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One does start to wonder just how massive the Democratic voter fraud effort will be – and whether it will be enough to tip the election to Obama:

As we fly headfirst into election 2008, it is worth noting how big Nevada figures in the outcome.

Our measly five electoral votes are not only up for grabs, they could be the difference. There’s no greater proof of that than how many times the presidential candidates have been to Nevada — and not just in the population centers of Las Vegas and Reno.

By my count, Sen. Barack Obama’s been to Elko three times, and he even granted the editor of the Elko Daily Free Press a one-on-one, sit-down interview. Elko? Three times?…

…Given what’s at stake, I hope our public officials charged with making sure we have a clean and fair election are up to the task. I’m not saying they aren’t, I’m just saying there’s much at stake and, well, the idea of dead people voting is not exactly a Chicago-only phenomenon.

Along that line, I pass along this note from a long-time Las Vegan who began to notice some weird things. I’m not going to divulge the name, but, trust me, it’s a person who knows his way around the Las Vegas political landscape and is not given to flights of paranoia.

Here’s the note, with names changed:

“Hi Sherm — We continue to receive postal cards from the Clark County registrar of voters for my two daughters, one who was married 15 years ago, and the other that was married 12 years ago, as well as my son who moved to Atlanta nine years ago this October. The stuff comes in the girls’ maiden names, at our home address.

“I continue to get phone calls asking for Jack and Lilly. I simply tell them they don’t live here anymore. The other day I informed the young lady that Jack had moved to Atlanta nine years ago. She said thanks and hung up. She called me back about an hour later and reminded me that I had spoken with her and told her that Jack didn’t live here, and she was told by her boss to call back because their information from the registrar’s office shows he still lives at my address. I informed her that if that was true, then the information was incorrect and unreliable.

“The kids, I suspect, all initially registered as Democrats. Lilly is now registered as an independent under her married name. Our oldest daughter, Audrey, hasn’t voted in years so she should not be on the voting rolls and neither should Jack because he hasn’t voted in Las Vegas since he moved to Chicago.

“I thought you might want to look into how the registrar’s office scrubs the voting rolls. I thought you were dropped if you missed two general elections in a row. It would really be interesting to know if they vote, or are shown to have voted in the primary.”

The Nevada Secretary of State is a Democrat – the Secretary of State runs the election process. Supposedly, our Secretary of State was diligently looking into voter fraud by Obama’s old buddies at ACORN back in August, but there’s been no follow up – how much anyone want to bet that the investigation will be finished after election day? Perhaps are State Attorney General will carry the ball? One can hope, but she is a Democrat so that would be the triumph of hope over experience. Nevada Democrats are gleeful that the registered 40,000 people in September…the big question is: did they? Or have they merely flooded the system with bogus registrations in preparation for voter fraud on election day?

Its a funny thing, this year’s reports of voter fraud – how many there are, and how little news reporting there has been about it. Odder than that is the fact that when you google “nevada voter fraud”, the top story is a 2004 report – which proved spurious – of allegations that GOPers had trashed Democratic voter registration forms. Curious, huh? Google “acorn voter fraud nevada” and you get a link to a denial by Obama that he ever organized with ACORN. Same sorts of results from a Yahoo search.

I, too, am not given to paranoia – but the pattern of fraud emerging in this election year is staggering. Now, since our Democrats are saying that Obama is a sure thing to win, why all the voter fraud? Is this another indicator that things aren’t as they appear and Democrats are cooking the books to ensure they win an election they fear they will lose?

Looks like it could happen very soon…

Interesting Rasmussen survey:

Congress was front and center in the national news last week and the American people were far from impressed. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 17% would vote to keep the current legislators in office.

Today, just 23% have even a little confidence in the ability of Congress to deal with the nation’s economic problems and only 24% believe most Members of Congress understand legislation before they vote on it.

Last week, the House of Representatives initially rejected a financial bailout bill proposed by the Bush Administration. Later, after the Senate added a number of items that some call “pork” and others call “sweeteners,” the measure eventually passed. While the bill survived Washington, it did so at a time when just 30% of voters favored it and 45% were opposed.

