Democrats Continue Criminal Registration

September 29, 2004

The plot may be thickening on the story I reported to you in this column last week. We first reported here that the NAACP has been visiting the Nashville jail and signing up inmates to vote. That fact has been confirmed by Davidson County Sheriff's officials. The story has now been picked up by nationally-read Internet site NewsMax.com. They believe the NAACP/inmate story just might be a piece of a much larger puzzle, one that creates a disturbing picture. Why register criminals? Who better to help steal an election?

 

In a recent edition of their “Insider Report,” NewsMax reported on a scheme by the Democrats to influence the outcome of the November presidential election through a network of 527 groups. These groups, backed by people like billionaire George Soros, were setting aside some $160 million toward voter registration. Now, NewsMax is reporting that the amount has ballooned to $300 million. That's twice what the two candidates will receive in federal matching funds for the fall campaign!

 

Apparently, their efforts are paying off.

 

An analysis conducted by The New York Times of county-by-county data shows that in Democratic areas of Ohio new registrations since January have risen 250 percent over the same period in 2000. These are primarily low-income and minority neighborhoods. That compares with new registrations in Republicans areas being up just 25 percent. There's nothing wrong with registering people to vote, mind you. It just depends on how you're going about it. It depends on how overt these registration drives are and how many covert operations, like the one at the Nashville jail, are being played out all across the country.

 

Steve Rosenthal, the head of the 527 group Americans Coming Together, or ACT, told the New York Times, “I think what's happening on the streets, below the radar, is what's going to make the big difference on Election Day.” He boasted that by Election Day these left-wing 527 groups will have registered two and a half million new voters. How many of those will be criminals?

 

Is this enough to change the outcome of the election? It could be if we have another close one. However, as we move into the home stretch, it's beginning to appear unlikely that we'll have a repeat of 2000, but anything can happen.

 

Kerry's problem is far deeper than voter registration. According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, the so-called gender gap has evaporated. When asked which candidate is a strong leader, overall respondents to the poll picked Bush over Kerry 58 to 32 percent. Women picked Bush by a margin of 54 to 35 percent, within the poll's margin of error. Why? Because women are more concerned than anyone about terrorism. The new buzz term is “security moms.” These security moms aren't just worried about terrorism. Women also pick Bush over Kerry on the issues of Iraq, the economy and who is best to handle our relationships with other countries.

 

As the liberals continue to scrape the bottom of the barrel at our nation's jails in search of “Inmates for Kerry,” the law-abiding citizens are breaking for Bush. The Kerry campaign is a campaign of fear. Those campaigns rarely work. People want to hear your ideas. They want you to articulate your goals for your presidency. Kerry has done none of that.

 

But the Republicans can't sit back and wait for the President to glide to re-election. With this massive voter registration drive underway in our nation's jails, Republicans need to be registering voters from legitimate sources. Or, in November, it could be a case of the inmates running the asylum.