posted October 15, 2004 02:40 PM            

It seems, on the record, that there is no bottom to their cesspit of lies, deceit, illegality and dishonesty, both moral and intellectual.

So far, they're registering potential voters who are inelibible to vote.

Registering illegal aliens.

Registering felons who are ineligible

Registering the same person multiple times at different addresses

Registering people who do not exist using multiple variations of the name of a person who does exist.

committing assault and battery against Bush camapign workers.

Harassing Bush campaign workers

Destroying personal property of those displaying bush signs in their yard or bumper stickers on their cars

Stealing materials from Bush campaign offices around the country, including computers.

Shooting out the windows in Bush campaign offices in various locations

Outing the Vice President's daughter who is not a spokesperson for the campaign but works in the background in an attempt to sway Bush supporters away from voting for him.

Having Edwards wife accuse the Vice President and his wife of being ashamed of their daughter because she's a lesbian.

Starting false rumors Bush is going to reinstitute a military draft

Having Kerry repeat the rumor even after the President looked straight into the camera at a Presidential debate and said there would be no military draft on his watch.

And, now there is this outrage committed by democrats.

Anti-Bush flier ignites political turmoil in state
By BONNA de la CRUZ
Staff Writer

RIPLEY, Tenn. — The origins of a political flier that mocks President Bush and children with disabilities has created a political firestorm in West Tennessee and is being reviewed by the Lauderdale County prosecutor.

The flier, distributed briefly from the Lauderdale County Democratic Party headquarters, has been denounced as a political dirty trick by state Democrats and disavowed by state Republicans.

Yesterday, the Tennessee Disability Coalition and national office of the Special Olympics called for the person or group behind the flier to step forward.

''As a parent of a child, this is simply outrageous and unacceptable, and we must all take a stand and work together to make it stop. No more,'' Laurel Ryan, a Memphis mother of a 10-year-old boy with autism, said during a Capitol Hill news conference yesterday in Nashville.

The flier depicts a boy running on a track with a picture of President Bush's head superimposed over the boy's.

At the top, the flier says, ''Voting for Bush Is Like Running In The Special Olympics.'' At the bottom, it says, ''Even If You Win, You're Still Retarded.''

Some Republicans have tagged state Rep. Craig Fitzhugh, D-Ripley, as the source of the document. Fitzhugh's campaign shares office space with other Democratic candidates, including U.S. Rep. John Tanner and the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign.

''I, too, am disgusted,'' said Fitzhugh, who appeared with Disability Coalition members at the news conference.

The fliers first showed up last week in Ripley, about 180 miles west of Nashville.

Lauderdale County Democratic Party officials said an unidentified man dropped off the stack of fliers but said they were thrown away later by offended volunteers. Copies emerged on the Internet and captured national attention after the flier appeared on the Drudge Report. Each account blamed Fitzhugh for distribution of the flier.

Fitzhugh, a lawyer and a banker, said that Republicans made a ''quantum leap'' assuming the fliers were his. He said he believes the fliers were planted to hurt his campaign.

''It's become clear now I had nothing to do with it,'' Fitzhugh said.

His opponent, Dave Dahl, a Republican from Dyersburg, responded, ''I'm not saying Craig Fitzhugh copied these or distributed them, but they were in his headquarters he shares with Lauderdale Democrats. As a candidate, you have to take responsibility for what is distributed from your headquarters.''

Fitzhugh and Dahl joined the disability group in calling for an investigation.

District Attorney General Elizabeth Rice, whose 25th District includes Lauderdale County, said, ''If these acts constitute a criminal offense, I will refer the complaint to the appropriate law enforcement agency.''

She did not specify what charges could be involved. She added, ''Whoever made and distributed this material is a sick, cowardly individual. I have known Rep. Craig Fitzhugh for 25 years, and I am positive that he would not be associated with any such person or tactics.''

