BRILLIANT article!!

[Clinton Crusader]

Brilliant read on repug plans for election
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2004/07/21/notes072104.DTL

Rig My Election, Please/Just how far will desperate Republicans
go to trick America into another BushCo victory?

:kick:

[ewagner]

1. Excellent article

and, by the way,

Welcome to DU :hi:

[jedicord]

2. Bookmarked!

I'll need to read that every once in a while to cool my dread.

The new one I heard on NPR is that a change in administration would make us vulnerable to a terrorist attack. Friggin' creepy SOBs!

:scared:

[calico1]

3. He really nailed that one!

Thanks for posting the article.

[Wind Dancer]

4. We're not the only ones!

Excellent article, a must read!


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This is the time of desperation and anxiety. This is the time of hysterical Orange Alerts and imminent al Quada attacks coming from outta nowhere at any minute and violating our children and kicking our puppies and badly denting our Honda Accords. And yes, this is the time of election-year political tactics coming from the increasingly anxious Right that will make Sun Tzu's "Art of War" look like a cupcake cookbook.

Do you feel it? Can you smell it in the air? The sensation that the Republican party, though various tentacles, will stop at absolutely nothing to maintain power in the White House? It's true. It's the feeling that, during the next few months, it's all about to get very shrill, and very surreal, indeed.

-snip-

Look, times have changed. Of course politics has always been a truly ugly business, and each party's strategy to gain or regain power as election time rolls around has always become increasingly low-down and nasty and mudslinging and soul-cringing and borderline illegal.

But this time it all feels, somehow, different. Uglier. More sadistic.

more

edited to add:
Welcome to DU

[No Mandate Here.]

5. I'll second that! No * turn left unstoned! Great Mark Morford

Start:

Semi-clever, ultra-wealthy Bush supporters suddenly donating piles of money to the Nader campaign in an obvious attempt to steal votes from John Kerry? Pshaw. Ptouey. Child's play. Tip of the iceberg. A mere distraction.

We ain't seen nuthin' yet.

This is the time of desperation and anxiety. This is the time of hysterical Orange Alerts and imminent al Quada attacks coming from outta nowhere at any minute and violating our children and kicking our puppies and badly denting our Honda Accords. And yes, this is the time of election-year political tactics coming from the increasingly anxious Right that will make Sun Tzu's "Art of War" look like a cupcake cookbook.

to Finish: <snip>

So then, let this be a warning. Get ready. Expect the unexpected. Watch the skies, scrutinize the headlines, dust off your stash of duct tape. Because Karl Rove and the cutthroat BushCo war hawks and corporate cronies who run the show aren't about to go down without a screaming, sickening, fiery fight.

And if BushCo has proven anything in the past four violent, budget-gutting, honor-molesting, nearly unbearable years, it's that there ain't no international law that can't be broken, no fear synapse that can't be hammered to death, no fraudulent power tactic that can't be abused. Anything is possible. You have been warned. God bless America.

[redqueen]

6. Mark Morford ROCKS

Thanks for the link, and welcome to DU! :hi:

[proud patriot]

7. Welcome Underground Clinton Crusader

:hi:

[Clinton Crusader]

8. thank you all for the welcome!

now let's go and kick repug ass!
:kick:

[maxpower]

9. Awesome

Thanks for posting and welcome aboard.

[whosinpower]

10. What a great article

I LOVED the last paragraph -

snip - And if BushCo has proven anything in the past four violent, budget-gutting, honor-molesting, nearly unbearable years, it's that there ain't no international law that can't be broken, no fear synapse that can't be hammered to death, no fraudulent power tactic that can't be abused. Anything is possible. You have been warned. God bless America.

[Soth]

11. Perfect!

A brilliant, brilliant little article you've got there. That should be required reading for everyone who's going to vote in the upcoming elections.

It's election year. Say goodbye to human decency.

[Clinton Crusader]

12. Ive sent it to everyone I know

Went thought the whole address book and emailed it to everyone.
:kick:

[TrustingDog]

13. excellent... nominated.

[ElementaryPenguin]

14. Excellent indeed! Thanks!

Fascist bastards WILL try anything!

:mad:

[myrna minx]

15. Excellent article.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[kerrywins]

16. thanks for the article...

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[JohnyCanuck]

17. Here's another Rovian plan of action to look out for on "E" day.

From an article: Terrorism and the election: No postponement, just bedlam at the polls and a low turnout on the West Coast is Bush's plan for 'victory.' Posted on www.onlinejournal.com

Here's the scenario we must be all be prepared for:

If the pre-election internal tracking polls and public opinion polls show the Kerry-Edwards ticket leading in key battleground states, the Bush team will begin to implement their plan to announce an imminent terrorist alert for the West Coast for November 2, sometime during the mid afternoon Pacific Standard Time. At 2:00 PST, the polls in Kentucky and Indiana will be one hour from closing (5:00 PM EST–the polls close in Indiana and Kentucky at 6:00 PM EST). Exit polls in both states will be known to the Bush people by that time and if Kentucky (not likely Indiana) looks too close to call or leaning to Kerry-Edwards, the California plan will be implemented. A Bush problem in Kentucky at 6:00 PM EST would mean that problems could be expected in neighboring states and that plans to declare a state of emergency in California would begin in earnest at 3:00 PM PST.

The U.S. Northern Command, which has military jurisdiction over the United States, will, along with the Department of Homeland Security and Schwarzenegger's police and homeland security officials in Sacramento, declare an "imminent" terrorist threat–a RED ALERT—affecting California's major urban areas.

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That terrorist emergency declaration could be made around 5:00 PM PST and with only three hours left for voting throughout the state, a number of working class voters in urban centers will either be caught up in California's infamous freeway traffic and be too late to get to their polling places or be more concerned about their families and avoid voting altogether.

Without a doubt, many Democratic voters might simply opt to pick their kids up from day care centers or relatives and then go home without voting. These would tend to be the lower and middle income Californians and the Democratic base. The affluent voters in California who vote Republicans and can easily vote early (and be late for work) or have the option of leaving work at any time during the day to vote will have likely already cast their ballots. Therefore, the recipe of a White House-induced California terrorist alert and a low Democratic turnout could toss 54 electoral votes into Bush's lap, especially if the scare tactics affect the turnout in such urban and typically pro-Democratic vote-rich areas as Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Sacramento.

Terrorism and the Election by Wayne Madsen.

According to the blurb about the author, he was an employee of the NSA during the Reagan administration. I know that's a few years back now, but still I have to wonder if as an ex-spook he might not have been the recipient of some inside info into what Mr. Rove is cooking up.