That seems to be the Democrats' favorite game this year. In Ohio, the Democratic Secretary of State has persuaded the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court requirement that registrations actually be validated by election day. While the Supreme Court - possibly correctly - argued jurisdictional issues, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner was claiming that it wasn't necessary to validate up to 200,000 registrations with irregularities. I say, "possibly," because I'm pretty sure that a Colorado state court ruled on certain aspects of HAVA four years ago, but it's possible that the issues at stake here are different, and non-justiciable by a state court.
Secretary of State Brunner has already allowed up to 3000 questionable registrants to vote electronically early, making it impossible to retrieve their votes should there turn out to be fraud. But Let's Pretend all those votes should count.
ACORN's been very active in Ohio, registering individuals, both existent and non-, multiple times. But since it'll be hard to make sure all these voters are entitled to the franchise, Let's Pretend there's no problem here, nothing to see here, move along, move along. By dodging the problem now, the Court has set itself up for a much bigger headache later on.
Likewise, my Democratic opponent, Lois Court, on Tuesday, defended the notion of Single-Payer Mandatory Universal Health Care (abbreviated backwards, that's "CHUMPS") by claiming that "I define 'public good' to mean something that's good for the public."
Never mind that that's not what it means, either word-by-word or as a phrase. Let's Pretend that it is. Let's pretend that the only cost is the cost of delivery, not the cost of the product itself.
The problem with Let's Pretend is that sooner or later Mom, or as she's known in this case, The Real World, calls you in to get cleaned up for dinner.
The other side likes to style itself as, "Progressives." They are. They're Progressively More Expensive, Progressively More Intrusive, and Progressively More Restrictive.
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Come to my house for dinner. We serve LIBERAL portions, no LEFT overs either. Seriously, why didn't the Ohio Republicans bring this up until 3 weeks before the election? By pretending to be worried about voter fraud, they are just upset that they cannot challenge these votes and possibly get them thrown out due to clerical errors. Even Joe the Plummer would have had to vote a provisional ballot and potentially be challenged by a Democrat poll observer! The Republicans never do this in upscale rich districts, only poor and urban areas. The fact that the Supreme Court had NO dissenting opinion on this issue regarding the standing of the suit only shows how frivolous the lawsuit was. If there were real and legitimate concerns about registration fraud (which is far different than VOTER FRAUD) then the Ohio Republicans again show they cannot govern well by not addressing this much sooner and in a legitimate manner to the court. To go on a fishing excursion 3 weeks before the election with no standing before the court either says they are desperate about a potential loss at the polls, or they again, can't be trusted to effectively govern and enforce the law of the land. So now, poor folks and minorities votes will be counted on Election Day in Ohio, and not be subjected to being thrown out by Republican challenge. This was a desperation strategy from a desperate Republican party and fed to desperate Republican supporters in an attempt to win this election 50 + 1 once again, sorry, be a REAL AMERICAN PATRIOT and let everyones vote count this time! Justice Roberts and CO said so!
Posted by: Mooseburger | October 18, 2008 12:30 AM