We are way better prepared this time around than we were in either 2000 or 2004. Look at how the Macomb County, Michigan GOP chairmen James Carabelli had his head handed to him after he suggested he would use foreclosure lists to challenge people’s right to vote in the presidential election. It’s a world-class beat-down that is so emphatic that the man is now denying he ever suggested such a thing in the first place. The Obama campaign used it’s 12:30 conference call with reporters to call this dude out personally, but they need not have worried. James Carabelli is now a national disgrace and a national emblem of Republican values: lose your home, lose your vote.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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You know what’s even more disgusting? Renters who lose their apartments because asshole homeflipping landlords got foreclosed upon … even though these renters always paid on time … they too would be disenfranchised.
This election is so absurdly simple … Republicanism has destroyed America, and not for the first time. You like crashing stocks, lost wars, lost cities, federal appointees who do blow off the backs of oil company hookers? Then by all means, four more years.
Some enterprising journalist or blogger needs to collect all the stories of GOP voter manipulation in recent years. The big point to be made is that the Republicans are always trying to suppress voter turnout, while the Democrats are always working to increase voter participation. Says a lot about the difference between the two parties….
take the fight to them. Hell yeah, take the fight to those mofos.