This says it all.
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Comment: Are Democrats Too Stupid to Vote?
Chuck Noe
Friday, Nov. 10, 2000
Are Democrats too stupid to vote? Gore campaign chairman William Daley seems to think so.
Democrat Chicago Mayor Daley, of course, is best known as the son of the man widely blamed – or praised, depending on which circles you travel in – for helping steal the 1960 presidential election from Richard Nixon in favor of John Kennedy, thanks to the votes of a bunch of dead Chicagoans.
Yet there Richard Daley's son was on TV Thursday, as shocked as Claude Rains during the gambling bust in "Casablanca." He spouted off about all those poor ignorant Gore supporters in Palm Beach County who were apparently too illiterate or too senile or too eager to rush off to the early-bird special – or all of the above – and voted accidentally for (gasp) Reform Party firebrand Pat Buchanan, of all people.
Oh, dear. What will the girls at canasta say?
Daley's thesis amounts to this: People who are too incompetent to vote properly shouldn't have their votes tossed out, as the law requires.
He had the gall to suggest that Al Gore should get most of the 19,000 discarded bungled ballots in Palm Beach County because this mall-infested swamp, clogged as it is with escaped New Yorkers and such, is mostly Democrat.
Daley fumed that "technicalities should not determine the president of the United States; the will of the people should," a slap at the Electoral College and call to heed the popular vote, in which Gore supposedly has a narrow lead despite widespread reports nationwide of Democrat vote fraud, including voting by noncitizens.
Before the election, of course, when pundits were speculating on the prospect of a Bush victory in the popular vote and a Gore victory in the Electoral College, Gore and other Democrats were falling all over themselves insisting the law would have to be upheld in such a case.
And now the Gore campaign is saying it won't give up even if it loses the recount.
Emperor Al
"If the will of the people is to prevail, Al Gore should be awarded a victory in Florida and be our next president of the United States," Daley huffed. Just like that. Sorry, William, but in this country we have a little thing called the Constitution.
If Democrats are so concerned about "the will of the people," why have they tried to inundate the republic with (Democrat-leaning) illegal aliens and rushed to add millions of resident aliens to the voter pool? Does anyone believe that most Americans support such stunts? These numbers more than account for the narrow difference recorded in this year's popular vote.
The Democrat-dominated mainstream news media (yes, folks, this oft-repeated claim is true; I used to work for them) are unquestioningly repeating claims that Buchanan received an inordinate share of the Palm Beach County vote, but as NewsMax.com pointed out, this is not so.
"Ballots Confuse Palm Beach Voters," the Associated Press trumpets in a typically thoughtless headline parroting the Gore party line.
I beg to differ. I live in Palm Beach County and had no trouble figuring out the ballot, which a Democrat elections supervisor approved and which no one opposed when it was publicized before the election.
As the Gore forces fail to mention, anyone who punched more than one hole in the presidential contest or made any other error could have requested and received a new ballot.
At his press conference Daley attacked the ballot as unfair – and then news reports came out that this "butterfly ballot" is the same type used in his own Cook County, Ill.
Let the Ignorant Stay Home
But why the fuss even if the ballot were difficult to follow? Who wants the leader of the free world chosen by people too stupid to read and follow a few instructions?
CNSNews.com quotes one of the Gore supporters suing to overturn the election in Palm Beach County as admitting he "never looked at" the ballot and concluding, "Turns out I wasn't too bright." At least we can all agree on one thing.
Frankly, I'm amazed anyone has stepped forward and admitted being too stupid to vote. If I made such a blunder I'd hide under the covers for at least a week, not tell the world.
To be fair, stupid Republicans shouldn't vote either.
I was appalled by a CNSNews article in late September in which a registered Republican in Beaverton, Ore., was quoted as saying she liked George W. Bush, but "something about him really doesn't do it for me."
"In years past, I've always been able to have a real clear-cut candidate, but this time, I just can't decide. If he comes by and kisses a baby, maybe I'll vote for him," she said. (In the name of mercy, I have omitted the names of both these voters.)
When I read that quotation I felt a rush of sympathy for all the candidates and what they had to deal with on the American campaign trail.
I've never understood the annual pre-election blather about how everyone ought to vote. Hogwash. The ignorant and uninformed should stay home.
If Gore really gained a surge in support for French-kissing his wife on national TV, we're better off without voters using that kind of logic. The same goes for Bush supporters who have based their decision on his aw-shucks media persona rather than character and the issues.
I say that if we can't have even a basic literacy or intelligence test for voters, make the ballot as challenging as possible to complete. That would help weed out the lazy and incompetent, if not the whining and blameful.
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Chuck Noe is editorial director of NewsMax.com. E-mail: Chuck Noe.
