Reply #41: The Ohio Recount Really Doesn't Mean All That Much [View All]

[Harlan James]

And honestly, I'm beginning to believe we'd have been better off without it.

The only way this thing is going to turn around is if some truly courageous and conscience-stricken soul emerges from the bowels of Diebold or some such vile place with an arm full of tapes and computer chips that prove beyond a doubt that the election was fixed. And the odds of such a smoking gun miraculously appearing at this late a date don't appear so hot to me.

The numbers that are being recounted are post-fix. This recount is the equivalent of going back into the barn to search for a horse that left a long time ago. This is an after the fact exercise that will only appear to prove the GOP contention that those complaining about the Ohio election result are foolishly wasting both the taxpayers' dough and the time of those who have to do the actual counting.

Dig it, daddy-o. They're recounting numbers that have already been screwed with. A recount does nothing to change that. In the end this exercise will only serve to give credibility to the cause of those who could very well have fixed the presidential election of 2004.