Call it a Dem receipt for Florida 2K:

A Republican Fairfax County supervisor is warning that more than two hundred absentee ballots from members of the military could go uncounted in the county because of a technicality.

Patrick Herrity said Thursday at a press conference that county Registrar Rokey Suleman II has set aside two hundred fifty-five federal write-in absentee ballots because they were submitted without a witness address.

A witness address is not required on a normal absentee ballot. But Suleman says it is required on federal write-in absentee ballots typically used by military members. He says they are following the letter of the state law.

In a statement circulated by GOP presidential candidate John McCain, Representative Tom Davis, R-VA, chided Suleman for excluding the ballots at a time when some county officials have been making efforts to register inmates at the county jail. [emphasis added]

Y’know, beyond a certain point, a civic Rubicon if you will, anger and outrage gives way to despair. The rule of law, including election law, only works when ALL parties observe, respect, and obey it. The Democrats - witness Ohio Donk Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner’s brazen endorsements of vote fraud, and Barack Hoover Obama’s “EveryMan” small donor list with such average, ordinary, every-day, lumpenproletarian names as “Bart Simpson, Family Guy, Daffy Duck, King Kong, O.J. Simpson and Raela Odinga” that would be not just garishly obvious evidence of illegal campaign finance fraud but laughable as well - are openly making a mockery of it. They’re OPENLY EVISCERATING ELECTION AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS and getting away with it with impunity. Why? Because the sheer volume of law-breaking would overwhelm the criminal justice system if it was all pursued, and even if election authorities around the country cherry-picked cases, it would take far too long to prosecute them to deny them the prize their perps are taking short cuts to capture: power. Once they’re in power, they can lean on election authorities to drop the cases. And, of course, in The Chosen One’s case, nobody’s going to get on his back about his serial fundraising frauds; hell, he could be getting million dollar cashier’s checks from Osama bin Laden himself, and nobody would utter a peep about it because his election is too “historic,” too “tingle-inducing,” too gosh darn VITAL TO THE REDEMPTION OF THE COUNTRY’s SOUL to blaspheme by bringing up such picayune details as his fundraising apparatus being worthy of a RICO investigation. So Barry O gets his enough dough to practically (and redundantly) buy his own freaking network, convicted felons get the right to vote (Democrat) they were supposed to have forfeited by their own criminal actions, and several hundred more men in uniform (who tend NOT to vote Democrat) get disenfranchised.

Maybe a country that tolerates such outrages, much less elects to power the creatures that perpetrate them, deserves to be economically and militarily destroyed. I just wish my family and friends and I, and all others who didn’t choose the disasters to come, didn’t have to be condemned to the outter darkness with it.

[h/t: Media Lizzy]

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Pawlenty is a no-go.  Jindal, no-go.  A lot of other names, like Portman or especially Romney, are driven by staff and consultants - not by Senator McCain. Lest we forget: it’s his opinion that matters.

Mitt Romney’s qualifications place him in the hopper for Treasury Secretary, far more so than as potential Veep.  Does anyone honestly believe that John McCain is going to willingly anoint Mitt Romney as his successor? As his potential #2? As leader of the GOP?  As the party’s presumptive nominee in 2012 or 2016?  Team Romney is persistent, if nothing else.

Sure, McCain may pick Romney - but that would be seen as a panic-driven, pandering choice to the donor class and staffers looking to pull $10,000 a month.  If you think that sounds crazy, look at the Romney expenditure reports.

McCain’s ‘maverick’ streak may lead him to pull in someone scandal-free but with access to their own national network to augment his own.  The elephant missing in the GOP primary was George Allen, who famously macaca-d himself out of re-election & a presidential bid.  However, dark horse Virginian Eric Cantor could easily tap into the network Allen was building from 1993-2006.  Allen had strong ties into Orange County, CA money that fell to Romney by default.  Not just conservative cash - but Bush Pioneers that have yet to pony up. Think “movement” + Pioneers + New Majority + Lincoln Club.

In previous cycles, the GOP nominee raised one in four dollars in California.  McCain has Schwarzenegger and his fundraising machine, but in a donor state like CA - there is more than one set of Top Tier folks in the ‘underwriter’ class.  By underwriter, I mean Billionaires that routinely Co-Chair inaugural committees and Host Committees.  These are folks who don’t talk to staff, because they don’t have to.  Billionaires do not need the permission of even the most ‘Senior Adviser’ to chat with a potential president.  And the Senator may not report back every detail to staff.  Having watched some of those folks in action, my own instinct tells me that until Senator McCain makes it official -nothing can be counted on.

If McCain chooses someone like Cantor - it please multiple classes of politicos.  Top flight donors, potential Cabinet members, and national-grade consultants who have earned their way to the top as presidential campaign advisers. Cantor has a stable of folks around him, both current and former consultants he remains close to, that could make a McCain-Cantor ticket very formidable.

And that’s just the metrics.  Cantor is in his 40s, attractive, great wife, wonderful kids.  He’s a prolific fundraiser for his colleagues in the House.  He has earned his spot on the national stage - and the chances of being Speaker aren’t so hot right now.

It would be a bold move - and McCain needs to make one.  McCain-Cantor, gosh - it even sounds good.

 —Media Lizzy