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This is what voter fraud looks likeAmazing how the only voter "fraud" you discover is chump change actions committed by members of both parties.BTW, three individuals were indicted for felony voter fraud in Swing State Ohio. What, did your vision suddenly fail?I'll bet blind all three are Democrats. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.Ain't it a shame there's been such a wide crackdown on voter fraud before Obama's pathetic attempt at re-election?3 people indicted for felony vote fraudThree Franklin County residents face felony charges of voter fraud after the Board of Elections reported that they had voted more than once in a past election.Each was indicted today by a Franklin County grand jury on one count of illegal voting. They are accused of voting twice by casting absentee ballots under slightly different names.Those indicted are:Dominique Atkins, 38, of 1523 Barnes Drive E. on the Northeast Side, who is accused of casting a second ballot on Oct. 25, 2010, under the name Dominque Atkins.Debbie L. Tingler, 50, of 533 Hunt Valley Dr., Reynoldsburg, who is accused of casting a second ballot on Feb. 27, 2008, under the name Deborah L. Tingler.Marian Wilson, 47, of 1922 Kendall Place, Grove City, who is accused of casting a second ballot on Sept. 29, 2010, under the name Marian Toles.Elections officials working to clean up the voter-registration rolls this summer uncovered the irregularities.In each case, the voter requested, received and returned absentee ballots in both names, an official in the boards petitions and filings department said.http://www.dispatch....indictment.html