Fitzhugh said he and his family volunteer to work with the Special Olympics every year; that his wife is a former board member and is on a committee of the Helen Tucker Adult Developmental Center in Ripley; and that his bank, the Bank of Ripley, is host to an annual Christmas party for clients at the center.

He said he has been a board member of Professional Counseling Services, which provides residential and outpatient services for 5,000 people with mental health and developmental disabilities.

Team GOP, which is supporting Dahl's campaign, had the flier posted on its Web site, www.teamgop.org, which crashed yesterday when it got 52,000 hits in 90 minutes, organizer Jeff Ward said.

The state parties have jumped into the fray, as well.

Earlier this week, Tennessee Democrats called the flier a ''dirty trick'' by ''shady Republican operatives'' to smear Fitzhugh.

''We are shocked and appalled that they would stoop to this level to try and score political points. Craig Fitzhugh is one of the most honorable, upright men in the Tennessee legislature,'' said Randy Button, chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party.

Republican Party Chairwoman Beth Harwell shot back with her own statement: ''For Randy Button to try to turn this around on Republicans is another example of the Tennessee Democratic Party's desperation. It is both unacceptable and unethical.''

Fitzhugh and Dahl have close ties to the disability community. Dahl has taught special-needs children.

The fliers first appeared last Tuesday or Wednesday, said Katie Honey, a volunteer in the Lauderdale County Democratic Party headquarters. ''A man brought it in, and later I looked at it and said, 'This is not something for us. This needs to be trashed,' '' said Honey, a retired clothing store and beauty shop operator.

Later, she said, ''Some other gentleman came in and was raising cain, talking about the flier, saying it was a disgrace and this and that. I said, 'We're not giving out no fliers. We thought it was terrible and put it in the trash.' He went out there and got them and took them with him.''

Honey said she did not know how many fliers went out the door between the time they were on her desk and when she threw them away.

James Mitchell, owner of the City Pawn Shop in downtown Ripley, confirmed that he was the person who got a copy out of the trash. ''I went down there, and they admitted they were handing them out. I got one out of the trash can. I thought this is about as ridiculous as anything you ever heard of. The fact they're making fun of special kids, that's what offended me.''

He said he took a copy to Dahl's campaign headquarters.
http://www.tennessean.com/elections/2004/archives/04/09/59695699.shtml?Element_ID=59695699

posted October 15, 2004 05:12 PM            

quote:

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Are there no depths of corruption and depravity democrats will not sink to in order to win political power?
It seems, on the record, that there is no bottom to their cesspit of lies, deceit, illegality and dishonesty, both moral and intellectual.

So far, they're registering potential voters who are inelibible to vote.

Registering illegal aliens.

Registering felons who are ineligible

Registering the same person multiple times at different addresses

Registering people who do not exist using multiple variations of the name of a person who does exist.

committing assault and battery against Bush camapign workers.

Harassing Bush campaign workers

Destroying personal property of those displaying bush signs in their yard or bumper stickers on their cars

Stealing materials from Bush campaign offices around the country, including computers.

Shooting out the windows in Bush campaign offices in various locations

Outing the Vice President's daughter who is not a spokesperson for the campaign but works in the background in an attempt to sway Bush supporters away from voting for him.

Having Edwards wife accuse the Vice President and his wife of being ashamed of their daughter because she's a lesbian.

Starting false rumors Bush is going to reinstitute a military draft

Having Kerry repeat the rumor even after the President looked straight into the camera at a Presidential debate and said there would be no military draft on his watch.

And, now there is this outrage committed by democrats.

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Now it's my turn to ask the question...

"Where's your proof on all these allegations?"

posted October 15, 2004 08:17 PM            

The kind of reporting you will never find about the Democrat party in the Times or on any of the major broadcast networks.

You should give NewsMax a hand Ozone... and an apopogy

I would like to point out that this is an AP story. If the Kerry campaign had done the very same thing, there would be no story by AP or any of the others.

