Rig My Election, Please

[Kadie]

Rig My Election, Please
Just how far will desperate Republicans go to trick America into another BushCo victory?

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Semi-clever, ultra-wealthy Bush supporters suddenly donating piles of money to the Nader campaign in an obvious attempt to steal votes from John Kerry? Pshaw. Ptouey. Child's play. Tip of the iceberg. A mere distraction.
We ain't seen nuthin' yet.

This is the time of desperation and anxiety. This is the time of hysterical Orange Alerts and imminent al Quada attacks coming from outta nowhere at any minute and violating our children and kicking our puppies and badly denting our Honda Accords. And yes, this is the time of election-year political tactics coming from the increasingly anxious Right that will make Sun Tzu's "Art of War" look like a cupcake cookbook.

Do you feel it? Can you smell it in the air? The sensation that the Republican party, though various tentacles, will stop at absolutely nothing to maintain power in the White House? It's true. It's the feeling that, during the next few months, it's all about to get very shrill, and very surreal, indeed.

How about another, "imminent" terrorist threat? Pretty much a given, really. Followed, of course, by another. And then another. And then another and another until every other day the newscast features a thick-necked, panicky Tom Ridge saying yes, oh my God yes, we now have definitive proof that terrorists are more or less sort of maybe planning to strike the U.S. maybe very soon and disrupt our shopping and screw with our TV reception and blot out the sun. We just don't know, you know, where, or when, or how, or what the hell to do about it. P.S.; Vote Republican.

more... http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

[liberalmike27]

1. Well

I've always said the Nader-thing is just a media-fed distraction of the theft of the election in Florida. Certainly they stole far more than 500 votes by rigging the election. About 90,000 votes were purged, in mostly democratic counties.

But yes, they will stop at nothing, and we all need to realize that if we want to live in constant fear, we can vote for them, if we don't we will vote for an alternative.