Terry McAuliffe, 2021: Don't Vote for Glenn Youngkin, He Questions the 2020 Election
Terry McAuliffe, 2004: George Bush "Stole" the 2000 Election

Terry McAuliffe's chief line of attack on Republican Glenn Youngkin is that Youngkin is too "Trumpy." A main piece of evidence for this attack is that Glenn Youngkin talks up... election integrity. This, McAuliffe claims, is kinda-sorta like saying the 2020 election was stolen, and this is disqualifying.

So here's Terry McAuliffe in 2004 stating that Al Gore won the 2000 election but it was "stolen."

McAuliffe isn't the only hyperpartisan corrupt liberal Democrat who has flip-flopped on whether it's disqualifying to call an election "stolen."

Jake Tapper Virtue Signals to his leftwing viewers (including AllahPundit) that he won't have on any Republicans who question the 2020 election results, calling any suggestion of a tainted election a Hitlerian "Big Lie."

He wants you to forget he literally wrote an entire book claiming the 2000 election was stolen.

The former Democratic staffer's book was called, Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency.

Even CNN -- where Jake Tapper was working, even back then, as a panelist on a talking heads show -- gave his book a negative review and suggested Tapper was engaging in conspiracy theorizing, and furthermore, as a Tapper chryon would say, "Without Evidence."

What Tapper doesn't do is justify the title of his book. The tactics employed by both candidates may have been something short of pristine ethically, but the author offers no evidence of "dirty" dealings by either side. Did political convictions color their actions? Of course. Did they break the law? Probably not.

Was there a conspiracy by one candidate or the other to gain the White House by theft? If there was, Tapper offers nothing to prove it.

He does uncover one tidbit much more unsavory than anything that was seen on television during the recount. Citing a single source, he asserts that a post-election conference call among GOP "operatives" included a discussion of how to pump up the military absentee vote for Bush:

"According to a knowledgeable Republican operative, in the course of the conversation they discussed having political operatives aboard and near military bases encourage soldiers who had registered to vote - but hadn't yet done so - to fill out their ballots and send them in. Voter registration ID made it so they could identify not only which soldiers, sailors, and airmen were Democrat and which were Republican, but which were black and which were white. They would target the right ones."

If such an operation was carried out and the ballots were in fact included in the final tabulation, then laws were broken. But Tapper offers no evidence that anything came of the conversation. He even admits, in a postscript, that he didn't make his case: "Whomever you think the subtitle of the book applies to, we [Americans] are the ones who let him try to steal the presidency."

And meanwhile, via Logan Hall: The leftwing propaganda machine continues to have distinctly different rules about who is and who is not permitted to claim an election was stolen.

posted by Ace at 01:15 PM

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