Kerry's Pre-Emptive Election Dispute Tactics

[Aristotle]

I am very disturbed by the extent to which the Kerry Campaign is pre-emptively preparing for challenging vote results in battleground states.

For example:

DNC ELECTION MANUAL: CHARGE VOTER INTIMIDATION, EVEN IF NONE EXISTS


Scanned copy of one particularly disturbing page.

"If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike."

The document also includes instructions to go find some local civil rights leaders to make statements for press releases about voter intimidation that the local newspapers will eagerly print.

I imagine the reason this got leaked is some people who work for the campaign with MORALS were so disgusted they hoped by leaking this manual they could prevent this heinous tactic from being used.

And then there is stuff like this. The Kerry campaign actually seems to be bragging about how gung ho they are- long before anything has even happened:

Kerry Looks to Avoid Gore Recount Errors

Six so-called "SWAT teams" of lawyers and political operatives will be situated around the country with fueled-up jets awaiting Kerry's orders to speed to a battleground state. The teams have been told to be ready to fly on the evening of the election to begin mounting legal and political fights. Every battleground state will have a SWAT team within an hour of its borders.

The Kerry campaign has recount office space in every battleground state, with plans so detailed they include the number of staplers and coffee machines needed to mount legal challenges.

"Right now, we have 10,000 lawyers out in the battleground states on Election Day, and that number is growing by the day," said Michael Whouley, a Kerry confidant who is running election operations at the Democratic National Committee

Does this kind of stuff concern anyone else?

[Daryonn]

This guy scares the hell out of me, he will stop at nothing to gain power and it has nothing to do with serving the American People.
Makes you wander just exactly what his agenda is!!!

[Pyrosama]

I think it's nothing more than supporting an uprise as a 'just in case we lose' ploy to keep options open. It's disgusting for any campaign to encourage insurgency in the face of defeat due to pure ignorance.

I use the word insurgency for a reason. That's exactly what this amounts to and it doesn't surprise me, but I am disheartened that many folks can't see the similarities with this and what the terrorists use as their main ploy in attempts to get their way. The message seems to be, "If you don't get your way, i'ts because the government fucked you over, therefore...time for insurgency."