Meet Laura. Laura is a member of the Durham, NC Impeach Bush-Cheney Meet-Up Group, a 15-member-strong organization dedicated to removing the fascistic, evil cabal currently running the country–weather permitting.
Through their spirited displays of political protest, the Durham Impeach Bush folks hope to foment a groundswell of public support against the Bush administration, which would ultimately be unceremoniously tossed from office. From the looks of their feeble “website,” they’d better start working overtime: They’re looking less like a colossal pack of compelling Americans and more like a tiny collection of unhinged loons.
Case in point, dear reader, is Laura. According to her profile, this gal has been a member of the Durham Impeach Bush crowd for all of two weeks. A mother of three who’s a Durham resident, Laura doesn’t seem a likely candidate for the state’s Public Enemy No. 1.
Even so, Laura writes by way of introduction:
Hello, I have 3 children, moved to Durham NC from Chicago 14 years ago. I’m a concerned citizen. I won’t write too much here as we are probably being monitored…
Uh, is she kidding? Does she really believe that the bigwigs in the administration are directing federal resources to track a 15-member organization of dimwitted cooks clutching a handful of “No Blood for Oil” placards? Gosh, doesn’t she think they have anything better to do? Like bite the heads off of children?
Naturally, Laura–if that is her real name–has serious delusions of grandeur. But her foolishness also says something unfortunate for American left-wingers who love to play the civil liberties card.
There are, to be sure, plenty of principled arguments to be had over the benefits and drawbacks of heightened security in this country. You needn’t be a diehard civil libertarian (apt phrase, that) to be concerned about the calculus between our liberties and public safety in our post-9/11 world.
But, at some deep level, the apocalyptic rhetoric from the Left about the purported evils of Bush administration’s Big Brother act doesn’t appeal to the broader American public. The average Joe can tell that we do not, pace Laura, dwell in a country completely indistinguishable from the one depicted in Orwell’s 1984.
An unserious John Dean can prattle on all he wants about the current administration as “proto-fascist,” but the American people–or at least those who know what “fascist” means–will realize that he’s off his rocker. This kind of piffle only appeals to the Lauras of the world, who are sufficiently delusional to think that Dick Cheney is scared stiff about a Durham housewife and a couple of her delusional confreres.
If it were true that the Durham Impeach Bush group had to hide from the nefarious secret police, leftist arguments about civil liberties would have some resonance. But, as things are, they do not have resonance–except to the nutters.
Though The New York Times inveighs against Bush administration security measures ad nauseam, its staff should realize that this is not a winning argument. Best to bring up another subject. Like, say, Joe Wilson.
(Note: The crack young staff normally “weblog” over at “The Hatemonger’s Quarterly,” where they are currently undertaking a massive sting operation aimed at the member(s) of the Dubuque Impeach Bush-Cheney Meet-Up.)
God, you two are imbeciles.
To paraphrase Churchill: And you, muir/scars, are stupid. As for my conditon, it will pass by morning. You, however, will still be stupid.
Muirgeo,
If you’re seriously citing th RFK.jr article in Rolling Stoner,quote te specifics and I’ll knock ’em down.Otherwise,I’ll just add someting equally relevant-like Mary Kay and Ashley Go to Ohio as an authority.Seriously,don’t you wonder about a certain lack of introspection you seem to possess?
Your posts are only lacking the claim GWB is bringing the nova of the sun closer.Now,I’m serious here.Get an MMPI from someone-maybe on line.Take the test and study what it says about you.They can be computer scored for 40 bucks or so.This isn’t a Republican plot to make you feel insignificant.Take the eval and act on it.
By the way,muirgeo isn’t a socialist or a communist.He’s a Fuzzy.Fuzzies know how not to know.I don’t really think he’ll act on my advice.but I did take an oath.
Muirgeo,
If you’re seriously citing th RFK.jr article in Rolling Stoner,quote te specifics and I’ll knock ’em down.Otherwise,I’ll just add someting equally relevant-like Mary Kay and Ashley Go to Ohio as an authority.Seriously,don’t you wonder about a certain lack of introspection you seem to possess?
Your posts are only lacking the claim GWB is bringing the nova of the sun closer.Now,I’m serious here.Get an MMPI from someone-maybe on line.Take the test and study what it says about you.They can be computer scored for 40 bucks or so.This isn’t a Republican plot to make you feel insignificant.Take the eval and act on it.
By the way,muirgeo isn’t a socialist or a communist.He’s a Fuzzy.Fuzzies know how not to know.I don’t really think he’ll act on my advice.but I did take an oath.
