You can't be offended if you have no pride

More evidence of the theft of the 2004 election.

Jesus, it just keeps piling up, doesn't it? Kind of like it means something...wait! I think I almost see it...no, no. I lost it. It's gone.

Guess everything was fair and square after all.

Enough bullshit: here's a few rebuttals to the apologists for GOP thievery in politics:

"Kerry and Gore sucked and it's their own fault the vote was close enough to steal."
This is loser talk. Do you know why your team always loses at sports, love, and politics? Because you let it! Republicans love this aspect of Democrats' characters: we resign ourselves to being (self-)victimized and, the whole time we're getting waled on, we dream of the perfect world wherein millions will come to our rescue for no reason at all, or if only things were "different." You're in the party, or as Danny Aiello's new inlaws from Moonstruck (I'm a confident heterosexual) would say, "don't you understand--you're part of the family now." So like it or not (and I'm guessing you don't), you have to do the dirty work to get where we want to go. Kerry was your candidate. Gore was your candidate. You let them down. YOU fucked up. Action=result. Write it down. Dream it. Eat and live it. Wank to it. Repeat.

"Let's get better candidates for next time and just forget about the vote fraud. It won't happen again."
OK, chief. If somebody robs your home and he came in through a window, why don't you buy some new, big, thick doors for your house? That might prevent the next break-in--you fucking retard. Just ignore the problem, Einstein--surely it will go away of its own accord?

"Oh, the election wasn't stolen, that's just politics--this kind of thing happens all the time. JFK did it. So did Grover Cleveland. Nothing to worry about, la la la la la la la...."
Go throw yourself down the stairs. This is a reprise of self-victimization, just with the cover of tough guy, don't-be-a-crybaby rhetoric. This is like saying "Hey, I like to lose! And, the more unfair an election is, the better I like it! Now, who can play dirtier than me?" The answer, stupid, is "somebody can." Relativizing the things that are changing our democracy into a monstrosity only helps accelerate the process. "Other people did bad things and therefore bad things are now good" is not an acceptable argument. If it were, I would not be writing this, but rather I would be out burning down Republicans' houses. But you see, here we are.

2008 promises to be compelling, if only for its potential to feature civil war breaking out when a GOP candidate who polled less than 40% prior to the election wins with 65% of the vote. Should be fun for all the Democrat bottoms out there, anyway.