Reply #23: Reframe and Up the Ante: Firing offense was "Failure To Steal Elections"

[Senator]

Which creates the more compelling/urgent narrative of them inserting partisan thugs to Steal the Election of 2008.

This is the simple fact of what is happening.

And Rove himself becomes the "smoking gun." He has no portfolio other than election "manipulation." Or are we to believe he's some kind of expert on US Atty Qualifications?!? Let's see someone try to sell that.

The Narrative: The clearest "firing offense" described thus far is the McKay refusal to try to steal the Gregorie election in 2004. You add to that the plan to send the Rove minion down to be in place to use federal authority to swift-boat Hillary and the fact that New Mexico and Nevada were 2 states they failed to steal enough in 2004 to pass the smell test; and you've got a pattern of behavior.

Keep in mind that HAVA now makes voter rolls a federal responsibility -- as is any targeting of minorities (like the Native Americans in the Southwest). Also remember that it's not just specific results -- they learned from 2000 that they need a faux popular vote too (they "outperformed" the exit polls by 6 million) -- that means stealing bigtime in GOP controlled areas, which could only be checked by honest feds.

The "lesson from 2006" was the harsh one. That local Election Reformers had done so well that even "The Math" couldn't add up to enough successful thefts -- they'd need to take bigger risks, like this mass replacement of lawmen with outlaws.

Tell anyone who'll listen "It's About Stealing 2008, Stupid!"

That's a narrative with traction.

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