Mickey Mouse and McCain's Last Throes

McCain-Palin and the Republicans are on the verge of losing this election and they know it.

That's why the right wing scream machine has turned the volume on ACORN up to eleven.

Nothing could be more predictable: When Obama wins they'll cry voter fraud. It will be the only argument they have left, so they're laying the groundwork for crying foul after the election now.

I was on the ground in Florida as a canvas director doing Get-Out-The-Vote in 2004. We covered the same turf as ACORN, who were working to raise the minimum wage in Florida at the time. My honest impression was that ACORN didn't pay very well and that some of their canvassers were not the brightest bulbs. Have some of their employees tried to pad their numbers by turning in bogus "Mickey Mouse" registrations? I wouldn't be surprised. Is that registration fraud? If proven -- yes. Is it voter fraud? No.

Only if Mickey Mouse shows up to the polls on Election Day to vote does it become voter fraud. The day you can show me evidence that Mickey Mouse votes have tilted the election we can talk about voter fraud in a serious way. I won't hold my breath.

Still, McCain is already whining that Mickey Mouse is going to magically hand Florida to Obama.

Of course, absurd arguments with no basis in reality are now par for the course for McCain-Palin, the team that brought you "The fundamentals of the economy are strong," "You can see Russia from Alaska," and "I'm pleased to be cleared of any hint of any kind of unethical activity there."

Surprise, surprise, in the bizarre McCain-Palin universe -- where Obama "pals around with terrorists" and McCain is a "steady hand at the tiller" -- Mickey Mouse is involved in a sinister plot to make Obama president!

Please. Do Republican candidates really want to talk about voting problems in Florida?

Even if an army of Mickey Mice voted in Florida, could that ever surpass the number of black voters that Republicans have tried (and succeeded) to suppress there for decades?

What about the double standard that allows thousands of legal resident Haitians in Miami to be denied citizenship while Republican Cubans are fast-tracked into citizenship?

What about the illegal "scrubbing" of thousands of black voters from the rolls that Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris got away with in 2000, installing brother Dubya in the White House even though he lost by half a million votes nationwide?

Make no mistake: voter fraud is not why Republicans don't like ACORN. It's that they register a lot of poor black voters -- and the idea of poor black voters actually voting scares the crap out of Republicans.

They should be scared. They're going to lose. And when they do, I'm sure no sane person will buy the lame excuse that it's all Mickey Mouse's fault.

Comments

[DrShilps]

01:14 PM on 10/16/2008

That's great, because I registered to vote as Joe the Plumber. Glad to know that it's not voter fraud!

[Irksome]

12:13 AM on 10/16/2008

Hey, the Republicans aren't racist, they hate poor white people, too.

[XME]

03:32 AM on 10/16/2008

Let's just broaden that more... they hate ANYONE who doesn't see the country the way THEY do.

[alexis d]

12:31 PM on 10/16/2008

The difference is, poor white people vote for them. ::beats head against wall::

[jeanrenoir]

04:10 PM on 10/15/2008

I bow to no one in my dislike of McCain-Palin and hopes for Obama, but don't gloat yet. Check out today's Gallup tracking poll of LIKELY voters. The race is again tightening. Lacking any major event to explain this, it has to be because of all the lies that white, Rust Belt, "low information" (my favorite euphemism of all time) voters are being drowned in by the McCain campaign in its Armageddon phase. There's no room for Obama complacency given that the fate of America and the world will be determined 100% by these low information morons and the effectiveness of the nonstop lies they are being fed. There's no way to control this or predict the results. If we had a European electorate of reasonably educated masses, Obama would be winning by the biggest landslide in history. But the voters who determine these things are truly morons and racists who make the German masses swayed so easily by Hitler's appeals look like Einsteins. We remain in an absolutely terrifying limbo in which the fate of all of us, and the world, will still be determined by Archie Bunker. Period.

[jeweline]

04:08 PM on 10/15/2008

We need to be informed citizens as well as informed voters. We've heard a great deal about ACORN in recent days, but we've heard nothing about ELECTION FRAUD. The media is a complicit partner in the cover up--their silence on this topic is DEAFENING! The mounting evidence that Republicans employed broad, methodical and illegal tactics in the 2004 election should raise serious alarms among news organizations. But instead of investigating allegations of wrongdoing, the press has simply accepted the result as valid.

Please take a look at Robert Kennedy's article in Rolling Stone Magazine about Election Fraud committed by the Republicans in 2004. The American people have a right to know how our democracy is being hijacked!.

It details the tactics/strategy Republicans used in 2004 (and are using in 2008) to steal another election:

1) EXIT POLLS
2) PARTISAN OFFICIAL
3) THE STRIKE FORCE
4) BARRIERS TO REGISTRATION
5) "THE WRONG PEW"
6) LONG LINES
7) FAULTY VOTING MACHINES
8) RURAL COUNTIES
9) RIGGING THE RECOUNT

Here's a link again to the full article: URL:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

Please share this information. After all knowledge is power.