John Kerry: Voters are Stupid
Former Presidential candidate for the Democratic party, John Kerry, issued a statement alleging voter intimidation and trickery denied many access to the polls in the past election.
“Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated,” the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters.
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“Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. People are told in telephone calls that if you’ve ever had a parking ticket, you’re not allowed to vote,” he said.
USA Today: Kerry says Americans denied voting access by deception
How does that in any way deny the right to vote? How is that intimidation? Couldn’t those people still have voted if they had half a mind to question what they were being told? Seems to me that Kerry is just implying that some people are really stupid. Yes… yes they are. So if your party is really intent on securing the votes of dimwits, maybe you should try to reach out to them with information. Buy stupid people little digital watches that start beeping on election day. Nothing you do is going to eliminate stupidity, so you’ll just have to work with it.
Priceless! People who believe those types of things probably shouldn’t be a allowed to vote
With all the hype about a possible terrorist attack on election day (drummed up by this administration, natch) it may have been conceivable in some peoples’ minds that details of the election were being changed at the last minute.
Regardless of how gullible the voters must’ve been to believe such nonsense (pretty damned gullible), it doesn’t relieve local Republican party leadership of their culpability for these lies and deceptions. We can’t have honest elections in this country so long as operatives of one party are tying to swindle their way to victory.
Besides, if their guy was so much in the right why did they feel it necessary to commit fraud in order to get him elected?
Of course, consider what the Democrats did (paid someone in crack cocaine to forge over 100 voter registration forms in Ohio, slashed tires of Republican vans so that they couldn’t take voters to the polls in Milwaukee). You can’t pretend that this stuff is limited to only one party.
Mark said:
I hadn’t heard about the crack cocaine thing, but I do remember that there was a lot of vandalism and harassment on the part of Dems against Republicans right before the election. I agree that neither side is blameless in this stuff.
It’s sad that neither group seems willing to treat something as serious as the selection of the President with some maturity. Instead we get a bunch of double-dealing, frat boy pranks, and asinine behavior — on both sides. Sometimes I really have to wonder about people in general, and their capacity for self-governance specifically, when I hear this crap.
Then again US elections have historically been marred by this kind of behavior, and this was not the first highly contentious Presidential contest. Everyone remembers 2000, but similar events occurred in 1824, 1876, 1888, and 1960.
I think that replacing the winner-take-all electoral college system would go a long way toward curbing corruption. Until that happens, however, we have to be willing to work peaceably within the system we have. It’s a lesson people from both parties could stand to learn.
I’ll be getting off this soapbox now.
Well, it’s pretty much a well known fact that Republicans commonly lie to get into office.
In the last example, the “issue” was gay marriage, yet it’s not banned. Supposedly a lot of people voted for Bush for “moral reasons”, yet this is the same man that has killed 100,000 Iraqi civilians and sacrificed 1,500 US soldiers lives with the pretense that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States, when he never was and then made the most powerful political figure in Iraq Al Sistani.
Of course, the Bush administration on numerous ocassions claimed that Al Qaeda and Hussein were linked, but never bothered to mention that binLaden has repeatedly called for the assassination of Hussein. I’m also certain that binLaden is bitterly disappointed that the most powerful political force in Iraq now is a religious figure, we all know how much binLaden hates religious leaders.
Kerry is right, voters are stupid.
That 100,000 number is complete B.S.
Slate: 100,000 Dead or 8,000
We all know that the gay marriage issue was just a red herring that would never be tackled by Bush. So yes, a lot of people were fooled by Bush’s stance on that, although many were also fooled into thinking that Kerry was in support of gay marriage, which we all know that he was not.
Adam, yeah… politics has stooped low, but not as low as it has in the past. Buying votes with crack cocaine isn’t that much of an aberration, in the grand scheme of things.
Why do you think it’s complete B.S.? You trust the administration that lied about weapons of mass destruction and is lying now about the current situation?
Al Sistani hates the United States. He watched the United States overthow the Iranin Democracy in 1953 – the entire report is declassified now:
http://www.iranonline.com/newsroom/Archive/Mossadeq/
That’s not even the 1/2 of it of course.
Gee whiz, how could people be confused about Kerry’s actual stance? Golly, I wonder what political party would have lied about Kerry’s actual stance? Gosh – I’m confused.
Yes sir, the Republican party certainly stands for morals today!
Karl Rove is the master of gutter politics. He has to be to get a coke blowing loser that has accomplished absolutely nothing in his useless life into the presidency. He was pushing pamphlets that accused McCain of having fathered an illegitimate child from a black woman in 2000 and he was probably behind the Swiftvets For “Truth” which McCain pointed out was false, even though he was campaigning for Bush at the time.
It’s OK to lie, as long as you’re a Republican. Anybody know where Bush was when he was supposed to be in Alabama in the national guard? I think he was in a drug rehabilitation program.
He got his DWI erased, this is no different.
Well, at least middle American got one of their own into power. Forget that he’s never worked a honest day in his entire life and is nothing more than a spoiled brat that ran every company he ever ran into the ground and is related to the English royality. He’s a “regular guy”, just like Joe Sixpack…
Boy Rich you have every Dem talking point down pat. May I suggest you run for President.
Nevermind, Kerry had them down also. Turned out his lies were just as big and plentyful as the man who sent he ass packing back to Mass.
[...] Yup, just like the defeated before him, John Kerry is still crying about his loss for Presidential bid. He now fingers voter fraud of sorts that put him at a disadvantage. But in truth, if you read the article, you’ll see it wasn’t really that but rather just plain and simple stupid voters. I remember a time a professor tried to tell our class that the Democratic party had the highest ratio of intelligent people that I laughed out loud. Of course he had to question my laughter and this post basically backs up what I told that professor that day. [...]