Sounds about right
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, 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.</i>
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