I’ll go tit for tat with you and your own idiotic posts then. Read the quotes in my post: you’re wrong about Club for Growth. They explicitly say that they endorse and support Republicans.
At best you’re 1 for 2.
Gosh, you’re right…there’s no potential for harm to the democratic process whatsoever through paying people bounties for collecting the maximal number of voter registrations possible. Just like it’s entirely innocent for a Republican candidate to send out a mass mailing warning Hispanics of the threat of deportation if they vote illegally.
I mean, who’s harmed, really. :dubious:
Are you aware that any fraudulent registrations are supremely unlikely to actually generate fraudulent votes?
Turning in a registration with Mikey Mouse on it doesn’t make Mickey Mouse show up to the polling place.
Who is injured again? ACORN was injured. Because some of their contractors fucked with them.
Sure.
There’s a joke I love about Dominican drivers. A guy flies in to New York and hails a taxi; it’s driven by a Dominican. They zoom away from the airport, and the rider is terrified when the driver blows right through a red light.
“Hey! Are you trying to get us killed?” he yells.
“Take it easy,” says the driver. “My brother drives this way.”
At the next intersection, again the driver ignores a red light and zooms through.
“Jesus, cut it out! Are you nuts?” screams the passenger.
“I told you, my brother drives this way,” replies the cabbie.
At the next intersection, the light’s green, and the passenger sighs in relief, but then is puzzled when his driver stops.
“What’s wrong?” asks the passenger.
“Well,” says the cabbie, “my brother might be coming the other way.”
-rim shot-
Driving through a red light is wrong, because it places the lives and health of your passengers and other drivers at risk. But that’s only because we have a convention that one stops at red lights – absent that convention, it’s not wrong.
I hope the parallel to this situation is clear – violating the rule isn’t wrong in and of itself, but when the rule exists there is an expectation that everyone will follow it. When one actor does not, it creates an unfair advantage for him, to the detriment of the other actors. And that is wrong.
Put this way, I agree 100%. It doesn’t matter what the rules are in the other states-breaking the rules in the state you are currently operating in will give you an advantage is wrong.
Usually I can discern sarcastic posts. This one, though, is very frankly stupid but lacks any of the typical indicators of sarcasm. It seems both sincere and stupid. Could you clarify your intent?
“Darth Nader for the win”
Can we put a refugee camp nearby?
Bricker, I concur with kaylasdad99. Dude, it’s Lent, malevolent carnal pelasures like starting this thread are exactly the point of the Quadragesima.
I recommend a couple of Rosaries for extra penance, sackcloth is optional.
Sigh, if you have proof that they ONLY endorse Republicans and have statements from them specifically saying that(not weasel words or weasel phrases which imply that) then you need to take that evidence to the IRS now, because then they are in violation of the law and should be stripped of their tax exempt status.
Compiling lists of “RINOs” while obviously partisan does not technically make them partisan.
The same is true of Moveon.org alerting people about “DINOs”.
Anyway I don’t understand why we’re having this moronic conversation. Obviously they are a partisan organization even if they’re legally non-partisan. I was merely making the point that the same is true of ACORN which is technically non-partisan but advocates for a number of left-wing causes and against various right-wing causes.
Recognizing that I’m the third one to quote it, I hope this isn’t overly redundant, but I have a specific question:
Assuming there is an accurate process in place to identify and remove registrations of fake voters (which there is), what exactly do you see as “the potential harm to the democratic process” here?
Clearly, there’s potential harm to the payer’s bank account, as they’re paying the bounty; also an increased work load for the process of catching the fake registrations. But I’m not seeing the fundamental threat to democracy that I think you are…
Try it this way.
Back before the pro-football had a two point conversion (they do today) only college football had it.
Now, in pro-football, it would be “wrong” for one team to ignore the rule and go for a two-point conversion. It is an unfair advantage.
However, that did not make the two-point conversion itself wrong. It was fine to do in college football.
The thing itself is not necessarily “wrong”. Not playing by the rules is wrong.
I fully agree if this law is broken in Nevada then it is appropriate to bust people for violating it. Same as the refs in pro football would bust a team for trying a two-point conversion before it was allowed.
Actually NFL teams could always run or pass the extra point, they just wouldn’t get two points for it.
I do see the point that if Republican-leaning organizations were scrupulously following every letter of the law they would in theory be at a disadvantage compared to Democratic-leaning organizations that paid for registration collection. However, let’s be honest. Given that the two Republican constituencies are the wealthy and the rabid social conservatives, how many Republican voters even need to be wooed in a registration drive?
Ah…I never knew that.
Hopefully the sense of what I was getting at remains though.
I don’t assume that there is that process. In many places registrations stay in place until they age out - and some jurisdictions prevent that. In addition, flooding the courthouse with tons of questionable registrations can overload the system so whatever processes are in place cannot go forth effectively.
It was generally never something you tried. On rare occasions, the snap would be muffed and the kicker might pick up the ball and attempt a pass or a run and on really rare occasions, the conversion would be good.
That sounds dreadful! We need to know more. When and where did this awful thing happen?
I think it was in "WhatIf world, where Donald Trump is not a fantastic retard, and everyone can imagine “what if ACORN hired Cthulhu, and they take Him from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth.”
I’ve known more than one good person who was developmentally disabled. What was good about them, however, was never their retardation. Being retarded doesn’t make you a bad person, but the retardation itself *is *a bad thing.
But here’s your Pointless PC Police sticker for the month of April. Grats!
I’m gonna go with an organization that promotes beating children to give them a better chance at making the basketball team. Or possibly to build character.
Please note that the events in Nevada took place after the Seattle incident. ACORN was required to change its procedures and failed to do so.
Was ACORN non-partisan and unbiased? No, I must ruefully confess, no. Where were their outreach efforts on the ski slopes of Aspen, or in any of America’s fine gated communities?
But that isn’t quite what you said, now is it, buckaroo?
And then you offer as proof an instance where fraudulent behavior was effectively discovered and prosecuted. Which is precisely the opposite of your claim.