MaxedOutMama
Saturday, October 23, 2004
A Vast Right-wing Conspiracy Entry
Everyone fears voter fraud. Robert Kuttner warns of the Republican attempts to steal the election in this American Prospect article. I blinked a bit at:
"Here is a flat prediction: If neither candidate wins decisively, the Bush campaign will contrive enough court challenges in enough states so that we won't know the winner election night.
The right stumbled on a gambit in 2000, which could become standard operating procedure in close elections: If the election ends up in the courts, all courts eventually lead to the Supreme Court, which, as we learned, can overrule state courts -- and pick the president."
My recollection is that Al Gore's campaign started the court challenges. He was not willing to accept the legal process in Florida, which demands that the results be accredited and then challenged, so he went to court to prevent the Secretary of State from certifying the count. Mr. Kuttner does concede that in the past the Democrats were known to engage in voter fraud.
"It was Richard Nixon, that scoundrel's scoundrel, who resisted the temptation to mount a court challenge to the Illinois result because he felt the country couldn't take it. Imagine longing for the days when we had Republican leadership as principled as Nixon's."
Again, the implication here is that Bush was the one who started the legal brouhaha in the last election. I've asked three people, and they all have the same belief that Al Gore's campaign was the one that started it. Please comment below if I'm wrong.
"Here is a flat prediction: If neither candidate wins decisively, the Bush campaign will contrive enough court challenges in enough states so that we won't know the winner election night.
The right stumbled on a gambit in 2000, which could become standard operating procedure in close elections: If the election ends up in the courts, all courts eventually lead to the Supreme Court, which, as we learned, can overrule state courts -- and pick the president."
My recollection is that Al Gore's campaign started the court challenges. He was not willing to accept the legal process in Florida, which demands that the results be accredited and then challenged, so he went to court to prevent the Secretary of State from certifying the count. Mr. Kuttner does concede that in the past the Democrats were known to engage in voter fraud.
"It was Richard Nixon, that scoundrel's scoundrel, who resisted the temptation to mount a court challenge to the Illinois result because he felt the country couldn't take it. Imagine longing for the days when we had Republican leadership as principled as Nixon's."
Again, the implication here is that Bush was the one who started the legal brouhaha in the last election. I've asked three people, and they all have the same belief that Al Gore's campaign was the one that started it. Please comment below if I'm wrong.