Only half (49%) believe that the current Congress is better than individuals selected at random from the phone book. Thirty-three percent (33%) believe a randomly selected group of Americans could do a better job and 19% are not sure.

I like that – we can do a whole thing with it: “Random Name, ’08!”. A “throw the bums out” mood has its plusses and minusses – the plus is that it would dethrone Pelosi from the Speaker’s chair, the bad news is that it would leave Harry Reid in charge of a Senate with 60 Democrats in it (Reid doesn’t come up again until 2010…and there will be a rather interesting challenger for him – if this person can win the GOP nomination – which will be announced November 5th of this year, I understand). How it would work on the Presidential level is unknown – McCain is GOP with a GOPer in the White House, but both candidates are running as outsiders, while both of them are Senators (ie, member’s of arguably the most unpopular institution in America).

There is just so much which is unknown – by now, I had hoped to make a prediction of whom I thought would win, but I just lack sufficient data to come up with an argument in favor of either man winning (though Obama is in the lead, if the polls are right – and that is a big “if”). There is, however, one thing I’m dead certain of – people are mighty angry over the whole mess in American government. How this will play out is anyone’s guess – will anger result in massive voter turn out to demonstrate anger, or will it result in low turnout as a disgusted electorate stays home? Will the anger work to Obama’s or McCain’s favor? Has anger shifted voter ID? These and a dozen other questions are “beats all heck out of me”, as far as I can tell.

So, off we go – my view is to pray for serenity (which I have done a bit of, but will do a lot more of) and just keep doing the best one can, in all things. What will be, will be.

And we hope that Joe Biden (who talks as if Scranton were the center of his universe) will pay attention, especially as he claims adherence to the Catholic faith…it would also be good for Senator Obama to lend an ear:

…The American Catholic bishops initiated Respect Life Sunday in 1972, the year before the Supreme Court legalized abortion in the United States. Since that time, Catholics across the country observe the month of October with devotions and pro-life activities in order to advance the culture of life. This October, our efforts have more significance than ever. Never have we seen such abusive criticism directed toward those who believe that life begins at conception and ends at natural death.As Catholics, we should not be surprised by these developments. Forty years ago, Pope Paul VI predicted that widespread use of artificial contraceptives would lead to increased marital infidelity, lessened regard for women, and a general lowering of moral standards especially among the young. Forty years later, social scientists, not necessarily Catholics, attest to the accuracy of his predictions. As if following some bizarre script, the sexual revolution has produced widespread marital breakdown, weakened family ties, legalized abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, pornography, same-sex unions, euthanasia, destruction of human embryos for research purposes and a host of other ills.

It is impossible for me to answer all of the objections to the Church’s teaching on life that we hear every day in the media. Nevertheless, let me address a few. To begin, laws that protect abortion constitute injustice of the worst kind. They rest on several false claims including that there is no certainty regarding when life begins, that there is no certainty about when a fetus becomes a person, and that some human beings may be killed to advance the interests or convenience of others. With regard to the first, reason and science have answered the question. The life of a human being begins at conception. The Church has long taught this simple truth, and science confirms it. Biologists can now show you the delicate and beautiful development of the human embryo in its first days of existence. This is simply a fact that reasonable people accept. Regarding the second, the embryo and the fetus have the potential to do all that an adult person does. Finally, the claim that the human fetus may be sacrificed to the interests or convenience of his mother or someone else is grievously wrong. All three claims have the same result: the weakest and most vulnerable are denied, because of their age, the most basic protection that we demand for ourselves. This is discrimination at its worst, and no person of conscience should support it.

