Deja Vu All Over Again?

As the special election in Massachusetts nears, one can't help getting the sick feeling that we've already seen the outcome which, if the Republican doesn't get at least 10 percent more than the Democrat, is foreordained: The Democrat will win. Oh, it might take a recount and several court interventions, but in a close election, they will "find" the votes to make the Democrat the winner. They always have.

There are many examples of this over the years, the most recent being in Minnesota where the comedian Democrat eked out a controversial "victory" after the votes we all in and "counted" and where he at first had lost, then additional votes were "found." A similar outcome happened in the Washington gubernatorial election just a few years ago. There it looked as though the Republican had won, but hold the phone, after a suspicious recount and court intervention, surprise, surprise, ---the Democrat won. A few cycles ago the same thing happened in South Dakota where the "Indian reservation" vote mysteriously was delayed until democrat election officials knew just how many more votes they needed to elect their man and, shock of all shocks, they found just enough. In state after state, election after election, all the close wins have gone to the Democrats. One would be very hard pressed to find a single senatorial or gubernatorial election where a republican has won by less than five percent. In those cases even the most "progressive" Democrat election officials didn't feel confident enough to "find" that many.

How can this be explained? There have been many articles and books published on this subject. They detail the dead voters, bussed-in voters, ballot box stuffing, ballot spoiling, and many other techniques these enlightened progressives use to impose their will on all of us. They also cite numerous statistical experts to point out the absurdly low probability that all close election would go the the Democrats. They also point out that the Democrats get a great advantage if they can get an election into the court system since they have "owned" most of the judges for years. But this doesn't explain why Republicans continue to accept these tainted results. There really is no good answer to that question other than Republicans tend to be too polite to engage in the barroom brawl tactics needed when you are grappling with election thieves. Somehow the republicans don't have the stomach for such fights and simply step aside, conceding even though they know the election was stolen. This only emboldens the vote stealers for the next cycle. Massachusetts will likely provide the next opportunity to see if the party has grown a spine or if we will simply bend over and take it yet again.