In response to Mitch McConnell's last ditch effort to scare voters........
I posted this on my Facebook page today.....
I’m no longer surprised at the lengths Republican politicians have gone to in effort to intimidate or disenfranchise anyone who might vote for Democrats. What continues to surprise me, no, DISGUST me, is the people who continue to vote for politicians that participate in such blatant attempts at voter suppression.
Saying there is no difference in the parties in Washington is a dated and dangerous meme. There is a huge difference. Don’t think so? Show me one Democratically held state that has taken any steps toward disenfranchising Republican voters. Show me any Super Pac backing Democrats that is sending out false, misleading and threatening mailers on behalf of the Democratic party. Just one. Show me any good reason for any laws to be passed anywhere that make it harder to vote. And then ask yourself why would anyone want to make it harder to vote. Google voting laws in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina and Texas. All states that have Republican controlled Governorship and legislatures. Look at what those states have done to make it harder to vote. In Texas, you can use a concealed weapons permit as valid ID but not a state college ID. WHY? The answers are there if you care to look. Or you can look away and still believe that Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility, national security and the CONSTITUTION!!
Don’t just look at what has happened to voters in those states, but look at what has happened to the middle class. Stripped schools of funding, stripped workers of the right to organize unions, stripped away a woman’s right to make critical, life altering decisions AND in some cases made it the law for doctors to lie to women who seek advice about abortion. Think it’s hyperbole? It’s not. Look around, the information is out there but you won’t find it if you wait for it to show up on your tv screen.
Keep passing along your memes about gun rights, free speech rights, etc etc. But if you aren’t willing to stand up for the right of people to vote, you are a blistering hypocrite and you should be ashamed of yourself. If you think it’s OK, because it favors your party, or because “those people” just want free stuff from the Government, YOU are the problem. Not the people who want to exercise their CONSTITUTIONAL right to vote against a party that has completely sold out most of America and created an oligarchy where there once was Democracy.
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I love this.
"We win by lying and cheating."
Agree with every word, Flo Mingo...and news outlets are just as complicit in pushing this claptrap.
K&R 
I hope you're right, Major. Texas turning blue in any small way would be great, but the governorship??? Whoa Nelly.....Now THAT'S a message! Come on Texas. It's not too late!!!!
