This Is What Happens When You Listen To Limbaugh
Remember way back in 2008, during the big primary, when Rush Limbaugh was telling Republican voters in Ohio and Texas to switch to a Democratic registration just so they could vote for Hillary and screw up the primary? People listened and obeyed, and now it looks like it could be coming back to haunt them:
Victoria Robertson has been an avowed Republican for decades, working tirelessly for conservative candidates and causes.
That is until a typo by a pollworker changed her party affiliation, elections officials say. Now she can’t even run for re-election to the GOP central committee.
“You’re a Democrat as we speak until the primary, and that cannot be changed until you get the right box checked,” Butler County Board of Elections Chairman Tom Ellis told her at a board meeting Wednesday, Feb. 24 — the deadline to certify the May primary ballot.
Now I have no reason to not believe that this was an accident that happened to Robertson. As matter of fact, one of the Democrats on the board even believes so:
“I find it to be a very disturbing situation,” Democratic board member John Holcomb said. “I think it is really a situation that cries out for procedural reform to take that power away from pollworkers.”
I know John and if he believes that then so do I, but there is something else in this article that really got my curiosity going:
Robertson was one of seven candidates for Republican central committee who were disqualified for pulling Democratic ballots in the 2008 primary. She was the only one to contest it, officials said.
Now let me pretend I am a lawyer making some closing arguments. In these closing arguments I want to present all the facts again. Here they are in nice bullet point form:
- Butler County, Ohio has a population of 332,000
- Butler County is a very red county, voting for McCain over Obama in 2008 by 61%-38%
- In 2008 Butler County made national attention when people proudly proclaimed their obedience to Rush stating that they did exactly what he asked for.
- In 2010, the next election cycle, 7 Republicans have been disqualified from running for voting Democratic in the 2008 primary
- In 2010 0 Democrats have had this problem.
Coincidence? Sure, it could be, and unicorns could also roam the earth.
Now let’s think about this. Jumping parties in the primary like people did is actually a crime in Ohio. Out of 7 Republicans having this problem, only 1 has come forward to contest it. And keep in mind that these aren’t just your run of the mill Republicans, these are people who are involved in local politics. They are running for a position that is a foreign word to most people - “central committee”. That means they are devoted to party politics and now are considered to be on the enemy side, yet they aren’t contesting it? Something smells fishy here and I would go back to the plea by the GOP leader, Rush Limbaugh, asking his minions to jump party lines in Ohio in 2008.
Chalk this up a hard learned lesson. When you listen to a moron with a megaphone, some of that moron’s idiocy will rub off on you and cost you in the end.
The first time I tried to vote in a Plano primary, after having just moved from Dallas, they handed me a ballot and I took it, and then realized none of my candidates was on it it. So I took it back and asked about it. They said the other candidates appear on the Democratic ballot, and only then did they give it to me. They just seemed to presume I'd be voting republican.
There were only two or three Democratic booths and they were waaaay in the back of the room.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Having to live in Plano and be a progressive.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Why on earth would you move from Dallas to Plano instead for from Dallas out of Texas? That;s like a black man saying "I left that big oak tree with the rope hanging down so I could get to the Klan rally"
"They just seemed to presume I'd be voting republican" I am going to go out on a limb here and make a guess you are white, otherwise they would have probably called the law.
Go to http://www.plano.gov/ where you'll see a picture of what is believed to be the only black man in all of Plano. His back it to the camera though, probably because he's being run out of town.
Hey, I'm a progressive living in Fort Worth Texas. I know Plano well because I have to work there from time to time, and I have friends living there as well - many of them progressives. I understand your frustration with the overwhelming conservatism of the area, but you should still be fair. Your comment about blacks is entirely inaccurate and dishonest. Conservative or not, the city and surrounding areas are rather ethnically diverse.
It does us no good when we stoop to tactics and rhetoric no better than that of the bad guys.
Wow! They just assumed that you'd be voting republican?!? Unfucking real.
I showed up at an apple bobbing contest. I have no idea why they thought I would want to stick my head in a bucket of water!
I was born in Texas, educated in Texas, presumably will die in Texas, and be buried in a VA plot in Texas.
