“Change” in Our Democracy: Keep Counting Until the Democrat Wins
It’s been days now, but I keep hoping that if I wait long enough, someone will wake me up and tell me that this was just a joke. I mean, Al Franken couldn’t have won Norm Coleman’s Senate seat in real life – at least not in any rational, just world. And not in America, where democracy rules.
Either way, it looks like the joke’s on us. Welcome to “change” in America, where voter fraud is acceptable when it helps a Democrat steal an election; democracy be damned.
Doesn’t anyone else smell voter fraud in Minnesota?:
On the morning after Election Day, Republican Coleman led Franken by 725 votes. By that evening, his lead had shrunk to 477, and as of Tuesday, the margin was just 206 votes.
“This lopsided bleeding of Republican votes is passing strange considering that the official recount hasn’t even begun,” the Journal observed.
It’s not unusual that state officials, in double-checking the initial election results, would find and fix errors. What is unusual is that nearly every “fix” has gone in favor of Franken.
In one case, Minnesota’s director of elections announced on Friday, three days after the election, that she had forgotten to count 32 absentee ballots in her car.
In Two Harbors, a liberal outpost near Duluth, Franken picked up an additional 246 votes, while none of the other contests in that precinct recorded any changes in their vote total.
“According to conservative statistician John Lott, Mr. Franken’s gains so far are 2.5 times the corrections made for Barack Obama in the state, and nearly three times the gains for Democrats across Minnesota Congressional races,” The Journal reported.
I’m still dumbfounded as to why neither the media nor Republicans have been calling out Minnesota for its corruption. Aside from a few good arguments from the likes of Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter (read them here, here, and here), no one seems to care that the very core of our country’s democracy is being threatened.
Thankfully, the Coleman campaign is fighting back with a lawsuit demanding that every vote be counted accurately, but it’s a great disappointment that with an administration that could use every last Republican it can get, Republicans seem to be turning a blind eye to Democrats’ lies. Once again. I’m guessing I was right when I said that last November wasn’t going to be the wake-up call we were hoping for.
Even more egregious is the audacity of some Republicans to actually stand AGAINST Coleman’s efforts and suggest that he act like the cowards they are and just accept his loss:
Former Gov. Arne Carlson, who attended the 1996 event during which Coleman switched parties to become a Republican, predicts Coleman will lose any lawsuit he files. Carlson, who supported Coleman’s ‘98 gubernatorial bid, also said that a protracted battle, after 62 days of recounting, would hurt Coleman’s public image. By contrast, he said, “There’s no disgrace in losing.”
Not in losing, perhaps, but possibly in being a spineless loser in the name of self-sacrifice and at the expense of a fair democratic process.
At least Ann Coulter gets it:
It’s bad enough that the Republican Party can’t prevent Democrats from voting in its primaries and saddling us with The New York Times’ favorite Republican as our presidential nominee. If the Republican Party can’t protect an election won by the incumbent U.S. senator in Minnesota, there is no point in donating to the Republican Party.
I hate to say it, but she’s right. After so many extravagant promises that Republicans were going to learn their lesson after the last election and that this year, they were going to stick by their principles and fight, I’m less than impressed with how they are starting off the new year. Norm Coleman himself may not be the pinnacle of Republican virtue, but at least got a conviction that he’s willing to fight for. I wish that others would take notice and follow his example. Until they do, Republicans had better get very comfortable with being the minority party.
Florida 2000….I bet you loved that outcome.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pmHow many of those ballots were in Al Franken’s own handwriting?
Seriously, in some counties there were more ballots than people registered to vote. Ballots were being found all over the place. All of the times that Norm Coleman was ahead, another recount was held. Then, when Al Franken FINALLY wins a count he’s declared the winner.
Something stinks in the State of Minnesota.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:32 pmAmbrosia, there was never a count that had Al Gore defeating W in Florida. Get your facts straight before making your comments.
As for Franken, I don’t think there’s any question about what’s happened here. The thought that pops into my mind is this is exactly what would have happened in the Presidential race if it were closer. How quickly we forget about ACORN and the army of lawyers Obama had at the ready to make sure ‘every vote was counted.’
By the way, check out Dick Morris on this…http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/01/08/frankens-funny-business/
January 9th, 2009 at 12:45 pm“I’m still dumbfounded as to why neither the media”
Well, Sharon, the media have served the Democrats for decades, at least since 1964, when they helped elect LBJ. The GOP must forcefully counter the liberal propaganda of the MSM soon enough, or suffer undeserved defeats. I’d recommend that you read “Bringing conservatism back to the American people” by Steven Warshawsky.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pmI didn’t say anything new in that last post, so I think I should elaborate on that issue someday. If time allows.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:48 pmWell, Mike, from my perspective (and a whole lot of other people), all the votes were never counted in Florida thanks to Katherine Harris and good ‘ol Jeb. Facts are, the conservative Justices on the Supreme Court awarded Bush the Presidency without benefit of counting all those votes.
