Last week, I wrote about how Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner smeared every Republican member of Ohio's Boards of Election. Now, liberals all over the blogsphere are smearing not only the Republicans, but the Democrats too. The most egregious of these articles, which have been hitting my email box since the weekend, is this nonsense from a blogger calling himself TomCat.TomCat titles his post, "GOP Destroys Election Theft Records in Ohio" but fails to provide any evidence what so ever to back up his bogus claim that it is Republicans who are destroying the ballots from 2004.
TomCat may or may not be from Ohio, so I'm going to assume that he is ignorant that each county board of elections is staffed by equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats. What TomCat alleges would require the complicity of Democrats on each of the boards of election wherein ballots have gone missing. How likely is that in the state that is so divided we are considered a deep purple state by most political observers who know what they are talking about.
What TomCat and his tin-foil hat wearing ilk would like to believe is that Ohio's election got stolen somehow, but every legitimate media outlet in the Great State of Ohio says that didn't happen.
The last thing that TomCat throws against the wall to see if it sticks is the age old "exit polls showed Kerry won" meme. Of course, exit polls are not elections. And again, every political observer who is worth reading will tell you that. Exit polls are notorious for having bad samples. It doesn't matter what the Univerity of Pennsylvannia discovered when comparing exit polls to election results...it is the election results that count.
Jennifer Brunner should make it quite clear that 2004 was not stolen and that Ohio's Boards of Election are not incompetent. Of course, Jennifer Brunner is the most partisan Secretary of State in Ohio history, so what is the liklihood that she will even defend the Democrats who are being smeared by this fantasy.
TomCat, put the bong down, man...
UPDATE: Who ordered that the ballots from 2004 be preserved? Ken Blackwell did. Hey, liberals, he was a Republican by the way, you might have heard of him... (HT: You know who you are... :)
Two exit questions:
1. Where is Jennifer Brunner on this issue?
2. How is it a GOP issue if the GOP Secretary of State stopped it and the Dem SOS isn't?
UPDATE 2: Ohio GOP Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine isn't letting Brunner off the hook either...
