Traitors to the Constitution
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On Monday, WorldNetDaily featured a headline
describing how Democratic operatives steal elections
from Republican opponents.

According to sources we spoke with, several elections --
perhaps as many as seven or more -- have been "taken"
from victorious GOP candidates over a span of two
decades. Worse, the very tactics used to steal those
races are now being employed in an attempt to snatch
victory away from Gov. George W. Bush in the state of
Florida.

I've said this before, but it bears repeating: the modern
Democratic Party is little more than a bastion for
socialists, communist thinkers and usurpers of the
Constitution. If you're a Democratic politician and that
characterization doesn't fit you, then you ought to switch
parties.

That makes many Democrats betrayers of the
Constitution -- not the least of which includes the vice
president, first lady and House minority leader.

Consider:

Al Gore -- who has sworn to uphold and protect
the Constitution -- steadfastly refuses to
acknowledge the constitutional election process
that left him a loser in the Nov. 7 election. His
remedy is to "use the courts to enforce the will of
the people," but the "courts" have nothing to say in
this; the Constitution is the only legal precedent
Americans can use to determine the outcome of a
presidential election. And the Constitution is "the
will of the people" in this nation -- or, rather, is
supposed to be.

Senator-elect from New York, Hillary Clinton, has
openly called for elimination of the Electoral
College -- which is the sole constitutional authority
Americans use to elect presidents.

Mrs. Clinton has now been joined in that call by
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, who
has also sworn an oath to uphold the letter of the
Constitution and to defend and protect it with his
life, if necessary (don't hold your breath).

It is more than ironic to use the very same Constitution to
run for and win federal office, only to then turn around
and denounce it, call it "outmoded," and seek to change
it.

What is monumentally angering to millions of Americans
is the hubris demonstrated by just these three leading
Democrats. Most other Dems in leading positions are
equally guilty but less well-known.

I personally wonder -- who in hell are these people to
call for revising a document that has served this nation
well for nearly 230 years -- long before they won the
privilege of serving others in federal offices? By what
right and authority do they have to seek this change?
Where does their moral standing come from?

And, more appropriately, why is this an issue now --
because "their man" lost? Exactly -- which makes their
rantings more suspect, more hollow and more
hypocritical.

So far -- and just in this election -- WND and a precious
few other news sources have reported enough instances
of voter theft, fraud and intimidation that should make all
of us take to the streets and demand some accountability.

But you'll notice a strange phenomenon here in all of
these stories; not once have Republicans or the Bush
campaign been accused of violating the sacred (and
precious) voting rights of any American -- liberal or
traditionalist; black or white; minority or majority; left
wing or right wing or center aisle.

What does that tell you about which political ideology
supports the Constitution and the true "will of the
people," and which seeks to undermine it?

In one of the most telling examples of this difference, Sen.
John Ashcroft, R-Mo., who lost his bid at reelection to a
dead Missouri governor, actually has a right to contest
his loss because of rampant voter impropriety and
Democratic interference via the courts.

But rather than put Missourians through the hassle of
tearing down the state's credibility, he has honorably
conceded his "loss" and has decided to move on.

As state Democrats demonstrated Nov. 7, they would
have gone to court to overturn Ashcroft's victory, I
presume -- even if he had won by a wide margin --
because they had already gone to court to illegally have
voting centers stay open longer than legally permitted.

Such litigious activity belies the integrity of our very
constitutional electoral process and it corrupts the
political underpinnings of our society. By definition, such
activity is traitorous and, in my view, should be
considered as such.

As a Missourian and Ashcroft supporter, I am angry as
hell at what happened in St. Louis on election night. For
you see, Ashcroft won elsewhere but lost in St. Louis
County.

However, I am also encouraged by Ashcroft's
post-election behavior -- which has done nothing less
than to reinforce the many reasons why I supported him
in the first place. I knew he was a guy of honor.

No so for Gore or Gephardt -- another Missourian -- or
for Mrs. Clinton. Or Warren Christopher, William Daley,
and a gaggle of other Democrats who are now working
overtime to destroy the fabric of our constitutional
election process in Florida and probably elsewhere.

If you're someone who really believes that a popular
vote -- not a group of constitutionally-appointed electors
-- should decide who our president should be in this
republic; that Gore, Mrs. Clinton and Gephardt are right;
that stealing votes away from victors is "OK" for the
"greater good"; that using the power of the federal
government to illegally cultivate voters for your party,
then you also support the traitorous activity that has led
Democrats to co-opt the Constitution.

That's sad because such a wide ideological gap tends to
lead to most civil wars. While I don't support that, I, for
one, will not support a Gore administration garnered by
theft, chicanery, and subjugation of the Constitution any
more than I have supported the Clinton administration for
the same reasons.

Anyone who wins in such a way has no legitimacy.
Anyone who supports such an administration is a traitor
to the Constitution. It's just that simple, regardless of who
rightfully wins on Election Day.



Jon E. Dougherty is a staff writer for WorldNetDaily

Jon E. Dougherty