{"id":829,"date":"2004-10-27T12:40:15","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2004-10-27T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T16:40:15","slug":"were-rubber-youre-glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"We’re Rubber, You’re Glue…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had been planning to cover this a bit, but it looks like New Donkey<\/a> has taken care of some of it for me:<\/p>\n

The GOP’s November Surprise<\/b>
\nI should have known when George Will started writing columns<\/a> about the dastardly threat of voter fraud that something big was in the works. And sure enough, the conservative media echo chamber is now vibrating from a cacophany of warnings that Democrats are trying to steal the presidential election by fradulently registering ineligible voters. <\/p>\n

What’s happening here is an effort to soften up the news media and the public for a truly audacious, and perhaps even desperate, gambit by the Republican Party that appears to be planned for election day: wholesale challenges to minority voters in battleground states in an effort to either (1) intimidate or demoralize likely Democratic voters, or (2) lay the groundwork for one of those Bush-v.-Gore-enabled retroactive legal actions aimed at reversing an adverse result. More likely, the aim is (3) both.<\/p><\/div>\n

Read the article<\/a> for more specifics.<\/p>\n

As I’ve mentioned here previously, when the GOP starts charging something about Democrats (e.g. “They’re trying to scare voters!”, “They’re intolerant of free speech!”, etc.), it’s a virtual guarantee<\/i> that it’s something they are either currently doing or plan to do themselves. For years now, they’ve honed this pre-emptive attack on others for what they are actually doing themselves to an art form. Will the media and the voters be smart enough to recognize that this time around?<\/p>\n

(Hat tip Bryan for the link!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had been planning to cover this a bit, but it looks like New Donkey has taken care of some of it for me: The GOP’s November Surprise I should have known when George Will started writing columns about the dastardly threat of voter fraud that something big was in the works. And sure enough, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}