At long last, someone has been arrested for voter registration fraud. Too bad for the McCain campaign it’s a Republican being accused. From The Los Angeles Times:
The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario late last night on suspicion of voter registration fraud.
State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California.
Jacoby is accused, according to the article, of duping voters into registering as Republicans by presenting them with a fake initiative petition that would “crack down on child molesters.”
Every desperate line of attack by the Republicans is turning into an exploding cigar. Sure, there’s two weeks left, but there’s little evidence any of the baloney about socialism and all the other crud is doing anything but making a few fringe lunatics say mean things. Obama has stated he can endure the slings and arrows for a few weeks, so I guess we all shall.
It’s too soon to declare the McCain campaign one of the worst on record, but that possibility is starting to appear on the horizon. Yeah, yeah, don’t let up and throw them anchors and crush their spirits and all that, but seriously, the McCain campaign is one big stinking pile of putrid stuff that smells bad to this point.
The McCain campaign has somehow managed to combine the charm of Dick Cheney and the effectiveness of Michael Brown, with a soupçon of Dukes of Hazard. It’s times likes these we really miss the late Molly Ivins. She doubtless could have described it better, and thrown in a reference to some kind of varmint.
Serious Republicans know their standard bearer’s campaign is a disaster, and you have to wonder just how willing some of them are to keep re-arranging the deck chairs while the band plays.
John (I refuse to spell your name the pretentious way), the fact that you remain silent when Democrats do wrong, and only speak out when Republicans mess up, means you have a long way to go if you want to earn my respect.
Joel Connelly had 3 people plus himself registered to vote at his 700 sq. ft. Island County cabin….and they actually voted!
Apparently home is where your heart is.
Ask Mr. Connelly.
He is your hero..right?
John, one more thing. How many African Americans have posting privileges on HA? And how many have in the entire history of the blog? It must be quite a few, right? How many? 5? 10? 15? It couldn’t be zero, could it? No, that would be impossible. A progressive left-wing Democratic blog that’s never allowed one black person to post on its blog. That wouldn’t be very diverse of you.
Thank you in advance for your answer to this question.
Hey DUMBASS!!!
Ever think his name may be JONATHAN????
You really ARE that stupid aren’t you.
I was gonna say that these days “serious Republican” is a real oxymoron.
Goldy is the only person who can answer your question you pinhead…not that it matters to anyone but you. So why are you hectoring Jon?
@4
Not buying it. I think people who spell it Jon were given the name John, but they desperately want to appear unique. Well I’m not playing that game.
1. Who got us into this disasterous situation?
2. Who recruited and promoted the “idiot” … i mean pres. bush?
3. Who should pay the price for the destruction of the republican party …and… the usa?
Answer: The answer is a forbidden word in today’s media but if you are not too stupified you can get it … come on ….it starts with “neo”..you can do it.
That’s right … amerika destroyed by a bunch of spies and traitors in the white house and pentagon who serve only their masters in tel aviv.
Time for a purge??
Aw, Molly, where are ye? In heaven for sure.
I definitely have missed her and wonder what she would have written about Sarahcuda.
#1 Asshole
I refuse to spell your name the pretentious way. Look out Mr. Cynical Troll is vying for your stupid award. I have only one goat left in the pen. I may very well give it to him if he keeps this up.
Socialism! Bush, with his bailout of wall street has demonstrated himself and his party to be the biggest socialists in the country.
@4
That does it. Troll give me your address and I’ll send you the goat. Your mother doesn’t mind having one in the house does she?
One Republican does it and goes to jail but
hundreds of thousands of democrats no questions
asked. It’s getting old fast.
Republicans are already armed.
I give up. The stupid is just too much.
yeah mark…go hunting with cheney, why don’t ya…yer hero…it’ll be fun.
@1
I’m pretty sure everyone here would rather not have your respect.
