Wisconsin moonbat Joel McNally has a maddening little editorial in Madison's Capital Times today in which he compares Wisconsin's Voter ID bill to the civil rights struggles of the 50s and 60s. He writes:

If requiring photo IDs doesn't turn away enough minority voters, we can always go back to the dogs and fire hoses

Will someone please explain to me how requiring photo IDs at the polls is discriminatory against minorities? The facts say that it doesn't:

Some 120,000 of Wisconsin's 5 million residents do not have photo IDs, state officials estimate. Two-thirds of them are elderly people who no longer drive.

97.6% already have the IDs that would be required to vote. If anything, the Voter ID bill "discriminates" against the elderly, although they, along with the 40,000 or so non-elderly who lack identification can easily obtain a state ID for the whopping sum of $9.

But this is still too draconian for looney lefties like Joel McNally:

Republicans in Madison who are trying to throw up obstacles to disenfranchise minorities would not like to think of themselves as modern-day versions of the illiterate thugs who blew up black churches and murdered civil rights workers in the '50s and '60s.

For the most part, they may not be motivated by explicit racism. They are merely seeking petty political advantage. The end justifies the means just as it did four years ago when Florida officials blocked every minority vote they could to put into office a president who came in second nationally.

At the very least, Republicans who seek to add requirements to make voting more difficult for African Americans and Latinos display a callous lack of regard for the monumental struggle and the lives that were lost to win the vote for racial minorities.

It's so hard to comment on rhetoric like this because it's so ridiculous, and frankly, it's insulting to these people that did actually struggle to obtain their god-given rights. It's one thing to be denied the right to vote because of your race, it's quite another to be denied the right to vote because you can't be bothered to get yourself some identification.

Voter ID opponents complain that some people can't afford the $9 or that the homeless won't be able to obtain an ID. While I'm sure that's true in some circumstances, then work to, for example:

• Write language in the bill that would allow a homeless person to get a state ID using the address of a shelter and the testimony of a social worker
• Start charitable organizations whose sole purpose would be to pay for IDs for the poor
• Organize carpools for seniors to the DMV so they too can get IDs.

But instead, these moonbats insist on demonizing those who are trying to guarantee that Wisconsinites get one, and only one, vote. Why is that? On one hand, I'm sure it's just another part of the ongoing effort to paint the GOP as racist. But, given the rampant voter fraud in heavily Democratic areas of Wisconsin last November, maybe, just maybe, there's a more sinister reason.