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Claiming "only way" Dems can get re-elected "is with vote fraud," Limbaugh again says "ACORN is Obama; Obama is ACORN"

November 30, 2009 3:52 pm ET

From the November 30 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Previously:

Limbaugh: "Barack Obama is ACORN"

Monica Crowley says "Obama is Van Jones, Obama is ACORN"

Following Limbaugh and Crowley, Savage says "ACORN is Obama, Obama is ACORN"

Limbaugh: "Fraudsters" at ACORN, SEIU, New Black Panthers going to try to affect elections on Tuesday

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    • Author by shaggles (November 30, 2009 3:57 pm ET)
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      Yeah sure Rush.
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      • Author by mari2jj (November 30, 2009 10:36 pm ET)
           
        HAHAHAHA, Limbaugh is such a racist that he tries to hide it under his Acorn blab. Poor thing is so uninformed. Even his quote on temperatures in his anti-global warming diatribe were so off base. He is just not reliable at anything except rabble rousing. As a moderate Republican, I find him very intellectually embarrassing.
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        • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 01, 2009 12:21 am ET)
             
          Sorry. I don't believe that Rush is racist. I think that this kind of attack is too serious a charge to make without credible substantiation. I listen to Rush's program every day and don't have a problem with what he says. And before you profile me, I'm Nicaraguan, Nez Perce Indian, Swedish, and Spanish. Because I'm Spanish, I may have some African blood in my veins. Because I'm Nez Perce, I probably have some Asian DNA markers as well. I really see myself as a child of the world.

          I love our multi-colored and multi-ethnic country and I don't think it is helpful to throw the term racist around when it is unwarranted. To tell the truth, I wish I had a mind that could generate 400,000,000.00 in 8 years. :)
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          • Author by rms (December 01, 2009 8:54 pm ET)
               
            "I wish I had a mind that could generate 400,000,000.00 in 8 years. :) "

            Yes, but I bet, and would hope, you would rather have the respect of intelligent people and a sense of personal integrity. Rush has neither, I believe, and, as they say, "you can't take it with you."
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    • Author by MickD (November 30, 2009 3:59 pm ET)
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      He buries the irony meter in the red every single minute. That machine has to be overheating.
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    • Author by caels (November 30, 2009 3:59 pm ET)
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      Do you think conservatives will ever understand that false voter registrations almost never imply false votes being cast?

      *bangs head*
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      • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 01, 2009 12:27 am ET)
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        ..almost never...
        Thanks. I feel so much better. Even if there was widespread voter fraud, the Government cannot afford to publicize it because of the need to maintain the illusion of free and fair elections. :)
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        • Author by caels (December 01, 2009 8:00 pm ET)
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          Uh, it's pretty much impossible to have enough "voter fraud" to sway an election. I use the term "almost never" because it's certainly true that a few votes will slip through every system.
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          • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 02, 2009 6:03 pm ET)
               
            I don't know how much voter fraud it takes to sway an election, but I find your reasoning credible. Unfortunately, we've had a few close elections lately where a few hundred votes one way or another could make a difference.
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    • Author by bintx (November 30, 2009 3:59 pm ET)
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      He's trying to keep up with Beck. Beck's second on the list of most trusted right wing voices behind Rush. He's got to start being more ridiculous or Beck's going to top him.
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    • Author by mk3872 (November 30, 2009 4:01 pm ET)
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      WAAAH! Rush no likey the black man in the WH! WAAAAH!
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    • Author by blueline99 (November 30, 2009 4:02 pm ET)
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      Rush....why do you hate AmericaS?

      Now you're saying that we can't have fair elections in this country because of a group who does voter registration and has nothing to do with election day activities?

      We continue to fund Haliburton after an investigation showed that they were overcharging for services.

      We continue to fund Blackwater (now called Xe) after congressional investigation where they may have undermined US actions in Iraq by their Christian Crusade.

      So why the outrage over ACORN... where was your outrage over Haliburton and Blackwater? Your partisan rants are boring. If you believe ACORN can fix elections, then why would any Republican win an election?

      yawn
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      • Author by magnolialover (November 30, 2009 4:05 pm ET)
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        Don't forget Blackwater, who is still getting billions in DoD contracts by the way, bribed local officials in Iraq to not investigate the massacre that their workers took part in.
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      • Author by pete592 (November 30, 2009 4:17 pm ET)
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        So why the outrage over ACORN... where was your outrage over Haliburton and Blackwater?
        Simple. The Campaign For Obama's Failure has established a policy to be dishonest about their ACORN outrage. They'll harp until the end of time about ACORN receiving a pittance of federal money by comparison, but you won't get them to admit what really upsets them about ACORN.
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        • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 01, 2009 12:46 am ET)
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          What upsets whom about ACORN?

