Wow, is that ever disingenuous. You haven’t presented a shred of evidence, just bald assertions.

Maxx on October 30, 2008 at 12:28 AM

You think voting fraud is widespread? Despite an attempt by the Justice Department to crack down on it, from 2002-2005 only 20 people were found guilty of voting while ineligible and only 5 for voting twice. After the 2004 election in Ohio, the Brennan center found a voter fraud rate of.00004 percent saying “people are struck by lightning more often”. If people who ACORN chose to try and vote, it’d be impossible for them to do so under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which requires newly registered voters to show ID.
In contrast, a story in the NYT last week says
“Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data”.

crr6 on October 29, 2008 at 4:11 PM

Great post, I’m putting that in my reference file.

This is why it’s annoying to present a substantive argument backed up with evidence here. There is rarely if ever a coherent response backed up with evidence. Why throw pearls to swine?

crr6 on October 29, 2008 at 7:54 PM

Wow, is that ever disingenuous. You haven’t presented a shred of evidence, just bald assertions.

JellyToast on October 29, 2008 at 7:01 PM

Bingo~ You have pointed out perfectly the idiocy of Rendell’s statement shoot for the DNC’s standard slogan that the GOP is racist..

Yeah, I’ve heard of the “Southern Strategy.” Have I ever. About a million times. Because every single time the egregious history of the Democratic party is brought up, people like you reflexively squawk “Southern Strategy!” as if that somehow constituted some sort of argument.

Your arguments on the voter fraud issue is no more persuasive. Democrat party machines own every large city and will not prosecute crimes that are beneficial to the party. Your “evidence” does not indicate that voter fraud is non existent so much as indicate that Democratic party prosecution of Democratic party voter fraud is non existent.

shazbat on October 29, 2008 at 7:33 PM

This is why it’s annoying to present a substantive argument backed up with evidence here. There is rarely if ever a coherent response backed up with evidence. Why throw pearls to swine?

Every heard of the “Southern strategy?”

crr6

Yeah, I’ve heard of the “Southern Strategy.” Have I ever. About a million times. Because every single time the egregious history of the Democratic party is brought up, people like you reflexively squawk “Southern Strategy!” as if that somehow constituted some sort of argument.

Your arguments on the voter fraud issue is no more persuasive. Democrat party machines own every large city and will not prosecute crimes that are beneficial to the party. Your “evidence” does not indicate that voter fraud is non existent so much as indicate that Democratic party prosecution of Democratic party voter fraud is non existent.

In this latest survey, Republicans back Swann 72 – 22 percent, while Democrats back Gov. Rendell 85 – 11 percent and independent voters go Democratic 63 – 29 percent. Among likely voters who name a candidate, 14 percent say they still might change their mind before Election Day.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1327.xml?ReleaseID=963
Lynn Swann, the black Republican, lost to Rendell, the white Democrat 60-40.
Here’s the red/blue map showing the breakdown between Lynn Swann and Rendell.
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2006&off=5&elect=0&fips=42&f=0
On this map, blue is Republican, red is Democrat. THE BLUE AREA IS LARGELY ALL RURAL PA!!! SO, A LOT OF THOSE HICKS WERE VOTING FOR THE BLACK REPUBLICAN OVER THE WHITE DEMOCRAT!!
The red areas in upper left is Erie,, lower left is Pittsburgh, lower right is Philly and mid upper right are a few other cities.
Bottom line,, Ed Rendell ran against a black Republican! Is he racist???

rockmom on October 29, 2008 at 4:38 PM

Possible plants? Maybe students didn’t do it but some volunteers riding a HOPIUM high.

If you saw earlier, they tried to make a lot out of the “assassination” plot. Really wasn’t much there.

I would not put it beneath HOPIUM addicts to do something to stir up racial bias on behalf of Dear Leader. They sure have learned well from the their master.

These loon toon cry babies can get on their knees, and suck my fat white ballot.

Your mommy may have caved into this bvllsh1t, but this is our country, too, and we’re sick to death of your race pimp rhetoric & bully tactics!

Most folks in this nation still respect the rule of law, and the protection it affords all Americans.

So take yer terrible tantrums and stick it in your dirty diaper, where it belongs!!!

Godwin! New law!! STAT!!!

Biggest problem is if Obama gets elected. There will be NO negative statements made at any time, by anyone. Because such actions will be deemed RACIST and HATE SPEECH.

Let’s see what the response to this will be in light of the Gov. Palin “performance art”

Obama effigy found on U. of Kentucky campus

Bishop, do you want to be the first to call it?

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 29, 2008 at 3:31 PM

Just great. I’m a UK alumna. It’s about the friendliest campus you will find. I can’t believe some douchebags did this.

As Democrats prepare to nominate Sen. Barack Obama to be the first black president, the Democratic National Committee and its chairman, Howard Dean, have whitewashed the party’s horrific and lengthy record of racism. The omission is in the section of the DNC Web site that describes the party’s history. The missing history raises the obvious question of whether the Democrats, unable or simply unwilling to put their party on record as taking direct responsibility for one of the worst racial crimes of the ages, will be able to run a campaign free of the racial animosities it has regularly brought both to American presidential campaigns and American political and social life in general. What else to make of the official party history as presented by the DNC on its Web site? It is a history so sanitized of historical reality it makes Stalin look like David McCullough.

