Liberal Democrats wouldn't dream of
organizing a voter registration drive
notes
Benny Huang wryly, at least not one
that wasn't guaranteed to be a net
win for their party.
White House College Reporter Day took an interesting turn last week when President Obama showed up unannounced
to deliver a speech to journalism students on the importance of voting
Democrat. He didn’t actually tell them to vote Democrat, of course—he
just told them to vote, though there’s no doubt which party he was
hinting they should vote for. The message was about as subtle as a punch
in the face.
The students were listening to Press Secretary Josh Earnest drone on
and on when the president suddenly burst onto the stage. Earnest feigned
surprised because, you know, everything in the Obama Administration is scripted. The audience’s reaction reminded me of the Beatles’ first Ed Sullivan Show appearance in 1964. I would not have been surprised if some of the girls had started throwing their bras at him.
Said Mr. Obama: “If you care about climate change, you care about
college costs, you care about career opportunities, you care about war
and peace and refugees, you can’t just complain. You’ve got to vote.” Of
course he didn’t say “you’ve got to vote for my party” though I think
that was implied.
… Obama knows this. He also knows he can use this issue to encourage young people to vote Democrat without actually saying the word “Democrat.” The
same could be said of the other issues he raised. It would be like a
Republican president telling an audience that if they really care about
overturning Roe v. Wade, protecting the Second Amendment, and
eliminating the death tax, they can’t just complain; they’ve got to
vote. I think most people would hear the implication of that statement
loud and clear.
But Democrats know how to make a partisan pitch sound like a
nonpartisan appeal for more civic participation. They don’t fool all of
the people all of the time but, with the willing complicity of the
media, they fool too many people too much of the time.
Obama’s exhortation to vote (Democrat) reminds me very much of my own
college days when I was almost bamboozled by the Democrats’ supposed
spirit of cooperation and their alleged zeal for getting people—all
people—to the polls. I’m not so naïve anymore. It was 2004, an extremely
contentious election year, and I was an active member of the College
Republicans.
The University Democrats were coordinating a voter
registration drive on campus and, as it turned out, one of those
students leading the registration drive lived down the hall from me in
the dorm. She asked me if the College Republicans would like to help
out. “We just want people to vote,” she said. “We don’t care who they
vote for.” I thought that sounded nice and fluffy so I raised the idea
at one of our meetings. People said the club was too busy and the idea
was shot down.
Looking back, I’m glad we didn’t participate. Was I really supposed
to believe that she didn’t care who the students voted for? Yeah, right.
That’s easy to say when the students were probably trending twenty to
one for John Kerry. That figure is just a guesstimate—I know of no hard
data on the voting patterns of students on my moonbat college campus in
that election twelve years ago but I think I can safely say that Kerry
and the Democrats won handily. People were literally crying when the election results rolled in.
Getting the College Republicans to help out with a voter registration
drive would only have given the Democrats more foot soldiers at their
disposal to get more students registered to vote (Democrat) while
simultaneously giving the effort a bipartisan gloss. If the political
tendencies of the campus had been reversed there’s no doubt in my mind
that the Democrats would not have agreed to spend their free time
registering hundreds of people to vote for George W. Bush.
I don’t mean to imply that the girl was lying to me. If she was
deceiving anyone it was probably herself. She had told herself that it
didn’t matter who her newly minted voters voted for but what she really
meant was that she didn’t care if a few people voted for another party
as long as the registration drive was a net gain for the Democrats—an
outcome that was virtually assured. She could therefore afford to mouth
platitudes about every voice being heard. It was selfishness disguised
as selflessness, which is something I’ve noticed liberals do very well.
Ever stop and wonder why they use the welfare office to register voters? The egregious 1993 Motor Voter law actually requires
the states to encourage welfare recipients to register to vote when
they sign up for benefits. Career bureaucrats have an incentive to scare
the wits out of welfare recipients with the specter of big, bad
Republicans taking their bennies away from them. The bureaucrats, who
are already loyal Democrats, want to make the welfare recipients loyal
Democrats too. As perpetual wards of the state, welfare recipients will
never in a million years dream of voting for anyone but a big government
liberal who will reward them for their loyalty with a large portion of
their neighbors’ property. Their participation in the electoral process
can tip the balance of power from the makers to the takers, which sounds
like a great idea—for the takers. Now you know why voter registration
is focused on the welfare office and not, say, down the hall where gun
licenses are issued.
Another one of these stealth Democratic get-out-the-vote campaigns is Rock the Vote, a laughably “nonpartisan” voter registration organization that focuses on the 18-24 year old demographic.
… Nothing liberal Democrats do is nonpartisan. Everything is designed
to gain them some kind of political advantage. They’re completely
unprincipled and they’ll do anything to advance their agenda. Voter
register drives are no different. They are always aimed at demographic
groups that Democrats think could be milked for a few more votes if only
they exerted more effort—blacks, college students, welfare recipients,
etc. Everything is calculated and nothing is left to chance.
If Democrats want to lead get-out-the-vote efforts, that’s fine; but
they should at least have the decency to call them what they are. It’s
called truth in advertising. They should try it sometime.
As I have said before, like many of the amendments to the constitution of the 20th century, the 26th Amendment may have been one of the most destructive decisions in the history of the American Republic.
