… except when it’s Raaaaacist! Yes, there are five a’s in Raaaaacist!
Da unions are steadfastly opposed to requiring photo ID’s in order to vote, claiming they suppress the votes of groups who tend to vote Democrat. Except when it’s in their elections.
Via Doug Ross @ Journal, comes this:
In America, one needs an ID to vote in a union election, buy liquor, drive a car, board an airplane, use a credit card and a slew of other things in our society. Yet, the Democratic party refuses to back the idea of requiring an ID to vote in state and federal elections under any circumstances. A sensible voter ID law that respects the rights of the poor, elderly, and minorities is a great idea. What are Democrats afraid of? You connect the dots.
The only people opposed to photo ID at the polls are politicians who benefit from voter fraud and those who support those candidates. Namely Democrats. Everyone — and I mean everyone — has a photo ID, whether they drive or not. One cannot exist in day-to-day life without one. Thanks to the Nanny State, we cannot go into a pharmacy and buy over-the-counter cold medicine without one. We cannot rent DVDs without one. Certain idiotic communities (Hello, Mount Pleasant, Wis.) and certain idiotic supermarket chains (Hello, Roundy’s Pick N Save) will not allow anyone regardless of age to buy liquor without showing an ID. Few stores accept personal checks without ID.
Yet the Left claims this is somehow disenfranchising the poor, minorities and the elderly. Of course, when it comes to disenfranchising the U.S. military, which protects their right to cheat in elections, they have no problem with that. Maybe the so-called poor and minorities should, oh, spend the $20 for an ID instead of the $200 smartphone with the $25 a month data plan or cut back on the cigarettes and liquor and junk food, or not buy the flat-screen TV, etc., and buy the damn photo ID. No, I don’t support having the state make them free to the lazy, indolent freeloaders who cannot prioritize their expenditures.
The Left does not care about the poor, minorities and the elderly actually being able to vote. They care about losing the ability to cheat. The ability to have people show up at the polls on Election Day, claim to be so-and-so and walk in and vote. That includes college students voting multiple times in the places where they attend school as well as casting absentee ballots back home, the various people who vote from vacant lots or are shuttled across the Illinois state line into border communities in Wisconsin and put up in motels in order to qualify to vote then shuttled back, institutions like the flophouse run by State Sen. Lena Taylor and her mother with 36 registered voters in a building zoned for eight occupants, groups like Voces de la Frontera trying to get drivers licenses for illegal aliens in order to get them registered to vote. That doesn’t include the usual suspects involved in busing people around the central cities of America after getting tips from insiders as to who hasn’t voted by a certain time and having those on the bus vote as those people, not to mention the legendary cemetery precincts, which always seem to produce a solid Democrat voting bloc in which even the dead Republicans vote Democrat.
Democrats are hellbent on turning America into a Third World banana republic when it comes to elections and have made significant progress. Stealing the gubernatorial election in the state of Washington in 2004. Stealing a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota in 2008. Coming within the actions of the U.S. Supreme Court of stealing the presidency in 2000. By most admissions, actually stealing the presidency in 1960 (Chicago: where no election is over until the Bachelor’s Grove precinct reports). The legendary Lyndon B. Johnson House race in Texas where even cattle voted for LBJ. And so on.
The latest modus operandi is to count, recount, recount and recount — finding unsecured boxes and bags of ballots in cloakrooms, car trunks and garages — until the Democrat pulls ahead and then finding a friendly (read: bought-and-paid-for) judge to halt the recount and certify the election. Corrupt totalitarians from Hitler to Castro to Chavez would be impressed. As Stalin once said: “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”
This is why we wrote here:
I support voter suppression. I support suppressing the votes of dead people, illegal aliens, convicted felons, people voting more than once, people voting as people who haven’t voted, people voting as nonexistent people, people voting from addresses that turn out to be vacant lots, college students voting multiple times, cartoon characters, etc.
Ross mentioned Eric Holder, the Obama Regime’s corrupt Attorney General:
The most lawless attorney general in American history — and I’m including the pathetic John Mitchell in the mix — is visiting Austin, Texas tomorrow.
And guess what? He will be lobbying for vote fraud, supporting a United Nations resolution that is designed to erode the integrity of the ballot box and, ultimately, destroy the United States Constitution.
The NAALCP — the National Association for the Advancement of (Liberal) Colored People — has also called on the U(seless) N(itwits) to interject itself into the American electoral process, claiming the photo ID requirement is — wait for it — Raaaaacist!
Of course. It’s Raaaaacist! to want honest, clean and fair elections. Headdesk:
