Why is GOP complaining about Urkaine election fraud?

[drunkdriver-in-chief]

Is it still possible that kerry is working behind the scenes to expose the fraud in america's election and the bush gang knows this and so is yakking non-stop about the ukraine mess to outmaneuver Kerry? Is their plan to convince america, before the Kerry bombshell, that the republicans are the people fighting for honest elections in this world ?

[ewulf]

1. could be, but its a dangerous game

for them to play: there legitimizing the notion that its OK to challenge an election based on exit polls and anecdotal evidence of fraud.

[drunkdriver-in-chief]

2. It's more than anecdotes

If he chooses to, kerry can prove votes were electronically stolen and that voters were disenfranchised by a deliberate policy of too few voting machines in democratic districts.

[NVMojo]

3. a desperate effort to act like they give a flying crap...

[LisaL]

4. No. It's cause Bush wants the guy who lost (as of now)

to win the Ukrainian elections. Because the loser (as of now) is pro West and wants Ukraine to join Nato, while the winner (as of now) is pro Russia. This doesn't have anything to do with Kerry. Basically, Bush wants to overturn the Ukranian election so they can elect the loser (as of now) because this guy is pro-West. Looks like it's working too, since Ukranians might get a whole new election.

[drunkdriver-in-chief]

6. Yes - i know that's what the press is saying

I'm not buying it. They give whatever spin the GOP tells them to give.

[LisaL]

9. Press is not saying it.

Whatever gave you the idea press is saying it. Press is saying Bush is just such a fair guy and wants the elections to be fair. Press have never said Bush wants the Ukrainian elections overturned because he likes the pro-West guy rather than pro-Russian guy.
:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :spank:

[Angry Girl]

5. Angry Girl Cartoon about it

not the most subtle but, hey....

http://www.nightweed.com/angrygirlcartoons.html

[Gyre]

7. They're just happy somebody else is getting busted

so they're piling on pretending to be as outraged as the rest of the world community. Pretty much like a criminal who just committed a crime, who didn't get away fast enough, pretending to be just a part of the crowd coming to gawk.

Gyre

[LisaL]

10. They are not just happy "someone else is getting busted".

They want that someone else to be busted, because they don't like the outcome of the Ukrainian elections.

[progressoid]

8. yeah, I dunno but it would be heelarious it this came back to bite them on

the butt in a couple weeks when fraud is uncovered here at home.

[Angry Girl]

11. Article in Guardian may have some answers....

Is this why U.S. so interested in Ukraine elections?
Full article here too:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1394368&mesg_id=1394368


Original link in case the other one fails.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1360080,00.html

[Hekate]

12. Why? Because the GOP has the patent on hypocrisy...

and they are generating royalties from same.

Hekate

[PATRICK]

13. Sadly, yet another

bipartisan American strategy as with the Iraq policy has caught up and made fools of the Democrats. The persistent US policy to depose dictators(especially with nukes!) enlisted Dem advisers and support as well to create the VERY methods denied to Democratic party members in our own elections! What started with Milosevic has gone its merry way to working toward the greater GOP goal of installing OUR oligarchs in the former Soviet Union, adding glamor to thugocracy in an even more pristine form than America.

Like Chavez, but less defensible, Putin is finding his regional sovereignty under assault as any other target of US imperial intentions. And he defends his people against foreign intrusions that will become very swiftly even LESS democratic in nature than his own heavy hand.

The guise of democracy. Dems gotta love it, but never ever get so carried away as to see it employed in its true form in party or nation here. Heavens to f-ing betsy. The many ironies here include the SILENCE of the Dems about the Ukraine that matches their SILENCE about Nov. 2.

The humiliation is grotesque, the lack of understanding or inexpressible
irony is beyond the minds of the high and mighty in the DNC.

Funny how we become indignant about the usual Repug blind hypocrisy and don't notice the silence of the lambs.