The Briar Patch in Ohio, or "Gee, why isn't there a recount?"
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Democrat Voter Fraud
What Hugh Hewitt and company call the "fever swamp" and the rest of us think of as "left wing conspiracy theorists and wing nuts" is in full hue and cry demanding a recount in Ohio and elsewhere.

And the lack of an Ohio recount is a little odd. You'd think as close to the wire as the election got there, and as impassioned as this election was, that a recount would be a natural.

The inhabitants of the fever swamp have concluded that John Kerry just doesn't have the 'nads for an Al Gore-caliber national temper tantrum, and he doesn't want to expose a notional loss of the election due to Republican election fraud:

A much more satisfying and plausible hypothesis is that John Kerry and his close strategists didn't want a recount because they were afraid of exposing massive Democratic voter fraud in Ohio.

Think about it for a second. At least fifteen million dollars, according to dissidents from within the Democrats' inner circles, was available to fund recounts nationwide.

With the massive pool of volunteer talent on tap to stage protests all over the Buckeye State and allege mopery and dopery, why not contest the elections there? Why not do it just on the chance that there were legitimate errors that could have changed the outcome?

The only answer that makes any sense is "Because the Kerry campaign and the Democratic National Committee know they themselves were the ones doing the cheating, stuffing ballot boxes, filing bogus voter registrations, and in general trying to fix the election in Ohio."

It's entirely possible that a thorough recount in Ohio would only have resulted in Federal marshals knocking on the DNC's offices with arrest warrants.

Please, Brer Kerry, don't ask for a recount in Ohio! Whatever you do, don't throw us in that briar patch!

Colorado - 2004's Political Mutant Farm?
Topic: Democrat Voter Fraud
When I was in elementary school in the 1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission used to send these films around for us to watch in class showing this farm over at their plant near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It consisted of a garden all planted in concentric circular rows around a cobalt-60 gamma-ray source. Up close to the gamma-ray emitter, of course, nothing grew, because everything had been killed.

But a little past that distance, there were... things horrible enough to make nine-year old kids go "cool... " - fifty-pound peanuts, twisted and bumpy ears of corn in which the kernels were all different hues, sizes and shapes, pea pods colored and shaped in ways that made hallucinogenic drugs redundant - Hieronymus Bosch's Victory Garden.

That's what Colorado's going to look like, politically speaking, this month thanks to the Democratic National Committee's tactic of trying to win Presidential elections in court, even before the polls are completely closed. Thanks to both high and low jinks, Colorado's going to get more than its fair share of electoral lawsuits.

Example - recently, the judge hearing a lawsuit over the proposed (on a ballot initiative in this election) amendment to the State constitution not only awarding Colorado's electoral votes for the Presidential Election a basis proportional to the popular vote, but doing so RETROACTIVELY, refused to rule on whether the Colorado State Constitution could be so modified, on the basis that he didn't have the necessary jurisdiction.

The lawsuits in courts which DO have the necessary jurisdiction, up to and including the Supreme Court of the United States, to rule on this two-headed calf of an amendment are just the beginning of the fun.

- Over 9,000 voter registrations have been identified as very suspicious, several thousand of those being parolees and other convicts who don't get to vote; other registrations were simply forged. Registrations obtained in this fashion could be used to create bogus votes, valuable commodities in a "swing state" for a party which is committed to winning "by any means necessary."

Only ONE voter registration worker (one of hundreds of people paid to register "new voters" - paid in many cases only if an hourly quota of new voters is met, or if the voters register for certain parties) has been brought up on charges related to these bogus registrations.

Despite these facts, the state Attorney General, who gets to investigate these cases and who is also the Democratic candidate for the US Senate this year, has not recused himself from any investigations of these registrations or of the unethical practices used to obtain them.

We can look for a lawsuit at the very least to suppress the bogus registrations; one would think an inquiry - a Federal inquiry - into what may be a conflict of interest with far-reaching implications would be called for, too.

- "Provisional voting," in which it is not even necessary to produce photo ID to vote (subject to protest by the voter registered under that name), is another new feature of the Colorado voting system (it's supposedly being evaluated for nationwide use) ripe for lawsuits - as it should be.

The vote of an American citizen is one of the most valuable things on Earth, and should be safeguarded accordingly. The idea that requiring voters to adequately identify themselves before voting is "intimidation" is, not to put too fine a point on it, a load of rank, smelly bullcrap.

Think about the potential for people to show up at a polling place, representing themselves as the voters named on some of those bogus voter registrations we mentioned earlier.