GOP Voter Registration Scandal Widens A Virginia official is busted for tossing voter forms. Turns out he works for the national party, too. By Brad FriedmanA man originally reported to have been working for the Republican Party of Virginia was arrested by the Rockingham County, Va., Sheriffs Office on Thursday and charged with attempting to destroy voter registration forms by tossing them into a dumpster behind a shopping center in Harrisonburg, Va.Prosecutors charged him with four counts of destruction of voter registration applications, eight counts of failing to disclose voter registration applications and one count of obstruction of justice, according to a report late Thursday afternoon from TPMs Ryan Reilly. More charges could be forthcoming, according to officials.But there is more to the story, as evidence emerges to document that it ties into a still-expanding nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal that the BRAD BLOG first began reporting in late September, after wed learned that the Republican Party of Florida had turned in more than 100 allegedly fraudulent and otherwise suspect voter registration forms in Palm Beach County. The story has continued to widen ever since, to a dozen Florida counties and several other states, now including Virginia, and even to the upper-echelons of the Republican Party itself.The man arrested today was 23-year-old Colin Small of Phoenixville, Pa. As it turns out, he does not only work for the Virginia Republican Party. According to an online profile, he appears to be working for the Republican National Committee and, prior to that, served as an Intern for Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., in the U.S. House of Representatives.Joseph Tanfani at the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Small was working as a supervisor as part of a registration operation in eight swing states financed by the Republican National Committee.He was first hired, says Tanfani, by Strategic Allied Consulting, the firm owned by the disgraced GOP operative and paid Mitt Romney political consultant Nathan Sproul. Even before this years registration fraud scandal, which began with Strategic in Florida, Sprouls companies have long been accused of, though never charged with, destroying Democratic voter registrations in election after election and state after state, going back to at least 2004. Despite that, Sproul was hired by the Bush/Cheney campaign in 2004, by the McCain/Palin Campaign in 2008, and by Romney during the Republican Primary cycle.Sprouls company, Strategic Allied Consulting, was hired by the RNC in August for more than $3 million, reportedly as its sole voter registration company this cycle. His company was said to have been fired by the RNC and five different battleground state Republican parties several weeks ago, after fraudulent voter registrations began to emerge across Florida. Some of those questionable applications included address changes for existing voters, such that Florida election officials told the BRAD BLOG they worry voters could find themselves disenfranchised come Election Day. In Florida, as in many states, provisional ballots cast at precincts other than where voters are officially registered will not be counted. So changing the addresses on voter registrations without voters knowledge is a serious crime with potentially very serious consequences.Reillys report at TPM says that Small worked for PinPoint, a company hired to register voters on behalf of the Republican Party of Virginia. In fact, PinPoint Staffing placed ads to hire workers for Strategic Allied Consulting in FL, VA and a number of other states, though the BRAD BLOG has learned that the company removed many of those ads once the scandal began to break in Florida. They have since modified some of their newer ads to hide their ties to the Republican Party.In response to queries we sent to Sproul late Thursday, his crisis spokesperson, David Leibowitz, attempted to distance his client from the arrest of the Republican Party worker in Virginia, claiming that the only connection between Sproul and Pinpoint is that Nathan has, on occasion, used Pinpoint to hire some workers.It was PinPoint Staffing, in fact, which reportedly hired the man Strategic blamed for the fraudulent registration forms turned in originally in Palm Beach. But while PinPoint continues to seek workers for GOP-related efforts around the country, and as Sprouls operations continue in as many as 30 states, it is the Republican National Committees response to the entire affair, including to the arrest today, that may be the most troublingThe RNC firing deceptionColin Small, according to his LinkedIn profile, as captured by the NotLarrySaboto blog (which was the first to highlight the initial report of a man with PA license plates tossing a bag of Virginia Voter Registration Forms into a Harrisonburg dumpster), wasnt only working for the state GOP or for Strategic Allied Consulting or for PinPoint. He was working as a Grassroots Field Director at the Republican National Committee, according to LinkedIn.[Update: NBC News is reporting this morning that RNC Communications Director denies Small was "directly employed by the RNC" and that he will be "told to take down that." Small is currently in jail and unable to respond to clear up the question, however.]Last month, several days after fraudulent voter registration forms collected by Strategic Allied Consulting and turned in by the Florida GOP began to be discovered by County election officials in Florida, the RNC claimed to have fired Strategic.Sean Spicer, the RNCs Communications Director, boasted that the party took swift and bold action after learning of the fraud, claiming they have zero tolerance for it or for those who commit it. However, as we summarized in our very first report on this scandal, Sprouls companies have a long history of workers being paid per Republican registration form and for being accused of destroying Democratic ones.Despite that, they were hired once again this year by the RNC who, Sproul says, asked them to create the new company in June without his name on it to avoid it being tied to him. Not very bold or zero tolerancy of them. Though Spicer said he had no knowledge of that arrangement, Sproul told the BRAD BLOG he stands by his assertion.Beyond that, last Thursday we reported that Sprouls firms, including what appeared to be a clone operation of