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10/23/04 Democratic Dirty Tricks The Democrats always try to claim the high ground in election season, but they are always the first to wallow in the gutter. In 2000, they tried to frighten minorities into voting by engaging in deceptions that could only fool the uneducated, and when those same uneducated voters couldn't figure out how to cast a valid vote, their ballots were spoiled, the Democrats lost the election, and they tried to claim it was a civil rights issue. As I recently pointed out, many in the media (in the specific case reported, it was on ABC's Nightline) have come on board to try to support the claim of active disenfranchisement by Republicans which has been refuted by law enforcement investigations as well as the investigation by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. So the Democrats are lying again, trying to scare up new voters to vote for their candidates. Moreover, any attempt by law enforcement, elected officials, or (heaven forbid!) Republicans to enforce the election laws to prevent fraud is characterized by the Democrats and their lap dogs in the media as intimidation or "dirty tricks." Now, anyone who defines an attempt to enforce the law and prevent fraud as "dirty tricks" clearly has an agenda: Democrats like election fraud, because it works in their favor. If non-citizens vote, they will likely vote for Democrats. Historically, dead voters usually vote Democrat, and multiple votes are usually Democrat votes. On the other hand, Republicans have historically taken the high ground. Nixon might have defeated John F. Kennedy had he challenged election results in Texas and Illinois in 1960's presidential election, but rather than drag the nation through a protracted and divisive electoral conflict, he conceded the race. As far as the Democrats are concerned, that is the way it should be. When Democrats cheat, Republicans should do the honorable thing and step aside. Well, not any more. There's too much at stake. And so the Republicans make it clear they will not back down, and the Democrats step up their dishonest, dishonorable, and disingenuous attacks on people who want laws to be enforced. Here's what will happen on Election Day (assuming Kerry loses): Democrats will claim voter intimidation in every precinct where poor and minority Democratic voters live. They will champion the cause of every voter who would have voted for a Democrat, and seek to have every vote that would have gone for a Republican (like military absentee ballots) thrown out on a technicality. Republicans will challenge voters who don't show up as being registered, or who try to vote at the wrong precinct, and Democrats will use that as evidence of an attempt to disenfranchise poor minority voters. And here is what will happen in the weeks and months after Election Day: It will be shown that many people who should not have voted were allowed to vote, and some people who should have been allowed to vote were not allowed to vote. But it will not be the fault of Republicans, but of clerical errors or errors by the voters or the people who tried to register them in a big hurry that will have caused most of the so-called disenfranchisement, and it will have been the conscious efforts of Democrats that allowed those who should not have been allowed to vote to cast ballots that will then be counted (and thus cancel out some of the votes of those who should have been allowed to vote). And the Democrats will perhaps have succeeded in disenfranchising large numbers of absentee voters by dragging out court challenges to the presence on the ballot of Ralph Nader's ticket (so much for the Democrats wanting voters to have choices) to the point where absentee ballots already mailed out and sent back will be subject to challenge on technical grounds. And every time they win such a challenge, a member of the military whose life is on the line in Afghanistan or Iraq, or might be soon, will be deprived of the right to have a say in which Commander-in-Chief they would prefer to follow. Those are what I call "dirty tricks." Terry McAuliffe and the Michael Moore crowd don't care about democracy. All they care about is power, and they'll say or do anything to obtain it. Kerry lies every day when he claims Bush has lied to the American people, and he lies when he tries to run away from his own voting record. They ask the American People to judge Kerry by one standard (believe him even when there's no consensus of the evidence that supports his claims) and George W. Bush by another (assume he's lying unless he can prove he's telling the truth with irrefutable evidence). They claim he will have to engage in a draft to fill the ranks of the military because it isn't big enough today, and yet they don't want you to draw the logical conclusion that Kerry's own goal of increasing the military by two divisions would therefore also require a draft to accomplish. Or perhaps they want you to believe that the same magic wand that will convince Germany, France, and Russia to join us in the military effort in Iraq, so that French, German, and Russian blood will be spilled while American troops come home (which they have indicated unanimously they will not do), would convince thousands upon thousands of new recruits to volunteer to follow a man whom a majority of veterans view as nothing short of a traitor to this nation and to his own military compatriots. They ask ordinary citizens to vote against the President who has the support of nearly 70% of the military he is supposedly misusing and abusing, precisely because he is supposedly so misusing and abusing them. (I suppose he is suggesting that those of us who do not serve should save the poor brainwashed troops from their own foolishness.) Like the Clinton campaign of 1992, in which William Jefferson Blythe Clinton successfully duped a nation into thinking the economy was in the worst state in some arbitrary number of years, which we now know was not true (and anyone who was paying attention at the time knew it was not true), the Kerry campaign is a campaign of lies, deceptions, and bait-and-switch contradictions that can only attract a following of partisans (who would vote for a wooden dummy--and did in the last presidential election--as long as it was a Democrat) and of those ignorant or foolish enough to gamble this nation's future on a set of mutually incompatible promises from a man who has a long track record of failures or inconsistencies on every important issue in this campaign. If it weren't for the media that is peppered with left-wingers like Dan Rather and the Nightline crew and most of the front-line reporters, the Democratic "dirty tricks" machine could not succeed. But the reporters are doing a lot of the Democrats' dirty work, and have obviously done so since that famous press conference, which is being used as a campaign spot by Democratic groups, when a reporter challenged a war-time president to admit he had made mistakes, and to list them, in front of the American people and the military whom he asserted had been wrongly committed to die for an unjust cause. The President should have responded by telling that reporter to think of a question that was designed to elicit useful information and then submit it in writing before he would be allowed into another press conference, and moved on. But, because George W. Bush is a kind and gentle man who takes people at face value, he tried to find a way to answer the question without compromising his authority and the collective will of the military and the American people to succeed in the war effort (which was, of course, impossible--and that's why the liberal hatchet-man asked the question). Bush's integrity makes him vulnerable, and the Democrats and their lap dogs in the media demonstrate their utter lack of integrity by exploiting it. A vote for Kerry that is based on any of these "dirty tricks" is a vote for disingenuousness and deceit, and against honor, integrity, and truth. No American should cast such a vote. And everyone who tries to manipulate any American into doing so is a demagogue and deserves to be rejected and ignored forevermore. Modified: 10/24/2004 |
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