          I don't like them corrupting the political process.

          I don't like them using the poor and disenfranchised as a vehicle to obtain political power.

          I don't like them because they foment class envy.

          I don't like them because they want to take what others have earned and distribute it to those who have not earned.

          I don't like them because they espouse a leftist, socialist agenda that will ruin this country.

          I don't like them because they have turned so many of my brethren into beggars.

          I don't like them because they believe that it is okay steal money from another person's wallet through the ballot box.

          "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tytler.

          :)
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          • Author by pete592 (December 01, 2009 4:04 pm ET)
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            You've shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that your name is more than just a name.
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            • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 01, 2009 4:16 pm ET)
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              Wow. A personal attack. Why am I not surprised? :)
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              • Author by pete592 (December 01, 2009 7:54 pm ET)
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                You come in here with a name like that and don't expect any jabs because of it? Boo freakin' hoo.
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          • Author by rms (December 01, 2009 8:59 pm ET)
               
            ACORN did all that?? Class envy? Using the poor to obtain political power? Etc. I think you exaggerate...
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            • Author by pete592 (December 01, 2009 9:45 pm ET)
                 
              I like the part where his "brethren" have been turned into beggars by ACORN. I'd love to see him name one.
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              • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 02, 2009 5:59 pm ET)
                   
                Unfortunately I can name people in my immediate family, as well as several others in my extended family, that gain much of their subsistence through public largess.

                One close relative didn't work for years because he was "disabled" due to his drug addiction. Since he was permanently disabled, he was entitled to a check from the Government. The government check provided him more money than his father received in retirement. The extra drugs that this money afforded him probably contributed to his early death.

                To tell the truth, I would have rather he been hungry than dead.
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      • Author by JonnyS (November 30, 2009 5:29 pm ET)
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        I'm outraged over defense contractor fraud. Maybe a little of it is jealousy though. I don't like the idea of me and my buddies risking our lives constantly, and being lucky to get one day off in an entire month while contractors get 3 times the money to do half as much work, and never have to leave the wire. I was offered 10,000 dollars a month to go back and do less work. I don't understand why not just pay us more. We do all the fighting. I don't think Blackwater is a Christian organization by the way. Regardless of anything Haliburton has done... ACORN is crap. You all would be better served to be a little more distrusting of the government, and any organization that claims to be helping anyone or dealing with the government. Democrats, and Republicans alike sadden me. I believe in maximum freedom. I believe that abuse of women and children and any other denial of freedom is justification enough for us to wage war against anyone. I'll be right there on the front lines with my rifle. We should all be fighting for freedom here and abroad. Isn't that what we stand for in America?
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        • Author by Conchobhar (November 30, 2009 6:20 pm ET)
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          Actually, I would stand with George Washington. "We are the friends of freedom everywhere. We are the guardians only of our own."
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          • Author by JonnyS (December 01, 2009 1:20 am ET)
               
            Unfortunately that doesn't work anymore. The entire world is our next door neighbor. We should rise to the defense of freedom wherever it is threatened. If the Japanese hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor, and Germany and Japan took over the rest of the world, how long until they would have come for us anyways? Only this time, they would have been much more powerful. I think George Washington might not have been able to conceive the future mobility of the modern world's armies. It's impossible to live as isolationists.
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            • Author by Conchobhar (December 01, 2009 5:02 pm ET)
                 