Strategic Allied Consulting, calling itself Issue Advocacy Partners, were still found working for Republicans and right-wing ballot initiatives in at least 10 states. Subsequently, on Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported that, in fact, Sproul was still hiring workers for a voter canvassing operation this fall in as many as 30 states.On Thursday, following Smalls arrest, Sprouls spokesman Leibowitz hedged that number by telling us via email: What we said on the record to various media outlets is that his companies are working in as many as 30 states. That could mean 1 state. Or 2. Or 30. You get the idea, Im sure.We do. The idea is Sproul does not want to come clean about his ongoing operations and who it is that he continues to work for, preferring instead to live up to the shady adjective thats often applied to him in the media. Despite our follow-up request, Leibowitz did not identify the exact number of states that Sproul was still working in, or who was paying him to do so.Strategic was said to have been hired by state Republican Parties, at the request of the RNC, for voter registration drives in five states (Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Colorado) and for Get Out the Vote campaigns in Ohio and Wisconsin. When both RNC and state GOP officials claimed to have fired them, it seems they didnt really mean it.In Tanfanis report at LA Times late Thursday, Spicer confirms that, really, it may have only been Sproul who the party claimed to be boldly cutting ties with. The operations Sproul created for the Party beginning in August, the ones that led to fraudulent voter registrations in Florida and destroyed applications reported in Colorado and Nevada as well, are still in place.After Sproul was dumped, Tanfani reports, the registration operation that he assembled continued working under the supervision of party officials, Spicer said. He said the workers will continue to do get-out-the-vote work until the election.The firing of Sproul and Strategic Allied Consulting was a deception.Moreover, as The BRAD BLOG detailed on Tuesday the companys mailing address, according to documents released [PDF] by the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement upon announcement of their statewide criminal investigation of Strategic (the firm is also being criminally investigated in CO), was registered as a corporation last June out of the same law office run by top-level Republican National Committee election attorneys where both Karl Roves American Crossroads Super-PAC and the Koch Brothers Americans for Prosperity are also based.Despite Spicers attempt to downplay the VA incident on Thursday He made a mistake and hes being charged with it, which we fully support as he similarly did for the FL incidents previously, its become clear that the RNCs deceptive and often illegal registration and canvass operations are toxic, widespread, and very high-reaching.Ironically, or perhaps not at this point, Romney, who hired Sproul late last year as a political consultant for some $71,000, appears to have committed both voter registration fraud and voter fraud himself in Massachusetts, when he voted in the January 2010 U.S. Senate Special Election between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. While he owned houses in both California and New Hampshire at the time, he did not own a Massachusetts home until July of that year. Instead, he used the basement of his sons Belmont, Mass., home as his own registration address in apparent contravention of Massachusetts state residency laws. [See our still-growing list of other very high-profile GOPers recently involved in apparent election fraud crimes.]Trashed registration forms in VirginiaAccording to FEC filings obtained by CBS 6 in Richmond last month, the Virginia Republican Party reportedly paid some $500,000 to Strategic for registration work before the state GOP claimed to have fired them, several days after the fraudulent forms collected by Strategic and submitted to county Supervisors of Elections by the Florida GOP began to surface in the Sunshine State. As we now know, only Sproul was fired. The voter registration operation itself continued.Small, the man arrested on Thursday and charged with eight felony counts and five misdemeanors after allegedly having been found to have tossed at least eight registration forms into a dumpster in Harrisonburg, Va. (Rockingham County), was reportedly working for an operation named PinPoint on behalf of the Virginia GOP, according to Reilly at TPM.In an earlier report on the matter at TPM, before Smalls arrest later in the day, Reilly noted that Virginia does not register voters by political party, so it would be difficult for someone to discard forms from their political opponents.Not really.Reillys assessment does not take into account the very specific and purposely deceptive process used by Sprouls companies and, as suggested by evidence weve collected, perhaps other Republican-based voter registration outfits across the country to identify and register only Republicans to vote, while attempting to filter out Democratic-leaning voters.In an investigative report earlier this month, the BRAD BLOG detailed video-taped and other evidence from nearly half a dozen states, demonstrating a deceptive, national Republican voter registration strategy where voter registration workers purposely misrepresented themselves as pollster to potential registrants.Essentially, as detailed in video clips and other testimony in that report, the GOP voter registration workers hired by Sproul were trained to pretend to be taking a poll and to ask voters if they supported Mitt Romney or Barack Obama. If the answer was Obama, the potential registrant was thanked and sent on their way. If the answer came back as Romney, they were given the opportunity to register to vote. In that way, the thousands of workers employed by Sproul, the former head of the Arizona Republican Party and Christian Coalition, kept many Democratic-leaning voters from registering to vote at all.In one YouTube video that went viral last month, a young Colorado registration worker who, it turned out, had been working for Sprouls Strategic Allied Consulting on behalf of the state GOP is seen doing exactly that. Another videoposted by Las Vegas ABC affiliate Action News 13, shows a worker there playing out the same pollster scheme in Nevada. Sproul shared an email with The BRAD