Steele: Democrats ‘basically hijack elections at their whim.’
Steele: Democrats ‘basically hijack elections at their whim.’
On his radio show last night, Hugh Hewitt asked RNC Chairman Michael Steele what he planned “to do to prevent strategic chicanery” of Democrats voting in open Republican primaries in 2012. Misunderstanding the question, Steele replied that he agreed with Hewitt that election fraud was a “frightening concern” because he believes that Democrats can now “basically hijack elections at their whim”:
HEWITT: What are you going to do to prevent strategic chicanery of the sort that you and I both know MoveOn.org and Code Pink and the rest of them are very capable of doing?
STEELE: Well, you know, I think you raise a very important and frightening concern here, and that is the Democrats have spent the last six to eight years building in place an infrastructure to allow them to basically hijack elections at their whim.
Listen here:
Steele claimed that Democratic secretaries of states are working with ACORN in a way “that basically land locks these elections in such a way that they basically walk out of the election with the votes that they need.” He added that “they have activities by groups like an ACORN, or individuals like George Soros through their funding, to help them augment the taking of these elections.”
Transcript:
HEWITT: Now Chairman Steele, I want to turn and look ahead to early 2012. Obviously, it’s three years away, it’s a long way away. But a lot of my listeners and I am worried the Democrats will flood Republican caucuses in Iowa and the Republican primary in New Hampshire, or any other early primary in which we do not restrict the vote to Republicans. What are you going to do to prevent strategic chicanery of the sort that you and I both know MoveOn.org and Code Pink and the rest of them are very capable of doing?STEELE: Well, you know, I think you raise a very important and frightening concern here, and that is the Democrats have spent the last six to eight years building in place an infrastructure to allow them to basically hijack elections at their whim. They started by focusing on targeting secretary of state races around the country. They’ve got a majority of those. And now when you have an ACORN situation flare up, what do you have, the secretary of state going well, there’s no problem here. I don’t understand why everybody’s all upset. Well, yeah, you’re part of a growing process that basically land locks these elections in such a way that they basically walk out of the election with the votes that they need. And the activity by groups like ACORN goes unnoticed. What I’ve started to do is focus our counsel, focus our legal opportunities around the country on exactly those behaviors, and we’re putting in place a strategy now to be competitive, shall we say, when it comes to protecting the rights of voters out there, and the process itself, protecting our candidates so we don’t have more Norm Coleman situations where votes are counted one way in one part of the state, and counted another way in another part, or they have activities by groups like an ACORN, or individuals like George Soros through their funding, to help them augment the taking of these elections.
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Republicans basically jumped the shark with George W. Bush.
Keep talking, Mikey!
July 1st, 2009 at 2:54 pmIf ANYONE knows all about election fraud, it’s the Republic party. They are first class experts and highly experienced in hijacking elections.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:55 pmWTF? Oh yeah. It’s always opposite day in Mickey’s head.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:55 pmOT: support courage to resist.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:56 pmhttp://www.couragetoresist.org
Ummmm.. Bush V Gore.
Idiot.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:56 pmAcorn and George Soros? Mr Steele must be getting his talking points from the same source as our trolls.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:57 pmLook out, Republicans! The ACORN census birth certificate muslim terrorist Hugo Chavez socialist Antichrist is coming to get ya!
July 1st, 2009 at 2:57 pmWow, it truly is amazing how dilusional they are. Making their own political problems about Acorn and Soros. It’s pathological.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pmTalk about projection!
Tell Me Please…Honest to F#$%KING GOD!
Why does Obama bend over backwards for these GOP bastards again????
July 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pmACORN: A seed that grows mighty Oaks, living over a Century.
NUT: Republics who can’t see a forest for the trees.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pmwow.
the party of projection strikes again…
well, can’t say they weren’t listening to all our gripes…
July 1st, 2009 at 3:02 pmthey’ve gone and made them their own, in that famous bizarro way…
I believe ‘hijack’ is not the word Steele was looking for. I think he meant to say “the Democrats have spent the last six to eight years building in place an infrastructure to allow them to basically ‘mobilize voters by letting them know which candidate more aligns with their stance on political issues” at their whim.” It’s okay Michael, we know you didn’t have access to children’s books in college to help you improve your english.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:02 pmTypical repug strategy – vociferously proclaim someone else is stealing elections while working diligently to disenfranchise voters, illegally strike hundreds of thousands from voter rolls (targeting by race), undermine the FEC and election laws, and gaming voting systems to manufacture fraudulent outcomes when the previous 3 strategies cited don’t work.
