My guess as to why we had 8 years of GW Bush

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/ne...ging_elections

Reminds me of Nixon and his "Dirty Tricks" department.

In his hilarious-yet-disgusting political memoir "How to Rig An Election," former GOP operative Allen Raymond and ghostwriter Ian Spiegelman lay bare his role in the Republicans' 2002 Election Day scheme to jam the get-out-the-vote phone lines run by the New Hampshire Democrats and some local firefighters.

Before anyone qualifies this is "some liberal clap-trap", be reminded that his guy worked directly FOR the Republic Party.

Raymond consulted lawyers about the phone-jamming scheme and as soon as they informed him that the clearly unethical act wasn't illegal, he quickly hired an Idaho phone-banking firm for the job. After unleashing 800 calls in one hour on the Democratic phone banks on Election Day -- a kind of denial-of-service attack, he received a frantic phone call from McGee himself urging him to stop the jamming because McGee had discovered that it was illegal

For me, this nails it to the wall:

Aside from these brutally frank assessments, Raymond's message is ultimately earnest: He tells Americans that the reason they got stuck with two terms of President Bush's megalomaniac administration is because "election operatives like myself and the kind of politicians who hire us have ensured that idealists can't win elections."

My mom (a dyed-in-the-wool Republican) thinks Democrats may be underhanded, but for me, Republicans ain't quite so clean, either. Personally, I'm not much of a fan of either group. At least, this explains why Bush won twice by little more than the skin of his teeth (first in Florida, and re-election in Ohio, both of which had to be counted multiple times).

Maybe I should run for President of the Galaxy again.......
At least, I know what's going on.