This just keeps getting better and better! Writes the story’s author in the comments:
I posted this article and chart at 12:24 a.m. on election night, using data handed to me from the City of Brookfield clerk’s office, not from Waukesha County. Lots of confusion about this. This came straight from the city ON election night. These are the results County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said today that she failed to properly save and include in the countywide total she released to AP on election night.
Whatever. Republicans still would have stolen it if they had to. Plus, this is all an elaborate conspiracy anyway. Racists.
(thanks to geoffb)
geez … the comment section was an eyeful! Facts don’t seem to matter.
As I understand it, there are two possibilities – either 1) the entire municipality of Brookfield forgot to vote and the found votes are fraudulent, or 2) the people of Brookfield did, in fact, remember to vote, however a civil service functionary had forgotten to complete one part of her duties at the appropriate time.
Has there ever been a situation, anywhere in a close election, that somehow new votes were discovered that lead to a Republican victory? I cannot recall that, but I certainly can recall a lot of elections in which Democrats were pushed over the edge to victory with found votes, which also almost happened in this case.
So, do progressives actually think that because they cheat, we cheat? Do some of them believe that it’s reasonable to discover new votes that always break in favor of a Democrat winning (close, of course, but still winning), and never the other way around? Yeah, I know, yes on both counts.
That comment section (and those like it) provide something to bear in mind the next time you hear about “moderates” asking that we stop being so “unhelpful” in our arguments: this is who we’re arguing against. Never mind the evidence; never mind the facts; never mind arguing in good faith. These guys believe — to the bottom of their shriveled little hearts — that we are evil madmen willing to do anything in order to starve grannies and poison children.
Show ’em the history of the Koch’s giving campaigns — they don’t care. Show ’em the evidence of an election screwup that has nothing to do with corruption or cheating — they don’t care. Show ’em the 100,000,000 corpses of their failed economic dream — they don’t care.
If they’re unwilling to grant us the benefit of the doubt; if they’re unwilling to argue in good faith; if they’re unwilling to examine the facts and the logical outcomes that proceed from said facts, then why do we owe it to them to abide by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules?
They are spoiled brats, and they are full of shit. They argue from wishes and feelings, without regard to facts, numbers, laws, or reality. The sooner we get those in the muddled middle to understand that, the sooner we can get the mandate to start fixing everything these idiots screwed up in the last century or so.
Progressives don’t need no steenking facts!
Sweeter still? Someone stated that Brookfield Patch is owned by Arianna/AOL.
Just HEH.
They just need a Frankenlawyer.
If I could intrude for a second.
Tonight is my wife’s (Becky) birthday.
She takes that stuff seriously, whereas I never want to acknowledge them. We’re meeting a bunch of family members at Carabba’s (In Peachtree City! Come on up McGeehee if you want average food and great people) to nosh.
She’s been through a whole lot since January and a lot of stuff has changed for us in a good way. Just thought I’d mention it, cause I appreciated everything (And so did she when I showed her) from everybody at that time.
OMG. Iggy Pop was on American Idol.
Apparently, some were not impressed. I love Iggy.
Donald, wish her a happy for Chris and me, but we’ll have to take a rain check — my wife’s birthday is next week and we’re going to Outback tomorrow or the next.
A little Iggy from back in my younger days.
I don’t know how to do cut and paste links on this mobile but CNN has a story up on their rotating headline deal right now about some “nonthreatening white powder” being sent to Congressman West that is fucking hilarious.
It is well none they have no shame, but it can’t be repeated enough.
is this it B Moe? http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/08/florida.powder.congressman/index.html
geoffb,
Oh, that’s just fabulous! After they try to have all the Brookfield votes thrown out, which I’m sure they will, I wonder how many thousands of votes they’ll find in the trunks of cars this time…
City of Brookfield says “STFU, you nasty, lying, LeftLibProgg #WiUnion #WiVote conspiracy theorists. This is OVER.”
But in Egypt, nothing’s over.
That’s it, thanks Maggie.
One of the best nothing to see here, move along pieces in quite some time.
I wonder what party West is?
I think that vote counting has become a sort of poker. The Republicans know that in any close election, the progressives will manufacture enough votes to make a win. Thus, they undercount their own votes, letting the proggies put all their fraud cards on the table. Once the proggies have played all they have, and think they’ve stolen it, the Republicans come up with some “lost” votes. Solves the voter fraud issue. Could be a template for future races.
I am just loving how the Progtards are claiming the votes were “found” when it was only the totals reported to the AP that were short.
The clerk had a separate system (Access) for keeping track of the counts to send to the AP, but the real vote counts were on the Wisconsin State system.
This might be the first time ever that Microsoft Access lost data for anyone. /sarcasm
And the huge number of local Patch websites are owned mostly by HuffPo/AOL, paying their drones a pittance for each post.