A rebuttal to the “There’s been fraud since the election of G.Washington" [View All]

[KansDem]

I’ve heard some freepers use this argument to discount the election fraud charges in Ohio. They appear to have an “it’s there, there’s nothing we can do about it” approach to explaining the irregularities of Election2004, when in fact they don't want to face the prospect that their candidate cheated.

I got the idea from Fric and Frac, the car guys on NPR. I heard a program a couple of years ago when one caller said she had taken her car to an auto-repair place and explained the problem her car was having. The mechanic tried to shrug off the complaint with “Oh, that’s the way it is with all these cars!” (referring to year, make, & model).

The car guys said the best way to counter this kind of response is to say, “All right, then they all need to be fixed, so let’s start with this one!”

So the next time someone comments on ElectionFraud2004 by saying, “Oh, there’s been election fraud since George Washington…,” say back to them, “OK, then they all need to be investigated, so let’s start with this one…!”

At that point, the freeper would probably switch to another defense ("sour grapes," "poor loser," etc), but this is one way to put the kibosh on the "there's always been election fraud" argument.

Just an idea…