if McCain had sat in a white power church for 20 years but seem able to explain this away in their heads simply because the candidate has a D in front of his name. Either that or because it is socially acceptable to hate white people now days, especially rich white people. I can’t tell which it is but my guess is on the D being in front of his name.
This post is about voter fraud though and these same people are explaining O!’s dealings with ACORN away or acting like nothing is wrong. Same thing goes with regards to both of their arguments. If you would switch the D to an R these same people would be screaming and it would be on every TV channel from now until election day.
You can actually see some interesting parallels between the Wright affair and the current ACORN fiasco. O! has said nothing personally about ACORN so his followers excuse it. Same thing happened with Wright until he finally disowned him. When he finally does say something about it, presumably negative for my comparison to stand, these same people will grudgingly say negative things about ACORN while at the same time mouthing some of the same lines they were using to defend it pre-Obama disownage. It is like the moral compass in their heads that would normally point them to the same set of values applied equally to all situations is always pointing due left.
Oh, and Sdferr, you type much faster than I and had links at hand too. I hadn’t caught the Steyn post. Thanks.
And, he ignores the Acorn “paper DOS attack”, an analogy I read elsewhere this morning, probably right here at PW, I think. Overwhelming the registrars, blocking legitimate registrations using a blizzard of fake ones, and undermining of confidence in election outcome are results of ACORN efforts.
Excellent, Jeff G. has the link I lost up on a new post.
Whenever I hear about Democrats opposing ID checks at polling places, I wonder why they don’t just attach legislation to those bills to address the possibility of electronic voting machine fraud. If it’s a valid concern of theirs, then they could do something about it as part of a compromise with Republicans. Or they could even smoke out any real electronic vote fraud plans — if Republicans opposed that kind of measure, then it would be a fair question as to why.
But Democrats never do, so I have to wonder just how seriously they take the issue, or whether they consider ID checks a bigger threat to them than electronic voter fraud.
Does anyone else have a vague memory of ACORN throwing a hissy fit during the last election cycle over some obscure state law somewhere that ACORN itself had campaigned for (I’m looking at you California) that required ACORN to pay its voter-registration cadre something approaching a “living wage” (such a precious term), whereas ACORN’s only possible practice was to pay something closer to “slave wages” (not a precious term)?
Ironies abound with these people.
The phrase “hoisted by one’s own petard” might apply. I’m sure there is a supply of “He’s not my President” T shirts left.
#2 Sdferr:
You turn the tactic back on them. That is the devil with any tactics manual. Anyone can read and use them.
“Rommel! You magnificent bastard, I read your book!”
The question seems to arise, how do you outlaw the intentional gamer-to-failure of the system?
Judo?
oh. splendid. yeah, that’ll work. or, at least as we die trying, we’ll get the last word in edgewise. nice.
Human Events
“ACORN: Labor’s Ally Is a Bad Seed” by Ivan Osorio 03/09/2007:
The DEA has decided to do their part for the home team and has “suspended interdiction efforts” in South Texas …”smoke em if ya got em” an unnamed source said today as tractor trailers rolled thru Rio Grande City headed for parts unknown. It remains to be seen how this may affect voter turnout come Election day but Pizza Parlors all over the US report very heavy traffic