Stalinists, murderer, & Ba$t@r&

Robert Pastoor of the American Prospect magazine links SoS Blackwell and US Rep Katherine Harris with the murderer Joseph Stalin and his "free" elections. Pastoor explains :

Stalin is reported to have said that the secret to a successful election is not the voter but the vote counter. There are three models for administering elections. Canada, Spain, Afghanistan, and most emerging democracies have nonpartisan national election commissions. A second model is to have the political parties “share” responsibility. We use that model to supervise campaign finance (the Federal Election Commission), but that tends to lead either to stalemates or to collusions against the public’s interest. The third, most primitive model is when the incumbent government puts itself in charge. Only 18 percent of the democracies do it this way, including the United States, which usually grants responsibility to a highly partisan secretary of state, like Katherine Harris (formerly) in Florida or Kenneth Blackwell in Ohio.

Blackwell may at times seem be too forthright for the normative political mode, but he is no committer of genocide on the scale of 60 million. While Pastoor probably means that Blackwell is a commissar of propaganda, or information-suppression, his sentence reaches beyond overstatement.

This extreme hyperbole remains a common theme amongst the loony left. For example, the losers of last year's presidential election have not feared to stoop to the level of insinuating that Blackwell is a murderer, the Evil GOP Ba$t@r& of the Month, or deserves to be executed by an electric chair.

This kind of hate speech only harms the speaker and, similarly, the DNC. Calm down everybody and debate issues and policy. Else the voters will continue to ignore you.
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