Republican Lies category archive

Mitt the Flip.

Bob Cesca explains.

Glomarization reports:

If you are an otherwise voting-eligible woman in Pennsylvania, check your wallet. Does the name on your poll-acceptable ID match the name under which you’re registered to vote? There is a one in three chance that it does not. If not, start the ball rolling now to fix the situation. Either change your voter registration to match your driver’s license exactly, or get a new driver’s license so that it matches your voter registration exactly. If you need a birth certificate to get a new driver’s license, request one immediately. It can take 14 weeks (not a typo) to get it, and that’s even if the state complies with the request: ACLU-PA’s petition includes a plaintiff who has been requesting a birth certificate multiple times over several years but hasn’t gotten an answer.

It’s simple. Republicans don’t want the people to vote. If the people vote, Republicans lose.

And they know it.

Left Blogistan has been having a lot of fun celebrating the ignorance:

Two of Romney’s surrogates dropped Cold War references when referring to Obama’s foreign policy failures. One said the White House has abandoned Czechoslovakia (a country that hasn’t existed since 1993) and the other said Obama wasn’t strong enough to prevent “the Soviets” from “pushing into the Arctic.” The outdated references revealed Romney’s advisers on foreign policy to be largely relics of the past – thereby proving the Obama campaign’s point.

But there’s a larger point that is being missed amongst the snark.

This was not a mistake. It was strategy–a strategy to which research and facts are irrelevant.

Republican don’t care about truth. They are willing to say anything that they think will help their cause, hoping that the lies will have enough truthiness to live until election day.

I will not be surprised when I listen to a radio show about foreign policy to hear someone call in with a comment about how President Obama lost Czechoslovakia.

The merchants of hate.

The Republican voter suppression campaign begins to take its toll.

Glomarization reports on a woman who has voted for 70 years, but who no longer can because she doesn’t have the right papers.

An actual voter fraud voter has been found.

Guess who.

Glomarization is back from the shadows again, pointing out the the Republican War on Women includes warring and women’s votes:

Speaking of which, women voters in photo-ID states need to beware, and they need to beware fast. Fully one third of American women over 18 do not possess a valid photo ID, one that the pollworkers will accept, reflecting their legal name (3-page PDF), mostly for marriage or divorce reasons.

Follow the link to see her complete post and to follow the links to her evidence.

Via BartCop.

Aside:

Oddly enough, the last time I looked, Communism was dead, dead, dead, except to the Republican Party, which seems determined to keep it alive.

Via BartBlog.

Thom explains how the big lie works, using the attempt to privatize public education as an example.

But the wingnuts can. And do.

They really can’t deal with the idea of a black guy in the White House.

Like the seducer pursuing the girl, Little Ricky will say whatever he thinks his prey wants to hear. You know what comes next.

The Booman tries to explain Little Ricky’s perspective.

Video via Raw Story.

Tony Norman points out the genius of the voter fraud fraud.

It’s easy to dress that wolf up in sheep’s clothing.

This brings us back to the irresponsible notion that the lack of actual widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania is somehow evidence that poor, elderly, minority citizens and college students should be left to bask in their enfranchisement unmolested. In the grand tradition of fixing things that ain’t broke, the Republicans have come up with a process that increases the aggravation factor when it comes to voting.

None of the requirements for a photo ID will be impossible to meet, but it will make voting inconvenient. While the Republicans aren’t erecting literal barriers to voting, they can’t say with a straight face that they aren’t introducing an element of unprecedented Election Day hassle. That is the point.

In a nation already cursed with low turnouts, there is a fiendish elegance to voter ID laws. It’s a tactic exclusively designed to reduce the number of Democratic voters, who will be discouraged by long lines in their precincts caused by the new screening procedures.

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Reports of rampant voter fraud regularly turn out to be somewhere on a scale between hysterical lies and lying hysteria.

Facing South considers the recent kerfuffle in South Carolina:

As was suspected from the beginning, the fevered stories of “zombie voters” turned out to be fantasy. This week, state elections officials reviewed 207 of the supposed 950 cases of dead people voting, and couldn’t confirm fraud in any of them. 106 stemmed from clerical errors at the polls, and another 56 involved bad data — the usual culprits when claims of dead voters have surfaced in the past.

So the question is, how did this cheap B-movie fiction make it into the public debate in the first place?

Follow the link to see Facing South’s answer to the question at the end of the selection. My answer to it is that Republicans and their sycophants at Fox News will hype for any crackpot (non)story they can find to justifying keeping voters who are not likely to support them from having a say in elections.

Republicans know they are a minority party with no hope of becoming a majority. They have fixed on a strategy of remaking the electorate into one that favors them by excluding those who do not (how shall I put this diplomatically?) fall for their twaddle.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Outdated public records do not mean fraudulent votes.

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Via Some Guy with a Website.