Monday, November 06, 2006
Fear and Smear Part II
201k is cautiously optimistic about tomorrow's election.
Well...no, we aren't. We're worried. We're worried that the election will be stolen, plain and simple.
The Republican party has done things in the last six years that they simply cannot allow to be revealed, as they would be if Democrats take control of the House and/or Senate, and between untrustworthy voting machines and old-fashioned vote-suppression tactics, they have the means to stay in power illegitimately.
We're worried about the cover stories being floated in the media -- stories that will provide plausibility if the GOP miraculously wins in key races. In 2004 the cover story was that the so-called "values voters" showed up in record numbers to carry Republicans to victory. No such thing was ever demonstrated actually to have happened; it was a campaign talking point that became conventional wisdom. In reality, the election of 2004 was stolen in the ballot boxes and voting machines.
Similarly, we fear that the new wave of stories about the GOP's vaunted "get-out-the-vote" operation, Kerry's "lame joke", and the Hussein verdict are nothing more than the advanced placement of what will become media-wide talking points used to explain a surprise Republican victory.
That's what they did last time; the "values-voter" cover story not only supposedly explained how the votes could be so dramatically different from the exit polls, but -- in a happy coincidence -- provided a green light for the regressive social agenda the right was determined to embark upon.
What will it be this time? That voters suddenly decided that Republicans are best able to pursue the "War on Terror" -- not only leaving them in power but also supposedly authorizing them to continue their assault on American civil liberties?
We hope we're wrong.
Well...no, we aren't. We're worried. We're worried that the election will be stolen, plain and simple.
The Republican party has done things in the last six years that they simply cannot allow to be revealed, as they would be if Democrats take control of the House and/or Senate, and between untrustworthy voting machines and old-fashioned vote-suppression tactics, they have the means to stay in power illegitimately.
We're worried about the cover stories being floated in the media -- stories that will provide plausibility if the GOP miraculously wins in key races. In 2004 the cover story was that the so-called "values voters" showed up in record numbers to carry Republicans to victory. No such thing was ever demonstrated actually to have happened; it was a campaign talking point that became conventional wisdom. In reality, the election of 2004 was stolen in the ballot boxes and voting machines.
Similarly, we fear that the new wave of stories about the GOP's vaunted "get-out-the-vote" operation, Kerry's "lame joke", and the Hussein verdict are nothing more than the advanced placement of what will become media-wide talking points used to explain a surprise Republican victory.
That's what they did last time; the "values-voter" cover story not only supposedly explained how the votes could be so dramatically different from the exit polls, but -- in a happy coincidence -- provided a green light for the regressive social agenda the right was determined to embark upon.
What will it be this time? That voters suddenly decided that Republicans are best able to pursue the "War on Terror" -- not only leaving them in power but also supposedly authorizing them to continue their assault on American civil liberties?
We hope we're wrong.
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I wouldn't worry about it, I imagine that we have at least two years of speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi to look forward to, which bums out myself and others who would like to conduct an agressive war on terror. And get ready for all of those all important congressional investigations into the Bush Administration, which will be oh so productive.
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