The DNC Web site section labeled “Party History,” linked here, is in fact scrubbed clean of the not-so-little dirty secret that fueled Democrats’ political successes for over a century and a half and made American life a hell on earth for black Americans. Literally, the DNC official history, which begins with the creation of the party in 1800, gets to the creation of the DNC itself in 1848 and then–poof!–the next sentence says: “As the 19th Century came to a close, the American electorate changed more and more rapidly.” It quickly heads into a riff on poor immigrants coming to America.

In a stroke, 52 years of Democratic history vanishes. Disappeared faster than the truth in the Clinton administration. Why would this be? Allow me to sketch in a few facts from those missing 52 years. For that matter, lets add in the facts from the party history before and after those 52 years, since they aren’t mentioned by the Democrats’ National Committee either.

So what’s missing?
• There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were six from 1840 through 1860.

• There is no reference to the number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves. There were seven from 1800 through 1861

• There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject. There were 20, from 1868 through 1948.

• There is no reference to “Jim Crow” as in “Jim Crow laws,” nor is there reference to the role Democrats played in creating them. These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by Democrats in that pesky 52-year part of the DNC’s missing years. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, rest rooms and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches). The reason Rosa Parks became famous is that she sat in the “whites only” front section of a bus, the “whites only” designation the direct result of Democrats.

• There is no reference to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, which, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, became “a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease’s description of the Klan as the “terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.”

• There is no reference to the fact Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The 13th banned slavery. The 14th effectively overturned the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision (made by Democratic pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The 15th gave black Americans the right to vote.

• There is no reference to the fact that Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was passed by the Republican Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, who had been a Democrat before joining Lincoln’s ticket in 1864. The law was designed to provide blacks with the right to own private property, sign contracts, sue and serve as witnesses in a legal proceeding.

• There is no reference to the Democrats’ opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It was passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. The law prohibited racial discrimination in public places and public accommodations.

• There is no reference to the Democrats’ 1904 platform, which devotes a section to “Sectional and Racial Agitation,” claiming the GOP’s protests against segregation and the denial of voting rights to blacks sought to “revive the dead and hateful race and sectional animosities in any part of our common country,” which in turn “means confusion, distraction of business, and the reopening of wounds now happily healed.”

• There is no reference to four Democratic platforms, 1908-20, that are silent on blacks, segregation, lynching and voting rights as racial problems in the country mount. By contrast the GOP platforms of those years specifically address “Rights of the Negro” (1908), oppose lynching (in 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928) and, as the New Deal kicks in, speak out about the dangers of making blacks “wards of the state.”

• There is no reference to the Democratic Convention of 1924, known to history as the “Klanbake.” The 103-ballot convention was held in Madison Square Garden. Hundreds of delegates were members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan so powerful that a plank condemning Klan violence was defeated outright. To celebrate, the Klan staged a rally with 10,000 hooded Klansmen in a field in New Jersey directly across the Hudson from the site of the convention. Attended by hundreds of cheering convention delegates, the rally featured burning crosses and calls for violence against African-Americans and Catholics.

• There is no reference to the fact that it was Democrats who segregated the federal government, at the direction of President Woodrow Wilson upon taking office in 1913. There \is a reference to the fact that President Harry Truman integrated the military after World War II.

• There is reference to the fact that Democrats created the Federal Reserve Board, passed labor and child welfare laws, and created Social Security with Wilson’s New Freedom and FDR’s New Deal. There is no mention that these programs were created as the result of an agreement to ignore segregation and the lynching of blacks. Neither is there a reference to the thousands of local officials, state legislators, state governors, U.S. congressmen and U.S. senators who were elected as supporters of slavery and then segregation between 1800 and 1965. Nor is there reference to the deal with the devil that left segregation and lynching as a way of life in return for election support for three post-Civil War Democratic presidents, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.

• There is no reference that three-fourths of the opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Bill in the U.S. House came from Democrats, or that 80% of the “nay” vote in the Senate came from Democrats. Certainly there is no reference to the fact that the opposition included future Democratic Senate leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (a former Klan member) and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Sr., father of Vice President Al Gore.

• Last but certainly not least, there is no reference to the fact that Birmingham, Ala., Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor, who infamously unleashed dogs and fire hoses on civil rights protestors, was in fact–yes indeed–a member of both the Democratic National Committee and the Ku Klux Klan.

Race card? How about the idiot card? How about the criminal card?

The idiot card and the criminal cards should both be played against idiot criminal Democrats like Ed Rendell, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc.

The Democrat Party was the ruling party of the Confederate States of America; the party that held up the election of 1876 so they could kick out federal troops overseeing elections; a Democrat assassinated Abraham Lincoln; the Democrats created Jim Crow and kicked out all of the black republicans that were elected; elected Democrats were the guys in white hoods standing around in lynching photos and the observers of those atrocities standing around were Democrats. George Wallace and Bull Connor were Democrats whereas Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Democrat Party that placed a 40 year moratorium on the Civil Rights Act that REPUBLICANS passed for LBJ. And don’t get me started on how DEMOCRATS ESCALATED Vietnam and a Republican ended it.

And it was the Democrats that opened up their arms to accept all of the domestic terrorists of the 60s and 70s!!

What exactly does Governor Rendell do, anyway?

His primary job responsibility these days seems to be appearing on Comcast’s Eagles Post Game Live on Sundays.