When repugs make noise about something, it is really a confession of what they are up to.
Unfortunately, the same media that told us chimpy “won” and we needed to “get over it” will now give this propaganda a great deal of coverate, but they will ignore ongoing repug efforts to steal elections.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:03 pm“Democrats have … an infrastructure to … hijack elections at their whim.”
It’s true! And I’m going share the deep, dark secret: it’s called “getting more votes than the other guy”. But don’t tell any Republicans or we’re toast!
July 1st, 2009 at 3:03 pmHaving lived in Ohio in 2004 when Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell made sure the urban precincts didn’t have enough voting machines Looney Toon Steele’s paranoid ravings make me smile.
As for Hewitt’s question, I don’t think he has to worry about liberals voting in Republican primaries. After all, the idea is to try to throw the election to a weaker nominee. That assumes your party actually has a stronger candidate who the voters might take seriously. With the collection of mossbacks, hunchbacks and retreads testing the waters on the Republican side right now I can’t imagine who we would be trying to stop.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:04 pmI’ve lived in farm country all my life and I’ve never seen a pile of male bovine generated fertilizer as big as what Steele just shoveled!
July 1st, 2009 at 3:05 pmThe Man of Steele strikes again, for (un)truth, (in)justice and the (un)American Way!
July 1st, 2009 at 3:05 pmWow, it truly is amazing how dilusional they are.
No a matter of whether they believe what they say, this is about “catapulting the propaganda” by aggressively attacking others for the actions that they are intensively working on.
Remember, without open, free, and verifiable elections, they don’t need majority support – they just have to justify the outcomes. This is just another way to create the lie of a “highly energized base” that “votes” in impossible numbers to swing elections.
And after the theft, the media will not question the integrity of the outcome – they will just talk about the “highly energized base”.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:06 pmI think he forgot that it’s the Republican Party that has a better history of doing just that. Dem’s can’t get it together like the party of lemmings.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:07 pmReally, registering Micky Mouse did not throw the election. When he showed up to vote, the poll workers recognized him right away and just gave him a cartoon ballot, so his write in vote for Goofy didn’t count.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:07 pmActually…in the runup to the 2004 Election, I wrote nonstop begging any techie liberals, progressives or Democrats to come up with a plan to steal the Presidency BACK…
It didn’t work, as we all know too well. And it was no satisfaction knowing Bush’s second term was the one where it all blew up. None whatsoever.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:08 pmTranslation:
July 1st, 2009 at 3:08 pmBOOHOOHOO, we are envious of your ability to mobilize at the grassroots level. All we can do is get big business to sponsor astroturf teabagging parties.
Reggie Says:
Acorn and George Soros? Mr Steele must be getting his talking points from the same source as our trolls.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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Either that or he IS one of our trolls.
Not like he has much else to do…
July 1st, 2009 at 3:08 pm“Steele: Democrats ‘basically hijack elections at their whim.’”
Gasp! Do I detest a bit of whining from Mike? Democrats “hijack” elections??? LOL Keeping talking Mike ’cause you tend to forget that your OWN party, Mike, hijacked and stole the Presidential elections twice and many of House and Senate seats for the past 8 years. The American people has spoken on November 4, 2008. We have a Democratic President and dominating Democratic Congress and now Senate. Build a bridge and get over it Mike.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:08 pm“Kettle, meet Pot” – (Pot) “You’re black!”
July 1st, 2009 at 3:10 pmshoeless! What! He told me he voted for the Duck…Geez Donald’s gonna be pissed…!
July 1st, 2009 at 3:10 pm…
amazing how mike steele
never gets much troll support.
….
why is that?
???
July 1st, 2009 at 3:13 pmOh, yes, the great and powerful Wizard of Soros. Booga booga!
