I believe the will of the people should prevail. I believe every vote should count and we should not ignore the people's voice. I believe everyone should be heard. That is why in 2000 and 2001, the state of Florida undertook an exhaustive process to review the ballots and why the media collaborated on an effort to recount and re-add all the votes that had been recounted scores of times a further time and they all came up with the same conclusion - Bush won. Applying the same rules and same guidelines, Gore would lose no matter how you cut the pie. Lose yes, but not by much.
We don't preface every win in hockey or basketball or football with - by the slimmest margin and with questionable counting Greenbay won the Superbowl or with uncertainty and questionable counting the Lakers won the NBA.
A win is a win whether by 1 vote or 10,000. JP Kennedy is reported to have said aloud during the 1960 campaign that they should 'not buy one vote more than needed to win.' Kennedy won and with little doubt, the numbers were very questionable.
Johnson was known for his chicanery. His first election in Texas - likely bought or stuffed. He was elected only because people mourned Kennedy and not because Johnson was the desired candidate.
Carter while noble and moral, was working within a Democratic system that had skewed elections for winning, not losing. Would it have changed the balance - unlikely, but with little doubt boxes were stuffed and or the dead voted. He is elected not because he has anything useful to say, but because the country tired of Nixon and Republicans. With Carter, we have looked at every Democratic president back to Truman excluding Bill. Questionable voting, uncertainty, missing ballots, stuffed boxes ... all part of the Democratic party win each time.
The voices muffled, votes uncounted only become important to Democrats when they don't win.
February 2008 - California. 50,000 votes were thrown out. NOT ONE DEMOCRAT, NOT JESSE, NOT AL, NOT JOHN, NOT BILL .... NOT ANY have said EVERY VOTE SHOULD COUNT. NOT ONE SAID THAT THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE must be heard. NOT ONE. Hypocrite and liars.
Florida and Michigan defied the Democratic parties antiquated and biased rules and moved their primaries to dates they were not permitted to use or face punishment. What was the punishment - the delegates selected would not be seated at the Democratic Convention. That is democratic speak for: the voices of the millions in Florida and Michigan will not be heard. No one has spoken out. 2.3 million votes will not be counted. 1.2 million votes for Hillary will not be heard. They have been disenfranchised. They have lost their voice, all due to technical mumbo jumbo that no one who voted cares for. They want their voices to be heard. Like the waitress who stood in line for two hours to vote for change, like the single mother without health care who braved the cold of winter to make their voice heard. Like the family without medical care who marched through the snow and cold to cast their ballot for change. The group of elderly residents in a home in Florida who wanted a champion and a doer and who made the effort to get from their beds to the rec room to vote. About the unemployed who wanted a green job and wanted energy independence - all voted for change. The retired army officer who crawled to the voting booth so he could cast his ballot for the one person who would serve veterans, like her husband did ... and none of their votes were counted. A disgrace. A shame. A sham.
These are the voters, these are the little people ... is this what we can expect from a Democrat who says they will listen to our voices ... as long as we speak quietly and in conformity with their rules. They do the greatest disservice to the democratic process by disenfranchising millions of voters. In Florida in 2000, it was several thousands of ballots with flaws and triple and double voting ... we are now talking about MILLIONS who did not get their chance.
FEW HAVE CALLED FOR THE VOICES TO BE HEARD and in fact, the Democratic leadership want their voices muffled. Why? because if the delegates are counted from Florida and Michigan, Hillary will get the nomination. WHERE ARE THE HYPOCRITES WHO WANT THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE HEARD! Where? Well, Nancy Pelosi has stated publicly that "the Florida and Michigan delegates should not be seated if those delegates would decide the nomination." Did you understand what she said? Imagine in 2000 if we found 50 votes after everything was recounted for the 200th time and it would give Gore the win and Bush said - well, I won't count them if it changes who wins.
Where is Jesse. Where is the other limelight hog - his shorter self? Where is the cry for the people to be heard? Pelosi went on to explain that any state "that operated outside the rules of the party" should not get to decide who wins! Because if we didn't ignore the votes of the people, "they can't make the difference because then we would have no rules."
She is actually arguing in favor of then Governor Bush winning in Florida. Odd how these hypocrites end up using the arguments they loathed when used by Republicans.
Update 2/16: Harold Ickes, one of the members of the Democratic National Committee that voted and supported taking away the voice and votes of Floridian and Michigan voters has changed his mind. His argument: millions of voters in Michigan and Florida would be otherwise disenfranchised. Even when they do say something ... it is very funny.
COUNT ALL THE VOTES YOU HYPOCRITES!
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