Reply #6: I was going to blog about this later today,

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but now that you mention it, check out this thoroughly obnoxious item from this week's oh-so-liberal TNR: http://tnr.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi%3D20050131%26s%3Dnotebook013105twp

It's subscription (my husband gets the magazine, and I can't help it - I look inside :-(), so here's the opening bit:

KERRY IDIOCY WATCH, PART I

Democrats had been successful at confining the sour grapes about the presidential election--and the loony talk and conspiracy theories those sour grapes sow--to the fringes of their party, leaving it to outliers like California Senator Barbara Boxer and Ohio Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones to protest the awarding of Ohio's electoral votes to President Bush on the grounds that there had been voting irregularities in that state. But, this week, those sour grapes received a star endorsement when Senator John Kerry, in a Martin Luther King Day speech, declared that "thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote."

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Kerry isn't wrong about the fact that discrepancies in voting technology exist and that Congress and the Bush administration should work to make sure these long-standing disparities are eliminated. He also isn't wrong that the GOP has sometimes tried to suppress the Democratic vote. But, by using the word "suppressed" when talking about differences in voting technology, Kerry is promoting the unproven and utterly selfdefeating argument that these disparities are the result of intentional actions on the part of Republicans and that they somehow cost him the election.

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: