Predictable: Democrats lose, Democrats claim shenanigans
posted at 10:17 pm on January 19, 2008 by Bryan
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I guess we’re just going to have to get used to this sort of after-the-fact crying foul in every single election involving a Democrat.
It’s not just one diary on Kos. Here’s another. The Obama campaign itself has made the claim of “more than 200 voting irregularities” in Nevada.
We never hear anything like this on the Republican side.
That the Clintons are involved lends the possibility of it actually having some weight, I’ll admit. But Bill Clinton was out claiming shenanigans against the Obama campaign earlier in the day. Both campaigns apparently wanted to taint the possible victory that the other might have won today.
That the Democrats keep engaging in these low games may the most obvious case of long-term mass psychological projection this country has ever seen.
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Should check the open South Carolian thread the hucksters were whinning about a fix.
And there is of Course the Paulies
William Amos on January 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM
BJ Clinton: YOU CHEATED!
BH Obama: YOU CHEATED!
“Chorus: Why don’t we just be friends?”
BKennedy on January 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM
If democrats can’t run a primary properly, how can they lead the country?
Or something like that.
lorien1973 on January 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM
If anyone would know about fraud and cheating, it would be the Democrats.
DAT60A3 on January 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM
The guilty are always suspicious of others.
TexasDan on January 19, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Do I have to clarify by adding “from the actual campaigns” or are you equating some commenters and Paulites with the likes of Bill Clinton?
Bryan on January 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM
I’m enjoying the show, I have to admit.
The crazy elements on the left are always looking for the dark conspiracy behind their failures (because it couldn’t possibly be lunatic policies), and the Democrats in government are only too happy to encourage their lunacy. Now those crazy-ass chickens are coming home to roost for the donks and the schaudenfreude could not be sweeter.
Lehosh on January 19, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most conspriatorial of them all?
SouthernGent on January 19, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Those loons supporting Ron Paul without a doubt.
AprilOrit on January 19, 2008 at 10:32 PM
LOL Ok if you mean SERIOUS campaigns you do have a point
William Amos on January 19, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Dennis Kucinich was ROBBED!!!
I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!!
dung.
Moose Dung on January 19, 2008 at 10:40 PM
BTW Bryan I did get your point. The Paulies are libertarians pretending to be republicans and the huckabackers here isnt the Huck Campaign.
Its been SOP for the dems to yel “CHEATING” whenever they lose elections. And almost exclusively they link it to racism.
William Amos on January 19, 2008 at 10:40 PM
good point
JustTruth101 on January 19, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Bryan, you are too smart to believe that any of these voting contests are above board. Do you think that these operatives in the media or the political parties get into this career field because they have a burning desire to make sure that an honest accounting of the will of the people is recorded?
…or do they get into the business because they have a burning desire to see to it that their agendas succeed?
Let’s have a vote on this question. Let me count the votes.
Buddahpundit on January 19, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Jimbo: What’s all the ruckus over there?
Mayor: Sounds like somebody declared shenanigans.
Jimbo: Oh, hell, I have to run home and grab my broom!
journeyscarab on January 19, 2008 at 10:46 PM
We never hear anything like this on the Republican side. Which is probably why Reps are so adamantly opposed to voter Id laws and such.
Just makes it easier for them to cheat.
….
Oh wait.
billy on January 19, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Oh BTW, HOt Air Has its Quote of the Day.
You’re welcome.
billy on January 19, 2008 at 10:52 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6793577/
kevmack on January 19, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Well at least they are consistent and aren’t just using the cheating meme when it comes to losing to Republicans.
But seriously, a party that whines so loud so often should just be told to STFU by America.
SimplyKimberly on January 19, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Predictable: Democrats lose, Democrats claim shenanigans
Eeeevil shenanigans!
bofh on January 19, 2008 at 10:53 PM
You’d be wise to do a little homework on that one, kemosabe.
Bryan on January 19, 2008 at 10:54 PM
We have DNA evidence that Clinton cheated.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on January 19, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Who was against the idea of photo Voter cards? Your Dems were.
malkinmania on January 19, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Still not hearing it on the Republican side ;)
Lord Nazh on January 19, 2008 at 10:55 PM
This is like “bizarro” election year…I really don’t understand whats going on, on either side.
