Republican Sour Grapes

Although Johnny B. McCain charged in the final presidential debate that ACORN's voter-registration drive "may be perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history" and may be "destroying the fabric of democracy," I keep waiting for the next shoe to drop. Where are the examples of voter fraud that are destroying American democracy? Other than a few right wing bloggers known for wearing tin foil under their baseball caps, the mainstream press has not found any systematic examples of voter fraud affecting the outcome of the elections. By now you would think that a few of the talking heads for Little Johnny would be on Faux News screaming about the rampant voter fraud they have found. So far, the silence is deafening.

As I wrote in this blog previously, sloppy voter registration tactics do not lead to voter fraud. It takes a very sophisticated and diabolical plan to create large numbers of fictitious registrations that would translate into individuals voting using those fake personas. The attacks on ACORN and the brouhaha about alleged voter fraud are just another set of earworms packaged by the Republican operatives to resonant with many of our deeply rooted prejudices. The poor, the dispossessed, the ignorant and other Democrats who live off of federal handouts are stealing the election!

And now, this is the new iterative of the earworms that we will hear from the right wing pundits and Republican congressional leaders after Nov. 4th.



It’s OK to submit an absentee ballot if you have a legitimate excuse. However, early voting encourages more of the poor, the dispossessed, the ignorant and other Democrats who live off of federal handouts to participate in the process. This is not for good democracy or Republicans. I would not be surprised some of the more crazy right wing nuts go further and assert that only white males landowners are truly qualified to vote. Wasn’t that the original intent of the authors' of the Constitution?

It is still insane that we hold election days on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. We should have elections, as do many of the European countries, over the course of a weekend to ensure everyone can get to the polls.

Just wait. The perils of early voting will soon be the cause celebre’ on Hannity and Colmes, talk radio and post mortem blogging after November 4th.