Maybe you should check out the facts..but then again, why should facts matter to you?
January 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pmWell, ambrosiajr, the NYT, the Wash. Post, the LA Times and the Chicago Trib all did their own analysis of the 2000 election and all were forced to agree that in no way shape or form, EXCEPT FOR ONLY COUNTING THOSE COUNTIES GORE WANTED, would the result have been different.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pmAnd which conservatives on the SC are you referring to?
But hey, living in Jersey you obviously see what GREAT things happen when the left gets in power…………Gosh, I so wanna live in Camden, Patterson, Trenton etc…….
Mike Jr.
According to Ambro, you just named all African-American cities so you are a racist.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:51 pm“Florida 2000….I bet you loved that outcome.”
Democrats are trying to commit the same fraud now they couldn’t get away with eight years ago.
Just becuase your party’s smear machine won the propaganda war over that doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of people who know better.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:15 pmYup…all smears and propaganda…no truth in it, unless of course, its Coleman on the other end…then its all just dirty politics, and how can we let something like this happen! Oh my!
So the shoe is on the other foot now, and its not a pretty feeling, is it Dino? No one likes to feel like they’ve been bamboozled, do they. Oh well, you should learn to deal with it like we all had to.
And a great job they did too, didn’t they Brownie.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:20 pmAmbro:
Didn’t you read Mike Jr’s comment? All the liberal media outlets admitted it was a fair decision, and Gore was never officially winning in the vote count.
You only see what you want to see don’t you?
January 9th, 2009 at 2:39 pmBut wait Stan..I thought the MSM was in the hands of dems and the left? Its funny how you can site them when the need arises, and bash them when they don’t say what you want to hear. Amazing how that happens.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:52 pmNot that I’m any different, mind you.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:52 pmAmbro:
you made the whole point for me, they are in the hands of the left. But yet they still concluded after their own investigation that 2000 election in Florida was not stolen like the rest of the world already knew.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:21 pmI was being facetious Stan…I think that every other news outlet, except for Fox, is fair and balanced. And there are millions of people just like me that believe the election was stolen by Jeb, by Katherine Harris and by the Bushie’s lawyers. While you all seem to have a problem with 300 or so votes in Minnesota, you had no problem with 537 votes in Florida. Not to mention that Coleman’s a crook. But hey, maybe he can get some advice from Larry Craig on how to keep his seat.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:40 pmNot only did W win Flrida by every count Ambro, he would have won by more had the MSM not called the race for Gore before the polls had closed in the Florida panhandle.
The Franken situation is exactly what Gore was after…look for votes under any crevice you can, keep counting until you’re ahead then stop.
FWIW try picking up Mark Levin’s book Men In Black and reading his chapter on the matter. You might be surprised to find that even he was troubled by the Supreme Court intervention… but he does lay out in detail what should have occurred and how W deserved to win.
But, hey, he’s a conservative so I’m sure that you will reject his creds as a Constitutional scholar out of hand, right?
January 9th, 2009 at 3:49 pmNot to keep rehashing this matter, but then why did they try so hard to stop the recount in midstream if they thought they would win anyway? And if there were votes that were illegitimately discounted, no matter where they were found, then why wouldn’t it be ok to count those?
And Mark Levin, the self-called “Great One” is more conservative than Atilla the Hun…so yes, I would dismiss him out of hand since I have listened to him for many years on WABC and there is no way in hell that he’s a fair aobut anything democratic…creds or not.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:32 pmThey stopped the recount mid-stream because they already did a recount and that for the third time would have proved that Bush had officially won.
Gore wanted them to keep recounting until he won.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:08 pmOh well, I guess you’re just closed-minded then.
By the way, I find it interesting how libs like you - who are, you know, to the Left of Karl Marx - complain about the SCOTUS when it comes to Florida 2000 but are mute when it comes to the Florida Court which ignored the law all the way down the line in order to let Gore keep counting away.
Ahh, yes. ‘Sore Loserman.’ Seems like yesterday.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:13 pmHahaha. It’s not even worth rationalizing with some liberals.
January 10th, 2009 at 12:48 pmHow funny is that Sharon..its the same with conservatives…not even worth trying sometimes.
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