November 08, 2004

First, a heartfelt "Thank you" from James and me to everyone who's visited Dummocrats. With your help, we went over 50,000 visitors today! It's just amazing considering that we only started blogging in late April. So, thank you again and hopefully we can continue to inform and entertain you.

And, I hope that my continuing efforts to expose looney Madison leftists are actually entertaining. I can't help it. I have to expose their lies (and make fun of them). They make it so easy.

In that vein, Madison's Capital Times is once again printing the lefty creed. Today it's all about how the election was stolen by Rove & Co:

American democracy: a shining city on a hill or gutter politics that steals votes and suppresses voter intent?

To about 60 people who gathered Saturday at the UW Humanities Building, it's more like the latter.

Okay, 60 people. 60 people?? Why in the world is a newspaper wasting print talking about a lunatic fringe that can only attract a measly 60 people in the very epicenter of the lunatic fringe? I think the answer is that author of this column is, as the rest of the article shows, a member.

A young couple's matching "Skull and Bones" shirts showed they didn't rule out that maybe the Yale secret society has some very dark secrets.

Is this guy trying to imply that Yale's secret society somehow engineered a Bush victory? The same Yale secret society that both Bush and Kerry were a member of? Wouldn't a responsible journalist maybe mention that? Of well, there's clearly no room for facts or analysis in this piece:

Moderator Ben Manski, a law student and Green Party activist, said the biggest concern is "black box" voting. How is it, he asked, that Ohio precincts with 70 percent Democratic registration went 60 percent for George Bush? (Ohio voters' party affiliation is determined by how they vote in primary elections.)

Now, I'm not a law student, but I think the answer is a combination of the following:

• The Democratic Presidential primary was contested, but the Republican one wasn't. So, if citizens of Ohio wanted to vote in the contested primary, they had to register as Dems
• Just because someone is a registered voter doesn't mean they actually vote. Perhaps Karl Rove's evil machine was more successful in getting their registered voters to the polls.
• Pre-election polls consistently showed that Ohio was close, but leaning to Bush. Post-election results showed the exact same thing. Coincidence?

Ah, but once again, these looneys don't need no stinkin' facts or proof:

A related concern, Manski said, is the effort to suppress votes before and on Nov. 2. District 8 Ald. Austin King said misleading voting information posted at UW-Madison and other campuses "was clearly a coordinated national effort by Republicans to suppress the college vote."

"I'd very much like to see someone put in jail for this, and I'm not a tough-on-crime guy," King said.

Nationwide, there's a loose coalition of groups protesting the election, and news reports surface every day detailing problems with things like electronic voting, people waiting hours to vote and supposedly nonpartisan election officials making decisions that helped Republicans.

Let's tackle this bit by bit.

• What "misleading voting information"? Give me some proof. Ditto to the allegation that Republicans were "clearly" trying to supress the college vote. It's not acceptable to throw out these charges, you need to back it up with something. A responsible news organization would never print this crap.
• Some people had to wait hours to vote. Big deal. I fail to see how that means that Bush stole the election. You had to wait awhile to vote? Suck it up. Some people go through a hell of a lot more.
• Finally, "supposedly nonpartisan election officials making decisions that helped Republicans". Where? Offer me some proof. The only instances I've seen of supposedly nonpartisan officials making decisions that helped either party were decisions made in Madison to help Dems get early votes after a Kerry rally.

So, besides overturning the election, what do these 60 loonies want?

Whether the election is overturned or not, said Phyllis Hasbrouck, it's key in the future to require paper ballots and to ban touch-screen voting. "If we don't do this, we'll never have a real election again," she said.

Okay, let's get this straight. Back in 2000, the problem with the election was that the paper ballots in Florida were too old fashioned and susceptible to fraud. Now the problem is that the touch-screen voting is too sophisticated and susceptible to fraud. Hmm, maybe the real problem is that Democrats have ideas that have been discounted by the majority of American voters in election after election.

Oh, wait, I'm not being fair. One guy has another idea (and excuse me, because I'm furiously giggling as I type this):

John Peck, a recent UW graduate who said he's now overqualified for a job in his field and is driving a cab, wants to put up "democracy walls" like the Chinese did in the 1970s and 1980s.

"We should have a democracy wall in every town so people who don't have the Internet can read them. It's time to reclaim our public space."

Peck added a thought about electronic voting. "The Luddites had an answer to machines."

BWAH!! Yes, to better our democracy we should follow the practices of a repressive communist regime. That's the answer! Oh yeah, and we should destroy all the machines! Hmm, did this guy just get lost on the way to the rally in San Francisco?

With an intellect like that, I find it hard to believe that Mr. Peck is overqualified for anything this side of a straight jacket. But, with activists like these, it's not hard to believe that the American people refuse to give the Dems the reins of Government.

Posted by kris at November 8, 2004 03:31 PM

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