Sorry there was no post yesterday, but Blogger decided to go flakey. I know. I know. That's a common problem for Blogger, but as I have mentioned many times, you get what you pay for. Just like my posts, blogs, articles, columns, or whatever y'all want to call my writing that I do here, sometimes I'm good and sometimes I suck. But, through it all I keep on posting.
My buddy, Kim sent me a link to an editorial in last Thursday's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation yet again arguing against arming airline pilots. Ever since Cynthia Tucker, editor-in-chief of the AJC's editorial page succeeded in her crusade to get Cynthia McKinney out of office, she's reverted back to her socialist, gun grabbing agenda. She wrote an editorial back in July on the same subject, so I went back in my archives and found this post fisking a previous editorial. Lazy? Yep. But she uses the same old tired arguments every time she writes about arming pilots. So, all I have to do is repost. As an added bonus, I have some kind words to say about the religion of peace.TM Caution! Contains adult language.
The local paper has been Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter, and Jimmy Carter. To whit:
Do you have any idea how long it would take me to address the bullshit in all these stories? So, instead, I'll write about sumpin' else. And just look what I found in today's paper. By golly, it's those wacky McKinneys again.
A group of voters seeking to overturn the victory of Denise Majette over U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney in the Democratic primary accused Republicans today of "hijacking" the election
Now that's a serious charge. How did the Republicans hijack an election?
Standing on the steps of the DeKalb County Courthouse, four of the five plaintiffs, joined by McKinney's father, Billy, pledged to press on with their federal lawsuit. They claim Republicans
Wait a minute! I thought Billy McKinney said it was the Jews, J-E-W-S, who were at fault.
ensured Majette's victory by taking advantage of Georgia's open primaries to cross over and vote for McKinney's opponent.
Which is perfectly legal in Georgia.
They are asking a federal judge to reverse the election's outcome by erasing those votes.
Go ahead. She would have still lost as we shall see later.
The plaintiffs also dismissed an analysis published in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution showing that only a fraction of Majette's 19,000-vote margin of victory came from Republicans. The newspaper reported that only 3,118 of those votes came from clearly identifiable Republicans.
That can't be right! Don't confuse them with the facts. They are Dimocrats, after all.
"It's biased, just like everything else the Journal-Constitution does,"
The Journal-Constitution, if anything, is a left leaning paper. They were against Billy and Cynthia McKinney because they were tired of these two wackos embarrassing Georgia. Jimmy Carter is embarrassing enough.
said Billy McKinney, a state representative who was voted out of office three weeks after his daughter's Aug. 20 primary election defeat.
Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!
The plaintiffs claim that 37,500 Republicans crossed over and voted for Majette, more than half of the victor's vote total. Their analysis is based on the 2000 presidential primary in which a similar number of DeKalb voters cast ballots.
Holy shit! I didn't think there were that many Republicans in her district. Aha! They took away a lot of Republican voters from her district during gerrymandering redistricting and added a bunch of Dimocrats, so using 2000 election figures is bogus. But when did it ever bother a Dimocrat to use a bogus arguement?
In a two page analysis of the primary that is included in the lawsuit, Dan P. Young, a political consultant, wrote, "We know that 6,041 Republicans actually voted in the Republican fourth Congressional election, so what happened to the remaining hardcore Republicans whose numbers would be 31,350?"
I'll tell ya where they went. At least a third of them were moved into John Lindner's district as a result of the gerrymandering redistricting by the Dimocrat controlled legislature. The ones who didn't vote were working their butts off to pay the taxes to support all the welfare recipients in south DeKalb.
Young suggests they voted for Majette in the 2002 Democratic primary. But the Journal-Constitution study found that about 23,000 voters cast ballots in both the 2002 Democratic congressional primary and the 2000 Republican presidential primary. At least 12,000 of those voters were identified in the Journal-Constitution study as either Democrats or regular party-switching voters. The remaining 11,000 are a mixture of Republicans and people who typically don't vote in state primaries. "I believe [our analysis] should count for something," said Linda DuBose, one of the plaintiffs in the suit.
Sure your analysis should count for something, but it's worthless since, now listen real closely, I'm gonna talk real slowly here. Are you ready? Georgia. Is. An. Open. Primary. State. It. Is. Not. Illegal. For. A. Republican. To. Vote. In. A. Dimocratic. Primary.
Robert Dallas, a lawyer representing the GOP, dismissed the group's efforts.
"Nobody was breaking the law in exercising their right to vote," said Dallas.