JetBoy on January 19, 2008 at 10:55 PM
Bill Clinton is like the angry schoolyard bully, punching and screaming at everyone. Then when he finally beats up the sissy, he gathers everyone around him again like theyre all his pals again. Then repeat procedure next state.
malkinmania on January 19, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Bottom line: “Democrat” is one TREMENDOUS misnomer.
Their party simply does not believe in democracy.
Wingo on January 19, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Huh? I thought he was going after Obama not Edwards.
Deety on January 19, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Did you actually read the whole post? I’ll give you a hint, billy isn’t a dem.
Gianni on January 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM
You’re forgetting the Ron Paul supporters.
Baraka on January 19, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Just wait til the Dems pick their frontman(or woman) then they can/will cheat together, as ONE.
The Dems will be a formidable foe this term, with all the infighting/inbreeding/cheating/shennaniganing?/complaining/ married together as a team.
Very Clintonian indeed.
shooter on January 19, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Let’s just let it go. Irony and sarcasm just have no place on internets 2.0 I guess.
billy on January 19, 2008 at 11:40 PM
The worst part of all this is that it’s been hyped by Russian governmental outlet Russia Today TV, which had the “election fraud” news up early on Google News (which had it as one of its top stories for quite some time). Even though I think his views could be dangerous, in the past I’ve respected Kucinich for his integrity. But giving the Russian government anti-American propaganda that lets that nation imply they’re more democratic than the U.S.? That’s pretty bad.
calbear on January 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM
No, Republicans don’t complain about voter fraud, they actually do it.
menoname on January 20, 2008 at 12:37 AM
I just hope you they do it better than you rat types. Democrats being criminals by nature, I don’t like the Republicans chances of coming out of top in a fraud contest.
Buddahpundit on January 20, 2008 at 1:20 AM
I just hope you they do it better than you rat types. Democrats being criminals by nature, I don’t like the Republicans chances of coming out of top in a fraud contest.
Buddahpundit on January 20, 2008 at 1:20
Just have to google it.
menoname on January 20, 2008 at 1:37 AM
progressives hate democracy and oppose elections.
jummy on January 20, 2008 at 1:41 AM
…google it. - menoname
LOL!
FIRE DOESN’T MELT STEEL!!!
jummy on January 20, 2008 at 1:44 AM
Google this
Buddahpundit on January 20, 2008 at 1:51 AM
Yes, I too find it odd that voter supression tends to turn out only in Democrat controlled areas with Democratic representatives and registered Democrats running the polls.
Funny, that. Google it.
BKennedy on January 20, 2008 at 2:03 AM
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595
http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2006/10/republican-voter-fraud-investigation.html
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2005/08/republican-party-hush-money-payments.html
Here’s some links. I know there is alot to all both sides. My point was that this thread says “We never hear anything like this on the Republican side.”
menoname on January 20, 2008 at 2:32 AM
Sorry, don’t get it.
menoname on January 20, 2008 at 2:35 AM
Please,sir! Mayor Daley (a Dem) has run Chicago without a whiff of voter corruption for YEARS (along with his father and numerous other Dems).
No if you’ll excuse me, I need to find Gepetto as it seems my nose has grown again.
Seriously, why can’t they just come out and say what everyone knows “people don’t like whiners, and we’ve become serial whiners and will lose more often than not the more our party platform is to take the ball and go home anytime things don’t go our way”
MannyT-vA on January 20, 2008 at 5:36 AM
all of your links are to stories of alleged Republican misdoings which is exactly what the Dems claim every time. You’ve proven nothing.
Also, the thread is actually called ‘ Predictable: Democrats lose, Democrats claim shenanigans’
If you had many stories of Republicans claiming Democrats were tossing their votes, then you’d be onto something.
MannyT-vA on January 20, 2008 at 5:41 AM
A serious condition brought on by an uncontrollable lust for power…
Zorro on January 20, 2008 at 7:04 AM
Now that’s comic relief!
RushBaby on January 20, 2008 at 9:20 AM
It is ridiculous to propagate anything from comment’s without some substantial checking of facts. Even the MSM needs to be checked viz Dan Rather.
The democrats have cried foul too many times and the fowl is turning into wolf.
Wade on January 20, 2008 at 9:48 AM
You must really be new.
I remember when I was an HA ROokie.
Browsing the archives allowed me to get some of the running gags.
But beware the terrain that bears the roots of the fire/steel meme.
There be Dragons.
soundingboard on January 20, 2008 at 11:02 AM
“Bigot” SLC email response, featured on FOXNEWS Sunday Morning closing quip. Brigham Young’s legacy knee-jerk “Bigot” referencing continues.
maverick muse on January 20, 2008 at 11:05 AM
What are they going to do once they don’t have George Bush to kick around any more?
drjohn on January 20, 2008 at 11:28 AM
What else is new? We’re talking democ-rats here.
countywolf on January 20, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Off subject, but funny as heck…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yRJiP4f_EU
Texas Nick 77 on January 20, 2008 at 11:53 AM
These are the end times.
It’s like when you find out that your dog is terminally ill, so you bring him home for a few days before you let the vet put him down.
We will all be “put down” in short order.
The coronation is…
Back on.
Dorvillian on January 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Democrats have been stealing elections for two centuries. To suppose that one Democrat would never steal an election from another Democrat is to suppose that there is honor among thieves.
Ali-Bubba on January 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM
I agree with Ali-Bubba. (never thought I’d type those particular words)
But seriously, the Dems have been cheating at elections since their infancy. It’s not surprising that they should cry “cheat” whenever their nominee of choice doesn’t pass muster. It couldn’t be because they are the candidate that received the most votes. It must be because the other side cheated more effectively than their side did.
Jewels on January 20, 2008 at 12:31 PM
It’s worse than that.
As Huey Long observed decades ago, if Fascism ever comes to America, it’ll call itself “anti-Fascism.” The combination of demonstrated Democrat cheating to win (e.g., Frank Lautenberg and Tim Johnson in the US Senate, Christine Gregoire in Washington state, massive voter fraud throwing the Wisconsin 2004 presidential election to Kerry) - coupled with constantly insinuating that any election in which they don’t win must have been “fixed” - steadily chips away at the faith of the American electorate in their own elections, and consequently in their own Republic.
We’re already in a situation where barely half of eligible voters bother to cast their votes, and the other half are becoming increasingly of the belief that their votes don’t matter because the results are being jury-rigged. Historically this is the type of fertile ground giving rise to the appearance of the “Man on Horseback” - a demogogue or faux-populist (often with a militaristic and totalitarian ideological movement behind him) who claims that the whole system is corrupt and should be thrown out, and that he and his acolytes can be counted on to “clean things up” and “restore honor and dignity” to government.
This is at least in part how the Hellenistic civilizations threw away their own representative governments for dictators and emperors, and how tyrants from Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte to Hideki Tojo and Hugo Chavez have hoodwinked entire populations into casting their lot with oligarchies.
Democrats, of course, believe that they are the ones who should benefit from any collapse of confidence in our electoral system - as well as the corruption of the system itself - and they work relentlessly to bring about that collapse, because they think that it’ll leave them on top.
In the short term, they may be right. But in the long term they are paving the way for a road to Hell in which not only the Republicans but they themselves and our freedom as well will be in the express lane.
Spurius Ligustinus on January 20, 2008 at 1:58 PM
It’s not surprising that they should cry “cheat” whenever their nominee of choice doesn’t pass muster
there appears to be a certain amont of discussion about just who the democrats nomination of choice is.
ACORN, ACORN, ACORN, ACORN,ACORN, ACORN, ACORN, ACORN,
ACORN, ACORN, ACORN, ACORN,ACORN, ACORN, ACORN, ACORN,
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pk on January 20, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Lemme’ go out on a limb here…
The election for governor of the state of Washington, after a count, and then a recount, where the election hinged on two votes for the entire state, was finally decided in favor of the Donk candidate, by a box of ballots, found in a corner, in Pierce county, one of only two counties, that carried the votes for the Donks.
not complainin’, y’unnerstan’…it’s just that we can’t get rid of the stench.
franksalterego on January 20, 2008 at 3:01 PM
Democrats are not trustworthy so why why should they trust each other…..it takes one to know one! What other party wants to restore voting rights to convicted felons…….
Oh, by the way, it was Algore who got us started with the chads and, ultimately, the Supreme Court.
Bubba Redneck on January 20, 2008 at 9:20 PM
Huckabee isn’t a Republican. He just plays one on T.V.
Montana on January 21, 2008 at 1:05 AM
(Overheard conversation between Dem boss and underling)
Look, I PERSONALLY put 25000 votes in for our candidate…so where ARE they?? We were ROBBED!!!
landlines on January 21, 2008 at 9:39 AM