Bank robber Willie Sutton was once asked why he robbed banks. His famous answer was, “Because that’s where the money is.”
Sutton would be puzzled by today’s Democrats. They cheat, just as many politicians do. But the Democrats cheat in ridiculous ways with little material reward.
The most recent example is cheating in Alaska, as if that’s so far away nobody would notice. Here’s the story.
One of the Alaskan Senators is a Republican named Dan S. Sullivan. If rival Democrats could find another Dan Sullivan and put him on the ballot, they realized they might be able to confuse enough voters into mistakenly voting for the wrong one. That could split the “Dan Sullivan” vote and get their Democrat challenger elected.
Devious, you say? In the minds of the Democrats, that was a feature, not a flaw.
The Democrats scoured the state to find someone with the name Dan Sullivan. They found him. Only his middle initial was wrong. His name was Dan J. Sullivan, rather than Dan S. Sullivan.
He tried to get on the ballot with an “S” in order to heighten the confusion, even though his real middle initial was “J.” The Alaskans ballot regulators didn’t bite, but he did get on the ballot as Dan J. Sullivan. Close enough for some confusion.
The Democrat challenger is one Mary Petola, pictured above. Cute glasses.
Petola and her campaign swore they had nothing to do with “Decoy Dan,” as the impersonator is being dubbed. “Nevah heard of him,” they said. “We’re not involved,” they say.
Then Petola fired her Campaign Manager, apparently just for fun. The Campaign Manager thereupon called up the New York Times, and sang like a bird.
She told the NYT that (1) she plans to sue Petola’s Democrat campaign for wrongful termination (these Democrats are a litigious bunch), (2) Petola and her campaign completely orchestrated the entire Decoy Dan imbroglio (I’m shocked!), and (3) that the Campaign Manager had changed her mind about the facts she just reported ti the NYT, and wanted the NYT to forget the whole thing. (I suspect her lawyer was on the other line, warning her about violating her non-disclosure agreement.)
To their credit, the NYT did not forget about the whole thing. They did what newspapers are supposed to do; they reported it. And now, most other media outlets have similarly reported it.
Everybody is asking the Petola campaign for a statement confirming that they lied, or at least another statement containing the same lie. Petola is instead hiding behind a bushel of nothing-burger statements that neither confirm nor deny, whispering to herself, “Just hold out till Tuesday!”
Did the Democrats not realize that their scheme was high-risk? They’ve now discredited their Alaska campaign and also tainted (more) their overall brand. Willie Sutton would have advised against this high-risk, low-reward strategy. So why did they do it?
I have a theory.
Democrats are so wound up in their anti-Western Civilization crusade that they enjoy breaking the rules. They break campaign laws and honesty principles and decorum rules for the same reason they graffiti the subway, mug old ladies, burn Jewish delis, get high, and vandalize Teslas.
It’s not for the money or for any other material gain; it’s because it feels good. They’re psychopaths.
At least what the Democrats are doing is legal compared to two recent situations claiming non-citizens being on the voter’s rolls in California and Nevada. We will see where the DOJ lawsuit turns out in Alaska. Probably the same place it ended up in California and Nevada! In California, the DOJ had filed a lawsuit demanding that California segregate the ballots of about 20,000 individuals listed as potentially non-citizens. Judge Carter called the push a “monumental change” and a pattern of interference that risks creating chaos and disenfranchising eligible voters. In Nevada’s case, Mr. Mullin initially claimed that there were as many as 15,903 noncitizens on the voter rolls. But in a meeting between Nevada election officials and the Department of Homeland Security last month, department leaders admitted that their initial claim was unsubstantiated. That prompted some pointed questions from Nevada election officials, according to a video recording of the virtual meeting. On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.“As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens,” Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests. “You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise.” Maury Brochstein
Remember in the ’80s and the hip psych topic of the day was “Self Esteem”, and how we had to “give” our kids higher self esteem at all costs or else they’d end up as losers? Well, this is the result. We now have a generation of adults with very high self esteem who are psychopaths and feel great about it.