Limbaugh

October 9, 2002

This story is just fabulous. Democratic Party leaders said Tuesday that they're going to launch an extensive effort to promote and monitor voters' rights on Election Day. They're going to put thousands of lawyers in place to respond to voter complaints. This is Florida all over again. This is not responding to voter complaints, this is generating voter complaints. This is how they're going to steal the election, folks. The infamous butterfly ballot makes a new appearance under a different guise - lawyers! The liberal Democrats have been honest enough, although maybe not smart enough, to expose to the world their effort to steal this upcoming election. Where is sending in thousands of lawyers as election monitors in any election law? Where is it?

Let's go back and revisit recent history in Florida. They had the perfectly valid butterfly ballot, and some seasoned citizens who live in condos, and come out once every two years to vote. It was then suggested that some of them may have made a mistake and voted for Pat Buchanan. Many of the residents in south Florida are Jewish and voting for Buchanan in their minds is equivalent to voting for the Third Reich.

So all of a sudden Congressman Bob Wexler said he was being stormed with panicked complaints from his constituents claiming that the ballot was unclear and that they think they mistakenly voted for Buchanan. They meant to vote for Gore. But they voted for Buchanan. Well, remember what we learned. We learned that this whole plan was hatched by a Democrat consultant, a public relations firm, which came up with the idea, when the exit polls were not looking good, to put the whole outcome in turmoil by having a bunch of people complain that they voted wrong because of the confusing nature of the ballot.

Now the Democrats have just said that they're going to do the same thing nationwide. What if there aren't any voter complaints? When was the last time you heard of voter complaints anyway, other than Florida in 2000? You get ready, folks, especially you Republicans in Missouri, because 500 of these Democrat lawyers are going to be in Missouri making sure Talent doesn't win that election. If he does, Republicans control the Senate for the rest of the year.

So Terry McAuliffe will have thousands of lawyers on notice nationwide to respond to complaints so no one is intimidated into forgoing their rights. Is this not delectable? This is sheer panic time. And I'm going to tell you why. It's not just Iraq, folks. It's about judges, too, because if the Democrats lose the Senate, they'll lose their ability to block George W. Bush's judicial nominees – and control of the bench is the only way that liberals can force their agenda into American society.

-- Anonymous, October 09, 2002

Answers

I think you know I'm not fond of Limbaugh but I really think he needs to be listened to on this subject. I hope to God the Repubs are sending in their lawyers too--and video cams and recordings and whatever else they need to bolster their case that an election wasn't compromised by "confusing" ballots, intimidation, or whatever else the Dems dredge up. Unfortunately, I don't think the Repubs will. They'll look at the poll numbers and decide their candidate is going to win so nothing else needs to be done. They're just not as dishonest as the average Dem and they don't have the killer instinct like the Dems do. Blanket statement? Perhaps.

-- Anonymous, October 09, 2002

On a local note, Dade has put some county workers into the training program for the election in Nov. The workers who were interviewed after training couldn't understand why the previous workers couldn't handle the new machines. Said one, "You just plug it in and turn it on. What's the problem?"

Broward may be doing the same with its pollers. I haven't heard.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2002