How to win an election when the chips are down. From GOP playbook.

[Pobeka]

1. Own the media (done)


2. Own the voting machines (done)


3. Purposely bias polls, and use the media to convince people that the vote is legitimate. (done)


4. When things are really looking bad resort to "Plan B".

Bad is defined as:

• The general populace has really had enough of your bullshit


• Democrats have finally caught on that you actually have rigged the voting machines

Plan B:

1. Announce far ahead of time that the voting machines are rigged, and if you lose, it is because the democrats have rigged the vote. Say this a lot (with the help of the media), so it appears that the democrats are in control of the voting machines. (in process)



2. Just before the elections, heighten the terror alert, or drag out some scapegoat of a plot to put in the news.



3. Rig the election as usual, and the media pundits will rationalize for you how security concerns changed voter choices in the final days (the best part is the pundits will be unwitting participants, they don't even need to know the real truth)



4. The democrats will not be able to claim the vote was rigged, because it now appears that if anyone could rig the vote, it was the democrats (see step 1 of Plan B)

How do we "defuse" Plan B? The democrats need to start speaking up now, and loudly about who owns the voting machine companies, and the linkages to the GOP.

[Dr Fate]

1. No one believes the media is Pro-Bush because of this strategy.

The GOP claimed bias for so many years- while Democrats refused to point to examples of pro-GOP bias...

I have not seen any Repubs claiming voter machine fraud on the part of DEMS, but it would not suprise me if you are right & that they will repeat this strategy...

[Pobeka]

2. The leaked GOP strategy book made me think of this.

There was GOP strategy document, which got "out" a couple of weeks ago. One of the talking points was that if they lose in November it was because the voting machines were rigged. Couple that together with the great success they've had in convincing the public that the media is left-biased, and the scenario I came up with makes sense (to me at least).

I don't have a link to the report of that document, I probably heard about it on the radio.

On Edit: No it wasn't the GOP strategy document -- don't remember exactly where I heard it. Google time...

[OregonBlue]

3. You were right. It was posted on DU. Talking points sent to

repukes on what to say while in their districts during this break. I think Raw Story had it first.

[Pobeka]

4. Thanks. I'm still unsuccessful in finding a link.

But I know I heard/saw it somewhere, and it has been on my mind, clearly.

[EST]

6. If it results in a thhorough examination of the election fraud

and rigging, it will be worth it. Of course I want the republiclowns nailed on their fraud-across the board-but if it comes about through their attempts to smear the dems with it and forces the auditing of all elections, so be it.

[Pobeka]

9. The problem with the current situation

Which will be what we have if the GOP is still in power after November, is that they will simply declare another whitewashing commission to "investigate" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). If that happens we will be in even worse shape because the evoting will be officially "blessed" by congress. A tainted congress -- but the average citizen doesn't know the difference.

[blm]

26. This is also what's holding up real voting reform - if it gets pushed now,

the GOPs will weiner it up till the "fixes" are all cosmetic and nothing of substance will come of it.

I really think only a RELENTLESS full-court press by Dems ON AIR on every program they can get on without getting sidetracked on any other issue will be the only way the public gets a clue to how serious it is that one party controls most of the voting machines.

[blm]

5. Perfectly said - - The most IMPORTANT POST OF THE DAY

And should be repeated EVERY DAY by every one of us till it starts to sink in.

KandR

[Nikki Stone 1]

14. Agreed

And recommended

[Matariki]

7. bingo.

especially the part about rationalizing after the vote, to explain the discrepancy between the polls and the outcome.

[blm]

10. And the media will say whatever is needed. Face it - the smartest thing

they ever did was one of the most evil things they ever did - they bought control of most news media.

[Kurovski]

16. Those media holdings can be made worthless for their purposes

of propaganda by reinstating The Fairness Doctrine.

[blm]

23. I wouldn't mind every viewer knowing the GOP has controlled newsmedia for

over 10yrs now. I think they'd feel the way most of us do now.

[Pobeka]

25. Agreed.

:thumbsup:

[tom_paine]

8. Sadly true. That and so much more...

it's the same question, rhetorically, the every totalitarian rulers "asks" his populace every day.

"What are YOU going to do about?"

If the answer is "nothing", then it's onward and downward once again!

[Pobeka]

11. Nighttime kick. n/t

[Kurovski]

12. Republicans own most all of the voting machine companies

and the proprietary codes.

Will that make any difference?

[Pobeka]

13. No, no conflict of interest there...

:sarcasm:

[Kurovski]

15. Yes.

It was foolish of me to suggest it. Just another one of my crazy, left-wing, loony, paranoid, conspiracy theories hatched on my last visit to the moon.:-)

[Kurovski]

17. An astonishing conflict of interest.

Remarkable.

[lpbk2713]

18. And the oldest trick in their book .....

"Point fingers and accuse the other side of everything they (the rethugs) are guilty of."


They must remember, if you shout a lie loud enough and often enough sooner or later it becomes accepted as the truth.

[Kurovski]

19. Mark Crispin Miller points out the pathological projection practised

by the right-wing Republicans in his book on election fraud "Fooled Again."

[jen4clark]

24. Yes, Mark Crispin Miller fleshes out this theory

You can read the transcript of his interview (which is part of General Clark's current "ClarkCast") at ms in la's blog at Clark Community Network. He talks about this, and Pobeka's exactly right.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7997

The link to the podcast is at the link below -- but due to time constraints, the transcript (link above) contains more of the interview than the podcast. David Dill and CA State Senator Debra Bowen are also interviewed on the podcast.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7992

[blm]

22. They didn't buy up control of the broadcast media in the 80s and 90s to

assure a free democratic society, that's for sure.

[Blue Shark]

20. WE say...

...All together now...

...GET OVER IT!

[BeFree]

21. This is why we can never "Get Over It"

They stole the 2004 elections. Kerry is the real president, but the manipulations of the vote and the machinations of the media and popular sentiment lead some to say "Get Over It."

But the sad fact is that our democracy has been cut off at the roots. And the perpatrators have gone on to lie and deceive the public on every matter that has thus far been presented.

We are dealing with the biggest bunch of crooks our country has ever harbored, and giving them an inch is like selling the farm for a bag of peanuts.

Give them no quarter, fight them at every opportunity, call them out for what they are. Doing anything less allows them to get close enough to get their hands further in your pockets.... heck, they've already stolen the keys to the country, what makes anyone think they can be trusted at all?

[Kurovski]

27. Kick.(nt)