Wow! We’ve got a new winner of the much sought, if incredibly rarely bestowed “BRAD BLOG Intellectually Honest Conservative Award!” It’s so rarely bestowed, in fact, that it seems like several years since we’ve found anyone to bestow one upon for some odd reason…
“It’s part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there’s widespread voter fraud all across the country. In fact, there’s not,” Schmidt said on MSNBC
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“And, so, I think that all of this stuff that has transpired over the last two years is in search of a solution to a problem — voting fraud — that doesn’t really exist, when you look deeply at that question,” Schmidt said.
Here’s the short clip. Try to ignore the remarkably daft Chuck Todd when you watch it…
Might have been nice if Schmidt had said something about this earlier, for example when his old boss, during a 2008 Presidential Debate falsely claimed that ACORN was “perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.” Or when his party was on a tear passing purposely disenfranchising polling place Photo ID restriction laws in advance of this year’s Presidential election.
Nonetheless, so desperate are we to find an Intellectually Honest Conservative out there somewhere, anywhere, that we’ll even generously overlook all of that today and simply say: Congratulations, Mr. Schmidt! And thank you!
P.S. For those new to The BRAD BLOG, please note that “voter fraud”, which is exceedingly rare, especially by voters at the polling place, is not the same as “election fraud” by insiders who are able to game the system via manipulation of things like voter rolls and electronic vote tabulation systems which can be manipulated in a matter of seconds to flip the results of an entire election with little possibility of ever being detected. You’re welcome.
Too bad the risk of election fraud via e-vote tampering is not a myth.
Too bad @chucktodd doesn’t understand that.
Thank you for the warning that Chuckles Todd was in the clip.
It saved me a trip to the vomitorium.
Let’s see if this works. It always does on Warcraft.
/ignore @ChuckTodd
Ahhh. I feel so much better.
BTW, I would like to note that this is the first time Steve Schmidt has been intellectually honest about anything. But there’s a first time for everything, I guess…
MSNBC,Current…I hear nothing about the dangers of electronic voting..the patches on the machines..nothing…It’s no wonder. Anyone who attempts to reveal the truth is labeled a conspiracy theorist:
Prof. Mark Crispin Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FLugoufjbI0
After today we’ll see if this is our last election.
He may be honest but why would he bother bringing it up unless he knows something we don’t…
I guess it’s been so long since I’ve heard anything but utter bullshit out of their yaps that it freaks me out.
The party of robber barons doesn’t have an honest bone in their collective bodies.
I believe that most republicans will lie, steal ballots, commit all kinds of election fraud to win. But I also think when someone makes a statement that is good for the country they should be noted for it. Steve Schmidt also said on MSNBC that until the republican party stopped listening to the rightwing radio media that the party will not be strong again. Example Lou Dobbs saying that Christie slobbered all over Obama can only lose votes for the people that Christie is helping. It is nice to see people working together. But as long as the rightwing media keeps spewing hate, working together is hard. AS long as Fox spews hate there will not be a good working relationship to get this country better. Got to admit that I enjoyed watching Rove twist and squirm knowing that he wasted all the superpac millions. Couldn’t happen to a nicer(dipsh-t) guy.
Slight correction to your article, Brad. You wrote:
That false accusation was made by McCain in the 2008 race, not in 2004.
David Lasagna –
Whoops! Losing track at this point! Or my mind. Thanks.