Reply #78: I agree. Combating election fraud is a very uniting issue. [View All]

I totally agree with your statement that we should "... include ANYONE sincerely interested in potential election 'irregularities'. Ideally, this will include moderate Republicans, Independents, etc. We need all the help we can get...."

The Repugs have handed us this pivotal issue on a silver platter (something they are never short of), and so far none of them seem to realize what they have done. With the embarrassingly over-the-top performance by the Delay "de-dumbasses" on 1/6/05, with Katherine Blackwell's and the rest of the Ohio Blackwell-guard's continual stone-walling, with the continued Repug foot-dragging in the House Judiciary Committee -- in short, with everything they've done so far -- they allow us to claim free, fair and verifiable elections and the prosecution of election fraud/theft as issues that transcend party identification but that the Democrats are happily taking the lead on.

Here in Tennessee, we have had Republicans, Greens, Constitutionalists, Libertarians and Independents (as well as Democrats) show up at every one of our election theft rallies and, whenever possible, they all have been asked to speak and express their support for election reform. That is the way it should be. For the sake of the country, we need to help our moderate GOP brethren remove the Nazi cancer from their midst and help them reclaim a pro-American perspective for the GOP, albeit one that is to our near right.

It is still our most important task to engage everyone we know in a conversation about the parameters of free, fair and verifiable elections (using John Conyers' list of legislative priorities as a common framework). Once we get our non-Democratic friends to agree that those legislative initiatives make sense, it will be easier to point out the disconnect between our commonly accepted beliefs and the Republi-Nazis' actions. This is the best wedge issue, and much more defensible, moral, inclusive and patriotic than raping the Bill of Rights and queer-bashing. Once the wedge is in place, it will be easier to chip the Republi-Nazi calcified cancer away from the body politic entirely.

So keep dissembling, all ye "ignored" of little sense, less intellectual skill and no patriotism. Rest assured that some are still watching you (though not me), our newbies are developing their own combat skills by playing with your barely breathing carcasses and your insolence is matched only by your irrelevance.