Bush's New England Campaign Chief Resigns
NewsMax.com Wires
Friday, Oct. 15, 2004
CONCORD, N.H.

President Bush's New England campaign chairman stepped down Friday after the Democrats accused him of taking part in the jamming of their telephone lines on Election Day 2002.

"The Democrats' allegations against me are without merit," James Tobin said in the statement. "But to avoid any harm to the campaign from their underhanded tactics, I elected earlier this week to step down from my voluntary position with the campaign."
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The resignation came as the Democrats and Republicans fought in court over whether the Democrats could question GOP officials about Tobin's alleged role in the illegal jamming.
Get-out-the-vote phones run by Democrats and the nonpartisan Manchester firefighters union were jammed on Election Day two years ago by more than 800 computer-generated hang-up calls. The calls tied up the phones for about 1 1/2 hours.

Last summer, Chuck McGee, former executive director of the state GOP, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and admitted paying $15,600 to a Virginia telemarketing company that hired another business to make the calls. GOP consultant Allen Raymond, former president of GOP Marketplace in Alexandria, Va., also pleaded guilty.

At their plea hearings in federal court, McGee and Raymond acknowledged speaking to an unidentified official with a national political organization about the jamming. Democrats have said they believe that Tobin was the official and that he might have put McGee and Raymond together.

In 2002, Tobin was Northeast political director for the Republican Senatorial Committee.

Among the races affected by the phone-jamming was the Senate contest between Democrat Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Rep. John E. Sununu. The race had been considered a cliff-hanger, but Sununu wound up winning by about 20,000 votes.

On Wednesday, state Democrats won court permission to take depositions from GOP officials about Tobin's alleged role, and that of any other top Republican officials, in the jamming.

"It is disappointing, indeed, to see the opposition party manipulate the court system in a blatant effort to influence the election," Tobin said in his statement.

The Justice Department, however, filed a request Friday for a delay until federal criminal proceedings end, saying the questioning would probably disclose matters now before a federal grand jury. The Democrats accused the Justice Department of colluding with the state GOP; the Republicans denied that.

posted October 16, 2004 01:32 AM              

As far as the title to the post goes all I have to say is Pot- Kettle- Black

At least the Democrats never cheated their way into office. Bush is not even an elected President. He was appointed to the office. The American people did not vote for him in the first place. Not the majority anyway.

posted October 19, 2004 01:19 PM            

Vote fraud means nothing to the Kerry crowd, in fact, it's encouraged, applauded and institutionalized by the dimocrat party.

Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004
Ohioan: NAACP Gave Me Crack to Commit Election Fraud

Remember years ago when National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a civil rights organization, before it devolved into one of the more hate-mongering branches of the Democrat establishment? Now NAACP has a hit a revolting new low, according to one of its accomplices.

Chad Staton of Defiance, Ohio, charged with filing 124 false voter registration forms, said he committed the felonies in exchange for crack cocaine from Georgianne Pitts of Toledo, who was working for NAACP National Voter Fund.

"Toledo police searched Ms. Pitts' home and discovered drug paraphernalia along with more voter registration forms. Police said that Ms. Pitts admitted to paying Mr. Staton in crack cocaine, in lieu of cash," the Toledo Blade reported.

Pitts turned in the fake forms to NAACP's fund, which foolishly submitted them to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland instead of Defiance County’s elections board.

Among the names on the forms that the crackhead turned in: Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Janet Jackson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Michael Jordan and George Foreman, the Associated Press and the Blade reported today.

Pitts told police that Thaddeus J. Jackson II of Cleveland had recruited her. Jackson admitted to the Blade that Pitts was working for NAACP, according to him as a volunteer. He denied any knowledge of the election fraud.

Despite her admission that she bribed Staton with illegal drugs, Pitts for some reason has not been charged, the Washington Times reported today. She has an extensive criminal record over two decades, according to the Blade.

