Saturday, October 23, 2004
Suppressing the military vote (again)
In 2000, one of Al Gore's tactics in his attempt to steal the election was to disenfranchise military voters.
We weren't at war back then... or at least, we didn't realize we were.
We are at war now, against one of the gravest threats we've ever faced, and our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are engaged in some of the most brutal combat our armed forces have ever seen, to keep us safe and free.
To attempt to disenfranchise them is surely the lowest form of scum-sucking political malice ever devised. Yet it's exactly what some Democrats are attempting to do.
You see, the military vote goes heavily in favor of Republicans. That looks to be true even this year, when many reservists are away from home for their twelfth, thirteenth, or eighteenth consecutive month. So to suppress their votes is to keep votes from Bush.
This year, many service personnel overseas are having trouble getting their absentee ballots on time. Through no fault of their own, their ballots are arriving too late for them to vote by their respective deadlines. Steps taken to correct the situation -- deadline extensions, Federal write-in ballots to replace unreceived absentee ballots -- have come under fire from Pennsylvannia governor Ed Rendell, who should be impeached, run out of town on a rail, and put in the stocks for ever conceiving such a thoroughly disgusting exercise in partisan vote manipulation.
This election is going to be like the last one, unless one of the candidates wins by such a huge margin that any challenge is clearly unfeasible. If you're already tired of the campaign, buck up; it's ugly, and it's about to get a lot uglier.
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We weren't at war back then... or at least, we didn't realize we were.
We are at war now, against one of the gravest threats we've ever faced, and our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are engaged in some of the most brutal combat our armed forces have ever seen, to keep us safe and free.
To attempt to disenfranchise them is surely the lowest form of scum-sucking political malice ever devised. Yet it's exactly what some Democrats are attempting to do.
You see, the military vote goes heavily in favor of Republicans. That looks to be true even this year, when many reservists are away from home for their twelfth, thirteenth, or eighteenth consecutive month. So to suppress their votes is to keep votes from Bush.
This year, many service personnel overseas are having trouble getting their absentee ballots on time. Through no fault of their own, their ballots are arriving too late for them to vote by their respective deadlines. Steps taken to correct the situation -- deadline extensions, Federal write-in ballots to replace unreceived absentee ballots -- have come under fire from Pennsylvannia governor Ed Rendell, who should be impeached, run out of town on a rail, and put in the stocks for ever conceiving such a thoroughly disgusting exercise in partisan vote manipulation.
This election is going to be like the last one, unless one of the candidates wins by such a huge margin that any challenge is clearly unfeasible. If you're already tired of the campaign, buck up; it's ugly, and it's about to get a lot uglier.
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