Republicans don't care about democracy...just winning

Last Wednesday, the teabaggers gathered and decried Obama's "fascism".

Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state. Let's look at which party is more vigorously attempting to do just that.

After Democrat Mark Begich defeated Republican Ted Stevens for the U.S. Senate, federal prosecutors decided to drop their case against Stevens. Governor Sarah Palin decided that Stevens should get another chance to be Senator. Not in the next election...now.

"Many voters did not choose Stevens because they were told he was guilty, and now, after the election we see there was improper conduct in his trial, so how fair an election was that?" asked Palin, in an email to an Alaska Public Radio reporter. CNN has confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail.

"I agree with other Alaskans who would like to see an election that's free from improper influence, and I can't imagine how Mark Begich could argue that," she continued.

Palin told the Anchorage Daily News that she does not want to "split hairs" on whether Begich should resign, while agreeing with state Republican party officials calling for a special election.

Let's overlook the fact that Palin, with her grand omniscience, feels qualified to declare why people did or didn't vote for Stevens...but even if people did vote for Begich for "the wrong reasons"...who gives a shit? That's how democracy works. You can vote for someone because you like his shirt.

We don't retroactively change elections in America. If that were the case, then we should have vacated the 1972 election results when Nixon stepped down in 1974. McGovern should have become President. That didn't happen.

And there is a really good reason for that.

That isn't how democracy works.

Some might just write this off because it is Sarah Palin making the statement. But it isn't just Palin. It is the entire Republican party.

In New York, Republican Jim Tedisco ran against Democrat Scott Murphy in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Kirsten Gillibrand following Gillibrand's appointment to the United States Senate (which was vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton who assumed the office of United States Secretary of State).

At first, it appeared that Tedisco and Murphy were neck and neck. As the absentee ballot totals came in, Murphy took the lead.

First Tedisco tried to eliminate a load of Democratic voters. That didn't work.

Now he is trying to get a judge to declare him the winner...even though he has less votes in his favor.

In a ballsy move, despite being down by 178 votes at last count, Republican Jim Tedisco has petitioned Dutchess County Supreme Court to declare him the winner of the NY-20 Congressional post-election.

Not just that, Tedisco to alter the vote totals.

Tedisco is also asking the court to authorize recanvasing of all machine ballots to acquire the “proper” tallies. He would like them to reassess the validity of absentee votes already counted, and keep ballots challenged by Tedisco unopened.

He wants his challenges unopened. So nobody will know if the votes were actually for Murphy or not.

And the teabaggers call Obama a fascist?