I laugh at the Texas stereotype, I resent it when someone like a dr. laura or a boosh pretends to be Texan.
And for lack of better words I will fight for the Mayfields of Texas like in the Andy Griffin show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_WJIrxApI
(Supposedly based on North Carolina).
My time was split between Texas and Arkansas where my grandparents lived. Although the Griffin show was sanitized.
But I remember having to use an outhouse. I remember bathing at my grandmother's house in a metal tub in an alcove off the kitchen, where she would heat the water on the stove. As the middle kid I was fortunate that the water wasn't too hot, but it was already bathed in by my older siblings. Then I would hear my younger brother yelp as he took his place, and my grandma would pour in more hot water.
I remember my grandfather stoking up a glowing pot bellied stove for the days heat, and lighting it, and then relaxing in his easy chair lighting his pipe.
I remember him calling me hippy when my hair started getting long, and my growing my first beard around the age of 16. I had been shaving since I was 11.
I had started earlier beards, but as a deacon and then a teacher in the Mormon church, they would tell me to shave it off. By the time I became a priest I was getting rather tired of it all.
But I also remember my granfather getting visibly, and I would say shakingly upset while reading the book Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. He claimed to be part Cherokee. I remember that because of that I didn't resent him thinking me a hippy.
These are the people liberals should be fighting for. People who live in the factory town, the chicken plant town like my grandparents, the coal miners, the ranchers. I can still remember my grandfather's guns, rifles in a rack over the rarely used fireplace, and antique looking pistols in a small room off the den, even some Derringers, with some ancient picture that looked to be from around the 1880's, with these long haired guys with heavy mustaches.
I remember coming home to Dallas after visiting my Arkansas gramps, speaking and moving slower.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Oh yes, I should mention that although I never heard them discuss religion, my grandparents were ostensibly Baptists. When my parent, their mother died, they insisted on a Baptist funeral.
They hired a preacher who while praising her kept mispronouncing our last names.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whI85ovsTIs&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy6qcfUB12w
Oh shit, now I'm teary eyed...
I used to be a lot less emotional. People at work, still think of me as this cold rather serious, analytical person. But then I do resent their being able show all the crosses and insignia outside their clothes, but I have to tuck my pentagram away under my clothes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNMhPQoEbJE
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Oops...when my mother their child died, they insisted on a Baptist funeral.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
less intelligent. You were voting in sea of stupid, my hat is off to you.
Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ
(CNN) -- Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals...
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Well, that explains me! :-D There are so many jokes I want to make.
Democracy is the road to socialism. ~ Karl Marx
I don't think atheists are necessarily smarter, but the idea of looking beyond one's own blinders I would say is always a good thing.
I had a conversation online on the Dallas Morning Nudes blog site about Evolution v Creationism, and although I was just trying to be informative, no matter what I referred to: Comparative Religion, Mythology, Christian History, Neurocognitive Behavioral Functions, I'd be accused of "attacking" Christianity.
If an unexamined life is not worth living, than an unexamined faith is not worth holding.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Ha Ha!
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Ha Ha!
My sentiments exactly
We're laughing at you, not with you!
... listen to the Fat Man.
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don't let friends vote Republican/
She just had more friends than she thought!
Stupid is as stupid does
good things happen to bad people.
Sure is
who pretends to have a college degree when in fact he didn't have the energy or integrity to actually get one. Must be really important to Rush that people think he's smart, huh? Pathetic. I love it when karma AND the chickens get together.
He flunked out in his first semester. The dumb bastard even flunked Ballroom Dancing! How in the fuck do you flunk Ballroom Dancing? Of course, visions of the hippos in "Fantasia" do come to mind.
Perfect!
Unintended consequences rears it's ugly head. Bless their hearts.
These Blue Dog Democrats are what smells fishy! Maybe some of them were Republicans in disguise all along.
Ding,ding,ding. We have a winner.
Spot on assesment, and that's why we should vote them out NOW.
Many of the Blue Dogs wouldn't seem so out of place if you replaced the (D) with an (R). Then when they spout their conservative rhetoric, it would seem a lot more natural.