Another argument goes like this: “As wrong as abortion is, I don’t think it is the only relevant ‘life’ issue that should be considered when deciding for whom to vote.” This reasoning is sound only if other issues carry the same moral weight as abortion does, such as in the case of euthanasia and destruction of embryos for research purposes. Health care, education, economic security, immigration, and taxes are very important concerns. Neglect of any one of them has dire consequences as the recent financial crisis demonstrates. However, the solutions to problems in these areas do not usually involve a rejection of the sanctity of human life in the way that abortion does. Being “right” on taxes, education, health care, immigration, and the economy fails to make up for the error of disregarding the value of a human life. Consider this: the finest health and education systems, the fairest immigration laws, and the soundest economy do nothing for the child who never sees the light of day. It is a tragic irony that “pro-choice” candidates have come to support homicide – the gravest injustice a society can tolerate – in the name of “social justice.”…

…My dear friends, I beg you not to be misled by confusion and lies. Our Lord, Jesus Christ, does not ask us to follow him to Calvary only for us to be afraid of contradicting a few bystanders along the way. He does not ask us to take up his Cross only to have us leave it at the voting booth door. Recently, Pope Benedict XVI said that “God is so humble that he uses us to spread his Word.” The gospel of life, which we have the privilege of proclaiming, resonates in the heart of every person – believer and non-believer – because it fulfills the heart’s most profound desire. Let us with one voice continue to speak the language of love and affirm the right of every human being to have the value of his or her life, from conception to natural death, respected to the highest degree…

We can’t do anything for the dead – this is rather common sense, but it escapes the notice of liberals, especially liberals who are running for President and are desperate to pry away some Catholic votes from the Republican candidate. It does astound, at times, to think that there are people who think that abortion can be a morally good choice – one wonders how a person comes to the conclusion that a permanent solution is needed for a temporary condition…that immediate death can be the proper response to new life.

I included that last bit of the Bishop’s letter because I think it important – even if you’re not Christian or, indeed, even a believer. It is wisdom of the highest kind to instruct a person to adhere to truth no matter what people demand. It is also such wisdom to insist on taking all of one’s self into the voting booth. And we also must keep in mind the humility needed for the ultimate triumph of the Culture of Life – in a sense, we who can barely be trusted to do the right thing from minute to minute are the people who must convince a fallen and depraved modern world that life is a beautiful thing and it is to be held precious from the first to the last moment.

As the poison in American politics in the 1850’s could be traced to slavery, so the poison in American politics in the first decade of the 21st century can be traced to abortion. Not, of course, that abortion is the source of all ills, but because the defense of abortion – the defense, that is, of something even more abominable than slavery – leads people, step by step, into lies and hatred. Slaveholders in the South started talking themselves into believing their slaves were happy to be slaves; abortion proponents have talked themselves into believing that death is the best thing for the unborn child and, indeed, that child would thank us – if he could – for killing him and thus sparing him the burden of life. We can do much, short of an abortion ban, to lessen the evils in our political life and heal the wounds inflicted on us by the Culture of Death but, in the end, we won’t exorcise this demon until abortion is gone and viewed, as slavery is today, as some primitive aberration no decent person would contemplate.

As it relates to 2008, the good Bishop can’t say it – and even if there wasn’t a federal issue involved with men of the cloth entering deeply into politics, the Bishop would still refrain from saying, “vote for So and So”. But it is clear from his teaching – and the teaching of so many other Bishops, priests and pastors – that anyone who takes the name of “Christian” cannot, if properly informed of Christian teaching, vote for Obama. Heck, if Obama fully understood his own Christian faith, he’d vote against himself – and so would Biden. This is not to condemn those who are Christian and yet manage to find justification for supporting a pro-abortion candidate or party – but it is to point out that only ignorance or willful blindness can explain a Christian being in favor of continued legal elective abortion.

Those of us who place life at the forefront of our concerns know that in the choice of 2008, there is no choice – Only Senator McCain and Governor Palin understand that the belief in the sanctity of human life brings with it the requirement to support some actions, and oppose others. For the Culture of Life, McCain and Palin represent victory – Obama and Biden represent defeat.

The New York Post details some of them from the debate:

…some other Biden gems:

* It’s “simply not true” that Barack Obama said he’d meet Iran’s president without preconditions, Biden insisted.