BLOGin which he had boasted to other company officials that the Vegas video tape captured their worker carrying out her training perfectly.In Virginia, where the Pennsylvania man working for the state GOP was arrested Thursday, Chesterfield Countys General Registrar Larry Haake was seen explaining to Richmonds CBS 6 in late September that he had received complaints of Strategic employees discovered doing the same thing in a library last month.They were responsible for people that appeared in some libraries in Chesterfield County, supposedly to conduct voter registration drives, Haake said, but they were asking voters for whom they are going to vote.Haake says he informed the GOP of the incident at the time, but, apparently, no action was taken.If, in fact, Small, or the workers he is said to have supervised, were using the same technique of misrepresenting themselves to voters about being a pollster, rather than being a registration worker, its likely he would have been able to glean whether those registrations he was allegedly seen tossing into a dumpster were for Democratic or Republican-leaning voters.The PinPoint piece of the puzzleIn that same story on the Sproul/RNC voter registration deception, we cited a 9/28/12 report by the Los Angeles Times that tied PinPoint Staffing to Sproul.The article quoted William T. Hazard, the Strategic employee said by the company to have turned in the original fraudulent registration applications in Palm Beach County, Fla. He says he did nothing wrong, but told the paper that he was trained to approach people and ask whom they supported in the presidential election. When people answered with President Obama, he said, he wished them a good day. If someone said Mitt Romney, he asked if they were registered to vote. If not, he handed them forms to fill out.He says that it was a help wanted ad placed by PinPoint that led him to the work for Strategic, Sproul, and the Republican Party.He got the voter registration job after responding to a Craigslist ad placed by a company called PinPoint Staffing seeking people to do voter surveys, the Times reported at the time. The ad specified that all applicants had to be registered Republicans and active voters.Further, the paper says, Although he reported to a PinPoint Staffing office in West Palm Beach, he said, I thought I was dealing with the Republican Party.PinPoint was key to Sprouls operations. So who are they?Over our three-week long investigation of Sproul and the GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal, we had collected dozens of help wanted ads posted by PinPoint Staffing that were nearly identical to others published on behalf of Strategic. Some of those ads placed in North Carolina had proved instrumental, originally, to theBlueNC blogs Greg Flynn in late August when they were key to his uncovering Sprouls previously-secret ownership of Strategic Allied Consulting.Many of the PinPoint ads on Craigslist and other sites seeking VOTER REGISTRATION SUPPORT by REPUBLICAN PARTY SUPPORTER(S), for example were hastily removed from the Internet at nearly the same time that Sproul and Strategic were being outed and supposedly fired. The BRAD BLOGcaptured many of them before they were taken down, some with the message: This posting has been flagged for removal.We discovered ads by PinPoint Staffing in dozens of cities, in Virginia, North Carolina and Washington D.C., as well as all across Florida, from Pensacola in the panhandle, down to Palm Beach County where the first fraudulent registration forms were discovered in late September.More recently, PinPoint ads for Political Jobs or Campaign or Canvassing operations began to no longer include references to Republican Voters or Romney or the Republican Party. Instead they might read ARE YOU LOOKING FOR YOUR BIG BREAK INTO POLITICS?. Such ads have been found this month in Virginia, Wisconsin, New York, Arizona and Florida.During our research on our report last week detailing the states where Sproul was confirmed to still be working, we found evidence of his continuing operations under the names Issue Advocacy Partners and Grassroots Outreach in Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Oregon, Wisconsin, Iowa, Virginia, New York, New Jersey and, possibly, Ohio (where the RNC had previously admitted that Strategic had been scheduled to do Get Out the Vote work this year before the firing.)At TPM, Reilly reports that A man who answered the phone at Pinpoint and only gave his name as Ryan said he was not allowed to comment. I really want to stay out of it, he said.Ads for Strategic placed in late Summer by PinPoint in Alachua, Fla., and in September in Winston Salem, N.C., told perspective employees to Contact Ryan.The phone number given on the ads was from Phoenix, AZ. Sprouls main operation is based just outside of Phoenix, in Tempe.Let me be as unequivocal as possible. Nathan Sproul and his businesses have no ownership interest in Pinpoint, his spokesperson Leibowitz, hired by Sproul to manage the crisis several weeks into it, insisted to The BRAD BLOG late Thursday. He doesnt control it, nor is he affiliated with it.The only connection between Sproul and Pinpoint is that Nathan has, on occasion, used Pinpoint to hire some workers.When we followed up to ask if Sproul had used PinPoint to hire workers in FL, VA or anywhere else, whether any of his current companies are still using them, and for what services he has used them in the past, or if he has since stopped, Leibowitz demurred.Given that Nathans companies have no connection to the Pinpoint-related story you cited earlier, we see no need to go into any further detail.- Deborah Newell Tornello contributed research to this report.CORRECTIONS: Weve updated the piece above to reflect new information made available since publication early this morning. Included in the updates: TPM corrected its report from last night to say that The Rockingham County Sheriff office originally said Small was 31 years old. The agency later corrected that information to say he is 23″; Small was charged with 8 felony counts and 5 misdemeanors, not 13 felonies as wed initially described.This article first appeared at THE BRAD BLOGInvestigative journalist and broadcaster Brad Friedman is the creator and publisher of The BRAD Blog. He has contributed to Mother Jones, The Guardian, Truthout, Huffington Post, The Trial Lawyer magazine and Editor & Publisher. More Brad Friedman.

