Okay I get it now... regarding the MCM article in Election News 7/18/2006

[LittleClarkie]

http://tinyurl.com/znmzk

If the GOP should lose the House and/or the Senate on Election Day, they will pick out a handful of the "closest" races--as many as they need to hang on to majority control--and start to scream like hell about ELECTION FRAUD.

That's right: the major perpetrators of such fraud will cast themselves as victims of the very crime that put them where they are, and charge the Democrats with having used the very tactics that the Bush Republicans have now perfected: legal/bureaucratic disenfranchisement, e-voting manipulation, hostile challenges to would-be voters, covert efforts at disinformation, countless ballots thrown away, and so on.'

This is what we'll hear non-stop from Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity and Coulter; Hastert, Boehner, Sensenbrenner, Graham and Coburn; even Bush and Cheney and Karl Rove himself. This, of course, is how the Busheviks routinely operate; and yet I'm basing this prediction not just on their history as war-propagandists, but on the blunt admission of a certain high-placed GOP insider, who recently told Thom Hartmann that this is the party's plan, if they should lose control of either side of Congress.
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In other words, the Bush Republicans will certainly succeed--unless the Democrats, and others to their left, start working to pre-empt that strategy right now. The only way to foil that plan is to define the conflict truthfully and clearly, and to begin to do it now. However low the Bush regime may sink in the opinion polls, the Democrats, and all the rest of us, are simply cooked, if they do not stand up like vertebrates, and speak as patriots, and tell the nation the unpleasant truth: that these BushRepublicans are where they are today because they have committed vast election fraud, in 2000, and in 2002, and in 2004; and that they lately have committed it again in San Diego, and have more planned in Texas, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California and Virginia, and wherever else they have the system rigged, whether at the state or county lived. In short, it's time to cut the crap, stop worrying about the epithet "sore losers" (the Republicans would never let that stop them), and trot out all the evidence that the Establishment has thus far largely waved away.

MCM: Miller Nails It – The Republican Strategy to Steal 2006

Once again, than you Mark. You’re better than 20 staffers. Nothing like an insightful and original mind, unfettered by bias and sentiment; willing to speak the truth.

How is this info from Mark a revelation re: Republicans and screaming fraud? This is the exact same strategy as 2004. Of COURSE that's what they're going to do. They did it here in Wisconsin ad nauseum. The Republicans I know had a great time suggesting that I was going to be voting three, four or five times, and one guy called me a Communist and suggested we were trying for the biggest fraud in history to get Kerry in.

Sorry. It IS a good reminder, mind you. But it still struck me as a "no shit Sherlock" moment when I read that. They call fraud early so that when we try to call fraud later, no matter how much evidence we have, we look ridiculous.

They can be such sore winners here. Simple clerical errors became a big conspiracy in their eyes.

Or is Mark saying that 2004 just a dress rehearsal for what they have planned for 2006?

[hlthe2b]

1. So much that is obvious to us.... is not even considered by

DEM "leadership." Sometimes, I think I am going to go crazy with their naivete' or denial--whichever it may be...

[EFerrari]

2. It's a matter of degree and clarity

All their actions are dress rehearsals

But Mark is spot on. It's a "no shit Sherlock" moment because people like him have been calling 'em for some time

Welcome to the Twilight Zone -- in the sense that we've, just about now, been able to learn as a group how to foresee what these godless @ssholes will do next.

Whatever. Mark is right, you are right, the collective knowledge that this slime ALWAYS signals it's actions via projection -- by accusing us of what they are doing or planning, that's right

LittleClarkie: WE NEED TO GET PEOPLE TO MIND THEIR SECRETARY OF STATE elections. Because that state office oversees the election.

:hi:

[dragonlady]

3. Note re: Secretary of State overseeing elections

Wisconsin has a different system. The State Elections Board, an appointed board with an executive director, is the state agency in charge of elections. The secretary of state is not involved.

[EFerrari]

4. Thank you; dragonlady.. We need to sort this out

:)

[Stevepol]

5. I can't see what we have to worry about with an investigation!

Let em scream. Why not have an investigation? Just insiste that it be a THOROUGH investigation, esp covering the machine fraud possibilities, recounting whole blocks of votes.

I may be wrong, but I can't remember a recent recount that ever came up with an increase in Repub votes. Sometimes the Dem gain has been insignificant, but it has always been a Dem gain.