I won’t say I’m ranted out. Yet, it seems that every time I get revved up about something, I find that a whole bunch of pundits, journalists, editorialists, columnists, talking heads, friends and neighbors are already there, taking one side or the other. It’s depressing. What makes it worse is that my rants are all so obviously on point and correct that I can’t help wondering why these things go on and why they are still around for me to rant about.
For example, voter registration hit my rant button the other day. You know what I would say, right? Lots of folks are already saying it. If I were to rant, it would go something like this.
How can it conceivably disenfranchise any possible voter to be required to show a government issued picture ID? You need one of those things to open a bank account, drive a car, buy a beer and a pack of smokes, get on an airplane, and use your credit card. Does anyone honestly think there are legitimate voters out there who don’t already have a valid ID? If there are, why aren’t they, and all the Democrats and liberals, screaming bloody murder about how these poor abused IDless people are being denied the rights and privileges to which all Americans are entitled. You know the rights and privileges I mean: driving, drinking, flying, charging. That you do not hear anyone screaming about this is because there are no such people.
That leads to the inevitable rant questioning why this anti-ID bullshit is happening in the first place, with the inevitable conclusion that it’s all a cover to prevent the public from keeping the Democrats from cheating at every election they can get their hands on. It’s why the Attorney General of the United States is refusing to even acknowledge a request from the State of Indiana to investigate voter fraud. It’s why some Black Panther brothers were able to force elderly conservative people away from the polls with clubs and threats to prevent them from voting in Philly, and, even after agreeing to plead guilty had the charges dropped by the same Attorney General. It’s why the State of Minnesota could elect a gasbag incompetent like Al Franken. It’s how the State of Washington kept finding ballots in forgotten warehouses until they finally had enough to win the governors election in a recount. In fact, we can sum it all up in one word: ACORN.
We all know what a bunch of lying cheating hose bags the Democrats are when it comes to registering voters and counting the votes. Mayor Daley, the infamous father of the just retired and not quite so infamous Mayor Daley, is famous for a lot of corrupt things, but one of his best was exhorting his Democrat supports to “vote early and vote often.”
While this subject could prove a fine basis for a wonderfully insightful and witty rant, my heart just isn’t in it. We all know what is going on with voter registration fraud and the integrity of the polls.
That is not to say that the Republicans are entirely clean. Perhaps it is only fair to point out that Florida incident where Al Gore accused Bush and the Florida election officials of cheating and thereby winning the election with the conspiracy of the Supreme Court. It was kind of funny though how every hanging chad was a vote for Gore, and none for Bush. Or that thousands of Florida based military personnel , who are overwhelmingly Republican voters, did not get their votes counted because they either did not get there overseas absentee ballots or they got them so late they could not be returned by the cutoff date. Further, did you hear that after a year of investigation and recounting by a bunch of “independent” journalists, it turns out they had to admit that Bush really did win the Florida election?
Republicans also had that embarrassing series of incidents during the 2004 election here in Ohio when the lines at some polls were so long that some voters had to wait an hour or more in line to be able cast their vote. Apparently this was such a hardship and so painful that it caused a lot of Kerry’s supporters to give up their place in line and go home without casting a vote, which is why he lost in Ohio. Just as obviously, it proves how stupid, greedy and vindictive Republicans are because they didn’t have the sense of a turkey to come in out the rain. Instead, they mulishly and ignorantly stood in those long lines, even taking up those places vacated by the Kerry quitters, I mean abused and mistreated supporters. What is the matter with those Republicans? Didn’t they know that an hour in line is far too long to have to wait to vote for your candidate? Heartless imbeciles!
As I think about this voter ID thing I become depressed. It’s all so obviously wrong and stupid and insane, yet we let it keep happening. I really have to ask myself what is wrong with America and all of us citizens that we continue to put up with it. It is all of us honest vote casters who are being disenfranchised for crying out loud!
Then, as I think some more about it, I realize that it’s going to take hard work, guts and a certain amount of stubbornness to stop this nonsense. It is lots harder than standing in line for an hour. Thinking about it that way, my heart just isn’t into it let alone finding any joy in ranting about it.