Exactly. Now, what does the AJC have to say?
U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney believes it was Republicans who defeated her in the August Democratic primary. But an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows they weren't the decisive factor.
In fact, it wasn't even close.
Tell me more. I'm all ears.
Of the 68,612 voters who cast ballots for Democratic challenger Denise Majette, no more than 3,118 of them were voters who can be clearly identified as Republicans, based on their voting histories in state primaries. Majette's margin of victory, in winning 58 percent of the votes cast in the primary, was six times that amount.
Uh Oh! That's gotta piss off all the McKinney supporters.
The analysis suggests that most of the people in the 4th Congressional District who cast ballots in the Democratic primary either had histories of not voting often enough or of switching parties so often that they could not be classified as either Democrats or Republicans.
But I bet they were all tired of Cynthia McKinney's bullshit.
McKinney's backers claim Republicans ensured Majette's victory by taking advantage of Georgia's open primaries to cross over and vote for McKinney's opponent.
Which is perfectly legal.
They are asking a federal judge to reverse the election's outcome by erasing those votes.
Go ahead. She still lost.
The crossover vote was, at most, a couple of percentage points higher than normal based on the newspaper findings. Republican pollster and strategist Whit Ayres said crossovers in party primaries typically run between 1 and 2 percent. The GOP crossover in the McKinney-Majette primary was 3 percent.
Actually, judging by the people I saw at my polling place, it was consideralbly higher. Actual conversation on election day. (My polling place is Jewish synagogue, which, I guess is kinda poetic justice.)
Me: I didn't realize there were so many Dimocrats in Dunwoody. (10 to 1 when I voted.)
Female voter: From your lips to God's ears.
McKinney did not return a phone call seeking comment. Mike Raffauf, the attorney who filed the lawsuit on behalf of five DeKalb County voters, dismissed the findings.
Now this is news. This is the second time Cynthia McKinney has not returned a phone call. Any time Cynthia McKinney keeps her big fat mouth shut is a newsworthy event.
"I don't have any faith in any analysis you or The Atlanta Journal-Constitution would do," he told a reporter. "It's still a violation under the Voting Rights Act."
No it isn't. Georgia is an open primary ... Oh shit! What's the use?
The plaintiffs plan to hold a news conference at 11 a.m. today. on the steps of the DeKalb County Courthouse
Sorry I missed it. Bet it was a riot.
Stanley Baum, former head of the DeKalb Republican Party, argues McKinney's defeat was the result of a combination of circumstances.
And these were ...
"I don't think she lost because of the Republican crossover but because of a lot of factors," said Baum. "There were many different types of people who felt disenfranchised by her remarks and the remarks of her father," longtime state Rep. Billy McKinney.
Exactly. They were racists bullshit artists and the voters in her district wanted someone who was more inclusive and wouldn't continue to embarrass Atlanta and Georgia.
Baum, who is Jewish, said he cast an absentee ballot for Majette in the primary because he couldn't stomach the thought of entering a Democratic voting booth on Election Day.
Actually, it wasn't as hard to do as I thought it would be. It was the first time in my life that I ever voted for a Dimocrat.
He said he believes the call to arms by some Republican activists and conservative newspaper columnists to oust McKinney was heard by many different types of voters.
'From your lips to God's ears.'
The newspaper analysis suggests some evidence that supports that view. Along with thousands of switch-hitting voters, the primary drew 5,701 new voters and 4,694 people -- mostly dormant Democrats as identified by their voting histories -- who hadn't voted in at least four years
Cynthia really got out the vote!
The resulting Majette victory came from a patchwork of voting groups: independents, white Democrats and crossover Republicans. Joining them were 18,000 black voters who made up one-fourth of Majette's total. That estimate is based on Majette's vote totals in predominantly black voting precincts.
They were black Republicans?
Political experts generally believe McKinney's defeat was rooted in her alienation of white Democrats. They say she failed to correct a steady evaporation in recent years of support in the predominantly white sections of DeKalb County, once bastions of Republicanism that now lean Democratic.
Even the white Dimocrats got fed up with her racist, communist bullshit. Anyway, it goes on and on and continues to debunk all the bullshit theories the McKinneys have as to why they lost. They're racist bigots and the voters got tired of them.
But, I must say, I'll miss the McKinneys. They were always good for a laugh. And just think, the Green party wants her to run on the Green party ticket in 2004 as either president or vice president.
Those blogs will write themselves.
I can hardly wait.
Posted by denny at October 15, 2002 11:47 AM