Laigle’s Forum

Candid Observations on 6/10/08 South Carolina Primary Elections

Upstate South Carolina rid itself of the Hillary Clinton of pennyante southern politics tonight, as Wendy Nanney withstood a remarkable onslaught of lies and misrepresentations from the Gloria Arias Haskins camp (as reported here) to defeat the open borders, voting privileges-for-illegals incumbent in the state House of Representatives, District 22 race (congrats to Wendy for a fabulous race, and for being a fabulous candidate).  And similarly mendacious Jim Ritchie appears to have gotten his comeuppance, as Shane Martin almost pulled off a majority in a three-horse race, and will be heavily favored in a runoff.  There were several other ingratiating results in this part of the state as well - as pertains to the minor offices.

But the news in the big races was not so good.

Lindsey (”we’re going to tell these bigots [ie proponents of border security] to shut up”) Graham, perhaps the only individual more reviled in South Carolina conservative circles than John McCain, defeated challenger Buddy Witherspoon by a 2 to 1 margin statewide.  This is far more remarkable than the 33% or so McCain got in “winning” the SC presidential primary a few months back.  Even here in the upstate, where I listened to hundreds of talk show callers the last few weeks and didn’t here a single caller express anything less than venom toward the RINO Senator, he somehow managed 48%.

And just as bad, Rep Bob Inglis, whom I encountered awhile back at a downtown Greenville townhall meeting where he told a hostile crowd that if we didn’t positively revel in the lock-up (for 11 and 12 years) of border agents Ramos and Compean (and consequent shutting down of effective border security) for taking their jobs seriously, then we were guilty of being unpatriotic, won by a similar margin over challenger Charles Jeter.  Making matters worse, Inglis is as much a global warming idiot as McCain, Obama, or Al Gore, adamantly opposing drilling in ANWR or anywhere else, or, for that matter, refining oil.

To rub all this in our faces, Inglis beamed in his victory speech that it was his (America-destroying) energy policies that won it for him (Jeter is a strong advocate for massive domestic drilling and refining).  My question: where are all the folks who, like my family, are going deeper and deeper into debt paying $4 and up per gallon for gas that’s under a dollar in the countries where the politicians let companies drill?  Where was the outrage over the draconian restriction on domestic oil production I’m hearing all over the local airwaves and everywhere I go around the area?  And where is all the outrage that showed itself in that 95% anti-Inglis crowd that turned out at that town hall meeting?

For that matter, where are the folks who cause the opinion polls to give congress that 14% approval rating?  Surely, if there is anywhere in the country that such low esteem should translate into defeat in the primaries, it should be here in South Carolina, where Graham and Inglis have been publicly spitting in our faces to the extent they have.

Could it be our old, friends, the Diebolds?

I suspect so, more so than ever.  Perhaps they don’t turn elections on their heads.  Maybe they just skew them mightily.  Perhaps where a Nanney can win, say, 80% of the vote (as the local yard sign ratio would indicate), the conservative can still win, with credit for maybe 62%, after the tallies are “laundered” through the computerized monstrosities.  On the other hand, a Jeter or a Witherspoon cannot hope to win, as their margins are much smaller, within the grey area where victories or near victories become sound defeats.

Just wondering out loud, but I’d like someone to explain to me the irregularities and peculiarities described above under any other scenario.  Either I’m the nutcase Charlotte talk host Keith Larson painted me to be a few months ago in my appearance on his show, or there’s something real here.

The bottom line is, after long and diligent research, I uncovered practically nobody who knew anybody who knew anybody who knew anybody who’d voted for McCain in SC.  Yet he “won.”  And ditto for Lindsey Graham, yet he “won” by a huge margin.  And everything I hear about these mysterious unverifiable voting contraptions tells me they’re eminently tamperable.

And we’re stuck with the “worst Senator” in America (or his inevitably overtly Marxist November Democratic opponent? - I’m voting for independent Mark McBride, for what it’s worth) and a congressman who wants to fiddle while gas prices and the general inflation and economic hardship that are consequences of gas prices cause America to descend into depression and chaos, and claim that his fiddling is precisely what appealed to 2/3 of the upstate electorate.

See our petition for observed, hand counted paper ballots by November on the SaveAmericaSummit website soon.  And make me the butt of your lunatic fringe jokes.  I’m going to do what I can till I breathe my last breath.

Epilogue:

1    In the case of yesterday’s Lindsey Graham “victory,” I’m being asked to believe that the vast majority of South Carolina Republicans don’t care one whit about the illegal immigration invasion qua colonization.  (If there’s one person in the Senate on record as siding completely with the hostile takers over of America and scornful of those who oppose them, it’s one Lindsey Graham.)

2    In the case of Bob Inglis, we’re being told that even in the ultra conservative upstate, South Carolina Republican voters not only don’t care at all about the above isue (I was there when Inglis told a packed house of seething citizens that they weren’t patriotic if they didn’t share his delight in the jailing - for long stretches - of border guardians who dare act like border guardians), but also don’t give a hoot about gas prices, and believe that “fighting” a blatant chimera known as “man made global warming” is worth putting at high risk their families’ very survival.

Now you tell me who’s the “nutcase” - someone willing to swallow these evident whoppers whole cloth, or one who questions - in the light of these remarkable inconsistencies and the fact that Diebolds have been found to be easily hacked - the inner workings of totally unverifiable mechanical machinery in the hands of a government that has betrayed us countless other times.

Again, watch for a petition soon @ http://www.saveamericasummit.com/ on returning America to observed hand counted paper ballots.

My cyber John Hancock:

Charles Lewis

Moderator

Save America Summit

National Outreach Director

Christian Exodus

South Carolina Director

Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

South Carolina Coordinator

America’s Independent Party

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