SOP for movement conservatives. Assume away the facts and continue to pound on the table, screaming "I am a victim" at the top of their lungs, because if they weren't being victimized, they'd be running the country right now... oh, wait.
The real question is why anyone bothers to take movement conservative bloggers seriously except as bellwethers for which bogus arguments are being propagated by the New Republican Tribal chieftains.
It's the exact same strategy they have employed with Iraq. Pointing out that something is not working is what causes it not to work and thereby perfidious. Unsurprising coming from an administration enamored with "faith-based" governance. Things are so because they are believed to be so.
And Paperwight couldn't be any more correct about the victimization angle. Long the home territory of the left, it seems to have morphed into the central pillar of the modern conservativism.
On those Democratic "scandals" he mentions -- or rather, doesnt:
I could mention the Lautenberg Trick in New Jersey. Or Gore's ballot shenanigans in Florida. Or the voter-registration fraud currently going on in Colorado, Nevada, and elsewhere. Or the Democrats' successful call to bring election observers into this country. Bring them in from where, Venezuela? Hey, no big deal sullying the reputation of the world's oldest continuously-functioning democracy, just so long as we can make the Republicans look bad, right?
Well, he could mention them, but he fucking doesn't, so there's not really any way to verify whether or not he's full of shit. Well, except on the Gore thing, in which case he quite clearly is full of shit. But aside from that, I don't even know what in hell he's talking about.
Anyway, the point of all this being, I'd suggest changing this line:
he lists a series of Democratic abuses regarding voter fraud
to read
he lists a series of alleged Democratic abuses regarding voter fraud
or, alternately
he lists a series of bullshit accusations about Democratic abuses regarding voter fraud which he most likely came up with in a hallucination while laying in a pool of his own vomit
which I would personally refer, although that may not be your personally preferred style of expression.
Stephen Green aka VodkaPundit, is a pin-head that lives in a cocoon of censorship. The guy can't even take a real debate without banning someone who pulls his shorts down for all the world to see...move on to someone/something that matters...
Anyone who can read can see that the following quote is only about ACTUAL intimidation of lesser-educated votes, not EXPECTED intimidation: "If there are any signs of present or expected intimidation activity, in advance of election day, launch a press program... If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike' (particularly well-suited to states in which there techniques have been tried in the past)."
After this election, I hope Kerry schedules a massive re-education program, with sleep-deprivation, drugs, and electroshock if necessary, for those who might have fallen for such lies.
It's consistent with a certain worldview dominating discourse on the Republican right.
In this postmodern framework, proposing that things in Iraq might not be going so well undermines the actual war effort, voicing concern about the economy undermines consumer confidence, and reminding or warning people of real voter intimidation undermines the election process.
The same dynamic is behind the clamor for racial profiling -- despite countless examples of how easily racial profiling can be beaten -- and the defense of (the word) "marriage." It's a world in which names and feelings are more important than physical reality.
The Republican House of Representatives may try to stop the 2004 election! Check out this link to the State Dept site! http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/37091.htm - The pdf file there http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/RL32623.pdf is a report for/by the Republican controlled House of Representatives looking into the constitutional legalities of postponing the election!
SOP for movement conservatives. Assume away the facts and continue to pound on the table, screaming "I am a victim" at the top of their lungs, because if they weren't being victimized, they'd be running the country right now... oh, wait.
The real question is why anyone bothers to take movement conservative bloggers seriously except as bellwethers for which bogus arguments are being propagated by the New Republican Tribal chieftains.
Posted by paperwight | Link to this comment | 10-14-04 6:27 PM
It's the exact same strategy they have employed with Iraq. Pointing out that something is not working is what causes it not to work and thereby perfidious. Unsurprising coming from an administration enamored with "faith-based" governance. Things are so because they are believed to be so.
And Paperwight couldn't be any more correct about the victimization angle. Long the home territory of the left, it seems to have morphed into the central pillar of the modern conservativism.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-14-04 7:09 PM
On those Democratic "scandals" he mentions -- or rather, doesnt:
I could mention the Lautenberg Trick in New Jersey. Or Gore's ballot shenanigans in Florida. Or the voter-registration fraud currently going on in Colorado, Nevada, and elsewhere. Or the Democrats' successful call to bring election observers into this country. Bring them in from where, Venezuela? Hey, no big deal sullying the reputation of the world's oldest continuously-functioning democracy, just so long as we can make the Republicans look bad, right?
Well, he could mention them, but he fucking doesn't, so there's not really any way to verify whether or not he's full of shit. Well, except on the Gore thing, in which case he quite clearly is full of shit. But aside from that, I don't even know what in hell he's talking about.
Anyway, the point of all this being, I'd suggest changing this line:
he lists a series of Democratic abuses regarding voter fraud
to read
he lists a series of alleged Democratic abuses regarding voter fraud
or, alternately
he lists a series of bullshit accusations about Democratic abuses regarding voter fraud which he most likely came up with in a hallucination while laying in a pool of his own vomit
which I would personally refer, although that may not be your personally preferred style of expression.
Posted by agrajag | Link to this comment | 10-14-04 7:31 PM
Stephen Green aka VodkaPundit, is a pin-head that lives in a cocoon of censorship. The guy can't even take a real debate without banning someone who pulls his shorts down for all the world to see...move on to someone/something that matters...
Posted by Caleb | Link to this comment | 10-14-04 7:40 PM
You're absolutely right, that VodkaPundit guy is a pinhead, and one day we really should get rid of all these retards.
The DNC has posted an HTML version here of the shameful Rove-engineered schmear:
http://www.democrats.org/news/200410140008.html
Anyone who can read can see that the following quote is only about ACTUAL intimidation of lesser-educated votes, not EXPECTED intimidation: "If there are any signs of present or expected intimidation activity, in advance of election day, launch a press program... If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike' (particularly well-suited to states in which there techniques have been tried in the past)."
After this election, I hope Kerry schedules a massive re-education program, with sleep-deprivation, drugs, and electroshock if necessary, for those who might have fallen for such lies.
Posted by a reader | Link to this comment | 10-14-04 9:05 PM
It's consistent with a certain worldview dominating discourse on the Republican right.
In this postmodern framework, proposing that things in Iraq might not be going so well undermines the actual war effort, voicing concern about the economy undermines consumer confidence, and reminding or warning people of real voter intimidation undermines the election process.
The same dynamic is behind the clamor for racial profiling -- despite countless examples of how easily racial profiling can be beaten -- and the defense of (the word) "marriage." It's a world in which names and feelings are more important than physical reality.
Posted by tps12 | Link to this comment | 10-15-04 8:25 AM
The Republican House of Representatives may try to stop the 2004 election! Check out this link to the State Dept site! http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/37091.htm - The pdf file there http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/RL32623.pdf is a report for/by the Republican controlled House of Representatives looking into the constitutional legalities of postponing the election!
Posted by RW | Link to this comment | 10-15-04 12:23 PM