The Right likes to crow about how the “Demonrats” are always stealing, or trying to steal, the election. The Right likes to do lots of things generally in keeping with the long standing tradition of villifying the Left. On one hand, bad them! On the other hand, the Left likes to do the same right back at ‘em.
Now, if you surf over to a partisan republican site, you’ll most likely find some Right-wing cheerleader screaming about how morally corrupt the Left is, and, oh! what about the Democrats of yesterday, of whom Zell Miller is the only remaining of that distinguished breed. With one breath, they praise Roosevelt and Truman, while behind closed doors they curse them as ‘communist sympathizers’ and ‘left-wing whackos.’
Well, y’know, fine. If certain Republicans are too intellectually dishonest to see the bad apples on the right, that’s their business. And to the bad apples on the left — throwing pies at Ann Coulter? Trying to run over Katherine Harris? Give me a fucking break — yes, we do see you, and we don’t like you.
But don’t believe the Republican spin on stealing elections. Republicans are well versed in how to do it, no matter how they cry innocence. Hell, over at Right Thinking, I responded to a Wingnut by reminding him that Nixon was famous for trying to rig an election. His response was that Nixon was justified because of what had happened in ‘60. Okaaaay.
Anyway, the whole point of this is that you should scoot over to NewDonkey.com. An interesting article on some of the tactics certain election thieves have decided to take. Hint: they aren’t Democrats (or Demonrats as some morons would call them).
A federal judge in Columbus blocked Republican efforts to force county election boards to review tens of thousands of new voter registrations. Before the ink was dry on the judge’s order, the Ohio GOP’s top lawyer said the action meant the GOP would challenge such voters at the polls on November 2. “We wanted to have all these questions resolved this week,” said attorney Mark Weaver. “Now they won’t be resolved until Tuesday, when all of these people are trying to vote. It can’t help but create chaos, longer lines and frustration.”