Nope, that may work for JWBear, but not for me. The Dems are crooked, too. I don't happen to believe they're as crooked as the Republicans, but that doesn't excuse them one bit in my book.
I'm not sure what allegations we're talking about anymore. But it appears to me that the allegations of ACORN committing registration fraud are true (several people have been indicted, if not yet convicted??), but the allegations of voter fraud are false ... or, at best, merely allegations without a shred of evidence. To which I repeat ... YAWN.
There's a certain philosophy (which I don't condone) that crookedness in winning an election is vital, if it's imperative for the good of the nation / state / county /city that one's candidate be elected at all costs.
Morrigoon's evocation of Gore reminds me that he gracefully stopped his efforts after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, declining to take further steps to be elected at all costs. In retrospect of the past 8 years, the coup d'etat committed by the Republicans to install Bush as their puppet dictator was precisely the kind of thing one could almost legitimately use as the rationale to be elected instead at any costs for the good of the country and the world.
And may I remind everyone that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling held there WAS a civil rights violation in Florida which denied thousands their right to vote. The Court gave the Gore campaign less than 24 hours to tally those votes, which was obviously impossible - and thus the Court was complicit in the coup d'etat. But, by that same Supreme Court ruling, it was indeed a coup d'etat. Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Floridians were denied their right to vote ... and the difference of counted votes between Gore and Bush was something like 357.
Back to you, scaeagles.
Yes, as we near the end of the disastrous Bush Presidency, I unashamedly dredge up the 2000 election and remind everyone that it started so appropriately to how it then proceeded for eight tragic years.