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Comment: Are Democrats Too Stupid to Vote?
Chuck Noe
Friday, Nov. 10, 2000
Are Democrats too stupid to vote? Gore campaign chairman William Daley seems to think so.
Democrat Chicago Mayor Daley, of course, is best known as the son of the man widely blamed – or praised, depending on which circles you travel in – for helping steal the 1960 presidential election from Richard Nixon in favor of John Kennedy, thanks to the votes of a bunch of dead Chicagoans.
Yet there Richard Daley's son was on TV Thursday, as shocked as Claude Rains during the gambling bust in "Casablanca." He spouted off about all those poor ignorant Gore supporters in Palm Beach County who were apparently too illiterate or too senile or too eager to rush off to the early-bird special – or all of the above – and voted accidentally for (gasp) Reform Party firebrand Pat Buchanan, of all people.
Oh, dear. What will the girls at canasta say?
Daley's thesis amounts to this: People who are too incompetent to vote properly shouldn't have their votes tossed out, as the law requires.
He had the gall to suggest that Al Gore should get most of the 19,000 discarded bungled ballots in Palm Beach County because this mall-infested swamp, clogged as it is with escaped New Yorkers and such, is mostly Democrat.
Daley fumed that "technicalities should not determine the president of the United States; the will of the people should," a slap at the Electoral College and call to heed the popular vote, in which Gore supposedly has a narrow lead despite widespread reports nationwide of Democrat vote fraud, including voting by noncitizens.
Before the election, of course, when pundits were speculating on the prospect of a Bush victory in the popular vote and a Gore victory in the Electoral College, Gore and other Democrats were falling all over themselves insisting the law would have to be upheld in such a case.
And now the Gore campaign is saying it won't give up even if it loses the recount.
Emperor Al
"If the will of the people is to prevail, Al Gore should be awarded a victory in Florida and be our next president of the United States," Daley huffed. Just like that. Sorry, William, but in this country we have a little thing called the Constitution.
If Democrats are so concerned about "the will of the people," why have they tried to inundate the republic with (Democrat-leaning) illegal aliens and rushed to add millions of resident aliens to the voter pool? Does anyone believe that most Americans support such stunts? These numbers more than account for the narrow difference recorded in this year's popular vote.
The Democrat-dominated mainstream news media (yes, folks, this oft-repeated claim is true; I used to work for them) are unquestioningly repeating claims that Buchanan received an inordinate share of the Palm Beach County vote, but as NewsMax.com pointed out, this is not so.
"Ballots Confuse Palm Beach Voters," the Associated Press trumpets in a typically thoughtless headline parroting the Gore party line.
I beg to differ. I live in Palm Beach County and had no trouble figuring out the ballot, which a Democrat elections supervisor approved and which no one opposed when it was publicized before the election.
As the Gore forces fail to mention, anyone who punched more than one hole in the presidential contest or made any other error could have requested and received a new ballot.
At his press conference Daley attacked the ballot as unfair – and then news reports came out that this "butterfly ballot" is the same type used in his own Cook County, Ill.
Let the Ignorant Stay Home
But why the fuss even if the ballot were difficult to follow? Who wants the leader of the free world chosen by people too stupid to read and follow a few instructions?
CNSNews.com quotes one of the Gore supporters suing to overturn the election in Palm Beach County as admitting he "never looked at" the ballot and concluding, "Turns out I wasn't too bright." At least we can all agree on one thing.
Frankly, I'm amazed anyone has stepped forward and admitted being too stupid to vote. If I made such a blunder I'd hide under the covers for at least a week, not tell the world.
To be fair, stupid Republicans shouldn't vote either.
I was appalled by a CNSNews article in late September in which a registered Republican in Beaverton, Ore., was quoted as saying she liked George W. Bush, but "something about him really doesn't do it for me."
"In years past, I've always been able to have a real clear-cut candidate, but this time, I just can't decide. If he comes by and kisses a baby, maybe I'll vote for him," she said. (In the name of mercy, I have omitted the names of both these voters.)
When I read that quotation I felt a rush of sympathy for all the candidates and what they had to deal with on the American campaign trail.
I've never understood the annual pre-election blather about how everyone ought to vote. Hogwash. The ignorant and uninformed should stay home.
If Gore really gained a surge in support for French-kissing his wife on national TV, we're better off without voters using that kind of logic. The same goes for Bush supporters who have based their decision on his aw-shucks media persona rather than character and the issues.
I say that if we can't have even a basic literacy or intelligence test for voters, make the ballot as challenging as possible to complete. That would help weed out the lazy and incompetent, if not the whining and blameful.
* * *
Chuck Noe is editorial director of NewsMax.com. E-mail: Chuck Noe.
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[This message has been edited by JimR (edited November 10, 2000).]