              It is impossible to live as isolationists. But if we think we have the power, or the right, to organize the world according to our tastes, we are going the way of Germany and Japan.
              What, specifically, do you mean by "freedom?" In some of Bin Laden's screeds he talks about fighting for "freedom," and every time a nation sends its young off to war it is with some variation on that theme. Do you really think the Afghans, with a rural, tribal culture trapped in about the 6th Century, are going to accept our version of freedom being foisted on them? And when they fight you, in their own land, for the freedom to live by their own rules, what are you going to do, when you see your buddies blown to bits?
              Are we going to go back to, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it?"
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    • Author by magnolialover (November 30, 2009 4:03 pm ET)
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      Except that nobody connected to ACORN has committed voter fraud.
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      • Author by Alan in NJ (November 30, 2009 4:37 pm ET)
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        EXACTLY! This is the real story here. Not only is Obama not ACORN, ACORN isn't even ACORN as these lunatics try to define it. Bottom line is that ACORN registered the previously disenfranchised in 2008--minorities and poor specifically--and the black man went to the Whitehouse. By these guys’ way of thinking this means ACORN has to be taken down, hard, by any means necessary. The overall scope of the organization’s activities, its general history of solid work, its broad geographic impact, none of it means anything in the way these guys tell the story.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (November 30, 2009 4:07 pm ET)
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      Thank you MMFA for posting the link to the Editor & Publisher article about how people like Rush framed ACORN. ACORN didn't commit voter fraud, and it didn't steal the election for Obama, but it did turn in just under 200 suspect voter registration forms out of a collection of over 100,000 from two cities. In none of these cases was anyone charged with actually trying to vote on the illegal registration. Once again, Rush is projecting his failures and disappointments on to others. He once said that Feminism was for ugly women who couldn't get a date, and now he says that voter fraud is for politicians who can't win election. Funny, the worst cases of voter disenfranchisement and voter misdirection have been traced to Republican groups, and then there is the leggy Ms. Coulter, twice charged with the rare crime of vote fraud, because she tried to vote or succeeded in voting in a place she wasn't properly registered to vote.
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      • Author by fantagor (November 30, 2009 4:52 pm ET)
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        I think practically everyone here has explained this over and over to our various right wing trolls, but they have decided that voter fraud and voter registration fraud are equivalent crimes because it gives them an excuse to harp on ACORN. And I say let 'em, of it takes their tiny minds off of bigger issues like retaking Congress and the presidency.

        Randy
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        • Author by magnolialover (November 30, 2009 5:28 pm ET)
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          And they almost always forget, that ACORN turned in those employees who turned in the fraudulent registration cards, as required, by, you know, the law.
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          • Author by epkklk851 (November 30, 2009 5:47 pm ET)
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            Oh no, they didn't forget that ACORN turned those guys in, they are deliberately trying to make people forget that ACORN turned them in, because that spoils the whole ACORN as bad guy thing!
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          • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 01, 2009 12:50 am ET)
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            They turned in the bottom tier foot-soldiers but failed to turn in the dude that embezzled 5,000,000.00. It's not who you know, it's whose your brother. :)
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        • Author by epkklk851 (November 30, 2009 5:53 pm ET)
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          Hey Randy, I really enjoyed reading that article. It was actually the most informative article I had read about the ACORN scandal, it gave really good numbers and facts. To be honest, I have really mostly ignored the whole ACORN thing because I had read that it was only registration fraud and that it was being used as a smear. I didn't feel the need to investigate further, but the article was about the incorrect coverage, and that interested me, a lot. But your last point, about keeping their minds off the bigger issues is very clever! Yes, let's go around with this a few more times if it keeps their minds off of the next election!
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    • Author by marco21 (November 30, 2009 4:17 pm ET)
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      Hilarious. Still waiting for a wingnut to show actual voter fraud evidence. It's been over a year now. Anytime now, losers.
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    • Author by raine315 (November 30, 2009 4:21 pm ET)
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      Rush is Oxycontin. Oxycontin is Rush
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    • Author by liberalXtian (November 30, 2009 4:32 pm ET)
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      Democrats don't need Acorn when they have Republican infighting, purity pledges, crazy teabaggers, sexual infidelity among their family values politicians, and unqualified candidates like Sarah Palin.
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      • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 01, 2009 12:52 am ET)
           
        Come on. Like Obama was qualified? What did he do before becoming a presidential candidate?
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        • Author by rms (December 01, 2009 9:03 pm ET)
             
          You honestly don't know?????

