Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution slams the anti-democracy forces of evil that have become the GOP’s (almost) last hope…

She goes on to note the insidious and shameless GOP New Mexico operative, Patrick Rogers (yes, of the voter-suppresion front group “American Center for Voting Rights” and, yes, at the heart of the U.S. Attorney Purge in the state and, yes, a man willing to lie to fend off charges of vote-buying by his comrade, the disgraced, outgoing Rep. Heather Wilson), who was discovered in “a recently unearthed e-mail” to have spoken quite directly to the cynical and despicable issue of using phony claims of “voter fraud” to help keep bad voters (Dems) away from the polls, and encourage good voters (Repubs) to turn out if only to counter all those dirty, filthy, illegal aliens who are showing up (after giving their names and addresses to the federales, in order to register, presumably) to vote…

Tucker’s optimistic conclusion — the “tactic seems unlikely to be enough to prevent Democrats from gaining seats in Congress, if not the White House. Democrats are registering in record numbers, and the GOP can’t intimidate or eliminate enough of them to make a difference” — is a bit premature for our tastes.

Still, Tucker clearly gets it, and it’s good to see somone in the corporate mainstream speaking so directly about the despicable foes of American democracy, who — we’ve come to learn after watching the History Channel’s “Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History“ late-night over the weekend, comes directly out of precisely the same hateful playbook.

Tucker closes…

We’d expect no less from a party who is still proud to publicly revere, rather than revile, men such as this one.

(Hat-tip Steve Heller of Velvet Revolution’s Election Protection Strike Force.)