Conservatives are always victims of the powerful and dishonest LIBERALS! Or, maybe, they just screwed up so much that pretty much everyone can see it.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:15 pmBut seriously, SteelyMike; Your Publican party is going to get thumped in 2010 and 2012 not due to anything the Dems are doing, but based on the votes that are being cast in Congress obstructing the progress that America wants and expects.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:15 pmSTEELE: I’m calling on all Republicans to boycott elections. That’ll show’ em.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:17 pmBlah, Blah, Blah WE
July 1st, 2009 at 3:17 pmBlah, Blah, Blah ARE
Blah, Blah, Blah IRRELEVANT
Oh look, *yawn* a republican said something mean about democrats…again. TP’s on the case….again.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Obama has lost his fcuking mind, proposing the most radical suspension of the rule of law and Constitution, seeking to create “an appropriate legal regime,” to override our legal and Constitutional rights.
Rachel Maddow slams our new, “Overbama.”
(ht to http://www.oldamericancentury.org/)
From “New world order,” to “Appropriate legal regime…” Why does every new catch phrase signal a major screwing to our rights??
July 1st, 2009 at 3:18 pmI wonder if Mikie remembers those voting districts in Ohio in 2004 that had up to 140 percent voter turn out and every voting precinct that had greater than 100 percent voter turn out went for the Chimp (source: Randi Rhodes). Michael Steele certainly epitomizes that famous Forest Gump line “Stupid is as stupid does.”
July 1st, 2009 at 3:19 pmHeh. Project much?
July 1st, 2009 at 3:20 pmSkepticRising Says:
Heh. Project much?
July 1st, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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your link doesn’t work much.
:|
July 1st, 2009 at 3:22 pmSteele should consider that the Republican party is welcome to go into urban neighborhoods and try to register voters to compete with Acorn. See how that works out for the Republicans.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:23 pm2000- 10,000 Jews in West Palm Beach vote for neo-Nazi Pat Buchannon.
2004- 250,000 people who cast ballots for a liberal black woman for Ohio Supreme Court also vote for George W. Bush.
Nothing to see there. Move along folks.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:29 pmI see Steele has the proper talking points down pat. The GOP rebuttal to virtually everything is “but…but…but…ACORN!” or “but…but…but…GEORGE SOROS!”
Steele hasn’t explained yet (nor has anybody else) how ACORN has ever perpetuated actual voter fraud. All we know about ACORN’s alleged “voter fraud” is that some of the ACORN workers turned in some obviously phony voter registrations, which ACORN was required to submit by law. However, to make things a little easier for the election registration people, ACORN segregated the obvious phonies and submitted them with a note saying something along the lines of “we believe these may be fraudulent”. There has been no recorded instance of any of these non-existent people on the phony registrations actually showing up to cast a vote illegally.
Steele would have us believe that ACORN’s stack of phony registration forms have resulted in stolen elections that secretaries of state have given a wink and a nod to. He’s going to have to do better than that. For instance, we need to have some specific examples of people who have actually voted illegally. Besides Ann Coulter.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:34 pmSTEELE: We’re putting in place a strategy now to be competitive by lining up great candidates like Sarah Palin, Mark Sanford, Mike Huckabee, and Joe the Plumber
July 1st, 2009 at 3:34 pmWatchdog:
In 56 of Ohio’s 88 counties, ballots and election records from 2004 have been “accidentally” destroyed, despite a federal order to preserve them — it was crucial evidence which would have revealed whether the election was stolen.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:39 pmWasn’t it buttplug limbaugh that urged his wingnut listeners to switch parties during primaries to vote for hillary clinton? And Steele like everyother GOPer will come up with any excuse to rationalize why they keep losing……Unless they cheat,(remember Ohio elections and ken blackwell or rigged voting machines) the rethugs cannot win because they are terrible at being politicians. They are Losers.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:40 pmReally, Mike — if we truly had the power to hijack elections at our whim, why in the world would we leave enough Republicans in office to obstruct our dream of a permanent majority and world domination?
July 1st, 2009 at 3:40 pmGuess Steele thinks THIS manner of Republican electioneering is good and proper, not “chicanery.”
July 1st, 2009 at 3:41 pmNo, but if you post his or her opinion, he or she is a right-wing extremist.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:42 pmIf the dems can hijack elections a will, how come they did such a bad job of it in Florida / the 2000 and 2004 prez elections ??????
July 1st, 2009 at 3:42 pmIt’s funny to see these guys utter the words “Acorn” and “Soros” in pretty much any context they can to whip up their base into a frenzy.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:44 pmIf a Judge doesn’t believe the constitution is an out of date document then he or she is a right wing extremist?
Yes, since your messiah, George W. Bush, proclaimed that it was “just a [censored] piece of paper”, we can safely assume that is the position held by right-wing extremists. Thank you for asking.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:47 pmWatchdog:
Obama was just utilizing the existing system, something republicans are very proficient in doing.
One shouldn’t get upset when someone who didn’t create the system is smart enough to use it to his/her advantage.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:47 pmAnd I see that some of us are continuing the mistake we made with Chimpy. Chimpy had a habit of saying things that made us feel good while doing things that were criminal.
With Obama, we apply the same trick with a different set of filters. In this case we see alarm over the implication of words that sound like Chimpy when the actual legislation or executive orders clearly reverse the mistakes of Chimpy.
The prisoners that Obama inherited from his predecessor might be the most dangerous crisis of the bunch. And, considering that the Democratic party would lose all it has gained if one prisoner is released and then carries out a horrific attack, it would be stupid in the extreme to act rashly. Plus? The fact of the matter is that cases are being slowly adjudicated and more releases seem to be on the way.
If one wishes to interpret Obama’s actions as “an insane power grab”? I can’t stop you. But, I don’t have to share that interpretation.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:49 pmACORN is terrible at stealing elections. Fraudulent registrations are a waste of time. They should do like the Republicans and just rig the electronic voting machines. It’s easy and so much more efficient.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pmYeah, remember when we put Gore in the presidency in 2000? That was great. Also Kerry 2004. Yeah…
July 1st, 2009 at 3:54 pmOops! You misspelled a word. It’s OK we know what you meant.
There, fixed it for you.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:56 pm…
mark anthony jacoby.
ann coulter.
:)
voter fraud is a serious issue.
thanks for the reminder doggie.
…
July 1st, 2009 at 3:56 pmEvery time this idiot speaks you just want to say STFU steele.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:58 pmBut liberals know better. Every time this dumb asskissing idiot opens his mouth it gaurantees more votes for the democratic party. Please keep up you pud.
ACORN is just another on the list of, largely mythical, entities that the Reichwhiners use to hide their shameful failures. By the next election no GOoPer will ever engage on the subject of Bushco. They are already setting the table.
The constant prattle of future Reichwing candidates will consist only of rants against: Obama, Clinton, ACORN, the ACLU, “librul media”, “activist judges”, gays, and abortionists.
The Dems can just dust off their old rebuttals, add a couple on ACORN, and their next campaigns are planned.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:58 pmRepublicans have become very concerned about election theft, now that it’s stopped working for them.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:59 pmwatchdog Says:
majii Says:
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Watchdog:
Obama was just utilizing the existing system, something republicans are very proficient in doing.
One shouldn’t get upset when someone who didn’t create the system is smart enough to use it to his/her advantage.
If that’s what you have to tell yourself to justify voting for a slimy back stabbing politician.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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how many times
did you vote for w?
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July 1st, 2009 at 3:59 pmJuly 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pm
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no wonder he won.
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July 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pmThis from the party that openly advocates another terrorist attack on American soil as a way to regain power.
The Democrats don’t need to steal elections. The Republicans lose votes every time they open their mouths.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pmMy guess, joe, is that most trolls don’t vote. They would have to actually mingle with “libruls”, or even a minority, at the polling place and that couldn’t end well.
Then there’s that whole thing where they think that it’s all just a “leftist conspiracy” anyway so, what’s the point?
July 1st, 2009 at 4:08 pm…
pete,
these days it’s a popular refrain.
after the war many germans
told american soldiers they
never supported hitler.
…
many american soldiers
didn’t believe them.
:::
July 1st, 2009 at 4:11 pmFor George W. Bush to get 56 million votes is some massive election fraud, considering you can’t find anybody who voted for him.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:12 pmThe Young Republican Racist posted his same Hitler speak post at the bottom of the Dick Armey thread. He needs to be flagged to oblvion.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:14 pm…
shoe,
and history repeats itself.
:|
July 1st, 2009 at 4:14 pm…
doodle,
it’s spam from a racist web site.
here’s the link.
i’m sure doggie is familiar with it.
