GOP Terrified Of American Voters - AJC

[WillyT]

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John McCain’s statement in the debate that ACORN and the liberals are “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history … maybe destroying the fabric of democracy” is probably the most overwrought, ridiculous statement by a major-party nominee in living memory.

If you make a charge that serious, you better have something to back it up. McCain has nothing. Nada zero zilch.

There is no evidence of any attempt to rig or steal this election. Just think about the scale of the effort it would take to do what McCain describes.

On a statewide level, you would need an army of thousands of co-conspirators willing and able to vote repeatedly and illegally just to have any hope whatsoever of altering the outcome, and according to the GOP fantasy, those thousands consist of homeless drunks and drunk addicts.

Yet out of this alleged conspiracy of thousands in which lowlife drunks and dopers play a large part, the GOP and its allies in the Justice Department and other governnment agencies can’t find a single participant willing to admit to the conspiracy and cough up the truth?

To rational people, that would suggest that no such conspiracy exists. But rationality has nothing to do with it.

There’s something in the psyche of the GOP base that needs to believe they are victims of some ill-defined but clearly treacherous group plotting against them and the country. How else can they explain the fact that they’re losing? It can’t be because they have proved themselves incompetent at governance, or that they have lost touch with the reality of life in 21st century America. There has to be some other reason, and if there isn’t they’ll invent one.

In the 2006 cycle, that need was fulfilled by Moveon. org. The rightwing blogs and punditocracy couldn’t utter a paragraph without weaving Moveon into their narrative somehow. It was never quite clear how Moveon could possibly do all the nefarious things it was alleged to be doing, but that uncertainty made the right-wing fantasy all the more alluring.

This year, Moveon still exists — it’s still doing what it was doing before, yet the group is rarely if even mentioned. That’s because ACORN has now been cast to replace it in the role of designated villain.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously against Ohio Republicans in their effort to try to challenge 200,000 voters. Two hundred thousand!! Republican officials fear the verdict of the American people. They fear the wrath of those Americans drawn into political participation by anger at the direction that the GOP has tried to take their country. And they are trying desperately, frantically, to try to prevent that verdict from being delivered.

Seventeen days to election day.

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Link: http://www.ajc.com/services/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/entries/2008/10/18/gop_terrified_of_american_vote.html

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[kenny blankenship]

1. It's like Saddam Hussein's fabled weapons of mass destruction

The very fact that you can't find them just proves - to some crazy people - just how sinister and far reaching was the Iraqi plot to make WMDs and hide them from the UN inspectors.
Saddam Hussein wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to invent invisibility shields for his weapons of mass destruction unless they were really, really, really massively destructive, you know? Like off-the-fucking-charts evil, and anti-American, and sinister.

[NightWatcher]

2. Sounds like the GOP is being un-American, better call Michelle Bachmann

when the American people as a whole dont support you, maybe is it because YOU are unAmerican?

I read in that blurb that Americans are tired of the fascist reichwing and the reich doesnt like it. Tough

[justiceischeap]

3. It's just a different way for them to try and steal the election

It would appear the margin is too large in the race to be able to pull off a "close election theft" so now they are trying to bang the voter registration fraud drum to cast the results of the election in doubt.

It's more of the same divisiveness of the last 8 years taking its dying breath. The only people, in the end, who will believe in this grand conspiracy are the lunatic fringe who believe Obama is a Muslim terrorist with his own flag who eats babies and wants to turn the White House into a pyramid.

[Ikonoklast]

4. I love Jennifer Brunner, Ohio SoS

And that insididious bastion of extreme left-wing Communist fellow travelers, the Supreme Court of the United States, thinks she's pretty nifty, too, by agreeing with her.


Eat shit and fuck off, Republican scum.

That's right. I said it.

[WillyT]

6. Yes You Did !!!

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[AndyTiedye]

5. There is PLENTY of Evidence of Attempts to Steal the Election — By the REPUBLICANS!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7505987
http://www.gregpalast.com/rolling-stone-its-already-stolen
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7505997
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/18/111333/13/181/634429
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html

[Raster]

7. The rethuglican high command can read the writing on the wall, and it's not "hugs and kisses."

America, contrary to the GOP media machine, is not stupid. We see what has happened to our country and we are not happy. National polls show up to 90% of us think the country is going in the wrong direction. George W. Bush*, that poor, sad excuse for an American President is now officially the most unpopular man to EVER hold that office. The very legality and legitimacy of his two terms in office are called into question. And if that is not bad enough, the last eight years have been an absolute disaster for the United States in just about every sense of the word with the vast majority of blame laid squarely at the feet of bush*/cheney*, the rethuglican party and their failed ideology.

America is angry, and rightly so. Instead of stewardship, we were treated to plunder and pillage on an unprecedented level. The citizens of this country have been strip mined to enrich the pockets of GOP financial backers. The GOP has right to fear the voice of the American voter. They have betrayed us, assaulted us, raped us and murdered us. The GOP as a viable political faction is over. It is time for the GOP to spend the next 40 years wandering in the political desert pondering their many crimes and misdeeds. Of course they don't want to hear the verdict from the American people. Tough shit.