GOP Strategist Admits No Voter Fraud

Off topic, but I want to nominate Mary Matalin for a Bryan Fischer award. Check it out:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/332941/mendacity-and-malice-won-mary-matalin#

Money quote: “What happened? A political narcissistic sociopath leveraged fear and ignorance with a campaign marked by mendacity and malice rather than a mandate for resurgence and reform. Instead of using his high office to articulate a vision for our future, Obama used it as a vehicle for character assassination, replete with unrelenting and destructive distortion, derision, and division.”

-via Garry Trudeau

@1 and @2: This is a dizzying juxtaposition. Here a sane GOP strategist is saying that voter fraud doesn’t exist, and that voting is good, and it is followed by some of the crazy that seems to be the foundation of the GOP in those two comments.

I mean, saying that Obama was fearmongering?! Or that campaigning effectively is voter suppression?! These two must have access to an alternative reality.

Ms. Matalin has been repeating that assertion when a guest on TV News shows. She was on Anderson Cooper’s show recently where he had to correct her mis-statements, which is why I watch him. Meanwhile the other guest, David Frum, had no problem sticking with the truth though that truth was critical of Republicans. Ms. Matalin repeatedly claimed Frum was lying.

In regards to how the GOP reforms itself, where I focus on competence in governing and they focus on winning elections, the emerging meme is immigration reform which includes amnesty for those here now. I perceive their motivation is to do what they most recently did with conservative Catholics. Invite them into the party by promising them they can join them in hating non-Republicans while not actually changing their: policy platform, antipathy towards experts, and denial of reality.

This initiative to go after Hispanics reveals that Republicans remain committed to the core of how they think, believe, and govern; in spite of all three being demonstrable defective and the root cause for their incompetence, bigotry, and losing the demographic battle. Republicans are now merely looking for another group of saps like the conservative Christians they control, which is particularly important politically given that group is dying-out while the Hispanic population grows in size.

Can’t go wrong with admitting to well-documented facts.

I think that all of this stuff that has transpired over the last two years

Lolwut? Last two years?

GOP Strategist Admits No Voter Fraud

Misread this as him not admitting to voter fraud…

There was even someone (mayormark)on Nate Silver’s blog accusing him of “voter suppression” (I suppose by telling the truth). As has been noted before, facts and math just have a librul bias. It is so unfair!

To be fair, Rove has a strange definition of “voter suppression”:

His definition of “voter suppression” boils down to “convincing people not to want to vote for your opponent”.

Apparently unbeknownst to Rove, this strategy already had a name.

It was called “politics”.

When you say he “admits no voter fraud”, what exactly does that entail?

Is he actually admitting that the poor, the non-white citizens and democrats weren’t involved in any fraud (re: the Carnegie study that said it’s a non-existent problem)?

Or is he denying that republicans were engaged in any voter fraud (re: republicans destroying registrations in Virginia, illegal political advertising in voting stations, the removal of thousands from voting lists without proof of any crime, etc.)?

When dealing with weasels, one should expect to hear weasel words.