GOP Voter Registration Scandal Widens A Virginia official is busted for tossing voter forms. Turns out he works for the national party, too. By Brad FriedmanA man BLAH...BLAH....BLAH....Investigative journalist and broadcaster Brad Friedman is the creator and publisher of The BRAD Blog. He has contributed to Mother Jones, The Guardian, Truthout, Huffington Post, The Trial Lawyer magazine and Editor & Publisher. More Brad Friedman. You really think anyone is going to read all of that?By the way,,, the original Post, I agree with the guy 100%

Anything to keep the colored guy from being re-elected.Oh gosh, the Race Card. That's original. I smell deep desperation.What happened to all that bleating about "binders?"Did you Democrat Talking Point Liars really think you'd get any traction with that?Although Obama seems to have the imbecile vote safely locked up. Edited by RichClem, 21 October 2012 - 02:05 PM.

You really think anyone is going to read all of that?I know, you right wing flying monkeys hate to read, especially when there are facts involved.By the way,,, the original Post, I agree with the guy 100%You agree that the mentally ill should be sent to Siberia?What happens when someone decides that you are mentally ill?

Romney Enlists General Behind Iraq Debacle as Key Military AdviserIf you're a presidential candidate looking to establish your national security cred with a war-weary American public, who might be the worst frontman you could choose for your cause? How about the guy who oversaw the campaign that lost Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora, then bungled planning for war in Iraq? In a news release Wednesday night, Mitt Romney announced the 300-plus members of his "Military Advisory Council," and that man led the list of endorsements:"I'm proud to be supporting Mitt Romney in this critical election about our nations future," said General Tommy Franks, USA (Ret.), Past Commander, U.S. Central Command. "Governor Romney is committed to restoring America's leadership role in the world. Instead of playing politics with our military, he will strengthen our defense posture by reversing the President's devastating defense cuts. The fact of the matter is that we cannot afford another four years of feckless foreign policy. We need level-headed leadership which will protect our interests and defend our values with clarity and without apology."Few living Americans can speak with as much authority about "years of feckless foreign policy" as can Tommy "Rumsfeld's water boy" Franks, who comes in at No. 4 on a Foreign Policy list of worst US generals ever. As readers of our lie-by-lie Iraq timeline will recall, Franks oversaw CENTCOM from 2000 to 2003 and scripted the initial conduct of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Franks: ■Deliberately concealed from the American public how in 2001, at Bush White House's request, he was planning an Iraq invasionwhile we were still trying to topple the Taliban and find bin Laden in Afghanistan.■Lost track of bin Laden at Tora Bora in late 2001, then claimed he hadn't, then was proven wrong.■Perpetuated the bogus "weapons of mass destruction" myth about Iraq.■Ignored warnings from his CENTCOM predecessor that Iraq wouldn't be a walk in the park, and disregarded an earlier series of US war games, titled Desert Crossing, that predicted many of the difficulties of an Iraq occupation.■Completely failed to plan for any post-conflict cleanup after the predicted fall of Saddam Hussein. "You pay attention to the day after," he reportedly told the administration, "I'll pay attention to the day of." Here are the briefing slides he showed administration officials in which he described "post-hostilities" operations in Iraq as "unknown," and here's where he estimated we'd have a mop-up force of about 5,000 US troops in Iraq by 2006. (Actual US forces in Iraq throughout that year averaged about 141,000.)■Authored one of the most nakedly self-serving, embarrassingly written military memoirs of all time. ("Rumsfeld fixed me in his thoughtful blue gaze.") In his retirement, Franks maintains the General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum out of a Hobart, Oklahoma, storefront. (They now accept PayPal.) Also, Franks would like to sell you some "high performing mother cows" from his ranch, online at 4StarRanch.net. So what does Franks' role in the campaign tell us about national security policy in a Romney administration? Perhaps further overseas adventures would be in store, although given the lack of details from Romney regarding his vision for global affairs, it remains anybody's guess.

