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John Kerry (D-Cambodia) is angry about voter intimidation:
“Last year, too many people were denied their right to vote; too many who tried to vote were intimidated,” Mr. Kerry said at an event sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
He cited examples of trickery. “Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday,” Mr. Kerry said. “People are told in telephone calls that if you’ve ever had a parking ticket, you’re not allowed to vote.”
No wonder Kerry is upset. Those tactics were clearly designed to reduce the stupid vote. Wonder how Howard Dean’s rich white folks coped:
Dean activists are far wealthier, better educated, more secular and much less ethnically diverse than other Democrats. A disproportionate number of Dean activists are white, well-educated Baby Boomers fully a third are college graduates between the ages of 45 and 64, compared with just 9% of Democrats in the general public.
You’d scream, too, looking at America’s largest crowd of sixties holdovers. YEAARGHHH!
UPDATE. Looks like Kerry got his “Democrats vote on Wednesdays” theory from the Onion!
“Whenever the plastic turkey of voter intimidation comes up the losers never name names. Because they can’t.”
While on the other hand, Democratic party employees who slashed the tires of Republican get-out-the-vote vans were arrested, tried, and convicted, so the evidence is right there in the court records.
It’s like jealous spouses who are suspicious because they know what they themselves are doing - if it weren’t for fraud, Democrats would get at least 5% fewer votes in every election.
An additional problem that the Dean supporters had with voting was that their domestic staff of color, in a mistaken attempt to stick it to The Man, gave them the wrong directions to the polling places… many Park Avenue Democrats were simply unwilling to go up to the South Bronx to cast their ballots for some reason…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 11 at 10:18 AM • permalinkEasycure — That reminds me of John Cleese destroying Michael Palin in Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl</i>.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 11 at 11:21 AM • permalink(D-Cambodia)
Hahahaha!! Leave it to Tim.
Posted by Trent River on 2005 04 11 at 11:55 AM • permalinkWell, it seems obvious to me. It wasn’t the issues, or terrorism, or the economy, or character, or integrity, or any of those substantive things that made the voters choose George Bush over John Kerry.
It was trickery, plain and simple.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 11 at 01:46 PM • permalinkMeanwhile, for those not following the news.
Here in the State of Georgia all voters will be required to present a valid photo I.D. (most likely a driver’s license) to vote.
It will be interesting to see if dead democrats can still drive as well as vote.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2005 04 11 at 03:24 PM • permalinkAccording to James Taranto at Best of the Web, Kerry’s accusations are based on an article in The Onion!! What a dope.
Rebecca, we both fit the Dean profile, and I’m having an identity crisis, too. Why do I feel like such an outsider, a misfit, just because I couldn’t bring myself to vote for a horse-faced, two-faced, arrogant, do-nothing, gold-digging liberal Democratic senator from Massachusetts? What a relief to know I’m not the only one!
I, like many former and currently “recovering” Democrats, fit the Dean profile.
The fact that there are people out there too stupid to figure out how to vote explains why it is illegal to buy booze on election day in this country.
Their stupidity is greatly magnified by alcohol.
Too bad for the Democrats, they could use the support.
The funny part, the really absolutely hysterical part, is that Kerry was the best candidate that wing of the party could put up… and they still don’t realize that. It’s like Margaret Dumont not realizing Groucho wasn’t invited to the ball…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 11 at 08:22 PM • permalinkWell, the Onion is about as funny and accurate as a regular news outlet.
I’ve heard the Dems vote on Wednesday thing passed around by other outlets besides the funny papers, though, he’s probably got some source that intended the allegation seriously. Hell, for all I know someone probably brought the joke to life.
At any rate, we weren’t the ones passing out crack for votes so I think the pot should stop talkin’ smack about our kettle.
Sharpton was a distant 2nd.
Try way distant, Aaron, as measured in lightyears. More accurately, “not even close”. You are dissing Lieberman big time.
Richard, the funny thing is that Kerry was the best candidate that the Democrats would put up. Not could, but would.
Not that I am a huge fan of Lieberman, but he was downright saintly compared to the other Democratic choices, and would have certainly have been a more viable choice in comparison to Bush. Not necessarily better, just more viable.
But after Gorezilla’s famous backstabbing of Lieberman, the Democratic Self-Destruction Agenda marched along nicely. And continues even unto today, as per tim’s post.
YEAARGHHH!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 12 at 04:04 AM • permalinkThe Real Jeff S — I was using could because of my sense that the Democrats simply could not bring themselves to select a more centrist candidate…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 12 at 10:16 AM • permalinkBTW Tim, you’re being politically incorrect here. The proper term is not"stupid”, it’s “stupid-American”...
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 12 at 10:52 AM • permalinkYeah, I think Richard might be right. “Stupid” and “American” would seem to go together. Maybe with “fascist”. Possibly with “blood thirsty”.
Don’t you read The Age?
(or The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, Toronto Star, Irish Times, Le Figaro, Sydney Morning Herald?)
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 12 at 01:38 PM • permalinkThe_Real_JeffS has it right: Lieberman was a class act compared with any of the other Democratic candidates.
For one thing, he has been a steady supporter of the War on Terror. For that reason alone, he never had a shot at the nomination. The Democratic Party has been pandering to the far-left, moveon.org crowd - they never could have nominated a moderate (and a decent man) like Joe Lieberman.
The fact that Al Sharpton was even considered for the nomination is a disgrace. He is a race baiter par excellence, and was personally responsible for inciting riots that cost several people their lives. He’s sharp-witted, I’ll give him that, but he’s a truly terrible man.
My personal favorite was the laughably unqualified Carol Moseley-Braun, a one-term US Senator who was forced to abandon senate re-election plans because of corruption. (Corruption in Illinois?!?! Say it ain’t so!) Then there was Wesley Clark, aka Dr Strangelove, complete with precious bodily fluids. Dean the Screamer rounds out what Barbara Bush correctly called a “sorry lot.”
Butch
That’s why her nickname is “Carol Mostly-Fraud”. Of course the media completely ignored her hob-nobbing with notorious Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha while she was corrupting herself and family in Illinois…. But then again, if anyone questioned Kerry’s hob-nobbing with the North Vietnamese, etc., that’s the politics of destruction, don’t ya know.
According to today’s Best of the Web it’s even better. The joke goes back to the 2000 elections, and it was Al Franken joking about “Republicans vote on Wednesday.”
What a dolt.
Posted by Abe of Lincoln on 2005 04 12 at 11:25 PM • permalinkrichard, re: #24. I sit corrected. Yep, the Democrats could not bring themselves select a decent candidate.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 13 at 05:43 AM • permalink
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Whenever the plastic turkey of voter intimidation comes up the losers never name names. Because they can’t.