Vote suppression all the rage.

[cutthemdown]

Ok mr connect the dots.

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Originally Posted by cutthemdown

Ok mr connect the dots.

Riiiiiight, because I'm sure those felons you mentioned who are all Obama supporters are all white.

[cutthemdown]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Riiiiiight, because I'm sure those felons you mentioned who are all Obama supporters are all white.

Are you saying black people vote democrat because they don't like white people, and because they are felons?

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by cutthemdown

Are you saying black people vote democrat because they don't like white people, and because they are felons?

You implied that all felons were Obama supporters.

Are these felons you're imagining in your mind all white?

[Jetmeck]

Originally Posted by cutthemdown

Are you saying black people vote democrat because they don't like white people, and because they are felons?

What is trying to say is your brain is on spin cycle and you unable to grasp facts that have proven as such.

[cutthemdown]

Originally Posted by Jetmeck

What is trying to say is your brain is on spin cycle and you unable to grasp facts that have proven as such.

no he is saying I am a racist.

[Jetmeck]

Originally Posted by cutthemdown

no he is saying I am a racist.

I do believe you started down that road first..................

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How the Republicans are threatening American democracy

In 2008, when Norm Coleman was said to have won the Senate election by 215 votes, Sean Hannity of Fox News slammed the Democratic nominee, Al Franken, for pursuing a recount. Never mind that the recount was required by law; Coleman, Hannity intoned, had won fair and square. That set in motion the conservative meme – Coleman won, and Franken was trying to steal the election.

Franken was slammed as a crybaby who should now to the wishes of the electorate, concede and stop wasting the state’s money. Then, whoops – the recount showed that Franken had won by 312 votes and the conservative storyline changed dramatically. Fraud! The Wall Street Journal said it, Hannity said it, Rush Limbaugh and even Coleman. It was, one Republican commentator (I think it was David Frum) said a symptom of the party: When they won it was the choice of the people, when they lost, it was fraud. Put simply, the GOP had trouble accepting when it loses.

That arrogance underscores the vast willingness of the modern GOP to cripple American democracy. The crusade against “voting fraud” has its base in the utter disbelief on the part of the Republicans that they can lose any elections. Never mind that there is no evidence that any fraud of any importance takes place in elections. This, they intoned, required emergency actions to insure that elections were protected.

And so, the assault began. The boogeyman-ization of Acorn – the organization that served to register voters among the poor – was just stage one. With a political campaign that was as breathless as it was absurd, Republicans portrayed Acorn as this vast conspiracy to create legions of fake voters with names like Mickey Mouse. Never mind that registration is not voting, never mind that no one had ever been found who voted fraudulently as a result of an Acorn registration. This, the Republicans intoned, was a threat that had to be destroyed. And they succeeded – Acorn became the symbol for voter fraud, even though none had been committed, and the organization was put to death. Registration of the poor was hobbled.

In case anyone tried to pick up the slack, people stepped in like the governor of Florida Rick Scott – a man whom I met when he was running the criminal corporation Columbia/HCA and who is not only the creepiest person I have ever encountered, but one whose dishonesty is only exceeded by his egomania. Scott imposed rules on anyone who tried to register people to vote that were so stringent and punitive that organizations like the League of Women Voter’s announced that they could not risk registering voters in the state. (Thankfully, a Federal court has shut down the scheme for now.)

But that was just the beginning. In one Republican-controlled state after another, new rules were put in place to deal with the voting fraud “emergency.” That no Republican could cite a single instance of fraud in their state tied to an individual misrepresenting their identity was irrelevant – voter ID’s suddenly required.

The fact that millions of the elderly, the handicapped, minorities and students did not have the kind of ID now being demanded was not deemed as important. Somehow stopping the nonexistent fraudulent voters was worth disenfranchising more Americans than have been blocked from voting since the 1960s. And it is no coincidence that the people being blocked are all major Democratic blocks. As one Republican official in Pennsylvania put it, they had adopted Voter ID, and now Mitt Romney could win the state. Words that would make any banana republic dictator smile.

Conservatives fear the same democracy that they praise. They want everyone to vote – so long as it is people like them. If they retain control in state houses, next time around, the person who won’t be able to vote might be you.

Fortunately, American democracy has some checks and balances. Voter ID laws in Texas were thrown out because, the court rules, they were adopted with the intent of discriminating against minorities. The attempt to impose unequal early voting in Ohio – as well as cut directly into the periods where minorities vote in the heaviest numbers – was struck down by a court. And the dominoes just keep falling.

One thing to know, though. I am not issuing an argument against using voter ID – even if the problem is bogus, Americans have been led to believe that it is real. The problem isn’t identification, it is the requirement for identification that particular classes of voters are either unlikely to have or who would find them difficult to obtain.

Virginia has a voter ID law, but it is not designed to keep people away from the polls. The forms of ID that are accepted, as well as a rule that allows for voting by mail with the ballots sent to individual registered voters – have the same effect in preventing “fraud.” They just don’t stop people from voting. You will be able to judge the intent of states going forward that adopt voter ID laws if they follow the Virginia model of inclusion, or the Texas model of exclusion.

