Quoth the Redskins’ Philip Daniels:
We’ve all got family members that are not doing so well. Democrats would help them out, but Republicans would help us out.
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I used to be a Republican. I wanted Bush in there. The previous years I’ve been Republican because of what we make, but this year’s a little bit different. I think this year more guys are not even thinking about the income part of it. They’re just really thinking about the economy and the country. A lot of people want change.”
We’re going to hear a lot of that over the next few weeks. Followed up by complaints that Democrats rigged the election. Is it too early to start coming up with nasty taunts along the lines of “Sore Loserman?”
Yes, yes it is to early. It is those “taunts,” name-calling and other denigratory talk that has caused our political system to devolve to the point that it has.
Just look at your anti-spam measure.
It was a joke. :)
Oops. Can you tell it’s a BIG pet peeve?
“Followed up by complaints that Democrats rigged the election.”
Actually, that’s been the main Democrat tactic every time they lose an election this century. I’ll be very surprised if Republicans whine their way into courts across the country the way Democrats did in ’00 and ’04.
The whole ‘rigging’ thing is hilarious. I mean, if this looked like a close election then I could understand the angle. In such a case, the slightest potential impropriety could throw the race. But Obama leads by double digits in most polls now.
Yeah, Democrats are cheating. They are rigging the election by convincing more people to vote for their candidate. Unfair!
Former New Mexico U.S Attorney David Iglesias
I’ll be very surprised if Republicans whine their way into courts across the country the way Democrats did in ‘00 and ‘04.
Remember George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, Petitioners v. Albert Gore, Jr., et al? Isn’t the “petitioner” the “whiner”? Isn’t that the granddaddy of all cases in which elections results were taken to the courts?
The good news is that I may be about to “get over it”.
I. Publius: bullshit.
There will always be voter fraud. It will come for both sides. Sometimes it will be be from one side more than the other.
This will get more intensely reported in the last days of an election. It will be more loudly screamed by the party that feels a close election slipping way. It will be used to explain the close loss. (see also “we just didn’t get our message out”)
Remember George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, Petitioners v. Albert Gore, Jr., et al?
Better than most. Remember who began the legal action in Florida, particularly filing actions in the Florida Supreme Court? I’ll give you a hint… it wasn’t the Republicans. The U.S. Supreme Court only became involved when the Florida Supreme Court ignored Equal Protection.
You mean that same kind of Equal Protection the Rehnquist Court hadn’t seen before or since? Yeah. Let’s not fight this one over. Institutions beat justice, that time. The end.
I guess that’s why the Court voted 7-2 on that issue. ::rolls eyes::
Not much of a lawyer, are you?
I seem to be one with a better grasp of Bush v. Gore than you, friend.