Scott Brown Exaggerated Afghanistan Military Service, Says Man Who Inspired Medal Bill WASHINGTON -- The man who inspired Sen. Scott Brown to write a bill making it illegal to falsely claim military honors said he thinks the Massachusetts Republican is stretching the truth when he claims to have "served in Afghanistan."Brown made the Afghanistan declaration in his recent debate with his Democratic opponent for the Senate seat, Elizabeth Warren.But Brown's service in Afghanistan was not combat. It was part of his annual two-week stint with the National Guard, in which he requested, in a highly unusual move, to serve in Afghanistan."It sounds to me like we just got another Blumenthal Connecticut, Mark Kirk type things there," said Vietnam veteran Doug Sterner, referring to exaggerated military claims two years ago by now-Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)"I thought it was seriously misleading," said Sterner, whose website outing heroes was the basis for Brown's "Stolen Valor" bill. Sterner's criticism echoes a Boston Globe editorial published Thursday morning."I think it does go to an issue of personal character and that concerns me," added Sterner, who earlier this year broke with Brown and has endorsed Warren. Sterner said it wasn't that Brown's service was with the National Guard that's the problem. Scores of Guard members have been recipients of the Medal of Honor, he noted. Brown's mistake, he said, was implying that his service in Afghanistan was a real tour of duty."I would be the last person to denigrate anybody's National Guard service, but I thought the claim, putting himself on par with men and women who have done combat tours, often in excess of a year, 14 months, was a pretty cheesy thing to do," Sterner said.He allowed that Brown can legitimately claim spending time in Afghanistan. But he said he also thought it broke the spirit of what Brown tried to with the Stolen Valor Act, which Brown himself said was aimed at stopping people from benefiting by swiping the real glory from others.It is wrong and cowardly for people to make fraudulent statements in order to receive distinctions that they have not earned," Brown said in July. "We need to ensure that no one can benefit from making false claims and steal the true valor of the courageous servicemen and women who selflessly defend our freedom.

Another right wing hypocrite goes down.Dinesh DSouza Resigns Presidency of The Kings CollegeAfter a marathon meeting to decide his fate, the board of trustees of The Kings College, a small evangelical school based in Manhattan, announced Thursday that conservative author Dinesh DSouza had resigned as president. Former president and current chairman Andy Mills, who made the announcement to faculty and staff, will return as interim president for a third time. "God has a mighty future for Dinesh, but there are some things he has to go through first," Mills said after breaking the news to King's students Thursday afternoon. "I have to admit, I got a bit over-enamored with him." Mills assured students that most of the college's funding and scholarships come from board members, not from D'Souza's connections.DSouza came under fire Tuesday when World magazine revealed that he was engaged to a 29-year-old woman while still married to his wife of 20 years. DSouza and Denise Odie Joseph allegedly shared a hotel room at a Christian conference in September, and DSouza introduced her as his fiancee.Of course D'Souza denies that he did anything wrong.'2016: Obama's America' filmmaker -- I am not having an affairAnd then there's this:Big Love at Kings College: D'Souza's Mistress Was Also MarriedDSouza told Christianity Today that he did not know that Christians generally do not approve of engagements prior to divorces being finalized. ROFLMFAO

