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Florida Prosecutors Might Help Ann Coulter on Her Mission to Go to Jail

Trish

Ann Coulter must want go to jail. She’s cutting off any options for Florida prosecutors but to pursue a felony conviction for her voting fraud in a Palm Beach election earlier this year.

Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson said his office has been looking into the matter for nearly nine months, and he would turn over the case to the state attorney’s office by Friday…

Anderson’s office received a complaint in February that Coulter allegedly voted in the wrong precinct during a Feb. 7 Palm Beach town council election. Since then, Anderson said he has made repeated attempts to resolve the matter with Coulter and her attorney but has been rebuffed.

Anderson, a Democrat, said an initial letter was sent to Coulter on March 27…

Three more letters were sent to Coulter and her attorney over the next several months, but she has yet to respond with the information requested, Anderson said.

As you may or may not recall, Coulter said at the time that she can’t reveal her true address for fear she’ll be killed by the people she tries to destroy in her books. “Should we get my stalkers on the line with my address and apartment number?” she asked on the Sean Hannity show.

The problem is that the law doesn’t actually make exceptions for hateful harpy skanks that need to be protected from their own hateful harpy skankiness. Covering up your address to vote in a different precinct, or more than once, or where you like best is still a third degree felony that’ll get you up to five years in prison.

Republicans Fail to Fool Blacks; Democrats Just Plain Fail Them

Trish

They gave it their best shot, using everything from fear-based radio ads telling blacks that Democrats want to “snuff their seed,” to trotting out the tiny numbers of black Republicans at campaign stops and displaying them prominently. But new polls show the GOP hasn’t really reached black voters.

It seems like white Democratic candidates get healthy black support but the reverse is not always true

Black voters are far less likely to approve of the way President Bush is doing his job than voters generally and they are more likely to feel that the country is on the wrong track…

In what could be a particularly bad sign for Republicans in next week’s midterm elections, black voters also are more likely to say that the Iraq war was a mistake and that recent disclosures of scandal and corruption in Congress will be very important to their vote, according to an Associated Press-AOL Black Voices poll conducted Oct. 23 through Monday.

You can’t blame the Republicans for trying. Many black Democrats feel taken for granted and ignored so Repubs hoped they were ripe for picking.

And having personally just worked on a campaign for a black state representative, I have to say it seems like white Democratic candidates get healthy black support but the reverse is not always true. Unless you’re talking about Barak Obama, of course, and then people of every hue can’t gush enough.*

But black Democrats find themselves in the same pickle as white fundamentalist Christians — what cha gonna do? No matter how much the Republicans take evangelicals for granted, or how pissed off the Christian right gets, it’s not like they’re going to come over to our team instead.

So we’re all stuck. The Democrats are stuck with morons like John Kerry and the candidate Republicans love to hate most — Hillary Clinton. The Republicans are stuck with George Bush and John McCain and George Allen. And third parties keep coughing up hairballs like Ralph Nader. We’re all screwed.

* Including me.

John Kerry Does It Again

Buck Banks

Lost loser: Okay, so it was supposed to have been a joke, John. Right. Instead, it gave the Repugs something to beat on that just might motivate the morons to vote against every damn Democrat in every damn race in the Benighted States of America.

So why couldn’t he just stand up there and read the script? Didn’t he learn anything from New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s infamous “chocolate city” off-the-cuffer? Didn’t he learn anything from blowing his presidential bid two years ago?

Apparently not.

To John Kerry from all of us who are sick and tired of Bushco’s lies and incompetence — JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR THE NEXT FIVE DAYS!

Wingnut Crackpot Encourages Crystal Balling – Flood his Web Site, Please

Buck Banks

Right of right: Our favorite Goldwater conservative, Richard Viguerie, has issued a challenge to the dozen or so idiots who subscribe to his e-mail newsletter (disclaimer: I just do it for Pensito Review) to gaze deeply into their crystal balls and predict the outcome of the midterms. If you’re a good prognosticator, you’ll get your name posted on Viguerie’s Web site (a dubious achievement sure to wreck your future career opportunities, love life and social network).

So, gentle reader, go to the Vig’s site and lodge a ludicrous prediction (Mark Foley ascends to the presidency! John Kerry doesn’t blow the election for the Democrats!) to consume bandwidth and hopefully aggravate Richie’s hemorhoids. Come on, it will be fun! Let’s get out there and betray some conservatives, kids!

Dear Concerned Citizen,

Regardless of how you’d like the November 7th election to come out, what do you think the results will actually be?

Go to the Conservatives Betrayed website at http://www.conservativesbetrayed.com/survey_110106.php and make your predictions on the key races around the country for Senator, House of Representatives, and Governor.

The top five predictors can have their names and pictures on the websites to recognize their abilities and election seers.

Good luck in predicting the outcome of the elections!

Cordially,

Richard A. Viguerie

GOP Leader Boehner Blames Military for Iraq Fiasco

Jon Ponder

Here we have the double standard in American politics writ large. Sen. John Kerry is misinterpreted when he says that Pres. Bush’s stupidity got us stuck in Iraq and it leads the news.

