Conservatives feud over Santorum endorsement

From the right-wing Washington Times courtesy of the Daily Kos:

A leading evangelical and former aide to President George H.W. Bush said he agreed with suspicions voiced by others at the meeting of evangelical and conservative Catholic activists that organizers “manipulated” the gathering and may even have stuffed the ballot to produce an endorsement of Mr. Santorum over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

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“The organizer was for Santorum, the person who created the invitation list was for Santorum, the emcee was for Santorum, and after making sure all of the Gingrich people had vented early, the last three speakers before the vote were for Santorum,” he said.

Added a Gingrich supporter, a prominent social conservative who asked not to be named, “My view is that the vote was manipulated.”

Yet another evangelical political organizer who attended the meeting said he witnessed a possible incident of ballot-box stuffing. In at least one instance, the witness said, a participant was seen writing Mr. Santorum´s name on four separate ballots and putting all four in the box.

More here.

Oh, this is funny and sweet! Live by the sword, and all that. The irony here is delicious. Of course, conservatives don't understand irony, so I'm sure it's utterly lost on the participants in this fundamentalist caucus, but ironic it is.

Just to spell this out a little if you're only a casual observer: modern day Republicans don't give a shit about democracy. From dirty tricks, like anonymous phone calls to voters in black districts telling them to go to the wrong polling places or that the election is already over or that it will be taking place on the wrong date, to ramming gerrymandered districts through state legislatures, to voter ID laws aimed at suppressing minority votes, to electronic ballot machine tampering, to straight up judicial interference, like with the inexplicable Gore v. Bush decision of 2000, Republicans have over the last decade or so shown utter contempt for the notion of one man/one vote.

They hate democracy, hate elections. I mean, that makes sense when you're absolutely certain that you are one hundred percent correct with your political analysis: Republicans are going to do the right thing, and voters be damned. It even makes more sense when you believe you're working for God. And, lemme tell ya, every single one of these fundamentalist idiots, Protestant and Catholic alike, believe they have God on their side. So any action is permissible. Especially vote tampering and event rigging. I mean, what's a bunch of voters compared to the Almighty?

Really, I'm sure that what pisses these anti-Santorums off so much is that they didn't think of it first.

Well, too fucking bad. You guys made your bed years ago, and I think it's only fitting that you now have to lie in it. Heh. Same thing with all that super PAC money coming in, money that was supposed to target Democrats, not Republicans. Cannibalize yourselves. I'm loving it.

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