I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Garden:  just read your post about your interview.  So sorry it didn't work out, but it's good that you've made the decision not to accept what sounds like a bad situation.    A five hour interview - how incredibly draining.  Something much much better will come along. 

HL, I was about to post that myself. My only comfort is that I know he won't win. Still, it makes one shudder. To think that we were a country that condoned torture for 8 years....

After WWII, we executed Japanese officers for water-boarding allied prisoners.  Water-boarding is also against the Geneva Convention. 

HL - that's a nice story.  Nice that he took the time with your DH.   At times, McCain is/was an honorable man.  There were moments during the campaign I thought he had sold his soul.  When he had to fight for his Senate seat in 2010, he turned a little crazy, but he was always against torture.

Rachel Maddow is superb tonight.

Some have speculated Rand Paul - but only speculation.  This should not be something one can keep secret...it's our government!   If I wrote someone a PM and threatened to report them to a Mod (for them merely posting replys to my posts) - would that be out of order?  We don't do that here, do we?

Romney-tied Voter Registration Firm caught registering dead people.  Same firm, under a different name, ripped up Democrats Registrations in '04 and '08 in many states.

Though Republicans in FL and NC have now disavowed their relationships to Sproul, the GOP in VA, NV, CO and CA have not. Neither has the Republican National Committee or the Romney Campaign. 

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9592 

HL - liked your story about McCain.  I had liked him before he ran for president, honored his stance against torture, respected that he stood up to W.  I did feel like he compromised far too much in his bid for the presidency, although at least he had the guts to tell a women that she was wrong when she called Obama an Arab -guts that Romney certainly doesn't have.

That article is sssoooooo good. Thanks, Mary.

Just read the article Mary.  Wow!

'Morning all - Kam's article is just too important. I am reproducing excerpts here. Great find, Kam:

"The North Carolina Republican Party has fired the shady voter registration firm owned by Mitt Romney's paid political consultant and longtime GOP operative, Nathan Sproul. The firing came as Democrats in the state were on the brink of denouncing the Republicans' tie to the operative's firm.

The state GOP joins the Republican Party of Florida, which also fired Sproul's company (who accounted for the party's largest 2012 expenditure, some $1.3 million over the last two months) after more than 100 apparently fraudulent voter registration forms were turned over to the FL State Attorney in Palm Beach County on Monday for investigation. The BRAD BLOG first reported the emerging story in detail on Tuesday.

The firm, Strategic Allied Consulting, is the latest creation of Sproul, a longtime, high-level GOP operative whose companies --- including Sproul & Associates and Lincoln Strategy Group --- have been accused of destroying Democratic voter registration forms and changing information on them in election after election, in state after state, year after year. He was hired for similar operations by Bush/Cheney in '04, by McCain/Palin in '08 and by Mitt Romney's campaign late last year.

When the FL GOP fired Strategic Allied on Tuesday night, they noted that the firm had been hired "at the request of" the Republican National Committee. On Wednesday, during our exclusive interview with the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Election Susan Bucher, she described some of the "similarities in the signatures and certain characteristics in the applications that were very disturbing" on registration applications collected by Sproul's firm and turned in to her office. Among the "disturbing" defects on the forms, addresses of existing registered voters changed "to commercial buildings or addresses" and, "in some places, they were changing political parties."

Bucher stressed her concern that voters were likely to be disenfranchised by the effort when showing up at the polls on Election Day, only to find their address has been changed, removed or moved to another precinct entirely.

The firm is still said to be operating in key battleground states like Virginia, Nevada and Colorado, where a young lady who may have been working for the contractor was caught on a disturbing viral video tape published over the weekend. The young lady, who was hired by "a third-party contractor" retained by the Colorado State Republican Party, as their Communications Director confirmed to The BRAD BLOG on Wednesday, is seen on the tape asking a potential registrant whether she would vote for Obama or Romney before she would allow her to fill out a voter registration form."

More at Kam's link.

Rememnber the hoopla over Acorn - how the GOP in the House tried to break Article I of the constitution by passing a law explicitly for ACORN?

It's another Rove ploy - accuse the opposition of what you're doing.  So the Republicans scream about voter fraud and introduce all these Voter ID laws which suppress valid voters while they are perpetuating the true voter fraud.  Now if we could just get the media to properly cover this.  But it's complicated, it's not a sound bite so there are few that bother.

What a totally crappy morning.  Got up and ready for work.  My husband decided he was going to drive me in and we'd stop for breakfast somewhere - have a relaxing morning.  Well, that got shot out of the water fairly rapidly.  We should have been suspicious when we noted that the garage light was out (we have an extremely bright light that is on all night)...  Anyway, someone stole the wheels (and tires, of course) off our truck.  So....  as it's a mile and a half walk to the train station, I'm telecommuting today while hubby deals with the police, insurance company, car rental agency and who knows what else.  UUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

DAMN - gardengumby - just DAMN - and that person knew the VALUE of what he/she took.  JUST. DAMN.  Hope you get restitution quickly without too much damage to your insurance premiums.

MART, MARY, MARY - what a fabulous letter.  I'm a signer too.  When I watched the video online, all I could sputter back at the computer screen was "You DooFuss, what do you thinking being President of the USA is, easy???"  Jeeziepeezie, if running is too hard, what about SERVING in the Office????"  Auuggg......

HL - THANK YOU TO YOUR DH - what a wonderful thing to do!  John McCain was, sometimes still is, but mostly was, a brave person.   

I heard the chair of the FL RNC declare how honest and forthwright his party is for firing the firm when the anomalies were discovered. Then he said of course "the other side" wouldn't have done that because they WANT to cheat! AAAAARRRRRGGGGG! The real reason they fired the firm and disowned themselves from the fraud is because they GOT CAUGHT red handed!