If all that stands in the way of acceptance of a bogus provisional ballot is the protest of a voter who doesn't exist, or who has better things to do than check to see if someone fradulently used his vote, or who doesn't even know that he or she has the right TO protest, then a huge number of fradulent votes may have already been cast (Denver and other other parts of Colorado have "early voting" over several days before an election to encourage voter turnout).

- Heavy use of absentee ballots, another "innovation" pushed in the name of election reform, may paradoxically add to the welter of lawsuits surrounding the Colorado elections.

Absentee ballots were originally intended to make it easier for the infirm and those otherwise unable to turn out on Election Day at the polls (such as servicemen or others whose work or other plans take them away from home for elections) to vote.

However, one can request an absentee ballot by mail, making it easy again for bogus votes to be cast, in some cases (when mail is vulnerable to theft or diversion), without the actual registered voter's knowledge.

- The Democratic National Committee has formally instructed local party organizers to complain about incidents of racism or other intimidation whether or not they have happened. In the old days, we used to call this "filing a false report" and throw the people who did it in jail.

It seems reasonable that bogus accusations of this sort will be used, as they were in Florida in 2000, to prop up DNC-funded lawsuits against local registrars of voters.

Since Colorado's Attorney General is himself a candidate supported by the Democratic Party and a recipient of Democratic National Committee largesse, the state's defense in these cases may well be even less spirited than their current prosecution of thousands of bogus voter registrations.

Remember, so far only ONE man has been charged with generating only about 20-30 bogus registrations out of several thousand, and the Attorney General's Office commented that the firm which employed him was probably "a victim."

Investigative reporters with the Denver papers and TV stations found out as early as this August that the "victim" in this case, the firm employing the accused man, is under investigation in several states for incidents of fraud involving legal petitions and voter registration drives.

So, if the voters of Colorado are expecting Ken Salazar to fight the theft of this election by the Democratic Party, they're apt to be disappointed.

Of course, you never know - depending on exactly how accommodating Ken Salazar has been to the Democratic National Committee and its 527-funded cat's paws, his Federal service may be done not in the Senate, but in an institution where he doesn't get to vote on ANYTHING.

And Inauguration Day may come and go before the question of exactly who won the national elections in Colorado is answered - because voting in Colorado has mutated to the point where it may be bearing very strange fruit indeed.

Intimidation and racism - fine old Democratic (Party) traditions.
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Democrat Voter Fraud
The DNC sending a memo to its constituent groups to do those "pre-emptive strikes," essentially, "oh, hy the way, be sure to complain about racism and intimidation at the polling place, whether it happened or not, guys" is a little ironic.

You know all those guys with fire hoses, foaming at the mouth police dogs, white housewives turning out every day to hurl unspeakable obscenities at little African-American kids whose only sin was going to a "white" school, cops in riot gear wielding truncheons at protesters, the dirtbags who blew churches up or set them on fire in the 1960s and even the 1970s?

In the South back then, most of them would have been Democrats.

I grew up in the South, and I remember being taught about the two-party system. My teacher: "Yes, there are two parties, and you can join the Republican Party, but you'd just be wasting your vote."

In the school's mock election the next year, I gave the Libertarian candidate's speech and except for the eight wonderful years between 1980 and 1988, have been Libertarian ever since.

We even have a proud veteran of the century-long Democratic tradition of intimidating voters in the name of race serving in the US Senate - why, it's Senator Robert K. Byrd of the great state of West Virginia - longtime Democrat AND Klansman.

That's not just a Southern issue, either - unless you count "South Boston" (as in "the Southie riots") or the Midnight School Bus Burnings in Michigan, where the enthusiasm of northern Democrats for busing and integration (gee, a story of hatred and prejudice Michael Moore seems to have missed - and in his own back yard!) was on full display.

And I wonder how many of those good people in the 8 Mile subdivision Eminem did so much to make famous - the people who actually built a wall through a subdivision to show the bankers and the insurance salesmen where the white people and where the African-Americans lived - voted and registered Democrat? Almost all of them, maybe?

No, the minute the Democrats point the finger at people in other parties for "racism" and "intimidation," immediately three fingers point reflexively back at them - it ought to be more, but you get the idea.

The Democratic Party has forgotten more about strong-arming and intimidating voters, stuffing ballot-boxes and just plain cheating in elections than anyone else knows on the subject. At the very same time the press was going whack-o about "butterfly ballots" in Florida, the Democratic machine in Illinois had counted those very same ballots without a peep from the press.

