Posted by
Charles Lewis on Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:50:41 AM
by Charles R Lewis
Several serious questions arise after liberal John McCain's supposed
victory in the GOP presidential primary in my home state of South Carolina
today. The most salient is as follows:
With the advent of voting machine
(sans paper trail) elections as the
national rule of thumb, and with the integration of the United States with
Canada and Mexico first on the establishment's ledger, are free, valid elections
possible anymore in America, or, specifically in South Carolina?
Only in
Horry County - a supposed McCain stronghold (he won there in '00, long before
his treasonous positions on the illegal alien invasion were known) - were paper
ballots cast at all, and those only because of a glitch. I'd be fascinated to
know if he even scored in double figures among those tangible votes, but he
"won" by a wide enough margin statewide that a recount is out of the question,
so we'll never know the real tally even among those ballots.
The point
is, I know literally hundreds of Republicans in the Palmetto State, and not one
of them can stand the very thought of John McCain (most voted for Thompson or
Paul). A web poll (admittedly "unscientific," but unquestionably valid) on the
site of the Greenville area's conservative station of record yielded the
following on the day of the vote: Fred Thompson: 39%, Ron Paul: 37%, Mike
Huckabee: 12%, John McCain: 1%.
Yet even the ostensive Greenville County
final vote tally gave McCain and Huckabee (with 13% combined in the online poll,
and virtually no support over the past week among talk show callers) well over
50% of the actual vote (McCain went from 1% in
the upstate's premier conservative station's online poll to a claimed 26% in the
actual election the
same day). Something is rotten in poinsettialand. You might point out
that the "mainstream" pollsters predicted this. I would counter that if you're
going to rig an election electronically, you're certainly going to coordinate
this with the controlled media, pollsters and all. The picture is
frightening.
Consider this:
- McCain was principal hitman (along
with pals Teddy Kennedy and now-despised SC Sen "Grahamnesty") for the assault
on America that was the amnesty/citizenship for invaders movement of the past
year, a movement so definitively beaten back by deluges of Capitol Hill calls by
folks from places like South Carolina,
- He seemed to have burned bridges with
the state's voters after his bitter '00 loss here, when he lashed out at the
state's predominant evengelical demographic group,
- He made it just about impossible for
candidates like his few true conservative opponents in this race to compete
financially with the fat cats, via his 1st Amendment-gutting Campaign Finance
Act, one which also disallows publication of a congressman's voting record
within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary - draconian
provisions he's hot to extend to the Internet, which he, in turn, is hot to hand
over to the UN.
- He opposed
the modest, mostly demand-side Bush tax cuts on the same Marxist, class struggle
grounds on which the Democrats opposed them.
- He favors taxpayer funded stem cell
research on aborted fetuses.
- He wants to gut the American economy
on the grounds of concocted "global warming" claims.
- He led the Gang of 14 charge to block
moderately conservative (at best) Bush judicial
nominees
- He'll eschew waterboarding (part of
our own operatives' basic training) on terrorists, even if millions of American
lives depend on it, and he wants to infuse our prison system with the gitmo
terrorists, who surely will clone themselves here, many times
over...
Supposed
exit poll data actually was said to indicate that McCain tied for first among
Republican voters (crossovers are allowed here), and missed winning the
"conservative" vote by only a few percentage points. Incredibly, the polls claim
he even did quite well (better than Thompson, for instance) among
"evangelicals."
Even with Rush Limbaugh hammering the point home for
several weeks (along with the two most prominent upstate local conservative
radio hosts) that netiher Huckabee nor McCain even distantly resembled
conservatives, we're asked to believe the two walked away with about 63% of the
votes (in the Repbulican primary, mind you) in one of the most conservative of
southern states.
And among those considering themselves "very
conservative," we're told to swallow whole the notion that liberal Mike Huckabee
(who claims those who think proof of citizenship should be required for voting
are "race batiers"; who's a rabid opponent of home schooling, a pardoner of
murderers who went on to murder again - and rape, a profligate taxer/spender,
and a nanny stater who wants a nationwide smoking ban) walked away with the
contest.
I ain't buying it - none of it. But what can we do? Even a move
to require paper ballots would require a vote - one the machines (both political
and voting) would never let us win. Plus we'd have to get the word out, and both
McCain and "Hillabama" will certainly shut down such media - via McCain-Feingold
tactics, thought crimes laws, grassroots lobbying tyranny... as early orders of
business.
No, the voting booth is not going to be the ticket out of this
inferno America finds herself in - not nationally, and not here in SC. A pity,
as some of us had embraced hopeful plans in that
regard...