You Just Don't Get It, Do Ya Phyllis (and Mike and Rob and Ken)

I'm amazed by the number of Republicans who forget that the "real" (i.e., fake) reason for all the recently-passed voter suppression legislation is to stop fraud, not actually suppress the vote.  Most Republicans, when asked about these laws, state that the reason GOP legislatures are restricting the vote in states like Pennsylvania, Texas, and North Carolina is to stop rampant voter fraud (which, by the way, doesn't seem to exist anywhere).

But every once in awhile, a Republican comes clean about the real reason these laws are being enacted. Last summer, Pennsylvania Republican House Leader Mike Turzai actually boasted that voter identification efforts in that state were designed to suppress the Democratic vote, stating that Voter ID “is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.” Well, that didn't happen, although Pennsylvania’s Republican Chairman Rob Gleason recently bragged about how the GOP “cut Obama by 5 percent” in 2012 and “probably Voter ID had helped a bit in that.”

Last June, Texas Tea-Bagger Activist Ken Emanuelson said:  “I’m going to be real honest with you -- the Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they’re going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.”

And now we can welcome Radical Right-Winger Phyllis Schlafly to the party. In a recent WorldNutDaily column, Schlafly explained why North Carolina's new voter restriction laws are necessary:

The reduction in the number of days allowed for early voting is particularly important because early voting plays a major role in Obama’s ground game. The Democrats carried most states that allow many days of early voting, and Obama’s national field director admitted, shortly before last year’s election, that “early voting is giving us a solid lead in the battleground states that will decide this election.”

The Obama technocrats have developed an efficient system of identifying prospective Obama voters and then nagging them (some might say harassing them) until they actually vote. It may take several days to accomplish this, so early voting is an essential component of the Democrats’ get-out-the-vote campaign.

Astounding amount of truth-telling there, Phyllis.