- Kurt Eichenwald

[barryr]

Liberals love to bring race into every subject. If you disagree with them, you are somehow racist. You can bad mouth any and every republican minority all day long, but that is different. But if you think Obama has done a poor job with the economy, among many other things, you are a racist.

But as one can see, just mentioning felons and the liberals believe you associate that with black people because THEY DO. When one mentions the stopping of illegal votes, they associate that with black people because THEY DO. They believe everyone else are racists because deep down, they believe black people are inferior, so we all must think like that, but just use race to keep power. The liberals and their all white clubs(coincidence of course) like to brag how much they care about minorities and all they do for them while they drive their SUV's(yeah, the environment matters) no where near where a so-called black neighborhood exists. Just a bunch of phonies who will also tell you they worry about the rights of gay people, but are first to call someone a "homo" as a means to insult someone. Hypocrisy, double standards, and contradictions are the ways of life for liberals.

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Originally Posted by barryr

Liberals love to bring race into every subject. If you disagree with them, you are somehow racist.

Riiiiiiight, because everyone knows there are no actual racists in the TeaPublican Party.

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If there's one thing repukes hate, it's the rule of law...

Ohio Secretary of State Refuses To Restore Early Voting As Ordered by Federal Court

http://www.classwarfareexists.com/oh...#ixzz25cntpAST

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Looks like this crook finally realized that defying a federal court order wasn't such a good idea...

BREAKING: Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) backs down from blocking early voting!

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[nyuk nyuk]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Riiiiiiight, because everyone knows there are no actual racists in the TeaPublican Party.

His point was valid and apparently as a result of that, you chose to deflect and post retarded cartoons... Again.

[nyuk nyuk]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

I'm thinking it's the DramaLlama using a different user account.

If you wish to use canards about my alleged identity as an excuse to avoid my points, knock yourself out.

[barryr]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Riiiiiiight, because everyone knows there are no actual racists in the TeaPublican Party.

And everyone knows, except you, that there are racists in the democratic/liberal world. In fact, you should know since you see one whenever you look in the mirror.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by nyuk nyuk

His point was valid and apparently as a result of that, you chose to deflect and post retarded cartoons... Again.

His point, i.e., "liberals love to inject race into every subject" was "valid?"

Your understanding of the concept of "validity" obviously comes from Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Re: The cartoon: So you are denying the statement about FL governor Rick Scott?

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Originally Posted by barryr

And everyone knows, except you, that there are racists in the democratic/liberal world. In fact, you should know since you see one whenever you look in the mirror.

According to mental midgets like you and their convoluted reasoning, condemning racism is a racist behavior.

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Originally Posted by nyuk nyuk

If you wish to use canards about my alleged identity as an excuse to avoid my points, knock yourself out.

Whatever you say, DramaLlama.

[nyuk nyuk]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

His point, i.e., "liberals love to inject race into every subject" was "valid?"

Your understanding of the concept of "validity" obviously comes from Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Re: The cartoon: So you are denying the statement about FL governor Rick Scott?

Absolutely. Liberals are the prime mover in openly appealing to the racial identity grievance crowd.

Considering I neither listen to Beck or Limbaugh, you're making quite an assumption, but then again, liberals always apply that same label to anyone who doesn't perform fellatio on Democratic party leaders, anyway.

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Originally Posted by nyuk nyuk

Absolutely. Liberals are the prime mover in openly appealing to the racial identity grievance crowd.

Even if this asinine statement were true, it still doesn't validate the claim that liberals "inject race into every subject."

Why is it that ditto heads have such a poor grasp of fundamental logic?

Originally Posted by nyuk nyuk

Considering I neither listen to Beck or Limbaugh, you're making quite an assumption, but then again, liberals always apply that same label to anyone who doesn't perform fellatio on Democratic party leaders, anyway.

It doesn't matter whether you listen to those bozos or not - they (and others like them) are still the intellectual leaders of your "movement" and have shaped the ideas you embrace.

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Originally Posted by nyuk nyuk

Absolutely. Liberals are the prime mover in openly appealing to the racial identity grievance crowd.

Where "racial identity grievance crowd" = racist code-speak used to deny the existence of racism in America.

[nyuk nyuk]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Even if this asinine statement were true, it still doesn't validate the claim that liberals "inject race into every subject."

Why is it that ditto heads have such a poor grasp of fundamental logic?

If you pander to racial identity voting blocks, it goes without saying you then pander to them based on race on the issues. Is this very difficult for you?

It doesn't matter whether you listen to those bozos or not - they (and others like them) are still the intellectual leaders of your "movement" and have shaped the ideas you embrace.

I'm not surprised a liberal would think media pundits are leaders of a political movement. After all, that's basically who theirs are.

[nyuk nyuk]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Where "racial identity grievance crowd" = racist code-speak used to deny the existence of racism in America.

Yes, their racism. Endless hatred against the majority and endless demands for more. If you can't justify racial pandering, blame the majority for "making" them.

You can either justify this behavior OR you can say you're "post-racial" and want to unify people. You cannot do both. Take your pick.

I would hope the Democrats are more than the a-bone-to-pick party, but alas, they aren't.