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More and more reports are surfacing which set the stage for a contested presidential election. Some facts:

    -- Both sides have already dispatched thousands of lawyers
        who are going to be on site at key locations to contest
        results. One report indicates there are more than 2,000
        lawyers in Pennsylvania alone!

   --Massive “get out the vote” efforts have raised serious
        questions of voter fraud. For example, a liberal consortium
        has spent $100 million on voter registration. But who is
        being registered? George Will reports that one Ohio county
        has more registered voters than adults over 18!

Here’s what is really happening…
    --It is now clear that Dems are working a pre-emptive
       strategy to set the groundwork for contesting the election,
       should Kerry lose.

For example, Jimmy Carter and others are already on record contesting the legitimacy of Florida’s voting process. If Kerry loses, this state will almost certainly be contested.

And Kerry is planning on declaring victory, even if he doesn’t win on November 2 -- in an effort to avoid Gore’s 2000  mistake. According to the Associated Press on 10/21:

“Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency.”

   --Voter fraud can come in many, many forms. Here’s an
       example I received over the weekend from a very reliable source.

Liberal workers were canvassing an Iowa precinct and encouraging elderly folks to vote early. When the worker found out the person was voting for Bush, the worker encouraged this person to fill out early voter forms for other voters in the household. This person filled out forms for her husband and another family member and signed them.
 
Just one problem -- you cannot sign a ballot for another person! This means the votes of the other two people would have been invalidated! Fortunately, this person was made aware of the hoax and went to the voter registrar and corrected the problem.

If this election is close, we will have some level of repeat of 2000.  I still say it is unlikely that we will see the same level of post-election chaos as four years ago. Still, grassroots citizens must be ready to mobilize quickly in the hours and days following November 2.

Steve Elliott

Okay, I want to go on record with this before the election so I can rank with the great political pundits of our day (or at least have some bragging rights!). For the record, I’m writing this on October 13, just under three weeks to Election Day.

Kerry will lose on November 2.

I guess you could say that I have about a 50-50 chance of being right on that point. And if I am right, about half the pundits will have the same bragging rights as me.

But I’m going to go one step further and tell you WHY Kerry will lose. It has nothing to do with President Bush or the debates or Iraq or the economy or jobs. Well, all those things are indirectly related to the outcome. There is a deeper reason why Kerry will lose and it’s obvious if you will just take a moment and step back from the situation and look and see what’s happening.

Here it goes…

Kerry will lose because there is the equivalent of a “celebrity death match” going on in the Democratic party. This celebrity death match is between the old ruling family and the new family that wants to unseat them. The outcome of this election is less about Bush-Kerry than it is about Clinton-Kennedy.

That’s right. The old ruling family, the Kennedys, is desperately trying to re-establish itself as the greatest political family in Democratic (American?) history. It is threatened by two other families – the Bushes and the Clintons. The more ominous threat is the Clintons. The Clintons have dictated Democratic politics for more than a decade now, but a bigger threat looms. If Hillary were ever to be elected Prez, the Clintons would certainly usurp the Kennedys as the greatest polticial family in Dem history. It would be unprecedented – a husband and wife tag-team presidency!

Teddy Kennedy is the main reason why John Kerry is in the position he is in right now. Remember back one year ago? Kerry was lagging in fourth place in Iowa. His campaign was all but over. Money was drying up. He had no momentum. Then, he replaced his entire campaign leadership team with… you guessed it…. Teddy Kennedy cronies. Kennedy took over. Kennedy won Kerry the nomination. Kennedy was by Kerry’s side every step of the way through the primaries. And should Kerry win, the junior Senator from Mass would still be in the pocket of the senior senator from Mass. Kennedy would be Kerry's "daddy." Make no mistake about it. Kerry would owe everything to Kennedy.

It’s obvious to all by now that the Clintons aren’t exactly thrilled by the idea of Kerry delaying Hillary’s run for the Presidency in 08. Bill and Hill have said the right things, but there’s no effort to really defeat Bush from the Clintons. Let’s remember that Bill is the best political strategist of this era. He’s the man. He knows how to win elections. But he basically has stood shoulder-to-shoulder with W on Iraq – the big issue for Kerry.

So it’s a celebrity death match. It looks like Kerry in the ring, but there’s the Teddy, Bill, and Hill over in the corner, pulling hair, gouging eyes, knees to the groin. Whatever it takes. Bush-Kerry is really Clinton-Kennedy. And that’s why Kerry will lose.

Steve Elliott

On Thursday, (September 30), Grassfire confirmed that Michael Moore was scheduled to receive $35,000 of taxpayer money to speak at George Mason University (Richmond, VA) on October 28th as part of his “Slackers Uprising Tour.”

Outraged that a public University would allocate taxpayer monies to bring someone as radical and anti-American as Michael Moore to the campus--especially that close to Election Day, Grassfire immediately contacted University officials and demanded an explanation.

When we were left with more questions than answers, Grassfire took action and carefully explained to University officials our plan to launch an email message to more than 600,000 conservative voices urging them to direct their personal outrage and anger to University President Alan Merten, and VP of University Relations Helen Ackerman.

Specifically we wanted to know what was behind such a decision and misappropriation of funds, and who the University planned on hosting from the opposite end of the political spectrum prior to the election.

After hearing our plan, quickly dismissed herself saying, "I will pass this information on to the President."

++ Grassfire Douses Moore?

This morning, FoxNews reported that GMU had pulled the plug on Moore's visit. In fact, University spokesman, Daniel Walsch said “We just felt it wasn't the most appropriate use of (public) funds, so we decided the best thing to do was cancel.”

Did Grassfire help douse the Moore parade? We certainly can’t take full credit for GMU’s about face, but we’d like to think that the threat of Grassfire action brought this University back to its “right mind.”

OK, Kerry held his own on a night that the President could have delivered a knockout blow. In fact, by attacking the war in Iraq like he did, Kerry set himself up for a knockout blow from the President.

Here's what the President could have said to deliver that blow:

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"Saddam Hussein took us to war once before. In that war, young Americans were killed. He went to war in order to take over the oil fields. It wasn't just an invasion of Kuwait. He was heading for the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. And that would have had a profound effect on the security of the United States. This is a man who has used weapons of mass destruction, unlike other people on this Earth today, not only against other people but against his own people. This is a man who tried to assassinate a former president of the United States, a man who lobbed 36 missiles into Israel in order to destabilize the Middle East, a man who is so capable of miscalculation that he even brought this war on himself. This is a man who, if he was left uncaptured, would have continued to be able to organize the Ba'athists. He would have continued to terrorize the people, just in their minds, because of 30 years of terror in Iraq."
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Such a statement would have refuted everything Kerry said last night; established the justification for war; established Iraq's threat to the U.S.; established Saddam's use of WMDs; establilshed that Saddam, not Bush was the cause of the war; and established Iraq as a haven for terror for three decades.

But here's why I really wish the President had made that statement....

Because these are JOHN KERRY'S WORDS! He said these exact words to Tim Russert on Meet The Press on January 11, 2004.

That was Kerry's knockout blow to the Dean campaign. A strong uppercut that dropped Dean to the ground.

I wish Bush had memorized that statement and delivered it.

Election over.

Steve Elliott