Politics & Opinion

By Scott Davis

Voting machines pre-programmed to register votes for incumbent Democrat Senator Reid; a democrat scheme to inundate the Bucks County Pennsylvania voter registration office with fraudulent applications for absentee ballots; even a Yemeni-based terrorist plot intended to derail the November 2 elections. It seems America’s new proclivity for early voting has also stoked a preemptive fire in the enemies of free elections.

The ominous prelude hints at a protracted and contentious election night – Chicago-style. Power will not change hands easily even well after the polls have closed on these critical 2010 mid-term elections. Expect multiple recounts, endless lawsuits, and the thwarting of military ballots to define the post-election proceedings.

I hope I’m wrong. It would be great to avoid the Al Gore ‘hanging-chad’ disaster of 2000 or the Al Franken Senatorial charade in Minnesota where the Saturday Night Live comedian ‘lawyered’ his way to defeating Republican incumbent Norm Coleman instead of beating him at the ballot box.

Personal attacks defined the Democrat strategy in the battle of political ideas leading up to this decisive election, a strategy amplified by liberal operatives at MSNBC, CNN, and other major media outlets. Expect that trend to continue.

Americans are hungry for jobs and Democrats distract with innuendo and insults. Americans want to take responsibility for their destiny and Democrats want to throw food stamps and unemployment checks our way.

Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, put it like this: “You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak, by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity, by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up, by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man, by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could, and should, do for themselves."

The Democrats have been playing the ‘dependence’ tune for a long, long, time.

Democrats may be known as the party of food stamps and unemployment checks, but their leadership lives an opulent off-camera lifestyle. On the campaign trail, President Obama attended a $30,400 per plate fundraiser in the California home of a top Google executive. According to Bloomberg News, Google has used paper transactions to shift $3.1 billion of its income to Bermuda and other low-tax havens in recent years. Obama mentioned nothing of this during his remarks to the well-heeled crowd as they filled his campaign coffers. The computer technology industry has given 66 percent of its political donations in the 2010 election cycle to Democrats. Of the top 10 recipients of political donations from the computer industry in 2010, nine are Democrats.

The Democrats are the party of the very rich manipulating the very poor; with each election they intend to broaden their base and narrow their ceiling. They have access to America’s wealth created by a productive middle class through their ability to tax. The stimulus plan conceived by Barack Obama appears to be simply a redistribution of middle class capital to Democrat political constituencies.

As I write this column on October 31 – Halloween – I can’t help think things could get much scarier after November 2 given the Obama administration’s belief "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," as spoken by former Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel.  Even if the alleged voting irregularities reported prior to the election are false or forgotten, there will be claims of voter disenfranchisement registered across the country with the potential to divide Americans as never before – and expect Obama to take full advantage of this crisis as he always does.