@1 Troll:
Agreed. But it is the typical M.O. of the left to do such things. It is called hypocrisy. Notice several of the delusional spewings and replies after your posts, which amount to nothing of substance. (With the exception of #13 and #14 that is)
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Troll:
Jon is short for Jonathan. Accepted spelling.
The only thing pretentious around here is your arrogance and hubris.
@13 Hundreds of thousands?
This is probably wasted on you, but what the hell:
http://www.bradblog.com/?page_id=6500
It looks to me like the Republicans realize they need to rebuild their party. The centrists are either laying low or coming out for Obama showing that they don’t like the whack-job wing of the party and they can work with the Democrats.
For their part the whack-job end of the party seems to be moving to Oklahoma and trying succeed from the union. I think we should let them.
http://townhall.com/columnists....._rebellion
@20 It occurs to me, Blog Reader, that anybody posting here with ‘Mark’ in their name is a possible contender for the Stupid Troll award.
Reparations in the amount of $350,000 a year for life. Free homes for the homeless and black people. Free college tuition for all blacks. Cancelation of all future Presidential elections. Free citizenship for all current and future illegal aliens. All black prisoners will be set free. Unilateral disarmament of not just nuclear weapons, but all military weapons. Sharia law. All black crime will not longer be prosecuted as it will be excused under DSM IV as “Urban Rage Syndrome.” 19 U.S. states be used to create a new country called New Africa. No minorities will have to pay taxes, only white people will. Bill Ayers will be Sec. of Education. The Supreme Court will be dismantled and replaced by one man: Jeremiah Wright.
Some people fear Obama will make these changes. I don’t agree with them.
weren’t they gonnna try to take over some small state somewhere and establish a christianist utopia?
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troll,
I am sure Jon is up nights, unable to sleep, trying to come up with ways to earn your respect.
News flash for you and Mark:
Acorn was not registering only Democrats, they registered Republicans too. The asshole in California was DECEIVING people as to exactly what he was doing. They thought they were signing a petition. He was making a lot of money for himself from the REPUBLICAN PARTY for each “VOTER” he “SIGNED UP”.
I wish you guys could think.
@20 Perhaps this sets the stage for our invading Oklahoma and getting our Sonics back.
23:
I am not sure if you should be pitied or ridiculed.
You are just an ignoranus.
(ignoranus: a fool who is also an asshole)
@23 I hear that he plans to offer a bounty on trolls. Something about turning in a troll’s left foot for $100.
Wow. Is anyone else think that Troll is getting extra scrambly? Can you imagine the frenzy of nonsense he might babbling by election day in his mad quest to shake our support for Obama? It’s kinda fun.
troll, the “some people” foolishness again.
And you talk about your “respect”. With an approach like that you deserve no respect.
Comment #1 is what’s known as a “German blimp” i.e. a target utterly lacking military significance but so fat and juicy you simply must shoot at it!
Item Number One, this is a liberal blog, so we don’t do wingnut propaganda here.
Item Number Two, who the fuck wants your respect? I’ll go further and argue that respect from you is as useful as malaria. You’re so disreputable that being seen in public with you would bring about social opprobrium and censure. Republicans not only have no respect for anything or anyone respectable, they are themselves so deserving of disrespect that I spit on the ground you stood on. This is the ground’s punishment for not being quicksand and drowning you.* How you like them apples?
* Just kidding! Ann Coulter humor. She’s always telling death jokes and they get big applause from wingnut audiences, so I thought I’d try it on this blog’s wingnut audience. [rabbit applause in background]
@29 He recently lost out to Cynical for the Stupid Troll award. I think it might have gotten to him.
Two registered voters live in my less than 700 square foot green home and we could add one more without too much trouble. Amazingly, we all voted too – must have to do with being mail-in voters.
“The McCain campaign has somehow managed to combine the charm of Dick Cheney and the effectiveness of Michael Brown, with a soupçon of Dukes of Hazard. It’s times likes these we really miss the late Molly Ivins. She doubtless could have described it better, and thrown in a reference to some kind of varmint.”