But I'm sure that there are notes written down somewhere, so Terry McAuliffe can relax about the details of any of those tricks his party might have forgotten.

There's more to this story than the incredible hypocrisy of the DNC, though.

The Drudge memo could foreshadow something really nasty the Democrats have in mind for Election Day - actual intimidation of voters BY DEMOCRATS.

If the Democrats themselves are planning a campaign of intimidation against Republican and other voters, what better way to kick it off than with a timed barrage of accusations about the poor folks at the polling stations or the system at large?

Especially if, as we know is entirely plausible, the Democrats can count on national news coverage that either covers up or minimizes Democrat misconduct ("just public-spirited Americans haranguing or assaulting people who look like Bush voters, no news here, people") while inventing or exaggerating Republican misconduct?

A baaaad moon might be on the rise in November, people.

If we (the people of the United States of America, acting through our elected leaders and our government) are going to be accused of intimidation tactics anyway, this actually EMPOWERS us, ("us" again being the people of the United States of America}.

Having an advance indication that ONE side of the political scene at least envisions falsely accusing us of racism and intimidation on Election Day, is it not reasonable to take precautions which would reduce or eliminate the danger of such intimidation?

We have a National Guard which can be mobilized either by the state's governors or by the President of the United States.

We should consider arming the members of the National Guard not presently deployed in support of national security operations and distributing them to each polling station in the United States to support duly constituted polling station officials.

These Guardsmen should be armed - with loaded firearms in whose use they are trained - and placed at the disposal of the official in charge of each polling station, to prevent acts of intimidation by ANYONE from occurring.

Quick-reaction forces of Guardsmen should be made available to respond to organized violence or acts of racism or intimidation at polling places.

Local police agencies should consider stationing an officer or two at each polling station and making their special weapons and tactics forces available for quick-reaction against any organized acts of intimidation or racism.

If there really is a potential for acts of intimidation or racism at polling places in this country, let's stop them before they start.

But if McAuliffe and the other people leading the Democratic Party are just making accusations up in order to tilt things their way, than that's something else we need to stop before it starts.

The Drudge memo is evidence of a conspiracy to falsely allege electoral code violations in the upcoming elections.

People have been thrown in jail for much, much less. Martha Stewart is in jail for the exact same offense (at the Federal level). If NOBODY went to jail for this, we would know that something is fundamentally wrong with the system of justice in this country.

If this, as the Drudge memo seems to show, is a conspiracy to make numerous false accusations intended to sabotage the election system of our country, then what we have here is an organized attempt by the Democratic National Committee to overthrow the lawful government of the United States of America by unlawful means.

The Internal Security Act of 1950 is all about dealing with THAT, and it was written when the Democratic left wing was just the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Communist Party.

Fortunately, good ideas never die.
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It's time the Democratic National Committee either accepted a role in the government of the United States of America and stopped trying to subvert and sabotage its operations with their lies

- or declared themselves to be in open and organized opposition to the lawful government of the United States of America, with all that implies - in other words, that they want to overthrow our current government by unlawful means.

The Democratic National Committee themselves have given up on the democratic process, because they can't win and are unworthy of the trust placed in them by the members of their Party.

Democratic Senate Candidate, State Attorney General Accused of Sitting on Voter Registration Fraud
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: Democrat Voter Fraud
Interesting news about Democrat activism in Colorado: several "progressive" voter registration canvassing groups are implicated in a scandal involving ineligible voters - as many as 6,000 convicted felons may have been registered to vote this way.

Mrs. Donetta Davidson, State Registrar of Voters says that "her office has sent hundreds of questionable voter registration forms to Attorney General Ken Salazar since April, but only one person has been charged. She said that raises questions about how the investigations are being conducted... "

Please note that this is the same Ken Salazar the Democrats are running against Pete Coors for Ben Nighthorse Campbell's empty seat in the US Senate.

Back in the summer, a few hundred questionable voter-registration forms were intercepted in Jefferson County alone - one paid canvasser was charged with forgery in four of those cases.

At that time, Ken Salazar's spokesman said he thought the man's employer (another voter canvassing group which was only paying for voter registration forms in which the "Party" line was not filled in "Republican") was innocent of wrongdoing.

In both this case and the more recent ones, a quota system in which canvassers were paid only when they got 5 new voters or more an hour was identified as a possible motivating factor for the frauds.

Full report of the story from the local CBS-owned television station KCNC (local Ch. 4)