14,000 Votes uncounted

I'm listening to Charlie Sykes's podcast from Friday, 2011-04-08 (yymmdd, always!).

Apparently the leftist judge claimed a clear victory with only 206 votes' margin ahead of her opponent.

Then Kathy Nicholas, a competence-challenged voting official, realized that a clerical error had misreported the number of votes for the more conservative candidate. No "found ballots", no "uh oh, this voting machine had a short in it and the republican gets more votes", it was purely a number that had been written down and relayed incorrectly to the central voting committee.

Needless to say, the left has gone unhinged. Oh, by the way, the seven thousand vote gap in the other direction is now "too close to call." What is the matter with our left, that reality can change so quickly with them? It was not so when I was a liberal back in the Sixties. We were maybe a little nutty but in no way did we alter reality like that.

Want any other examples? Conservative talk radio hosts, back when Clinton was president, used to get a steady stream of callers (they didn't put all of them on air, of course, but it amounted to several a day) demanding that the host "Show respct to the office of the President. I don't care how you feel about Clinton himself, you dis him and you dis the office and you gotta stop that, now!"

They were, of course, seminar callers, or people who had heard other seminar callers and picked it up from them. The goal was to stifle all criticism of the democrat.

And then came G.W. Bush and the democrats who were so harshly demanding "respect for the office" totally vanished and left behind "well, he deserves it."

Totally gone was any idea that "respect for the office" meant anything. Totally gone was the underlying assumption that we're all better off when there's civil discourse instead of criticism.

Gag me with a spoon!

Addendum: Search for Wisconsin Kathy Nicholas election and read the hatred and the spitting and fuming and the calls for lynching and impeachment from places like HuffPo. Do you think these jackasses called for impeachments when Al Franken and his lawyers found four hundred new votes? (I always wondered how they assumed that the fourth count was more accurate than the first count. Answer: because they found more votes for a democrat.)