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By Colbydog Community Blogger Author bio | report |
Yesterday, citizens of Wisconsin went to the polls to decide who would represent their views and ideas in the November Election. At least thats what is supposed to happen in a primary election.
But what we are seeing start to happen here in Wisconsin... the first major primary after super tuesday and after the folding of the Republican party into one candidate... is something far more insidious and destructive of that fragile system we call democracy.
In large numbers, republican voters "decided" (well were instructed but thats the same word to these folk) -decided to jump ticket and vote for the democrat they felt most easy to beat in November!
Yep, thats republiklan for democracy... win at any cost, screw the will of the people, lie, cheat, steal - whatever it takes to keep in office... Oh, and do it wrapped in a flag wearing your lapel-pin with you hand cross your heart, mouthing the words to the national anthem -cuz you probably don't really know em after all!
Hypocrites! We as a nation, starting here in Wisconsin, following Charlie Sykes' scheme to destabilize the democratic process (alright I'm giving sykes too much credit) have chosen to be as unethical as the very leadership we have all grown to dislike.
Is it any wonder our nation is in the condition it is? Economically strapped, more divided ideologically and financially than ever in history, acting more like an Imperial power than a representative republic, condoning treason, torture, spying, kidnapping and gross human rights abuses on a global scale, this cancer that has invaded our government has spread down to its citizens.
In 2006 the nation shocked Karl Rove and the GOP by turning out in such numbers to overwhelmingly defeat their agenda. An agenda that preached win at any cost, even if it means stealing elections. Many are still unaware of the antics employed by the radical wing of the GOP to secure the last two erections. But clearly the people were not represented in their vote.
And so today as many bloggers here on FOX6 take their "hot-showers" to cleanse the sin from jumping party-lines to vote for the lesser enemy, we see that the cancer has spread to the minions of the grand old party.
Just as we found in the last four erections, democracy is being transformed into some game like fear-factor or the apprentice... win at any cost, damn the rules or ethical behavior... damn the will of the people. Democracy has been turned into a Winner-Take-All cage-match with all the hype and pyrotechnics of a WWF pay-per-view event.
If we were to remove all the deceptor-votes from Hillary in yesterday's primary, she would have lost by a far wider margin of 18%... and Obama would have rightfully picked up more delegates... and the will of the people would have been heard.
But yesterday, the cancer spread to the hypocrites as they decided to join in undermining Democracy... They decided their will was more important than the will of the people, than true Democracy. And now the trend has been established... Wisconsin forged ahead "Forward" to spread the cancer of undermining democracy... to the rest of the primaries.
Or perhaps it was here, on the battlefields of Wisconsin's polling stations that Democracy proved, as it did in 2006, that the will of the people can beat the cancer of unethical greed.
The bigger question remains, has the cancer spread to the super-delegates too?
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Posted by CoolerKing on Feb. 21, 2008 at 7:33 a.m. (report)
It's been decades since the Republican party has truly been conservative. Over the years I've felt they've pushed so far right that they're almost left. McCain has probably been the closest to a conservative in quite a while.
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Posted by ChateauDweller on Feb. 20, 2008 at 11:16 p.m. (report)
Very naive. Did you forget that the democrats tried to do the same thing in Michigan in 2000? There was substantial evidence that a large number of dems voted for McCain instead of Bush during that election for the same reasons. However, the effect wasn't large, just like it wasn't in Wisconsin yesterday.
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Posted by milwacko on Feb. 20, 2008 at 8:36 p.m. (report)
Damn! You've figured out our little plan, Moldydog. Buhwahahaha! No matter, you fools might as well start planning for 2012.
Seriously, this is REALLY how it works. Democrats have converted their party into the Party of Opposition. Permanent outsiders, progressive, change-agents, etc. With that, there's a big problem. Your platform is based on a litany of things other than what is now. It's always about what is to come, not about what is or what was. It's hard to build a platform on a foundation that is always in flux. Republicans have a clear set of shared values. While adherence and interpretation varies, the core values of what it means to be a conservative or a Republican is still rooted in ideas that are as old as the country itself. You may not like them, they may seem inflexible, but having them tends to keep those in the fold on task. Democrats? Non-stop social engineering, always some newfangled approach to achieving the unacheivable.
Like we've seen before (e.g. McGovern 1972), Democrats will find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by pulling from the fog of their dreams a candidate of equally gaseous consistency (i.e. Obama) and, unfortunately, unelectable. On this we both agree, Moldydog. But this is all the creation of Democrats, no one else.
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Posted by beentheredonethat on Feb. 20, 2008 at 1:49 p.m. (report)
How were the Republicans (spelled correctly thank you) instructed to vote for the dem least likely to win? No one sent me the announcement? Was it on Rush or another conservative talk show? I didn't get the memo darn it. And please leave the "stealing" votes rhetoric in the past. I was dissapponted that I had to draw an arrow to make my vote. I was hoping to leave a chad hanging!
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Posted by steve2706 on Feb. 20, 2008 at 12:27 p.m. (report)
So democracy is only democracy if you say it is? I dont follow your logic. Being able to vote for whomever you wish is a basic tenant of democracy.
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