The other big, bleeping deal on the Right today are allegations that ACORN is perpetrating massive voter fraud all over the country to steal the election for Obama. They’ve been on to this for a while, actually, and it’s easy to see they are setting up ACORN and voter fraud as the excuses for a McCain loss, should he lose. They so love feeling victimized.
In just the last week, we’ve had a phony stunt raid in swing state Nevada (where Acorn had been cooperating with officials for months, concerning problem canvassers they’d long ago fired); a Republican election official in swing state Missouri tell Fox News that she’s being besieged with fraudulent registration forms from Acorn (in a county where they’ve not done any registration work since August); a Republican sheriff in swing state Ohio, who, the very next day, suddenly requested the names and addresses of hundreds of early voters (with evidence of exactly zero wrong doing, but lots of Democratic-leaning college student in the particular county, and John McCain’s state campaign chair as a partner in the investigation); and a screaming front page headline in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post about a guy who claims he was somehow tricked by Acorn into registering 72 times (but read the article closely to note he says he registered at the same address each time, which, even if true, would allow him – you guessed it – precisely one legal vote.)
It’s an old Republican scam, but it’s never been carried out with more zeal than this year.
If Obama wins the election, they’ll be screaming their heads off that he’s not the “legitimate” president (which they also said about Bill Clinton, you might recall). As I said, they are getting their excuses ready.
Update: See Matt Yglesias.
Having trouble following all the crypt-Klan crazy? Fafblog summarizes it all for you:
http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/barack-obama-black.html
Because laughter is good.
“crypto-Klan,” sorry.
A few days ago, CNN aired a short interview with the founder of the website “Moms 4 Sarah Palin”. Masochist that I am, I checked it out.
Science-fiction fans will appreciate the “alternate universe” feel: Obama supporters are violent (Tami, the site founder and administrator says: ” I heard it said best today by a Fox News contributor: “Democrats lecturing Republicans on rage is a little like O.J. Simpson lecturing us on domestic violence!”); she makes a call to arms to all those who are “tired of being bullied for the last eight years”; she interviews a young, conservative voter who lays the out the election issues: abortion, gay marriage and pastors have the right to preach what they want. And then there’s Darwinism: “a different set of faith-based presuppositions”.
One of today’s diatribes concerns ACORN. I just couldn’t bring myself to follow the links.
I don’t really suggest you go to the site. It is beyond frightening. I think that in a past life, Tami interrogated so-called witches in Salem.
Fox News has an email line to report voter fraud:
[email protected]
Perhaps Fox News should be apprised of the actual threats to our elections processes. Hopefully someone will send the articles by Brad Friedman, and the ones by digby, and … and … and … and …
The difference is that the EV and popular vote margins and the lack of a ‘Perot’-type third party challenge will leave no doubt that Obama’s won a landslide. I’ve seen gas prices dropped by $1.20 in the past three months as the oil companies try their damnedest to get their sycophants elected and American voters still keep flocking to the only sentient ticket, refusing to be fooled by the economic manipulations. (And yeah, I don’t buy the standard supply&demand explanations on oil prices, ever.)
Anti-progressives cannot see the fundamental distinction between 2008 and any other election year and they’re acting like wounded prima donas. Let them whine, I say. They’ll set the standard for inept loserdom for another generation and we should be harvesting their current bon mots so high school history teachers will have a fresh batch of Know-Nothings to mock for the next quarter century.
Dear Canadian Reader,
I tried a link for “Moms4Palin,” (despite your warning). There was a “stop Acorn now” petition, so I signed it . . . as Mickey Mouse. Lets see how many names they say their petition garnered.
Some righties are already claiming voter fraud on the part of Democrats. Check out the second letter on that page.
Even if Obama wins in a landslide, which is not unlikely in my opinion, I think the righties will still claim the election was stolen. Without a shred of real proof for it, I might add.
Ref ACORN: HuffPo had an article up yesterday, I think, that detailed all the great work ACORN was doing with Republican governors, and included quotes from Crist and photo-ops with the Arnoldinator. The ACORN guys sounded kind of confused by their sudden “enemy of the state” status.
Ref post #3: “..and pastors have the right to preach what they want.” And I’m sure there is no conflict between that statement and their Ref. Wright flaming, because all pastors EXCEPT Wright have the right to preach what they want, right? Makes complete sense, to a schitzophrenic.
“I think the righties will still claim the election was stolen.” I wonder if, this time, someone will actually move to dismantle the Electoral College, since it will likely be an EC rather than popular vote landslide. And if so, is this a good or a bad thing? I tend to sit on the fence on that one.