Democrats Still Trying to Rationalize Stolen Election

Democrats continue to defend and rationalize the stolen election in Tennessee Senate District 22 in the pages of the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle. One reader opines:

Under law passed in 1972, Democrats and Republicans have absolute authority on who their party's nominee should be. The Democratic Party voided the Barnes-Kurita election due to numerous irregularities, including voters being misled by poll workers and a concerted effort by the Republican Party to influence the election.

I've argued this point for the past month on this blog. It's true the state Democratic Party had the right to do what it did, but it was a politically expedient decision that invalidated the choice of the voters in District 22. The party that admonishes Republicans that "every vote counts" is the same party that pulled off this act of political thievery. Democrats can try to convince voters and themselves it's not the case, but no amount of political correctness can mask the fact.

They don't like that Republicans voted in their primary, but they fail to mention there were only two candidates for the senate seat and both were Democrats. They must be reminded (obviously) that Republicans are still voters and in the state of Tennessee, voters are allowed to participate in whichever primary they choose. If a voter in Montgomery, Cheatham, or Houston counties wanted to vote for their representative in the state senate, they had to vote in the Democratic primary. I understand this must be a difficult concept for some Democrats to comprehend. As Dr. Seuss would've put it, "A voter is a voter no matter who he is."

Some Democrats by nature are conspiracy theorists. If anything goes wrong for them, it's the fault of Republicans. Back in the day, Hillary Clinton lamented "the vast right wing conspiracy" out to get her faithful and beloved husband. This particular Leaf-Chronicle reader rattles off the standard Democratic talking point that there was a "concerted effort by the Republican Party to influence the election." Yes, we admit it: every single Republican voter in the three counties got together at a clandestine hideaway and concocted an ingenious plot to steal the election away from the rightful candidate, Tim Barnes. O, the guilt is unbearable that we had the nerve, the audacity, the unmitigated gall to pull off such a dastardly usurpation of the democratic process.

That's funny: sounds just like what the Democratic state executive committee did to Senator Rosalind Kurita.