So... did Ahmedinijad hire Karl Rove before this election?

Who knew that Mahmoud was a Republican. He steals elections even more efficiently than the GOP!


What province of Iran played the role of Florida? All of them?




Seriously, though.... we didn't put up much of a fuss when Bush and cronies stole an election here, so why should we care about a stolen one in Iran?

At least the populace of Iran has the balls to get out and massively protest. Gotta hand it to 'em.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/because-they-panicked.html

" Drum is both shrewd and correct. A bare Ahmadinejad win would have hidden the fraud. A bare Mousavi win would have been much better for the regime’s atomic bomb program, however. But they may have fatally overreached, like the Shah.

Remember when the Shah sent the Imperial Guard (“the Immortals”) into the streets, and they broke before the masses? We may be on the cusp of another legitimacy crisis here. Mousavi WAS the smarter choice for the regime: a smoother talker, talk of reform, while the centrifuges spin away and the bomb is built in secret. Meanwhle, the IAF’s Squadron 69 is kept on a tight leash by Obama lest the “moderate” President be undermined.

But no, apparently Khameinei is undermined by his own inner demons and past disagreements with Mousavi from the Revolutionary Days and the War Years. So, the urge to humiliate the Upstart overwhelmed Khameini.

Unless there is a popular uprising in favor of Mousavi and democratic legitimacy, the fascist coup will succeed. In that case, matters will be far worse. Bear this in mind: Hewitt and Krauthammer are correct. "


The coup might well succeed. But it's still a fail, because literally everyone knows it's a coup.

Agreed. All the armchair outrage from our media, which never questioned the legitimacy of 2000, is a wee bit sanctimonious.

We should of been in the streets in 2000. I guess we were too busy and trust the media too much. We always knew it was stolen, but what did we do, nothing but bitch on the internet. The media would not cover it. Now we cover the fraud of Iran's election. How nice.

He wouldn't have had the guy winning by such an ungodly margin when the turnout suggested the opposite. He needed Rove.

I would wager he would do something like 52% for Ahmadinejad 43% for Mousavi and 5% for the other candidates.

If he hired anyone they would have to have been pretty stupid to give him such a victory, maybe they hired W, he is that stupid!:evilgrin:

Iranians believed the results were too close to call when people went to bed but upon waking up in the morning the results were surprisingly at a margin of two to one. Even Rove wouldn't be so stupid as to have the election results come out so lopsided.

Winning by just a point or two is more Rove's style.