Yet when Obama was asked if he would in a debate during the primaries, he said yes – a position Biden back then termed “naive.”

* Biden said he’s “always supported” clean-coal technology – after stating emphatically only last month, “We’re not supporting clean coal.”

* Biden asserted – repeatedly – that the US spends more money on three weeks’ combat in Iraq than it’s spent in Afghanistan since the war began.

That claim’s only remotely intelligible if he limits Afghan expenditures merely to US rebuilding efforts – and even then, he’s off by a factor of three, according to State Department numbers.

* Also on Afghanistan, Biden insisted – repeatedly – that “our commanding general in Afghanistan said the surge principle in Iraq will not work” there.

That may not be an out-and-out lie, but it took supposed foreign-policy neophyte Sarah Palin to bring any context or nuance to the statement.

What Gen. David McKiernan had said was that tribal realities in Afghanistan are very different than in Iraq – requiring a different form of cooperation.

But he flatly said more troops, and more local engagement, are needed.

Sounds like a surge to us.

* Then there was what might have been the biggest head-scratcher of the night. Said Biden of the Bush administration’s supposed Middle East follies:

“When . . . along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, ‘Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.”

Huh?

Assuming that Biden was referring to when, in 2005, American and French pressure helped the Lebanese people kick Syrian troops out of Lebanon, who ever thought NATO occupation of that deeply divided country was a good idea?

As if America’s NATO allies would have gone in the first place.

But hey, as long as it makes Biden sound presidential.

At some point, Americans have to wonder: Is this a fellow who should be a heartbeat away from the White House?

Biden has long been known as a blowhard, but I never suspected him to be a man so entirely disconnected from the facts. These are not the verbal flubs any of us make in the normal course of events, and which Sarah Palin at times made during the debate and are now being used by Team Obama and the left to defend Biden with the “she lied, too” defense, as if that would make their guy look good, supposing that Palin had actually told a lie. Biden again and again and again just spun out the tallest of tales which require a bit of research just to connect them to one possible fact. This would be funny except for the fact that a month from now Biden could be elected Vice President of the United States of America.

This also highlights the rather consistent dishonesty of the man on the top of the ticket – Obama has, at times, lied about his connections to Rezko, lied about his connections to Ayers, lied about what he knew of Jeremiah Wright, lied about McCain’s record on stem cell research, lied about his record on gun control, lied about his record on the “born alive” law…lies, lies and more lies, each designed to get Obama out of a tight spot where the truth would sink his chances in November. Are we supposed to believe that he and Biden will suddenly discover a love of the unvarnished truth after they win? Or is it more realistic to believe that a successful liar will just keep going with what worked in the past?

The main reason for electing John McCain and Sarah Palin is that in them we will find people who love the truth – who prefer the truth, even if it causes them great difficulty. We need an Executive Branch which will stoutly go to war with business as usual in DC, not an Executive Branch which will just give us more of the same business as usual.

There has been a bit of back and forth on Governor Palin’s visit to California but what strikes me about the trip to California is the bit about the Republican Vice Presidential candidate going to California. Pull out of MI and work CA? Its very strange…though I’m going to keep a bit of faith in McCain on this one. For months now McCain has been continually written off and every time there’s a bump in the road there are a thousand pundits to explain why McCain lost in 2008, when 2008 isn’t even over, yet…and then a few days later we see McCain come roaring back.

There’s a reason Palin was sent to California, and perhaps it is in line with my view that a great deal about Campaign ’08 is not as it seems.

Yes, there are such – and they are downright angry at Governor Palin for daring to campaign in those parts of America already liberated by the Obamessiah:

FRIENDS, FAMILY AND FELLOW OBAMACRATS…

Sarah Palin is coming to Carson [California] this Saturday. Two days after the Vice Presidential Debate, she wants to show the world that she can come to one of the bluest areas in the bluest state in the Union and have over 10,000 people show up for a rally for her. This is outrageous!!!

I’m not sure if the outrage is Palin showing up, or that 10,000 people would show up to see her…whatever it is, the Obamacrats aren’t happy.

