: If you can't read ballot, you shouldn't be voting
If you can't read ballot, you shouldn't be voting
by Howie Carr November 9, 2000 Boston Herald
Two words for all those Florida Democrats:
Shut the bleep up!
Can you imagine these old-timers down there in God's waiting
room,
claiming they didn't know what to do with a punch ballot?
If it was a bingo card, do you think they'd have had any
problems?
If they were playing a lottery punch card, do you think
they'd have
ever missed spotting a one-dollar payoff?
Now, though, they've been robbed. Just because every
precinct in
America has signs saying Read Directions Carefully, why does
this
mean they have to Read Directions Carefully?
How many of those old biddies do you suppose have ever
mistaken the
gas pedal for the brake?
Now, though, they want a new election, or, failing that, how
about a
gift certificate to the Early Bird Special at Red Lobster?
And their spokesman - Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Boca Raton).
Where is
his credibility? During Clinton's impeachment hearings, he
was the
Marty Meehan of Florida's Gold Coast.
And by the way, don't tell me that there's no way Pat
Buchanan
could get 3,000-plus votes in Palm Beach. I've lived there.
Ever hear
of any ``restricted" clubs over on the island? Believe me,
there's plenty
of people there who understood Pat's every note.
But now the old ladies say they were confused. They
voted for the
wrong guy. They knew they made a mistake but somehow they
didn't
mention it to anybody until they got outside and met that
nice young
Wexler boy . . .
Aren't these the same people who get cold calls from
boiler rooms,
and they immediately turn over their credit card and Social
Security
numbers to some fly-by-night grifter?
If they're this bad off, they ought not be voting, or
driving.
Not that Boca Raton is the only place where panic now
grips the
Beautiful People. Imagine Alec Baldwin's house Tuesday night
. . .
pack the car . . . unpack the car . . . pack the car . . .
unpack the car.
I talked to Marty Meehan about this matter yesterday.
He
recommended a ``bipartisan" approach, which means you're
supposed
to let Gore steal the election, and if you try to stop them,
you're
engaging in the politics of personal destruction. That's a
hate crime.
Naturally, I assumed Marty would be shocked, shocked at
the fact
that a Gore soft-money ATM from Park Avenue named Connie
Millstein had been giving away free smokes to bums in
Milwaukee
Sunday night.
``That wasn't authorized," he said.
Of course not. When you give $400 large plus to the
Dems, you
don't need no stinkin' authorization.
Meanwhile, the vultures float into Florida. Jesse
Jackson says the
returns don't pass the ``sniff test." Please, Jesse. Your
deep sympathy
for the residents of Boca Raton is touching, especially
considering that
so many of them used to live in the city you once called
Hymietown.
And the challenge being announced in the pre-dawn hours
by Gore
campaign manager Bill Daley, the son of the late Chicago
Mayor
Richard J. Daley, he of the massive 1960 voter fraud on
behalf of JFK
in the Mob wards on the West Side - was ``surreal," as The
Wall Street
Journal said.
Didn't Chicago always use ``butterfly" ballots very
similar to the
ones that stumped the AARP life members in Palm Beach
County?
Isn't the supervisor of voting down there an elected
Democratic
official? How many votes did Bush lose when the networks
called the
state for Gore with the polls still open for more than an
hour in the
Republican Panhandle?
And please, no more complaints from anyone who calls it the
``Electrical College." If you don't know how many votes
Vermont has,
just off the top of your head, you shouldn't be voting
anyway.
I got an e-mail yesterday from a high school kid in
Wisconsin.
``We used these ballots last week in a mock election at
my high
school," he wrote. ``And not one kid (15-to-18-year-olds)
had a single
problem."
It would have all been very different, kid, if only
your high school
had been in Bob Wexler's congressional district.
===================================
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To Protect & Serve the Individual Rights of All Citizens!
If you can't read ballot, you shouldn't be voting
by Howie Carr November 9, 2000 Boston Herald
Two words for all those Florida Democrats:
Shut the bleep up!
Can you imagine these old-timers down there in God's waiting
room,
claiming they didn't know what to do with a punch ballot?
If it was a bingo card, do you think they'd have had any
problems?
If they were playing a lottery punch card, do you think
they'd have
ever missed spotting a one-dollar payoff?
Now, though, they've been robbed. Just because every
precinct in
America has signs saying Read Directions Carefully, why does
this
mean they have to Read Directions Carefully?
How many of those old biddies do you suppose have ever
mistaken the
gas pedal for the brake?
Now, though, they want a new election, or, failing that, how
about a
gift certificate to the Early Bird Special at Red Lobster?
And their spokesman - Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Boca Raton).
Where is
his credibility? During Clinton's impeachment hearings, he
was the
Marty Meehan of Florida's Gold Coast.
And by the way, don't tell me that there's no way Pat
Buchanan
could get 3,000-plus votes in Palm Beach. I've lived there.
Ever hear
of any ``restricted" clubs over on the island? Believe me,
there's plenty
of people there who understood Pat's every note.
But now the old ladies say they were confused. They
voted for the
wrong guy. They knew they made a mistake but somehow they
didn't
mention it to anybody until they got outside and met that
nice young
Wexler boy . . .
Aren't these the same people who get cold calls from
boiler rooms,
and they immediately turn over their credit card and Social
Security
numbers to some fly-by-night grifter?
If they're this bad off, they ought not be voting, or
driving.
Not that Boca Raton is the only place where panic now
grips the
Beautiful People. Imagine Alec Baldwin's house Tuesday night
. . .
pack the car . . . unpack the car . . . pack the car . . .
unpack the car.
I talked to Marty Meehan about this matter yesterday.
He
recommended a ``bipartisan" approach, which means you're
supposed
to let Gore steal the election, and if you try to stop them,
you're
engaging in the politics of personal destruction. That's a
hate crime.
Naturally, I assumed Marty would be shocked, shocked at
the fact
that a Gore soft-money ATM from Park Avenue named Connie
Millstein had been giving away free smokes to bums in
Milwaukee
Sunday night.
``That wasn't authorized," he said.
Of course not. When you give $400 large plus to the
Dems, you
don't need no stinkin' authorization.
Meanwhile, the vultures float into Florida. Jesse
Jackson says the
returns don't pass the ``sniff test." Please, Jesse. Your
deep sympathy
for the residents of Boca Raton is touching, especially
considering that
so many of them used to live in the city you once called
Hymietown.
And the challenge being announced in the pre-dawn hours
by Gore
campaign manager Bill Daley, the son of the late Chicago
Mayor
Richard J. Daley, he of the massive 1960 voter fraud on
behalf of JFK
in the Mob wards on the West Side - was ``surreal," as The
Wall Street
Journal said.
Didn't Chicago always use ``butterfly" ballots very
similar to the
ones that stumped the AARP life members in Palm Beach
County?
Isn't the supervisor of voting down there an elected
Democratic
official? How many votes did Bush lose when the networks
called the
state for Gore with the polls still open for more than an
hour in the
Republican Panhandle?
And please, no more complaints from anyone who calls it the
``Electrical College." If you don't know how many votes
Vermont has,
just off the top of your head, you shouldn't be voting
anyway.
I got an e-mail yesterday from a high school kid in
Wisconsin.
``We used these ballots last week in a mock election at
my high
school," he wrote. ``And not one kid (15-to-18-year-olds)
had a single
problem."
It would have all been very different, kid, if only
your high school
had been in Bob Wexler's congressional district.
===================================
The Second Amendment Police Department (in CyberSpace) www.2ampd.net
To Protect & Serve the Individual Rights of All Citizens!
That has to be one of the funniest lines I've ever seen on TFL!!