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Both Stevens and Souter were appointed by Republican Presidents
So were Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas. Souter was selected because he was
expected to be conservative. I don't recall Bush saying "Hey, let's get some more liberals on the bench" but I do recall a bunch of conservatives wailing "We thought he'd be more conservative!!"
So let's stop being so naive as to believe that the party of the appointing executive means nothing. Of course it does. I mean, unless you're trying to come up with some argument where the Republican appointed justices are in cahoots in some little conspiracy theory.
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Are we to assume that an organization dedicated to find people willing to manipulate exactly this sort of situation, selected Ritchie for that spot in Minnesota, got him elected, and then when it was his turn to pay off for them, he didn't pick members of the board he knew would let him manipulate the recount?
It was brilliant of them to make sure that Coleman would "win" by 215 votes, triggering an automatic recount so Ritchie could then gather his coterie of sympathetic Republican appointed justices and use them to steal the election for the Democrats. I mean, that takes some fu
cking amazing planning. And it's obviously a much more likely explanation than "After a proper recount, the vote total swung to the other guy by a couple hundred votes out of over 2.8 million."
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This was a stolen election. Not just in word, but in actual fact.
The victim complex of the average Republican never ceases to interest me. I mean, people talk about folks clinging on to Bush v Gore well after the fact but, man,
everything with you is
always that the Democrats wouldn't let the Republicans do this, or they stole that, or they must have tricked people into the other. I mean, always. You seem to have so much of yourself invested in how awesome and superior the GOP must be that any hint of its failings needs to be negated with "No! The Democrats somehow tainted my awesome with their foul trickery!"
No, everyone does
not know that this was a "stolen" election. In fact, aside from some Republicans who are so obsessed and blinded by their partisan nature that they can't
dream that, yeah, Franken got more votes, I doubt that many people believe it was a stolen election.
Sorry. Tell your party's candidate to try harder next time.
Edited, Jun 30th 2009 9:19pm by Jophiel
I wish there were nice people.