Democrats Try to Steal Another Election
By Doug Patton
October 7, 2002
You have to hand it to them - Democrats, that is. No one can disregard the rule of law and get away with it like they can. They have become masters at it.
In fact, just when it would appear impossible for the ethically challenged party of "Chappaquidick" Teddy, "Intern" Bill, "Cattle Futures" Hillary and "Buddhist Temple" Al to sink any lower into the cesspool of power-grubbing corruption in its disdain for statutory or Constitutional authority, its power brokers show us otherwise.
I refer, of course, to the breathtaking contempt for election law displayed last week, when the New Jersey Supreme Court swept aside the will of the people and their duly elected state representatives in order to allow Democrats to cling to the one thing they fear losing above all else: power.
For those who may have missed the story, the candidacy of New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli - another towering paragon of Democrat virtue - had become so compromised by revelations of personal and political corruption that the party bosses decided he was going to lose his bid for reelection. This, of course, would upset the delicate balance of power in the U.S. Senate and bring about the unthinkable: a Republican President working with a Republican House of Representatives and a Republican-controlled Senate.
The last time that happened, several members of this current Senate had not yet been born!
Something had to be done. So, in the tradition of their past political thefts, Democrats did what they always do when they are about to lose - change the rules. It worked for them in Missouri when, on Election Night 2000, a circuit court judge (who just happens to be a former crony of Rep. Dick Gephardt) kept the polls open late in certain predominantly black districts of St. Louis. This, of course, gave Democrats an advantage and probably allowed Jean Carnahan to steal John Ashcroft's Senate seat. Of course, we will never know for sure because Ashcroft was too much of a gentleman even to campaign against the newly widowed Carnahan, let alone accuse her party of stealing an election.
It would have worked for them in the 2000 presidential election as well, if the United States Supreme Court had not intervened to stop the Democrat-dominated Florida Supreme Court from stealing the election for Al Gore.
This year, New Jersey Democrats decided to simply replace Torricelli's name on the ballot with someone they believe can win. Never mind that New Jersey election law clearly states that it is illegal to do so a month before an election. "The Torch" was about to lose, so they put somebody else up - and the state Supreme Court let them do it.
Can you imagine the outcry if Republicans had taken a poll at this point in the 2000 New York Senate race, determined that Rick Lazio was going to lose to Hillary Clinton and decided to replace him on the ballot with Rudy Gulliani? We all know what would have happened, and the media even now would be talking about it as the most outrageous power grab in history - and they would be right!
But no such media outrage seems to exist in this case, even though such political manipulation surely would have impressed Richard Nixon or Huey Long.
For the record, it should be noted that six of the seven judges who unanimously upheld this violation of the law were appointed by none other than former New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman - a RINO (Republican In Name Only), if ever there was one.
Will the U.S. Supreme Court hear this case and once more save the Republic from this kind of Democrat thievery? If so, they had better do it soon.
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