Watch Giddy Republican Congressman Confirm Voter ID Is Meant To Hurt Democrats

[Jim Lane]

7. Alas, this is not a smoking gun

It's perfectly consistent with the standard Republican drivel about voting fraud.

Do you remember 2012, when the "unskewed" polls showed Romney ahead, but then Obama won in the official count? Well, there are people on Free Republic who assert, with all sincerity, that voting fraud was the difference. There were busloads of illegal immigrants who were brought from one polling place to another, all voting fraudulently at each, and that's how Obama won. Some will add that it was orchestrated by ACORN, which of course had by then ceased to exist.

I'll note in passing that a lot of those people have guns. I wouldn't even trust them with a toaster.

Anyway, this Congresscritter's statement just riffs on the long-standing lie about voting fraud. Photo ID will make a difference because now all those immigrants can't cast multiple votes pretending to be someone else. The people who believe in the busloads-of-immigrants theory won't be swayed by this clip.