Dear Obama voters ... a question

If you discovered substantial voter fraud was involved in this election, how would you feel? If you found the Obama campaign or David Axelrod or local Democrats had stuffed the ballot box with double votes and illegal votes, would you object or would you chalk it off to "the ends justify the means?"

Consider ...

Romney/Ryan received 2 million fewer votes than McCain/Palin, even with increased Republican voter registration.

In Florida, Alan West's district had a 113% voter turn out. A partial recount of early voting revealed several hundred more votes for him. Requests for a full recount of his district have been denied.

Thousands of military votes were not counted because ballots were mailed to them after the deadline, some didn't arrive back in the U.S. on time, and some didn't arrive at all because of a plane crash which destroy 4700 ballots.

Do any of these things make you go...huh?

Free Ice Cream

I got your attention, huh. I'll bet people who have never read my political ramblings before click on this because it says "Free Ice Cream."  Well, folks, that's what the 2012 President Election was about .... free ice cream.

It wasn't about Republican candidates being too conservative or not conservative enough. It wasn't about old, white men. It wasn't about Hispanics or women or gays or immigrants. And it wasn't about Obama's ground game or Romney's unwillingness to hit him in the face with Benghazi.

It was about free ice cream versus work.

President Obama promised free ice cream.  Governor Romney said we needed to cut back on free ice cream and get a good job so we could buy our own ice cream. The press reported that President Obama was brilliant and Governor Romney wanted to take away your right to have any ice cream at all.

Governor Romney said we could buy ice cream if we worked hard and earned it. President Obama said we could have free ice cream, but we'd need to force other people to pay for it. He said rich people and working people had money and you didn't, and that wasn't fair.  President Obama also said that if those working people didn't want to buy you the ice cream they were unpatriotic and without compassion and hateful and racists and bigots and religious zealots and wanted you to be slaves or barefoot and pregnant.

Those who wanted free ice cream were told how smart they were, how proud they should be of themselves, and how they were very charitable to others because they were taking money from people who worked for their money to give free ice cream to those who didn't (and themselves, too).  The press obliged, free ice cream is compassionate. Those who didn't want to give away ice cream were labeled selfish and accused of wanting children to go hungry and wanted to fire teachers and firemen and policemen.

And the people said, "We want free ice cream!" And they voted, and it was so.

Here's the thing, everyone's ice cream is different.

• For long term unemployed, it's unemployment benefits for two years then disability for the rest of their lives, whether or not they are disabled.
• For public union members, it's exorbitant pensions, cushy health care packages, and ludicrously high salaries for their union administrators all paid for by the taxpayers. It also includes a complete lack of accountability in job performance.
• For college students it's forgiving student loans, typically averaging about $50,000 today. The cost of their ice cream goes up 10-20% every year, but that doesn't matter, theirs is free once Obama forgives their student loans. Those evil Republicans and business owners don't understand what it's like to graduate with all that debt, after all, they didn't have any student debt when they graduated because they worked their way through college to pay for their own ice cream. 
• For single women it's free birth control. Don't ask me why, it's not like it costs more per month than a medium pizza at Dominoes.  Plus, it's a twofer, President Obama and the press have convinced these gullible young women that Governor Romney wants to take away their birth control entirely. And he and his army of old white men want to take away their right to abort unwanted babies.  None of these young women question President Obama, they don't use that critical thinking they've been told about since elementary school, they just want their free ice cream and got angry that Mitt Romney didn't want them to have any at all. Booo, Mitt Romney, he's waging a war on women.  
• For Hispanics, the argument is that Mitt Romney wants to deport them all, legal citizens as well as illegals. Republicans hate brown people. Obama promised the Dream Act to children living here illegally, Romney wanted to negotiate immigration reform that benefited everyone. When the Dream Act didn't pass Congress, President Obama circumvented the legislative process and gave free ice cream to illegal children as well as ice cream for anyone they are related to. 
• For the gay community it's more complicated. They have not demanded free ice cream.  They were promised equality in 2008. When they didn't get it, they reminded the President that he hadn't repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) by 2010 and they might forget to vote. Poof, it was done. In spring of 2012, President Obama, for the first time ever, publicly spoke in support of gay marriage, but only after Virginia voted it down.  It does not appear in the President's agenda for the next four years. Oh, but Mitt Romney hates gays because, well, he just does, and he thinks individual states should make that decision rather than be forced by the federal government.

See how it works? Obama voters want free ice cream for themselves and anyone else who believes like they do. They don't worry about where it comes from or who pays for it. They want it, so they are entitled to it.  Even better if it punishes evil business owners who make the ice cream in the first place.

What they don't consider is the McDonald's worker making minimum wage who now pays higher taxes and gets fewer hours and now will probably lose their health care so they can have their free ice cream. The McDonald's worker doesn't get ice cream. Nor do they care about those who lose their jobs because employers now have to pay for free ice cream and can't afford to keep as many workers. Nor does it matter to them that some college students worked hard to buy their own ice cream but now can't afford it anymore because the cost of ice cream has skyrocketed because so much of it was given away free.

As long as they get their free ice cream and can watch President Obama on Letterman, they will inexplicably feel good about themselves, and will continue to vote for Democrats and say vicious things about Republicans. They show no shame in taking from people who have worked hard, in fact they consider themselves generous and helpful to others.

But as Margaret Thatcher once said, "The problem with free ice cream is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Then no one gets ice cream ever again because all the ice cream stores have closed up shop and moved.