NAACP, naturally, was one of the left-wing groups that successfully agitated for bogus provisional balloting, which will allow massive vote fraud in the crucial battleground state.

posted October 22, 2004 12:25 PM            

Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 12:09 a.m. EDT
Philly Mayor Enlists Black Clergy in Kerry Vote Drive

Philadelphia Mayor John Street is pressing his city's clergyman to actively campaign for John Kerry, urging them to join a get-out-the-vote drive on behalf of the Democratic ticket.

"We have to get our people out to the polls, and we have to get them out in a big sort of way," Mayor Street told 100 pastors gathered at Philadelphia's national black clergy summit earlier this month. "If the clergy in this country says 'get out to the polls and vote for John Kerry,' our people will go."

Apparently immune from federal law barring church involvement in political campaigns, Philadelphia's clergy has long been active in Democratic Party politics.
Reporting on Street's entreaty to clergyman earlier this week, the Philadelphia Inquirer noted:

"African American pastors in Philadelphia mobilized an army of church volunteers from their traditionally Democratic memberships to help drive [Street] to victory in 1999 and to an overwhelming reelection last year.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. The paper adds:

"Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity, an influential group of pastors from about 450 churches, has voted to back the Democratic ticket and is gearing up a 'Take Your Soul to the Poll' campaign in hopes of delivering the African American electorate on election day."

Kerry campaign staffer Don Jones boasted to the Inquirer, "We've activated every minister." And he urged members of their flocks to vote even if they're not registered.

"Our message is: Do not walk out of that polling place, do not say, 'Oh, I thought I was registered but I guess I'm not,' " Jones said. "Vote. Use a provisional ballot. Get out there."

Provisional ballots were legalized under the 2002 "Help America Vote Act," and allow unregistered voters to vote, pending certification after the election.

posted October 22, 2004 01:42 PM              

Is there no end to the yellow journalistic garbage and propaganda that Newsmax puts out on the internet?

Quote:

Are there no depths of corruption and depravity democrats will not sink to in order to win political power?

This coming from a man who worships Bush who cheated his way into the White House in the 2000 election and will probably attempt to do it again this time.

Saying that, jwhop, is the same as a Bush supporter citing the First Amendment right to free press and free speech. When the man they support has done everything he can to see that both are silenced in this country.

All the smear and crap the Republicans have pulled during this campaign makes this post an execise in hypocracy. Practice what you preach. Republicans, practice what you preach. Bush has run the dirtiest campaign in the history of elections in this country. The Democrats are fighting back and have the money to do it all the way through the campaign this time because of grassroots efforts and donations of ordinary citizens to their campaign. They have been able to match the donations of the rich and corporations that support Bush for the first time in history. And the Republicans can't stand that. Be scared. Be very, very, scared. hee hee

posted October 22, 2004 03:41 PM            

Especially when it's the Kerry crowd who don't believe in free speech for anyone but themselves.

Some of your brain dead leftist friends ran on stage when Ann Coulter was making a speech in Tucson, Arizona yesterday and hit her with pies...to shut her up. Didn't work though any more than your constant whining about what I say is likely to work with me.

So Mirandee, all your blathering is noted but rejected as an attempt to change the subject. That doesn't work with me either.

Dimocrats from the Kerry campaign are inviting churches and their pastors, having 501C-3 tax exemptions to violate provisions of the IRS code by endorsing and campaigning for political candidates.

posted October 22, 2004 10:56 PM              

Puleeeze.

Look at Bush's record for all he has done to silence free speech in this country. Ask the news media. Right now Ashcroft has his own little witch hunt going on. The Patriot Acts I & II are in violation of the Constitution in many areas.

All John Kerry has done is try and defend himself against all the attacks and all Kerry supporters have done is to try to keep the election fair and honest against attacks, slander, biased reporting and biased broadcasts. Not to mention out and out lies.

posted October 22, 2004 11:22 PM            

Because you see Mirandee, the first amendment is a restriction on government to not abridge the freedom of speech of citizens.

Example please. Show me some prosecutions by the government for citizens speaking out...on any topic.

