Thursday, October 07, 2004

Republicans Have No Sense of Humor

Leave it to the GOP to get riled up about another Michael Moore stunt. Moore is traveling the nation's college campuses encouraging student to vote this November. As an incentive, he's offering "rewards" such as clean underwear and a package of Ramen noodles. As one might expect, the humor impaired GOP functionaries in Michigan are calling for Moore to be prosecuted for, basically, vote buying. This ignores two salient facts. First, Moore is not (as I understand) telling the kids who to vote for, only to actually get out and vote. Second, a person must receive "something of value" in exchange for his or her vote. Now, honestly, what's the value of one pack of Ramen noodles? 19 cents? That hardly counts, does it?

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