The letter in parentheses next to your name is meaningless. What matters in the final assessment, is what you say, what you think, and what you do.
Ain't it?
that in this day and age, you still have to register with a party in order to vote. I lived for 15 years in Minnesota, and for three years before that in Oregon, and in both of those states, you don't need to register with a party. AND you can register on the day of the election simply by bringing a utility bill and an ID. AND if you don't have an ID and utility bill, you can vote if another registered voter vouches for you. What a rude awakening it was to move back to ILL Annoy, where everything is party, party, party.
You don't need to register with a party in any of the states I have lived in since I was old enough to vote. You simply state that you do not wish to sign up with a party and you then become a nonpartisan voter. I have never registered with a party except for being a Republican for a few weeks so I could vote for John Anderson in the 1980 Kansas primary.
In California you don't need to prove you're eligible in any way. Just pick up the form at the post office, lie your head off when you fill it out if you want, mail it in and you're a voter.
Thanks.
You have to register with a party to vote in that party's primary.
I always thought that was stupid, but then it never occurred to me to game elections the way Boss Limpballs tried.
What are these strange things called "laws" of which you speak?
they're more like guidelines...
Make them short enough to fit on the palm of the hand.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
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Thanks for making my day.
with IOKIYAR.
We don't need no stinkin' laws.
Couldn't happen to a nicer group.
Still, freedom of association should allow anyone to change party affiliation at will. Voting on a ballot shouldn't have any consequences other than the votes on that ballot.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
"Voting on a ballot shouldn't have any consequences other than the votes on that ballot."
Right on.
I really think very few people would play games with their vote. I know I wouldn't. Rush is an insult to his listeners and the process for his bloviations.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
a) I'm now addicted to oxycontin
b) I'm too fat to fly on Southwest
c) Have a trip to the DR booked.
d) Have something on loan from God
e) Have blown Roger Ailes for a raise.
f) Am a Republican.
I'm here to say that none of the above are true!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Fox News is one of, if not, the leader of the Republican Party.
They're promoting Sarah Palin and her ratings have dropped to an all time low.
Their pet, James O'keefe, is charged with a felony.
They got a pro-choice RINO elected.
They thought it was gonna be easy herding those kooks.
...on the house. Anyone who listens and accepts this cruel, hate filled, sex offending junkie loser deserves whatever happens to them
She can blame her predicament on the hatred and manipulations of her party.
I live in Butler County. The hub is Hamilton, Ohio and is as red as the necks of the majority of its populace. Its' politics are as crooked as the river (Great Miami) that flows through it and has the distinction of being affectionately called "Little Chicago" at one time for all the thievery (political and in general) that went on in those glory days. Rethuglican through and through with tiny little pockets of progressives sprinkled here and there. It's a microcosm, in its political behavior, of the Washington GOP...only dumber.
Big fat karma is bound to come your way.
Of Rush's brain on drugs
Some people just do too many drugs.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
...or not enough of the right kinds.
Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
It's a bigger scandal than the so-called ACORN "scandal".
RFLMAO!! Couldn't happen to more deserving asshats.
She was deliberately attempting "voter fraud" and got caught. She was trying to manipulate the election process like Flush told her. She's a moron and deserves to be booted out....NO! NO! No Soup for you, Victoria! You are a cheater! Suffer!
There, I feel better now. She, like all the republicans are FAKES!
This is why I am hoping Rush replaces Mikey Steele as chairman of the GOP. The party really needs someone of his intelligence and political savvy.
(snicker, snicker)
Ohhhhhhhh that's a good one . LOL
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
If she runs as a Democrat, all those republicans registered as Dems can vote for her! Then, when she takes office, she can change her affiliation like other politicians on occasion...
a poll worker, I know that when you "fill in a box" its not quite as simple as that. I can't just "change" someone's affiliation. If they wanted to change, there is an extensive form that must be filled out that must be signed by the voter.
And then they get anew card in the mail.
And then, for the regular election, she would have to sign that her name, address, and affiliation were all correct.
My question? Why, as a seasoned political operative, did she not notice the "bad" information when she voted in the regular election?
"red county"?
sounds like a bunch of chi-coms to me!
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