In criticizing the Republican bubble Friday night, Bill Maher denounced his two conservative guests during a panel discussion on the second presidential debate and the fact-checking on the Libyan consulate attack that tripped Mitt Romney up. After Maher showed the clip of Romney mistakenly saying it took President Barack Obama two weeks to call the Sept. 11 assault on the Benghazi consulate that killed four Americans an act of terror, followed by transcripts from the two days immediately afterward where Obama did, in fact, refer to acts of terror, Daily Caller contributor Boris Epshteyn denied that was a fact, which got a rise out of Maher. Your attitude is, **** facts, Maher said. Just on this one point, Maher added, admit that he said act of terror. He did say it, Epshteyn replied, but he didnt call it that.LinkHe 'said' it, but he didn't 'call' it that? WTF?

Romney Enlists General Behind Iraq Debacle as Key Military AdviserDebacle? Is Saddam Hussein still in power, re-armed with massive quantities of WMD's? Has he threatened the world's oil supplies?Has he started any wars lately? Mass murdered his people?Not to mention, Quadafi would still be in power, with WMDs including nukes he might well have shared with Saddam Hussein.And the Arab Spring happened because of the democratic process they've been watching take place in Iraq, duuh.■Perpetuated the bogus "weapons of mass destruction" myth about Iraq.Top Obama intelligence officer Gen. Clapper says that some of Syria's WMD's came from Iraq. Why did Obama hire someone who believed the "bogus" WMD claim?Any other lies you'd like to tell?Another right wing hypocrite goes down.Had D'Souza committed rape, you'd be lying on his behalf.If he was a liberal Democrat. Edited by RichClem, 21 October 2012 - 05:02 PM.

Wisconsin State Rep. Roger Rivard Says 'Some Girls Rape Easy' Wisconsin Republicans are quickly disowning state Rep. Roger Rivard (R-Rice Lake), after he told a newspaper that "[s]ome girls rape easy." [...]Rivard actually made his controversial remark -- which he said was advice shared with him by his father -- in December, when he talked to The Chetek Alert newspaper about the case of a 17-year-old high school student who was charged with sexual assault after having sex with an underage girl in the band room. The interview came to wider public notice after the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported on it on Wednesday.Rivard told the Journal-Sentinel that his comments were "taken out of context," saying his father meant to convey that if "you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape in an awful hurry.""Because all of a sudden a young lady gets pregnant and the parents are madder than a wet hen and she's not going to say, 'Oh, yeah, I was part of the program.' All that she has to say or the parents have to say is it was rape because she's underage. And he just said, 'Remember, Roger, if you go down that road, some girls,' he said, 'they rape so easy,'" Rivard said. Rivard is a freshman lawmaker and is stuck in a tight race for reelection against Democrat Stephen Smith.[...]Gov. Scott Walker [R] and vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had both endorsed Rivard.

Wisconsin State Rep. Roger Rivard Says 'Some Girls Rape Easy' Wisconsin Republicans are quickly disowning state Rep. Roger Rivard (R-Rice Lake), after he told a newspaper that "[s]ome girls rape easy." [...]Rivard actually made his controversial remark -- which he said was advice shared with him by his father -- in December, when he talked to The Chetek Alert newspaper about the case of a 17-year-old high school student who was charged with sexual assault after having sex with an underage girl in the band room. The interview came to wider public notice after the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported on it on Wednesday.Rivard told the Journal-Sentinel that his comments were "taken out of context," saying his father meant to convey that if "you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape in an awful hurry.""Because all of a sudden a young lady gets pregnant and the parents are madder than a wet hen and she's not going to say, 'Oh, yeah, I was part of the program.' All that she has to say or the parents have to say is it was rape because she's underage. And he just said, 'Remember, Roger, if you go down that road, some girls,' he said, 'they rape so easy,'" Rivard said. Rivard is a freshman lawmaker and is stuck in a tight race for reelection against Democrat Stephen Smith.[...]Gov. Scott Walker [R] and vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had both endorsed Rivard.not quite a eloquent way to word it, but what he's saying is true all the same. too many women out there lying about being raped for selfish reasons. it's kind oflike the epidemic of liberals screaming "racism" where there is none. it minimizesthe REAL instances of racism, because they wear out the race card to the pointwhere racism becomes meaningless. now all these whores are out there lying aboutbeing raped, so you never know when to trust any woman's word on the subject.