Excellent work Jon! Kudos! As an erudite and urbane rabbit, I appreciate superbly nuanced literary symbolism when I see it in print. Reading this paragraph is like standing in the Louvre.
@7 Complain to someone who cares, dipshit (sic). Meaning on some other blog.
@12 How can you do that to the poor goat? They might throw you in jail for animal cruelty.
@13 Complain to someone who cares. Maybe for the next 3 months you can still find a U.S. Attorney who would be interested in this, although I doubt it, because they’re all too busy updating their resumes.
@14 Any damn fool who isn’t a felon or certified lunatic can acquire guns, but that doesn’t mean he knows how to use them.
31
LMAO, (standing and clapping)
Such sweet justice!!!
@23 Nice work, troll. (I refuse to capitalize your name because you are too insignificant and unimportant to merit such respect.) You Republicans have a talent for this sort of thing, to-wit:
“In 1966, Annenberg used the pages of The Inquirer to cast doubt on the candidacy of Democrat Milton Shapp, for governor of Pennsylvania. Shapp was highly critical of the proposed merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad with the New York Central and was pushing the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission to stop it. Walter Annenberg, who according to his New York Times obituary, was the biggest individual stockholder of the Pennsylvania Railroad, wanted to see the merger go through and was frustrated with Shapp’s opposition. During a press conference, an Inquirer reporter asked Shapp if he had ever been a patient in a mental hospital. Having never been in one, Shapp simply said ‘no’. The next day, a five-column front page Inquirer headline read, ‘Shapp Denies Mental Institution Stay.’ Shapp and others have attributed his loss of the election to Annenberg’s newspaper.”
(Quoted from Wikipedia under fair use.)
@26 See? This blog does come up with useful ideas.
@31
Speaking of Republican pin-up girl Ann Coulter. Did you know that she actually committed felony voter fraud? (Not registration fraud by an $8 an hour worker to earn a couple bucks by signing registration forms for non-existent people who will never show up to vote.”) That’s right! Ann Coulter! Actual voting fraud. You can see her fraudulent voter registration form and other details here:
http://www.bradblog.com/?page_id=4380
Hey wingnutz,
Do you think every provable case of voter fraud should be prosecuted? Even if it is a repug who committed the fraud?
Thought not.
@23:
More “some people think” – what you really mean is that the wingbat right wing talk that you listen to all day has kept repeating these obviously pathetic lies and you feel like putting out those lies for other people to see.
The bible calls that knowingly spreading false rumors and the punishment is death by stoning. Hope you have a nice day.
@41:
Yuo – that is the same Annenberg who set up the educational foundation that Obama and Ayers served on. Note that he was a republican!
McPalin’s campaign has been one case after another of throwing anything and everything at the wall to see what sticks. As everything they’ve thrown immediately begins to sluff, like phlegm or smegma, the campaign has become a theme of the day, hour or week. Since the last debate the meme is wealth distribution, or the Joe the plumber doctrine. Of course, it came to light pretty quickly that he was really Sam the Roto-rooter phony. Apparently his credentials certify him to wield only a plunger in his plight against the mighty turd. Another exploding cigar, and a half-baked batch of horse crap. If Rove really is helping out, it seems he’s misplaced his “genius”.
From news on the radio this morning:
Early voters in West Virginia are complaining that the voting machines, which don’t have any paper backup system, are intermittantly switching votes from “Obama” to “McCain”, which is visable for a fraction of a second after they press the “vote” button. Complaints to election officials have gone unheaded. The Republican election officials have said the machines “check out okay”, and dismissed the complaints as voter error.
West Virginia is one of the few states which are still using paperless voting machines despite the problems reported in the 2004 and 2006 elections. It is also a traditionally Republican state (since, well, the Civil War) where Obama has a good chance to carry the state. Election officials there, however, are overwhelmingly Republican.
There goes that state.
You conservatives must be proud.