Conservative Christian "Family Research Council" places "election integrity effort" in hands of an election denier :-)

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-election.html

This should be good for a laugh.

Election deniers are liars. It's as simple as that.

In all of the wailing, hollering, gnashing of teeth and whining about the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election, the one thing that was missing from all of the claims of "massive election fraud", ballot tampering, and improperly programmed counting machines was credible evidence. Multiple audits, including "forensic audits," investigations, even a laughable episode with a group known as the "Cyber Ninjas," who wasted about $6 million, including a significant amount of taxpayer dollars, found nothing irregular or out of place, to indicate that the few minor errors here and there, which are part of every election, were part of some nationwide conspiracy to cause Trump to lose.

So, while some people might find it surprising that the Family Research Council has chosen an insurrectionist, election-denying former Georgia congressman as the leader of their "election integrity" effort, I'm not surprised. It's this kind of phony posturing that is characteristic of Republican, and Christian hypocrisy when it comes to far right wing politics.

Jody Hice is a former Georgia Congressman, a former pastor of Southern Baptist churches, one of the members of congress bent on overturning the will of the people by voting against accepting the results of the 2020 election, and objecting to accepting Georgia's 2020 electoral votes. He nullified any claims he has to being a man of integrity when he accepted Trump's endorsement in his 2022 failed effort to "primary" Georgia Secretary of State against Brad Raffensperger. Apparently, Georgia voters recognized this, because Hice lost by double digit margins to Raffensperger.

Even if it is secular politics, for an ordained minister of the Christian gospel to accept the endorsement of a man who openly denies his own acceptance of, and need for that same gospel, is a denial in and of itself of the spiritual power and the truthfulness of that gospel. To put this same man in charge of "election integrity" for a far right wing political lobby is like putting a wolf in charge of the sheep, or a fox in charge of the henhouse.

[slightlv]

1. I'm missing something, I guess....

and am in the midst of cooking supper, so I haven't read the entire article yet. But why is the FRC doing "election integrity?" Isn't that a government function, to be handled by government sponsored and certified individuals? And I thought the FEC was over everything that had to do with elections. Why is a non-government, right-wing, theocratic organization overseeing any part of an election?

[lees1975]

2. All of these right wing extremists and nut cases have "election integrity" advocates.

It's like a think tank way of generating money for no real work, and they operate to try and create the impression that there is a problem with election integrity in the United States. Basically, it's a way of giving credibility to the absolutely baseless, ridiculous lies told by Trump about fraud. One of the reasons the Trumpies couldn't take evidence to court was that their standard claims can't be substantiated and taking that crap into court gets lawyers disbarred.

If these people are shrieking and flapping their lips about election fraud, it tells you one thing--there clearly was absolutely no election fraud and the only attempt to steal the election was made by Trump and the insurrection, and I sincerely hope that case goes to trial and he winds up locked in a prison cell for the rest of his life along with anyone else who helped him out.