not quite a eloquent way to word it, but what he's saying is true all the same. too many women out there lying about being raped for selfish reasons.Yes. There's an epidemic of women lying about being raped. it's kind of like the epidemic of liberals screaming "racism" where there is none.Yeah. Kind of like this.

Yes. There's an epidemic of women lying about being raped. Yeah. Kind of like this.yeah. there's a few isolated instances of racism in both parties. i can find more racism of blacks supporting obamathan you can of whites supporting romney. and there are MANY cases of women lying about rape. so many that anytime isee a woman in a high profile TV rape case, i just automatically assume she's lying. and yeah....that's sad. but that'swhat this world has come to.

yeah. there's a few isolated instances of racism in both parties. i can find more racism of blacks supporting obamathan you can of whites supporting romney. and there are MANY cases of women lying about rape. so many that anytime isee a woman in a high profile TV rape case, i just automatically assume she's lying. and yeah....that's sad. but that'swhat this world has come to.Since you haven't proven any of what you said, I guess I'll just have to take your word for it.

Since you haven't proven any of what you said, I guess I'll just have to take your word for it. lol. do or don't. it's not worth my time bothering with either way. i don't really care aboutracism. it doesn't offend me in the least, no matter which side it's coming from. the more people thathate romney and obama, the better. whatever their reasons are, it's cool with me.

lol. do or don't. it's not worth my time bothering with either way. i don't really care aboutracism. it doesn't offend me in the least, no matter which side it's coming from. the more people thathate romney and obama, the better. whatever their reasons are, it's cool with me.Okay.Say hi to Thrash for me.

Okay.Say hi to Thrash for me.ok. i'll do that now.

Conservatives Turn America Into Another ZimbabweThe United Nations and other international organizations often send poll watchers to third world hellholes like Zimbabwe to try and stop the conservative forces of darkness such as dictator Robert Mugabe from using thug tactics to prevent voters from exercising the franchise Not much different from the jack-boot Rethughy bigots in this country Which is why the United States now needs international poll watchers to defend the once shining beacon of Democracys citizens and their right to vote. More of that conservatism turning America into a third-world has been.Folks over at True The Vote are whining because they won't be able to carry out their voter intimidation tactics unimpeded.Bill Ouren, True the Vote's national elections coordinator has repeatedly said with regard to his training program, that the job of his poll watchers is chiefly to make voters feel like theyre driving and seeing the police following them.I guess now that they'll have the OSCE (The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) observing them, they'll know exactly how that feels. ROFL

The United Nations and other international organizations often send poll watchers to third world hellholes like Zimbabwe to try and stop the conservative forces of darkness such as dictator Robert Mugabe from using thug tactics to prevent voters from exercising the franchise Not much different from the jack-boot Rethughy bigots in this countryFolks over at True The Vote are whining because they won't be able to carry out their voter intimidation tactics unimpeded.More DNC Disinformation. Ordinary citizens who want to prevent voter fraud are "jack booted Rethughy bigots?"Why would anyone feel intimidated if they were voting legally? I wouldn't have the slightest problem if volunteers were observing where I vote.The handwriting's on the wall. Voter ID laws are being upheld and will remain so for many years to come.Preventing Democrats from stealing elections as they're accustomed to.