          More uninformed voters.
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          • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 02, 2009 5:43 pm ET)
               
            Not really. I'm very informed and I've had this debate many times before the election. The most substantial response I ever received was, "well, at least he ain't bush." I noticed you didn't list his political accomplishments.
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    • Author by mwjarv (November 30, 2009 4:38 pm ET)
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      By the same logic, then, a republican can only be president with: the supreme court, a tedious contested vote recount, a massive terrorist attack, starting an unprovoked war, and fear-mongering?
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      • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 01, 2009 12:52 am ET)
           
        That works for me.
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        • Author by rms (December 01, 2009 9:04 pm ET)
             
          A massive terrorist attack works for you???
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          • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 02, 2009 5:47 pm ET)
               
            My tongue was firmly planted in my cheek. Nothing written by mwjarv had any basis in reality as being reasons why W was elected and then re-elected.
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    • Author by thundavolt (November 30, 2009 4:49 pm ET)
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      If this is true then the next time around people should just give directly to ACORN. It's good to see these people squirm when the voice of the people can be heard through people organizing their communities. They hate the fact that regular people can now have a voice. This is the fear of the people Beck has been talking about and it's clear the teabaggers do not represent enough people.
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    • Author by fantagor (November 30, 2009 4:49 pm ET)
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      Yeah, and Rush Limbaugh is nuts. Nuts is Rush Limbaugh.

      Randy
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    • Author by wzwriter (November 30, 2009 4:56 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh is Stupidity. Stupidity is Limbaugh.

      (And don't get me started on that low-life scumbag Mark Levin....)
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      • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (November 30, 2009 5:07 pm ET)
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        wzwriter, ill help you, LEVIN is nothing but a worthless piece of garbage.
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (November 30, 2009 4:56 pm ET)
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      Pretty funny RUSH. I seem tio remember both voter fruad and voter disenfranchisement in 2000 and 2004 which were much closer elections tha the 10 million spread in 2008.
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    • Author by magnolialover (November 30, 2009 5:29 pm ET)
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      Isn't this the part of the program where we liberals say about ACORN, "Well, if you're driving the right wingers this crazy, you guys must be doing something right.."

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    • Author by Sharpe (November 30, 2009 6:17 pm ET)
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      limbaugh is retard. Retard is limbaugh!
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (November 30, 2009 8:09 pm ET)
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      Claiming "only way" Dems can get re-elected "is with vote fraud," Limbaugh again says "ACORN is Obama; Obama is ACORN"

      [http://wrathofnino.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/yawn-380x540.jpg]
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    • Author by John Paradox (November 30, 2009 8:32 pm ET)
         
      I am the Walrus, goo goo ga joob....
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    • Author by mjh (November 30, 2009 8:40 pm ET)
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      . . . Limbaugh again says "ACORN is Obama; Obama is ACORN"


      I could just as easily say, "ACORN is John McCain; John McCain is ACORN":

      [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sn8rHLP3qU8/SPX8QWNrPEI/AAAAAAAAAzE/0ZmsgX8Hkn8/s400/mccain+acorn.bmp]
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    • Author by 1st Republic 14th Star (November 30, 2009 9:25 pm ET)
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      The Republicans that Limbaugh supports stole the 2000 presidential election. They probably stole 2004's, too.

      They rigged the Alabama election in 2002 to put Governor Siegelman out of office, and then they committed fraud and malpractice in using the court system to falsely convict and imprison him.

      Karl Rove bugged his own office and blamed it on his opponent. He used a friend in the FBI to launch false charges against every statewide Democratic officeholder and candidate in Texas, producing a clean sweep for Republicans.

      The Bush administration used the US Justice Department to rig the game in favor of Republican candidates and against Democrats. Look up what Heather Wilson and Pete Domenici did to David Iglesias. Look up what happened to Georgia Thompson in Wisconsin, thanks to corrupt Republican hack US Attorney Steven Biskupic.

      All this corruption by the Bush administration and people who worked for Bush. Republicans all. All supported by Limbaugh. And he wants to lecture DEMOCRATS about vote fraud. Like every other assertion he makes, this doesn't pass the laugh out loud test
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      • Author by RightWingPsycho (December 01, 2009 1:06 am ET)
           
        Every credible recount has shown that the 2000 election was won by W. Deal with it. Then, a very weak W went out again and thumped the democrats in 2004. Deal with it.

        B.O. won handily in 2008. I'm dealing with it.

        ACORN did not steal this election. The Republican party gave it away by nominating a weak candidate and refusing to fight to be elected.

        The democrats nominated a GREAT candidate at the perfect time. I don't like Obama's policies, politics, or anything that he's done, but I must admit that the Democrats got it right in 2008 with their selection of presidential candidates.

        However, 2010 draweth nigh. :)
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        • Author by rms (December 01, 2009 9:07 pm ET)
             
          "Every credible recount has shown that the 2000 election was won by W. Deal with it."

          It has little to do with the recount, but far more with the purging of legitimate voters in Florida by Jeb Bush, Clayton Roberts, and Katherine Harris.
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