In a more serious note – anyone besides me getting really creeped out by the worshipful, cult of personality being built up by Obama’s supporters?

From NRO’s The Corner:

There’s been a lot of interest in what I read lately. Well, I was reading my copy of today’s New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack’s friends from Chicago. Turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.’ These are the same guys who think patriotism is paying higher taxes. This is not a man who sees America as you and I do – as the greatest force for good in the world. This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country. This, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change anyone can believe in – not my kids and not your kids.

Now, that New York Times article is actually a bit of a whitewash – seriously asking us to believe that Obama and Ayers aren’t close. This is akin to taking the word of Lucky Luciano that Al Capone had only a little to do with bootlegging. Be that as it may, it is way past time that McCain/Palin started hitting upon the very things which make Obama entirely unfit to be President. In Obama’s advocacy of wrong policies, in his advocacy of the most fanatic pro-abortion positions, in his associations with various racists and anti-Americans is all we need to know about Obama – and, if known widely enough, will suffice to end his chances of being elected. Obama has spent the last 18 months trying to project an image of a post-partisan healer…when he’s actually a ignorant, vindictive ultra-leftist who wants to impose Euro-socialism upon the United States of America.

The American people will have the sort of government they prefer – but it is our duty to ensure that our fellow Americans have the most complete set of facts possible when they render their judgement. If, after the people know that Obama’s allies caused the mortgage meltdown, called for US defeat in war, want to impose government control over larger and larger aspects of Americans life, engaged all manner of corrupt activies – if the people know all that and still prefer Obama to McCain, then so be it; we on our side will then rest content with the knowledge that we did our duty…but to hold fire because Obama and his minions will accuse us of racism or of being mean? Nonsense – time to bring a howitzer to Obama’s gun fight.

The American Spectator has the scoop:

An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the analyst’s requests have largely been ignored. “I can’t get anyone to move. I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it.”

Sound serious? You bet? Is it going to go anywhere before the election? Not likely.

One reasons cited by his superiors, says the analyst, is that involvement by the Justice Department or FBI would be indicative of a criminal investigation, something the FEC would prefer not take place a month before the presidential election. Such actions, though, have been used to scuttle Republican campaigns in the past, the most famous being the Weinberger case in the days leading up to the 1992 re-election bid of President George H.W. Bush.

The analyst, who declines to be identified for fear of retribution, says that on four different occasions in the past three months, he sought to open formal investigations into the Obama campaign’s fundraising techniques, but those investigations have been discouraged. “Without formal approval, I can’t get the resources I need, manpower, that kind of thing. This is a huge undertaking.” And the analyst says that he believes that campaign finance violations have occurred.

Is there hope something can be done to get some answers on this? Yes, but we have to make it an issue.

“The question has always been, if you buy a $25 t-shirt and you go back to that purchaser eight or nine times with email appeals for $200 or $500 donations, and you have people donating like that all the time, at what point does the campaign bother to check if the FEC limit has been exceeded?” says a former Clinton campaign fundraiser. “There are enough of us from the 1992 and 1996 and 2000 races around to know that many of these kinds of violations never get caught until after the election has been won or lost. In this case, there is no way the Obama campaign will be held accountable before Election Day, unless someone raises holy hell.”

So let’s raise some holy hell!

This same level of accountability needs to be demanded of every member of Congress and/or the Senate who was complicit and willful in forming the policies that led us to largest government takeover of a private sector in our nation’s history:

As I’ve stated before, it’s not just the CEO’s who need to be perp-walked and frog-marched.

Barney Frank and Co. presided over a travesty of fiscal mismanagement of such exponential proportions so as to make Enron look like farting in church by comparison.

We need to hold our elected officials to a higher standard. To not hold them to account for their malfiesance would be to say, in so many words, that we have ceased to live in a land of the people, by the people, and for the people; and have rather moved on to a "brave new world" of the elites, by the elites, and for the elites.

God help us if we continue to allow these "good deeds" to go unpunished.