by Lance Thompson

It has long been a Democrat tactic to accuse Republicans of whatever unprincipled, illicit or deplorable act that they themselves are about to perpetrate. This tactic has been repeatedly employed with great success, and is about to pay off with the grand prize of the Presidency.

The Democrats paint themselves as champions of free speech. The broadcast news networks, MSNBC, CNN and the major newspapers and news magazines all support the Democrats. Only FoxNews and talk radio are free of liberal bias, yet even these outlets are unacceptable to Democrats. Thus, Democrats plan to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine, a regulation that requires media outlets to present balanced views. This regulation will not be applied to the already liberal-leaning news outlets, but to talk radio, whose conservative voices the Democrats cannot bear. Democrats ask for votes to protect free speech even as they plan to muffle conservative voices.

The Democrats pose as friends of the working man, touting the Employee Free Choice Act as evidence. But the Free Choice Act is precisely the opposite, removing the requirement of a secret ballot from union elections. Under the Free Choice Act, union representatives can confront employees, not only at work, but in public or at home, and coerce them to sign cards in support of joining a union. The Democrats, who have the overwhelming support of unions and their pension funds, are no friends of employees, but are the bought servants of union bosses.

For years, Democrats have fought to ease or remove identification requirements for voting. Accusing Republicans of trying to disenfranchise minorities, Democrats have passed legislation that allows people to vote without identification, without a permanent address, without pre-registration. With each new statute, the validity of elections is eroded.

The Democrats have steered taxpayer funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). ACORN is the group that Barack Obama strongly supported, steered funding to, and worked with as an attorney during his community organizing days in Chicago. ACORN’s co-founder, Wade Rathke, was a member of the Students of a Democratic Society, the organization from which the terrorist group Weather Underground sprung. ACORN is currently under investigation in fourteen states for fraudulently registering voters who are already registered under other names, already registered in other states, deceased, or don’t exist at all. The long-term campaign to ease registration requirements make possible the wholesale manufacture of bogus votes. The votes ACORN manufactures are Democrat votes. Thus, as Democrats ask for your vote to fight disenfranchisement of minorities, they are in fact using your votes and money to disenfranchise you.

Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden, along with the usual Democrats in Congress, have blamed the current financial crisis on rampant deregulation during the Bush years. Vote Democrat, they say, and they will restore the regulations that will repair the economy. In fact, it was over-regulation that caused the housing crisis in the first place. The Community Reinvestment Act, passed under Carter and enlarged under Clinton, coerced lenders to make loans to people who could not pay them back. Incidentally, they were helped with this coercion by the people at ACORN. Over-regulation forced banks to make risky loans, yet the Democrat solution is still more regulation.

These Orwellian tactics–seeking to take away our rights under the guise of protecting them–have been part of a long-standing and effective campaign to seize power. Seizing power is also something the Democrats accuse the Republicans of, because that is what the Democrats are about to do. They will defraud the American electorate, secure the White House and Congress, and fill the judicial branch with liberal judges. The direction of the country will be decided for at least a generation.

Ordinarily at this point, I would say that’s why this election is so important. Unfortunately, our side is limited to only one vote per person.