Conversely, Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Tobacco) means what he says when he blames the quagmire in Iraq on military leaders, rather than President Bush or his secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and his comments barely make a blip:

In an interview Wednesday on CNN, Boehner said, “Let’s not blame what’s happening in Iraq on Rumsfeld.”

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer replied, “But he’s in charge of the military.”

“The fact is, the generals on the ground are in charge, and he works closely with them and the president,” Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said.

Katherine Harris Planning Revenge With Tell-All Book

Trish

Look out, Republicans. Katherine Harris, abandoned by almost every office-holding GOoPer at the state and national level in her race for the U.S. Senate, plans to get the last laugh. Evidently she’s been filling the hours left unexpectedly free by the all no-shows at campaign stops with a more productive activity: cackling gleefully, frothing at the mouth, and making notes.

In blood, for all we know.

“I’ve been writing it all year,” she says. She smiles and cocks her head as if she’s letting you in on a secret. “It’s going to be a great book.”

Katherine Harris, who is trying to become a U.S. senator, says she is writing a tell-all about the many people who have wronged her. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to: the Republican leaders who didn’t want her to run, the press that has covered her troubled campaign, and the many staffers who have quit her employ, whom she accuses of colluding with her opponent.

“I’ve been writing it all year,” she says. She smiles and cocks her head as if she’s letting you in on a secret. “It’s going to be a great book.”

Is anyone besides me somehow flashing back on Kathy Bates in the movie “Misery?”

It’s doubtful the book will contain memories from former Harris staffers, such as this classic from strategist Ed Rollins, one of the earliest to recognize Harris is looney.

Rollins said Harris, who has compared herself to the biblical Esther, once told him that God wanted her to become a senator. ”Maybe God wants you to run because he wants Bill Nelson to be senator,” Rollins said he told her.

Or this lol tidbit:

Before Jim Dornan became the first of three campaign managers to quit, he programmed his cellphone to play the theme song from The Exorcist when Harris called.

Constituent Who Was Assaulted by Sen. Allen’s Goons Will Sue

Jon Ponder

HuffPo headline for this story read: “SEN ALLEN’S CAMPAIGN IMPLODES…AGAIN…”

I spent four years in the Marine Corps. I’ll be damned if I’ll let my country be taken from me by thugs that are afraid of taking
responsibility for themselves.
–Mike Stark

My name is Mike Stark. I am a law student at the University of Virginia, a marine, and a citizen journalist. Earlier today at a public event, I was attempting to ask Senator Allen a question about his sealed divorce record and his arrest in the 1970s, both of which are in the public domain. His people assaulted me, put me in a headlock, and wrestled me to the ground. Video footage is available here, from an NBC affiliate.

I demand that Senator Allen fire the staffers who beat up a constituent attempting to use his constitutional right to petition his government. I also want to know why Senator Allen would want his staffers to assault someone asking questions about matters of public record in the heat of a political campaign. Why are his divorce records sealed? Why was he arrested in the 1970s? And why did his campaign batter me when I asked him about these questions.

George Allen defends his support of the Iraq war by saying that our troops are defending the ideals America stands for. Indeed, he says our troops are defending our very freedom. What kind of country is it when a Senator’s constituent is assaulted for asking difficult and uncomfortable questions? What freedoms do we have left? Maybe we need to bring the troops home so that they can fight for freedom at George Allen’s campaign events. Demanding accountability should not be an offense worthy of assault.

I will be pressing charges against George Allen and his surrogates later today. George Allen, at any time, could have stopped the fray. All he had to do was say, “This is not how my campaign is run. Take your hands off that man.” He could have ignored my questions. Instead he and his thugs chose violence. I spent four years in the Marine Corps. I’ll be damned if I’ll let my country be taken from me by thugs that are afraid of taking responsibility for themselves.

It just isn’t the America I know and love. Somebody needs to take a stand against those that would bully and intimidate their fellow citizens. That stand begins right here, right now.

W. Michael Stark

Macaca Brownshirts Assault Another Virginia Constituent

Jon Ponder


First, Republican Sen. George Allen called one of his Viriginia constitutents a “macaca,” which is a racial slur from Allen’s mother’s home country in Africa. Yesterday, the senator’s hired goons went after a Virginia voter, a liberal blogger named Mike Stark, who demanded that the senator unseal documents related to his divorce.

The divorce documents are said to reveal that Sen. Allen spat on his first wife, and it was Stark’s question, “Did you spit on your wife, that unhinged Sen. Allen’s GOP goons.

Kerry Hits Back at Bush – Hard

Jon Ponder
The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it.

John Kerry hit back today after President Bush accused Kerry of dissing the military yesterday when he mangled a sentence and saying, “You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.” He meant “you get [us] stuck in Iraq,” apparently. (Imagine if people got upset when Bush mangled a phrase!)

Kerry was forceful in his reply:

“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.

I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq . It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.

The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.

Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq .”