The Milwaukee county district attorney indicted five paid staffers for the Kerry campaign on Monday for their alleged role in the election-eve slashing of tires on twenty-five vans rented by the Wisconsin Republican Party. The Republicans intended to use the vans to drive GOP voters to the polls. Those charged in the underhandedness include the sons of the former acting mayor of Milwaukee and of a current U.S. congressman.

On Inauguration Day, protestors expressed widespread belief in the idea that the Republicans fixed the election. "I think that there was voter suppression, primarily in Ohio," a San Francisco man told me. "I think they stole Ohio," activist Darrell Anderson declared. "I think Kerry should have won." While these activists clearly demonstrated that they did not want Bush to win, they failed to cite any specific examples showing how Republicans suppressed the vote or rigged ballot boxes.

The criminal acts of Kerry's tire-slashing Wisconsin supporters were hardly isolated incidents. In Milwaukee, dozens of Kerry supporters, including one bullhorn-using Democrat, stormed Bush campaign headquarters and refused to leave when asked. In Madison, Bush supporters had their lawn signs stolen (hardly unusual in campaigns) and replaced with swastikas burned into their grass (very unusual in campaigns). The dirty tricks, coupled with the fact that thousands of same-day-registration votes for Kerry in Milwaukee can't be verified as legitimate, makes one wonder if John Kerry's 11,813-vote victory might have been otherwise had these felonies and misdemeanors not occurred and had the illegitimate votes not been counted. Don't expect those whining about imaginary voter-suppression in Ohio to raise any objections to the real voter-suppression in Wisconsin.

Whatever...they're just making up for what Conservatives did in 2000 in Florda, right? Two wrongs make a right, right?

The law doesn't apply to Liberals, so I hardly think this is abnormal; sadly, this is all too typical of the bahavior i'm used to seeing. For once, it's nice to see some justice being taken. I for one, would also like to see the assaults and harrassment from the AFL-CIO in Florida to be taken to court and prosecuted. They literally beat up two elderly people at Bush/Cheney HQ in pre-election rallies (not to mention the threats they hurled at Bush supporters who were volunteering).

Well, what would you expect the Dem/Lib operatives to have done? Everybody knows that they and and their candidate had been wronged by those low down, sneaking, fork tongued Republicans.

It doesn’t matter that there has absolutely been no proof of voter fraud and that America really did prefer GW over the whiner from Massachusetts.

Facts? They don’t need no stiiinking facts. Cause’ if reality doesn’t pass muster, they make up their own to suit themselves.