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As Americans, we have pride in things that make us what we are. One of those things are us bragging about our having the most free and fair elections in the world. We offer to stick our noses into other countries’ counts because we always get it right… or do we?

On Tuesday, the Minnesota Supreme Court awarded the United States Senate seat to former comedian-Air America talk show host, Democrat Al Franken over the Republican incumbent Norm Coleman.

Now, let me open an old wound to set up my point.

In 2000, George W. Bush won the presidential election, but as the count was close, Al Gore’s team picked Florida as the place to go to war. Despite successfully having the absentee votes of hundreds of soldiers overseas tossed out, a selective recount in a heavily Democrat district, George W. Bush still won.

A point never recited by the “Bush stole the election” crowd was that over a dozen independent news agencies also monitored and (in some cases) recounted those ballots and Bush was still victorious. If only ONE news agency found a Gore win, don’t you think we would’ve heard about it?

I think so.

But to this day, the liberals still whine about “2000” as a stolen election. We’ll if what happened to Norm Coleman happened to Al Gore, I’d say they would’ve had a case, of course the left is gloating today because, like the spoiled children they are, they got their way this time.

When the vote was counted November fourth, Norm Coleman had a 725-vote lead over Al Franken. After the Democrats got to mess with things, toss out overseas absentee ballots again, and a few more recounts, Al Franken had a 312-vote lead that was certified by the Minnesota Supremes.

With that, I’ll make my points.

First, to our men and women overseas, let’s be real. The Democrat Party may indeed care about your safety and welfare, but they sure could give a damn about your vote as they routinely do everything possible to toss them out when necessary.

Second, between ACORN illegally padding voter registration with phantom Democrats, and now finding votes in Minnesota that weren’t there before, the Democrat Party should be the last people screaming about stolen elections and count-every-vote as they seem to be getting pretty good at one and aren’t very good about the other.

Lastly, I only think it logical that the integrity of our whole election system should be called into question.

How you can have a one thousand point swing from the first count to the last recount, means either that count can be easily manipulated to a desired outcome, or it wasn’t done properly in the first place.

Think about it. While the left declares Barack Obama has this huge mandate, he only won with 53% of the vote… or did he?