Corwin,
How about the fact that in the 2004 election the exit polls showed an overwhelming victory for Kerry but by midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush.
“The first indication that something was gravely amiss on November 2nd, 2004, was the inexplicable discrepancies between exit polls and actual vote counts. Polls in thirty states weren’t just off the mark — they deviated to an extent that cannot be accounted for by their margin of error. In all but four states, the discrepancy favored President Bush.
Over the past decades, exit polling has evolved into an exact science. Indeed, among pollsters and statisticians, such surveys are thought to be the most reliable. Unlike pre-election polls, in which voters are asked to predict their own behavior at some point in the future, exit polls ask voters leaving the voting booth to report an action they just executed. The results are exquisitely accurate: Exit polls in Germany, for example, have never missed the mark by more than three-tenths of one percent.(17) ”Exit polls are almost never wrong,” Dick Morris, a political consultant who has worked for both Republicans and Democrats, noted after the 2004 vote. Such surveys are ”so reliable,” he added, ”that they are used as guides to the relative honesty of elections in Third World countries.”(18) In 2003, vote tampering revealed by exit polling in the Republic of Georgia forced Eduard Shevardnadze to step down.(19) And in November 2004, exit polling in the Ukraine — paid for by the Bush administration — exposed election fraud that denied Viktor Yushchenko the presidency.(20)”
Corwin,
In 2000 Katherine Harris presided over the contested 2000 US presidential election in Florida and was Bush’s Florida campaign co-chair. She was even responsible for 2004 hiring a private firm to scrub voter rolls and to supply computer voting machines. The same thing happened in 2004 with Kenneth Blackwell in Ohio. The man was in charge of elections and was also in charge of Bush’s Ohio campaign.
Can you honestly say that such conflicts f interest are OK?
From a study of statistics experts on the subject of the exit poll discrepancies;
“The absence of any statistically-plausible explanation for the discrepancy between Edison/Mitofsky’s
exit poll data and the official presidential vote tally is an unanswered question of vital national
importance that demands a thorough and unflinching investigation. “
http://tinyurl.com/rou82
and
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/10467024/
Your democracy is at risk and you really don’t care because some how you think you are winning…that’s sad.
I’m still amazed that the Left is seriously demanding that we replace actual vote counts with exit polls.
Sorry muirgeo, absolutely no dice.
Most of us here read RFK Jr.’s poorly researched, highly biased and incoherent article and dismissed it for what it was. A partisan conspiracy theory masquerading as a serious piece of work.
Since 2000, the Democrat National Committee have resolved to level accusations of voter fraud and voter intimidation every time they lose an election. RFK’s article was just part of their new M.O.
Either way, the fact that you continue to cite one of the most discredited and incredibly incompetent articles on an election ever written just proves that what you are is a dishonest propaganda artist.
Monstrously ignorant and significantly idiotic, but an excellent propaganda artist nonetheless. People like you subtract from the sum total of human knowledge.
How about the fact that in the 2004 election the exit polls showed an overwhelming victory for Kerry but by midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush.
How about the difference in vote counts was well within the usual margin of error of any polling, which the article tries to claim is not the case?
How about the polls oversampled large cities and undersampled more rural areas?
Heck, read this:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/03/kennedy/index_np.html
Note: Salon.com ain’t fond of Bush.
Over the past decades, exit polling has evolved into an exact science.
No, it never has been exact as POLLING is not exact.
Indeed, among pollsters and statisticians, such surveys are thought to be the most reliable. Unlike pre-election polls, in which voters are asked to predict their own behavior at some point in the future, exit polls ask voters leaving the voting booth to report an action they just executed.
And they oversample large cities, as they have always done.
Just because you dislike the result does not make the result bad or wrong.
In 2000 Katherine Harris presided over the contested 2000 US presidential election in Florida and was Bush’s Florida campaign co-chair.
One of the people in charge of the recount, Mr. Butterfield, was a Gore deputy in Florida.
Your point is…?
She was even responsible for 2004 hiring a private firm to scrub voter rolls and to supply computer voting machines.
It was done in 1999. And do you know WHY?
Because the Miami mayoral race had so many felons and illegal voters voting that she was REQUIRED to do it by the voters. The press, which won numerous prizes for its coverage, uncovered all of the problems.
Can you honestly say that such conflicts f interest are OK?
I won’t condemn people because you don’t know history and wish to remain ignorant.
-=Mike