Stealing Elections

For John, BLUF:  I just received an EMail from Mr Jon Rainwater, Peace Action, asking for peaceful protests tomorrow in honor of the election outcome as reported.  Mr Rainwater is apparently unaware of the fact that a lot of his fellow Citizens think there has been fraud in the vote counting.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Don't Forget LBJ's Election Theft

Here is the sub-headline:

The mainstream pro-Biden media is poking fun at Donald Trump’s suggestion that there could be fraud involved in the post-election receipt of mail-in ballots.  Apparently they’re not familiar with the election-theft case of Lyndon Johnson, who would go on to become president of the United States.

From Zero Hedge, by Mr Jacob Hornberger, 5 November 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

The entire matter is detailed in Robert Caro’s second book in his biographical series on Johnson. The book is entitled Means of Ascent.

Johnson election theft took place in 1948, when he was running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate against Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, one of the most admired and respected governors in the history of the state.

There is little doubt that LBJ played hard ball.  Otherwise, we might not have had the Civil Rights legislation of the mid-1960s.  But, that does not justify the fact that he stole an election.

As to the 2020 Election, Mr Rainwater may well be correct, that the ballot counting was all on the up and up.  However, if it was not, and it was reasonable to expect Mr Rainwater to understand that, then it is reasonsble to dismiss Mr Rainwater as a partisan hack and a fraud.  Or, at least, suffering from a serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Regards  —  Cliff