Wait...I forgot...we're doomed and all is darkness...

[WilliamPitt]

or something.

:)

Come on, folks. Let's keep our eyes on the main tent here.

1. We have now a House member, the ranking minority member on the Judiciary, declaring a full week ahead of time that he intends to object to the Ohio Electors. Before we get to whether or not this will put Kerry in the Oval, let us remember that doing this took courage on Conyers' part. I've seen eight billion threads on this forum for the last four years wishing more Democrats would spine up. Here is one. Appreciate it, and him.

2. We have a House member preparing a full-court press to get a Senator to co-sponsor his objection. Rev. Jackson and David Cobb will be joining this effort, and Conyers will be publishing soon what may become the definitive report on Ohio election fraud. Again, this takes courage, and that report will be a very important document. The full-court press, by the way, was absent in 2000.

Now, people here are going out of their way to say this is all pointless, because either A) No Senator will spine up and stand up (although your personal activism could help change that), or B) Even if a Senator stands up, the GOP-controlled Congress will do a straight up-and-down vote and end the whole thing after the testimony.

The people saying this are probably right. Probably. George will be inaugurated in January. Probably.

But I didn't get into this fight to get Kerry into the Oval. I always believed that was a long, long shot, yet noted that if I am proven wrong on this score, everyone in here will be drinking champagne on my dime.

I got into this to reform the way we do elections in this country. Nothing is more important; we will never ever be able to fix all the other problems if we cannot even hope to elect people who want to fix what we want fixed. Period.

Now, we have a leader in Conyers. In a few days, we will have an historic report from him describing, in detail, what happened. Now, we have a chance at getting a Senator to sign onto the objection, thus shoving this fight right up the nostril of the MSM, because if a Senator comes forward, that will be UNPRECEDENTED.

It may well not happen. If it does, it will probably get shot to pieces by the GOP majority. But I see too much of great import in this thing to throw up my hands and walk away. Giving up at this point is not just a bad idea.

It is immoral. Period.