Bush Wins Election - If Kerry Doesn’t Cheat
By Isaiah Z. Sterrett (10/29/04)
NEXT TUESDAY, when millions of Americans make a choice that will forever affect America and the world, George W. Bush will be reelected—assuming that Sen. Kerry and his thugs don’t attempt to rip off the people by cheating. This is not the worry of an alarmist partisan looking for excuses; this is the worry of someone who was alive four years ago.
The Supreme Court can be a pretty loopy bunch, especially since Clinton added Ginsburg. But in 2000, the Justices broke precedent and did their jobs. There is a bit of an internal dispute among conservatives as to the correct grounds of the Court’s ’00 decision—Equal Protection vs. Article II—though all agree that it was essentially correct.
Regardless of the argument you accept, the point is: the Florida Supreme Court had no legal basis for what it did. I have not personally attended law school (yet), but I do know how to read. And when the law says ballots have to be certified by “seven days” following an election, I’m willing to wager that it means “seven days” after the election, rather than “nineteen days,” as SCOFLA preposterously ruled.
What we saw in 2000 was a major political party attempt to overturn the election laws of one of the most populous states in the country. Bush was deemed the winner—repeatedly—but Gore pushed ahead, undeterred by the law, common sense, morality, or love of country. If the Supreme Court had not stepped in, Mister Lockbox would have been president on 9/11.
It’s sobering and terrifying to realize that this could happen again this year, and this time, the Supreme Court may not be able to correct it. Democrats have had four years to come up with a strategy to defeat Bush democratically, and it doesn’t appear to have worked. So unless Bush wins substantially across the country, they’ll attempt to ram a Kerry victory through the courts, just like they did with abortion in 1973, and sodomy in 2003.
As George Will has pointed out, not since 1800 have Americans been so worried about voting in a presidential election. In that year, many worried that the losing side would take up arms against the winners. Republicans’ only consolation comes in the fact that everyone knows liberals wouldn’t dare touch a gun without first receiving an official UN permission slip, signed in stolen oil by Jacques Chirac.
I’m not just pressing this point for the intellectualism of it. We have proof that Democrats are trying to cheat their way to a Kerry victory. One woman who voted early in Boca Raton has reported that she was continually harassed by a Kerry supporter while at her polling place. Another woman, this time in Palm Beach, took her mother to vote, and was literally surrounded by dozens of Kerry supporters, who, as she said, “used foul language.” Yet another charming supporter of the Democratic candidate said, “Where’s my shotgun?” (Maybe they do like guns.)
Luckily, we’ve got Floridians on record attesting to how delightfully simple voting really is. Patrick Flanagan of West Palm Beach went to the polls early and reported that touch-screen voting went “very smoothly.” If Democrats try to stage the kind of bloodless coup they did four years ago, please remember this quote.
The silver lining for Bush is that even if 536 fewer Floridians vote for him, he’ll win the state. And, it’s just an idea, but maybe this time we should even consider counting oversea military ballots. Troops stationed overseas—and supported by liberals!—are the only people who were provably disenfranchised in 2000—and they supported Bush.
Republicans also might benefit from low turnout among Democrats, since Democrats are evidently spending most of their free time brutally vandalizing the country’s GOP headquarters. Liberals’ adulation for the democratic process they’re always harping about never really pans out.
Of course, Bush should win. I know the citizens of the world have been on tenterhooks waiting for my endorsement, so I’ll put an end to the suspense. I’m for Bush. I am against Kerry. The Bush Doctrine works, insofar as we haven’t seen airplanes fly into skyscrapers since 9/11. The Kerry Doctrine—loosely defined as Paris-or-Bust globalism—does not work, as shown by the fact that it’s based exclusively on the pipe dream that France will save America from terrorism.
Bush is the only man in this race who can keep the War on Terrorism alive. Kerry won’t kill it outright, but he’ll shoot it in the kneecaps ten minutes after the last inaugural ball. To vote for Bush is to assure the world that terror will not stand, and that Americans will be accountable for its demise. To vote for Kerry is to tap-dance on Ground Zero.
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