THE OCTOBER SUBPOENA

There are a number of conservative pundits (read the comments) now predicting the Democrats have depleted their bag of political dirty tricks, therefore there will not be an October Surprise against President Bush. Some even rumor that Kerry has already conceded his loss to his inner circle. As my old granddaddy used to say, “When a cornered varmint can't run or hide, he’ll use his teeth.” I hope President Bush’s grandpappy filled him in on the rest of his “run and hide” slogan against Kerry.

I definitely believe the Democrats have an October Surprise strategy, and I call that strategy the October Subpoena. The Democrats are definitely backed into a political corner. Over the last decade the Democrats have lost control of the House, the Senate and the Presidency. All the "teeth" they have left are the judiciary, the old media, and the public education system.

Did I say all? Each of those power centers wield significant power to influence this election, both directly through activist judges, relativistic postmodern educators, and biased yellow journalism. There is one other X-factor the Democrats will exploit to exert pressure on the US electorate, but I’ll get to that in a moment.

The first phase of the all-out assault by the Democrats on the election has already begun. Thousands of partisan lawyers have been deployed to the “battleground states” as “special forces” to launch covert operations to undermine the legitimacy of this election. We are already seeing the nightly news reports of voter fraud, intimidation, and disenfranchisement, particularly in Florida, the ground zero of this war.

The strategy is to flood the media with anecdotal reports of early voters having to run a gauntlet of Republican efforts to deny them their right to vote. In reality, it is the Democrats who are instigating the confusion and distrust through their attacks on Republican offices and their illegal voter registration tactics. Just today there is a report that “independent” foreign election observers are criticizing the election preparations in Florida.

This strategy is similar to the one the Democrats used to swing the student vote toward Kerry. Remember back with Rangel and Hollings sponsored bills in Congress to reactive the military draft on the premise the poor were disproportionably represented in the Iraq War? They were quietly counterfeiting evident for their subsequent accusation that the Bush Administration was making secret plans to draft all youths after winning the election.

The charge has been proven to be totally bogus, however the strategy has been devastatingly effective for Kerry. Fortunately, a large percentage of liberal students are also lazy slackers (trust me, I’m speaking from personal experience) and most won’t actually vote.

Now, what is this mysterious X-factor the Democrats will use to “show their teeth”? I believe that just before the November 2 election the World Court in the Hague will charge the Bush Administration with war crimes for the Iraq War. The Secretary-General of the UN, Koffi Annan, quietly laid the groundwork for the process when he declared the war to be “illegal”.

The old media will flood the airways, newspapers, blogs, etc., with a flood of reports about the atrocities of the US in Iraq (including Michael Moore’s soon to be released video). Remember, the Old Media operates on the principle that what’s important isn’t the truth of the evidence, but the seriousness of the accusation.

I know this X-factor scenario sounds farfetched, however, the Democrats have been moving toward a global test for American foreign policy for decades. They have embraced the idea of a global community of nations modeled on the democratic socialism of the European Union, rather than the Constitution of the United States. Ideas have consequences. The consequence of a Kerry election would be a greater loss of the individual rights protected by our Constititution. That is why we must not be lulled into complacency by polls and projections. We are literally fighting for the future of our nation. Remember, this varmint has sharp teeth.