Joe Doakes from Como Park emails<\/p>\n
All the polls showed Hillary winning in a walk.\u00a0 When she didn’t, her original claim was the Russians must have hacked into electronic voting machines to change vote totals.\u00a0 When that was disproved, it changed to collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign to steal Hillary’s emails and thereby persuade Americans she was a crook.\u00a0 When that didn’t pan out, it changed to Russian “meddling” in the election by placing Facebook ads and fake news stories to mislead voters.\u00a0 If the Democrats lose in the midterms, they’ll insist it wasn’t their fault, it was the Russians<\/a>.
\nWhen Liberals lose, they have three arguments:\u00a0 we must not have gotten our message out because if we had, sensible voters would have agreed with us [see also “What’s The Matter with Kansas” by Thomas Franks – Ed.]\u00a0<\/em>; we did get our message out but the voters are stupid, racist, haters bitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles; or we got our message out and persuaded the voters but due to some outside force like weather or confusing ballots, we wuz robbed.
\nThe Russian hack and Russian collusion claims are variations on We Wuz Robbed.\u00a0 The Russian Meddling claim is Voters Are Stupid (because they fell for fake news).\u00a0 Frankly, it’s all a bit insulting.\u00a0 I got their message, I understood it, and I rejected it because their policies are bat-s**t crazy and their candidate was an evil witch.\u00a0 And that’s the real problem – Liberals can’t acknowledge those as valid reasons to vote against them because doing so would mean Liberals themselves are crazy.\u00a0 Nope, can’t be that.\u00a0 Must be the Russians.
\nNow, about the recent fiasco in Texas, where Democrats were predicting a Blue Wave and had a record turn-out only to find Cruz had an even bigger turnout . . . which excuse will Liberals use?
\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\nRussians.\u00a0 If only because the shelf date on Serbs passed 15 years ago.<\/p>\n
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