Being A Democrat Means Never Having To Say You're Guilty

Case in point: breaking election law:

During the closing days of the 2002 election, Chuck hired a phone vendor to flood the firefighters union and the Democrat Party headquarters with thousands of phone calls, thereby jamming their phone lines and rendering their get-out-the-vote operation useless. It was a clever scheme. It also, apparently, was illegal. And Chuck has been sentenced to seven months in a federal prison for this ill-conceived scheme.

It would be nice to think that Chuck McGee's swift and aggressive prosecution is the result of a new level of seriousness on the part of those authorities responsible for policing political shenanigans. Enforcing existing laws has always been a better deterrent than passing new ones. Look no further than the ridiculous McCain-Feingold campaign finance law to judge the efficacy of that statement.

And yet, a paranoid devil on my shoulder is whispering into my ear. He tells me that there exists a double standard on these matters; one that grants special dispensation to Democrats and Democrat-affiliated groups. For example, we now know with certainty that Democrat politicians benefited mightily from Election Day malfeasance last November. According to a report issued last week by the American Center for Voting Rights:

... ACT, ACORN and the NAACP Project Vote, were engaged in a coordinated "Get Out the Vote" effort. A significant component of this effort appears to be registering individuals who would cast ballots for the candidate supported by these organizations. This voter registration effort was not limited to the registration of legal voters but, criminal investigations and news reports suggest, that the voter registration effort also involved the registration of thousands of fictional voters such as the now infamous Jive F. Turkey, Sr., Dick Tracy and Mary Poppins. Those individuals registering these fictional voters were reportedly paid not just money to do so but were, in at least one instance, paid in crack cocaine.

Despite the chilling revelations in the report, not a single network news program has bothered to cover it. Nor has the Washington Post, the New York Times or any other major paper.