With Iran’s presidential elections set for June 14, Mohammad Yazdi, a clerical member of the Guardian Council — Iran’s constitutional watchdog — has said the constitution rules out women being presidential candidates. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current, two-term president of Iran, also is forbidden to run for a third term, but is advancing the candidacy of one of his aides.
The IRS admitted yesterday that the agency singled out approximately 75 conservative and Tea Party groups for special scrutiny and auditing in advance of the 2012 election. While the agency apologized for overstepping its legal bounds, there was no word forthcoming on who ordered the witch-hunt and whether those responsible will be fired or reprimanded.
Colorado Senator Owen Hill found the best “technical” words to describe a complete overhaul of Colorado’s election scheme. If signed into law, the bill would allow for the same lax standards of registration and voting as is currently written into Colorado law but extended to election day. For registration it’s merely the last 4 digits of a Social Security number if the registrant claims they don’t have a Colorado ID. For casting a ballot the standard is as low as an unspecified utility bill, a pay stub, or a bank statement. In theory a person could walk into a vote center give any four unverifiable digits, a “utility” bill and cast a ballot.
Must be the mountain-high dope they’re smoking up in Denver and Boulder. H/T Reveal Politics
Republicans tired of losing elections should embrace immigration reform, recapture the Latino vote and get back on a winning streak. That’s the advice of pundit Dick Morris who spells out the bleak consequences if the GOP cannot reverse the “identity politics” that have ruled the past two general elections.
“I didn’t want to run for office,” says Gigi Bowman, Liberty candidate for the New York State Senate. The Long Island native decided to run for office after Empire State pols passed sweeping new gun control legislation. What particularly irked her was the large number of Republicans who supported the law. “That was shocking,” says Bowman.
Bowman, editor of How to Run for Office on a Liberty Platform and head of Liberty Candidates, encourages citizens who prize individual liberty to step up and run for a local office. What positions do Liberty candidates take? “Sound money, free markets, individual liberty, constitutional government, and non-intervention in foreign policy,” she says. “Basically the same as Campaign for Liberty,” the group founded by her political inspiration, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
This just in. President Obama has created a commission to study election reform. “The Left is upset that the percentage of illegal aliens and other fraudulent voters who vote Democrat is stuck at 98 percent,” says Jodi Miller. In this week’s NewsBusted, she also revisits Hurricane Sandy’s devastation of Staten Island and the case of an unfortunate man stuck on the Disney “It’s a Small World” ride.
Bill Wgittle as The Virtual President concludes his 2013 State of the Union address by showing how voter fraud IS voter suppression, and by calling for a top-to-bottom reform of the US electoral system starting with the argument for Photo ID.
Got a spare $500,00 lying around? If you pony it up for President Obama’s revenge army, he’ll grant you a private, personal audience. What’s the money going for? To fund tax-exempt hit squads that Obama will be sending into the districts of incumbent Republicans to try to defeat them in 2014. Pundit Dick Morris explains the racket.
Yesterday, pundit Dick Morris outlined how President Obama won re-election not by attracting broad support for his socialist policies, but by ginning up fear toward the Republicans among a variety of special-interest constituencies. Today, Morris outlines how the Republicans can begin to win over those constituencies by lowering the fear factor.
How did Obama win re-election? Not by rallying the country around his policy initiatives, but instead by convincing a pack of ethnic and special interest groups that they ought to be terrified by the Republicans. Pundit Dick Morris here explains the con, and tomorrow he’s propose a possible counter-strategy.
