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“Radio Equalizer’s Brian Maloney captured MSNBC’s Ed Schultz making a startling remark on his radio show yesterday about supporting voter fraud in Massachusetts, so Scott Brown would lose.
‘I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts I’d try to vote 10 times. I don’t know if they’d let me or not, but I’d try to. Yeah, that’s right. I’d cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. ‘Cause that’s exactly what they are.’” - Washington Times
That’s just shameful.
Between this and Chris Matthews’ complaint that you can’t buy votes anymore like in the good old days, the lefty desperation is reaching new heights of ridiculousness in the Massachusetts senatorial race.
What Chris Matthews said in case anyone missed it:
Let them true colors shine through.CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: You know in the old days, maybe I shouldn`t be harkening back to the old days, if the Democrats faced this kind of a disaster in the works, you`d go back to your ones, the people you were sure are going to vote Democrat, and you`d make sure they got to the polling place, you`d get them lunch, you`d get them a car.
TODD: Right.
MATTHEWS: You`d make sure they got there and in some cases you`d be buying people to get them, not officially buying them, but getting them there as block secretaries, as block captains, you`d be getting them there with street money, legitimate but it`s a little bit old school.
TODD: Right.
MATTHEWS: But I hear talking to somebody today there aren`t people up there in Massachusetts like that anymore. There aren`t those automatic Democrat votes, those ones anymore. You can`t count on anybody. You go to the regulars and they say well, I`m ticked off about taxes, too. Is that right?
TODD: No. It is and it doesn`t help that Coakley didn`t have a great relationship with sort of the Democratic hierarchy there in Massachusetts, so all of a sudden she`s in panic mode and everybody`s going uh-huh, but we`ll see. You`re right, Chris, it isn`t the old machine that`s up there.
MATTHEWS: Well the street corner guys are probably getting called on a bit too late perhaps. We`ll see. It could be very close. Thank you, Chuck Todd. It`s a great to have a pro.
Always remember….vote early, and vote often.
In all seriousness, though, and without taking sides……no matter who’s running, and no matter what the issues are, we should all remember that it’s supposed to be a representative form of government…..meaning a representative of the people who elect you, not the party that backs you. If a town, county, or district wants to elect all Republicans, all Democrats, all Independents, or all Socialists, for that matter, isn’t that what they’re supposed to be able to do? And if the “chosen” candidate in an election is not someone the people want, isn’t it their right not to vote for that candidate?
This reminds me of something that happened here in NJ a few years back. A guy name Torricelli was one of the US Senators (for one term). He was running for re-election against a guy named Forrester, a rather elitest-type Republican. But Toricelli was struggling, and his struggles grew as he got caught up in a campaign finance scandal during his re-election campaign. So, even though, by law, the time had long passed to replace Toricelli on the ballot, the state Democratic party, put the then-retired Frank Lautenberg on the ballot (a then-popular, then-former Senator). The “progressive” NJ Supreme Court ignored the election laws of the State and allowed the switch to take place, and Lautenberg beat Forrester. The people kinda got who they wanted, I suppose, although it was pretty clear that Forrester was going to beat Toricelli at the time. But the big political machine made it possible to get Lautenberg in when Toricelli wouldn’t have made it.
Politics. Ain’t it grand?
