Don’t Count Your Chickens

October 24th, 2008

Despite more and more high profile Republican defections to Obama, party candidates McCain and Palin are still rolling with the all-hate, all-the-time roadshow, and the army of flying buttmonkeys is still on the march:

Indiana Star, Oct 23, 5:59 PM EDT

Clerk left letters calling Obama “black Hitler”

FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) — A Republican county election clerk distributed copies of an apparent chain letter referring to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as a “young, black Adolf Hitler” to two employees but later told police she intended it to be a joke.

The employees, who had voted for Obama in Indiana’s Democratic primary, discovered the letters at their desks after returning from Labor Day weekend, Deputy Sheriff Doug Cox said in a police report made public this week. One of the workers complained, and surveillance video showed Johnson County Clerk Jill Jackson placing an item one worker’s desk at 5:27 p.m. on the Friday of Labor Day weekend, Cox said.

From the text quoted in the article it may well have been this piece of crap , which has spammed just about every comment site out there.

Even the local Republican chair professed himself shocked:

Doug Lechner, Republican Party chairman in the county just south of Indianapolis, said the letter was unacceptable and taints Jackson’s ability to appear unbiased in administering this year’s election. County clerks are responsible for training poll workers, providing all voters an opportunity to cast their ballot without influence, and overseeing vote counts.

“She’s in a sensitive position and she has to give all the appearance of fairness,” Lechner said.

This is one county in one state. How many more thousands of others are just like it with politically biased election administrators?

I’ve blogged about Republican entryism before and how, over the past decade or more, the Right has taken control of the actual voting process by installing palpably biased election officials; the DOJ attorney scandal is just the logical flowering of a long process of deliberate political infiltration. Then there’s the voting machines and the caging and the foreclosure challenges and shutting down polling stations…take this one clerk and multiply her exponentially, produce an army of deliberate obstructionists and saboteurs.

We at the Christian Coalition are raising an army who cares. We are training people to be effective � to be elected to school boards, to city councils, to state legislatures, and to key positions in political parties�. By the end of this decade, if we work and give and organize and train, THE CHRISTIAN COALITION WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN AMERICA
� Pat Robertson, in a fundraising letter, July 4, 1991

There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore.

Pat Robertson, address to his American Center for Law and Justice, November, 1993.

Taking political control over what should unbiased is part of the Right’s strategy and always has been: as Bush senior himself said more than once, politics at base is all about the process and who controls it. The netroots are all very well when it comes to raising funds, but how does that translate into Democrat election judges or supervisors to balance out the malignity of the GOP and maintain a fair election?

Those liberal bloggers celebrating early’d might want to hold their fire, because the results may not necessarily be what they expect. There’s a lot of damage to an unbiased vote that an army of obstructionists and saboteurs can do.

On the other hand, when even Scott McLellan is voting Obama, perhaps times are actually changing. But has anyone remembered to tell the troops?

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Categories: '08 Election, Election Skullduggery, Wingnuts