Yes.
As well as acknowledging the hypocrisy of the right.
My point was to not bathe the Right in shimmering garb of purity, but to rebut the seeming inference that it’s the Left so clothed. Both sides “…want [people] to believe they are concerned about the process and fairness…” but don’t “… speak up even when it doesn’t benefit their team.”
Filibusters. Remember the New York Times’ ardent position about filibusters when the manuever inconvenienced the Democrats… and their equally ardent opposite position when the manuever hurt the Republicans?
States’ rights. The darling of the Right for a multitude of issues, with the Left saying it’s an outmoded concept… until the issue is assisted suicide or medical marijuana, at which point the Left suddenly discovers their deep and abiding concern and respect for a limited federal government and plenary police power at the state level, and the Right simultaneously finds the Commerce Clause should mean anything under the sun.
And, yes, vote-counting in Florida. Don’t even begin to suggest that the Democrats were studiously trying Only To Do The Right Thing, and the Republicans alone were attempting to craftily pervert the system. The Democrats leapt on military absentee ballots with no postmarks, disregarding the fact that military mail often had no postmarks. They were absolutely right under the letter of the law, of course, but when they were simultaneously arguing the letter of the law should be cast aside in favor of the SPIRIT of the law when it came to the Secretary of State certifying results, and when it came to spoiled ballots being counted if only the intent of the voter could be divined, there was no reasonable conclusion except duplicity.
And were the Republicans stalwart defenders of the Truth? Of course not. They were doing exactly the opposite: arguing that the military ballots should be counted because the spirit of the law demanded that our brave fighting men and women be given their voices, while at the same time insisting on a hypertechnical adherence to the rules when it came to times, dates, and the discretion of the Sec’y of State.
But forget Repubs and Dems generally. Here’s the difference between me and a number of people here: I accuse the other side of doing it… and in the same thread acknowledge that my side does it too. Look at the people here who have seldom, if ever, acknowledged equal wrongdoing by the Dems.
Or is that because it really is true that the Democrats are just pure and good, and the Republicans are just conniving and evil?
Come on.
Now, in this instance – ACORN – of COURSE the people leading the attack are right-wingers who don’t like ACORN. Yes, yes - I’ve said it before. But as I also said before, ACORN actually did objectively wrong things. Not nearly AS wrong as the attackers woul dhave us believe, but their hands aren’t clean. Who is admitting that here in this thread, eh?