Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Latest Republican Assault on the Right to Vote

Let's see. Republicans routinely intimidate minorities at the polls. They send phony letters to Democrats containing the wrong addresses of their polling places. One of their larger contributors provides the voting machines to numerous states. They shut down one of the Democrats' most successful voter registration organizations (ACORN) by fraudulently altering a videotape to manufacture a crime that never happened.
They are assiduously trying to destroy the unions, which coincidentally happen to be the largest source of reliably Democratic voters in the country. And now they're trying to dissuade young people, who tend to overwhelmingly vote Democratic, from going to the polls?? (See link below.)
Hmm. Are we beginning to detect a pattern here? I mean, what could possibly be more un-American than discouraging, intimidating, and out and out lying to people to prevent them from exercising their "inalienable" right to elect their representatives?
Wait a moment. I thought Republicans had cornered the market on patriotism. Don't tell me that the GOP is guilty of hypocrisy?? Say it ain't so.
The "Party of Lincoln" would undoubtedly love to resurrect the requirement of passing an IQ test before one could vote, but they don't dare because they know that the vast majority of Tea Baggers would flunk it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-pelosi/gop-to-young-voters-dont_b_833149.html

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