Virginia Republican? I swear!
So if you are a Republican in Virginia and you want to vote in the primaries, you must take an oath and swear to vote for a Republican.
Are you watching Iraqis? Are you watching democracy the new American way? Are you seeing how we do free and open elections?
Hell of an example the state of Virginia Republicans are setting for the world to see. Are they that desperate or are they that insane? Don’t they see how this looks?
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Are you watching Iraqis? Are you watching democracy the new American way? Are you seeing how we do free and open elections?
Hell of an example the state of Virginia Republicans are setting for the world to see. Are they that desperate or are they that insane? Don’t they see how this looks?
(complete story here)
posted by pissed off patricia at 2:18 AM
31 Comments:
Yikes, sounds as if they're trying to get some new converts, ya know, the sheeple types. I'm sure there will be plenty who would follow through on this little exercise, willingly while waving the flag, or something or another!
Grrrrr! ; (
It's called desperation PoP. The thing is it is not enforceable under Virginia election law. It is just an attempt at intimidation of those that don't know the law.
Pretty ugly regardless.
How freaking sad is this. In the unlikely case that Dems had done this, can you imagine the outcry?
Wow, astounding.
Talk about control freaks. It can't be enforced, but what a message it sends!
I would have to say that are both desperate and insane. What the measure of each is I don't have any idea but as long as they lose, and the democrats get some general issue spines after 2008 I'll be happy.
An oath? Do Repubs know what that means?
Bush took an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States".
They are just words, it's not like they have any meaning (to them).
It's has become quite obvious that we aren't any better that anybody else in the world when it comes to elections.
Ours are just as rigged as anybody's.
One brick at a time.
What Randal said.
Will they get sort of tattoo on their wrist when they take that oath? Like in the Harry Potter books....the death eaters....you know, the mark of the GOP?
This vow should be treated like the promises we'll hear during the campaign. Made, but not made to be kept.
And this after teh rethugglikkins totally meddled with the Ned Lamont primary...
Well, it IS their primary. Anybody who doesn't want to sign can just vote in the Democratic Primary.
I'd swear and then vote for the Dem just because... how dare they! Besides, what are they going to do, check your vote and void it if you don't do what they say?
What a bunch of yahoos. I hate republicans and I'm not even American.
Just a reminder: Intra-party politics was never designed to be democratic and as far as I know, it never has been.
However, I still recommend you keep a shotgun handy.
I'm surprised that in addition to the oath they arent required to "adopt" an embryonic stem cell. Cheers!!
Who are they swearing an oath to? Dick Cheney? It's so idiotic that I'm actually glad they did it. It gives us all a nice look into the depth of their insanity. Chilling and weird.
How are they supposed to know who you voted for? Don't they have secret ballots in Virginia?
Idiots. And no, they don't "see how this looks," because they don't see reality, PoP. Otherwise, they'd prolly all commit hari-kari for what their party has done to our country.
More grist for the mill... and people wonder where sweeping generalizations comes from! Sheesh.
All I have is WTF?
That is crazy!
Drag it out into the light of day and laugh. Humor is best way to go after these morons-they have no defense against it.
"The only thing we have to fear is.... ummm, well, heh heh, the only thing we have to fear is, errr, ummm, our constituency voting for the opposition. Yeah, that's it. That's how we strengthen our resolve to work for corporate interests... err, the people. The work of the people. Watch democracy in action." – anonymous Republican consultant.
You know, the good thing you can say about this is that Americans always find a work-around... we can find loopholes in swiss cheese.
Probably.
Now watch this drive.
This is craziness. I hope people aren't buying into it.
I read this somewhere this morning. I am friggen stunned at this continuing crap. What the hell is next? I hope it friggen backfires on them along with everything else.
That tactic will turn away the moderates and leave the extremists with the reins to the party. That should hurt Giuliani and help Thompson.
I took an oath to no longer read about any Wingnut related activities.
Fucking dumbasses.
The "voters" who go along are the real travesty.
Wingnuts are the "Real Americans?"
Thank God I'm from another planet.
This way they would know exactly how many more add ons they would need to push the Republican vote over the top.
Fairlane~I like your latest profile pick.
any one stil believe in democracy?
it does not exist. not anywhere. not in america, not in the vatican, no where. so go figure!
about taking the oath, u can ask clinton what he did with his marriage and state oaths.
this is actually more historically frightening than anything so far done. the nazi SS had to swear personal fealty to hitler himself, not to germany. this is a semi-replication - to swear a (democratic) oath to a specific component of an organization.
Fascist idiots!
Great minds, PoP. I think I understand what they are up to. In Virginia, party members can vote in each others' primaries. I think the GOPers want to influence the Democratic primary, while discouraging Democrats from influencing theirs.
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