I'm not asking the press, I'm asking you to supply the information from that deep well of personal knowledge you think you have. I haven't seen a single article in the press where anyone's freedom of speech was infringed by the government under the Bush Administration.

posted October 22, 2004 11:30 PM            

Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 9:16 a.m. EDT
Two Students Pelt Ann Coulter with Pies During Speech

Two men ran onstage and threw custard pies at conservative columnist Ann Coulter as she was giving a speech at the University of Arizona, hitting her in the shoulder, police said.

University police arrested the men but did not release their identities.

In her half-hour speech Thursday night, Coulter trashed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and derided liberals and Democrats while saluting conservative students who attended her speech.

Coulter writes a column for Universal Press Syndicate. Her appearance was sponsored by the UA College Republicans.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/22/91812.shtml

posted October 22, 2004 11:57 PM              

Oh I would have loved to have seen that!

posted October 24, 2004 08:04 PM            

Stretching the franchise
By George F. Will
Sunday, October 24, 2004

Not since the election of 1800, the first in which one party displaced another from the presidency, has there been such anxiety about voting. In 1800 there were fears that the losing side would resort to arms. Today's worry concerns a cloud of locust-like lawyers asserting novel theories that purport to demonstrate that sensible rules, such as requiring voters to have identification, are illegal, even unconstitutional.
This locust litigation will erupt around any close election -- any not

won beyond "the margin of litigation" The lawyering, which already has begun, will attack rules designed to defeat a banal and familiar phenomenon -- old-fashioned fraud. Concerning which, there is a timely and disturbing new book, "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy" by John Fund of The Wall Street Journal.

Even though the 1992 election saw the largest percentage increase in voter turnout since 1952, Bill Clinton quickly sought to address the supposed "crisis" of nonparticipation with the National Voter

Registration Act -- a.k.a. "Motor Voter." It, Fund says, imposed "fraud-friendly" rules on the states, requiring them, for example, to register to vote anyone receiving a driver's license, and to offer mail-in

registration with no identification required.

Given such measures, perhaps we should not be surprised that, as Fund reports, since 1995, Philadelphia's population has declined 13 percent but registered voters have increased 24 percent. Are we sure we should we be pleased?

The unexamined belief that an ever-higher rate of voter registration is a Good Thing has met its limit in the center of the state that this year is the center of the political universe -- Ohio. The U.S. Census Bureau's 2003 estimate is that in Franklin County -- Columbus -- there are approximately 815,000 people 18 or over. But 845,720 are now registered.

One reason for such unacceptable numbers in various jurisdictions across the nation is that voter rolls are not frequently enough purged of voters whose status has changed.

Unfortunately, there is reluctance, especially among Republicans, to support measures that might appear to have a "disparate impact" on minorities and therefore be denounced as racist.

Today Americans demand, as a California voting official says, the kind of convenience in voting they enjoy in buying airline tickets. So election "day" can be three months long (in Maine). Absentee voting has come to be considered a right -- yet another one -- of convenience rather than a limited privilege understood as a concession to necessity. Soon, voting by mail (Oregonians all vote this way) and even online will be regarded as rights.

These measures are supposed to increase turnout. However, according to Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, all research is "unequivocal in showing that easy absentee voting decreases voter turnout" because "you are diffusing the mobilizing focus away from a single day."

What liberalized registration and voting procedures do increase are opportunities for fraud, including the sort that Milwaukee televisionstation WTMJ found in 2002. Fund says it "filmed Democrat campaign workers handing out food and small sums of money to residents of a home for the mentally ill in Kenosha, after which the patients were shepherded into a separate room and given absentee ballots."

In 2000, in heavily Democrat St. Louis, at 6:30 p.m., a judge, responding to a Democrat complaint filed in the name of a man the judge did not actually hear from (the man was dead), ordered polls to remain open until 10 p.m., three hours longer than the law allows, and ordered one voting place downtown to be open until midnight.