:|
July 1st, 2009 at 4:18 pmYes the Dems are the ones who steal elections, wait what happened in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004? Oh yeah some shady election results in favor of Republicants.
Maybe the Dems fixed those as well to make it look like they really aren’t fixing the elections.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:28 pmWhen is somebody going to tell these folks to quit talking about what they have done and then trying to blame it on the Dems?
The only way they know about these shenanigans is from personal experience.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:38 pmRepublicans vote? Why bother, they buy everything they want.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:39 pmWow, the crazy just never stops with the Republicans, does it?
July 1st, 2009 at 4:48 pmHe’s like a conspiracy theory pez dispenser.
July 1st, 2009 at 5:08 pmRFK JR. article on Diebold:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11717105/robert_f_kennedy_jr__will_the_next_election_be_hacked/print
July 1st, 2009 at 5:09 pmWhen are the Democrats going to get some backbone. We need to take direct action against these people. Sorry, but I have to question the Democrat’s fitness to govern. Look at the articles here this afternoon. Health care, Franken, the census, Obama as ignorant on the economy and allegations that Democrats will just steal elections. There will be no push back from the Democrats. There is no attempt to expose the Republican scum for what they are. We see the Democratic Congress falling in approval with Obama’s fall to come soon. By the time the next election comes, the Democrats will lose control to the Republicscum.
July 1st, 2009 at 5:16 pmThe Stolen Election of 2004
by Michael Parenti :
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0302-21.htm
July 1st, 2009 at 5:21 pmSteven Freeman on exit poll accuracy:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/06/12/freeman/print.html
July 1st, 2009 at 5:33 pmSteele could back that up with proof – if he had any. If can’t, and he’s just shooting off his mouth again, he should be careful, he’s talking treason.
July 1st, 2009 at 6:08 pmMy guess is Mr. Steele’s just bitter that he has never been elected as a self-serving candidate for any office by the people. He’s either been elected to a Republican position or ran as a running mate.
July 1st, 2009 at 6:30 pmMikey is getting the hang of this “All lies all the time” scheme…Will an hour slot on Fox be far behind???
July 1st, 2009 at 6:46 pmstefan Says:
“Democrats have … an infrastructure to … hijack elections at their whim.”
It’s true! And I’m going share the deep, dark secret: it’s called “getting more votes than the other guy”. But don’t tell any Republicans or we’re toast!
Why do you think that the Republicans like to suppress the vote? When Americans VOTE, Americans WIN!
July 1st, 2009 at 7:26 pmPurple State Says:
My guess is Mr. Steele’s just bitter….
Many Republicans are bitter because they thought the Congress and White House were wholly owned subsidiaries of the party.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:06 pmCan we stop quoting Steele, who is an absolute idiot.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:00 pmJMOHR Says:
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When are the Democrats going to get some backbone. We need to take direct action against these people. Sorry, but I have to question the Democrat’s fitness to govern. Look at the articles here this afternoon. Health care, Franken, the census, Obama as ignorant on the economy and allegations that Democrats will just steal elections. There will be no push back from the Democrats. There is no attempt to expose the Republican scum for what they are. We see the Democratic Congress falling in approval with Obama’s fall to come soon. By the time the next election comes, the Democrats will lose control to the Republicscum
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JMOHR,
I sometimes feel the same way. Another possible angle is why spend the political capital and why acknowledge the diatribes. The response to the Republican crap is these blogs, and they serve a purpose. I suspect we are seeing a fundamental change to Democracy. Joe Citizen can express himself, and that voice has a resonance, no matter how small.
I enjoy reading and I give it my best to express myself. I feel a sense of obligation, and you can read that in so many others!
Make no mistake, the response to the Republicans is being made and the Republicans are hearing it.
Thumbs up to Think!!!!!!!
July 1st, 2009 at 10:30 pmDemocrats just don’t seem to get it. To be effective in politics simply identify your own weakness and accuse your opponent of that fault. If the accusation does not stick, they can at least that both parties are guilty.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:17 amHey Sambo- you have naturally brown eyes. You are full of it !!
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 amIF democrats have been doing what Steele claims, they learned if from some real pros i.e. the Republican Party.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:34 am