I Can’t Hear You Because Your Actions Are Drowning Out What You are Saying: GOP Outreach

I Can’t Hear You Because Your Actions Are Drowning Out What You are Saying: GOP Outreach


Challenge to American’s, go vote:

Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R) said that the voter ID law passed by the legislature would help deliver the state for Mitt Romney in November:

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly acknowledged as much with a defense of North Carolina’s new voting law, which has been criticized for its restrictions on access, among other things. Here’s Schlafly:

“The reduction in the number of days allowed for early voting is particularly important because early voting plays a major role in Obama’s ground game. The Democrats carried most states that allow many days of early voting, and Obama’s national field director admitted, shortly before last year’s election, that ‘early voting is giving us a solid lead in the battleground states that will decide this election.’

“The Obama technocrats have developed an efficient system of identifying prospective Obama voters and then nagging them (some might say harassing them) until they actually vote. It may take several days to accomplish this, so early voting is an essential component of the Democrats’ get-out-the-vote campaign.”

Phyllis later adds that early voting “violates the spirit of the Constitution” and facilitates “illegal votes” that “cancel out the votes of honest Americans.” I’m not sure what she means by “illegal votes.” Statistics indicate voter fraud is not an issue.

To be clear, everyone in the GOP is not out to limit voting:

Wisconsin State Sen. Dale Schultz (R) blasted his own party as "trying to suppress the vote" when they pushed through the Wisconsin Senate a series of measures to make it harder to vote in the state.
Schultz, who was not seeking re-election and was the lone Republican to oppose a bill last week to limit the hours of early voting in every jurisdiction in the state, was a guest on The Devil’s Advocates radio program on Madison’s 92.1 FM. Schultz was asked why his party pushed the bills, Schultz responded, “I am not willing to defend them anymore. I’m just not and I’m embarrassed by this...I began this session thinking that there was some lack of faith in our voting process and we maybe needed to address it. But I have come to the conclusion that this is far less noble.”

SCHULTZ: It’s just, I think, sad when a political party — my political party — has so lost faith in its ideas that it’s pouring all of its energy into election mechanics. And again, I’m a guy who understands and appreciates what we should be doing in order to make sure every vote counts, every vote is legitimate. But that fact is, it ought to be abundantly clear to everybody in this state that there is no massive voter fraud. The only thing that we do have in this state is we have long lines of people who want to vote. And it seems to me that we should be doing everything we can to make it easier, to help these people get their votes counted. And that we should be pitching as political parties our ideas for improving things in the future, rather than mucking around in the mechanics and making it more confrontational at the voting sites and trying to suppress the vote.

Then there is Sen. Rand Paul:

Sen. Rand Paul is now a disciple of the anti-voter ID movement, after the black pastors he met with on Friday showed him the way and the truth about measures that tend to decrease minority voter turnout. After meeting with the pastors, Paul shared the good news with Jeremy W. Peters of The New York Times: the GOP needs to "lay off" the whole voter ID laws thing, according to Peters. "It's offending people," Paul said. 

Paul has also come out in favor of restoring voting rights to ex-felons --- WOW, good luck with that.

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Time will tell how serious of an issue voter suppression becomes, it's an American Citizen issue.

“The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case”

"The very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affair, however little influence my voice may have in them."

"Democracy; the fools have a right to vote. Dictatorship; the fools have a right to rule."

Concerning GOP outreach: I Can’t Hear You Because Your Actions Are Drowning Out What You are Saying