Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer on Wednesday equated his party's push for stricter access to the polls with voter ID laws to that of locking out robbers so they don't break into your house at night.
In a contentious exchange with MSNBC host Thomas Roberts, Spicer defended controversial voter ID laws popping up around the country, saying the idea that Republicans were out to suppress voters was "extremely insulting."
"Let me ask you a question. Do you lock your house at night?" Spicer asked.
"Do I lock my house at night?" Roberts repeated. "Sure."
"You do it not because maybe it has a history of being broken into, but because you regard your property and your personal well-being as something precious and you want to protect it. It's not because there's a history of necessarily your home being broken into. And so I think the question comes down when it comes to protecting our right to vote. It's not necessarily has there been rampant voter fraud in every state that we have to protect. It says this is a precious right that each of us has as an American."
thanks RT @beccajlower: @seanspicer Great analogy about locking your house at night.@thomasaroberts
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) October 10, 2012
Perhaps Spicer has never been locked out of his own house before.
Roberts pushed back on the analogy that the nation would need a full ADF-style security system to preemptively shut out voters from instances of voter fraud.
"That's basically what voter suppression is: putting a lock on the right and the access for many Americans to vote who may not have the same access to voting to maybe as you or I have because we can afford to go get an ID for ourselves," Roberts said.
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House robbers?.........................................Oh, Democrats, I get it. But do they?
"Extremely insulting" he says. Hah, I say. Republicans cannot be insulted. His argument for photo Id what's insulting. He says it's not a poll tax because the state will provide one for free. Well, people who don't have what the new republican law requires have been doing just fine without one until the new law was rammed through. Since they could vote before the law, the photo Id is a new cost, perchance not cash, but time and effort. Therefore it is a poll tax, most likely to paid by Democratic voters. wpz
If does not make sense, make a better excuse.
So Republican Houses are being broken into to steal votes, well the vote is kept in the three handled credenza on top of the side board in the dining room, between the silver caddies under the girandoles.
But it's not also insulting, to say that republican thief knows of the value of property but would not be stopped unless he got everything including the vote. The poor hapless democratic thief without a job would only know that the sterling cannot be traced, and would steal a vote only if it were a crowbar to break out of prison.
Look at how sophisticated the Republican Thief can be, they would only take the vote, the owner may be too busy feeding his family see anything missing.
The Republican Thief know the vote a vital investment, in keeping laws in his favor, just the same as having a better lawyers, to help rewrite the laws to allow the white collar republican criminal to plead bargain for a light sentence in a country club detention center. The same lawyer would assure them that democratic crime carried the death penalty resulting from economic hardship and lack of access to health care and poor diet.
The Republican Thief knows fully well that of they appear wrapped in the American flag, in the parades on Memorial, July 4th, and Veterans Day, cheering the soldier marching to war, and home again. This patriotic demonstration will cause the poor democrat to sign up and march off to war, while the republican would do so, while smilingly broadly, at the prospect of being at some safe distance from the vagaries of war and close to the profit center.
The Republican Profit Center is the one that puts profits above all other concerns, being the middle man, trading on the dependency of reliable foreign Oil, being the middle man in managing the foreign oil profit investment and the stock broker managing the trading of stock. As long as the profits are sticking to the Republican Offshore Accounts, the need to get everything and own it and brag on it.
Stealing votes and all the suppression businesses has only profit as it objectives.
Someday when the economic system collapses, the democrats will need to close their ears to the pleading cries of the staving republicans wanting another feast on democratic labor.
this is more right wing bs. voting is a right, not a privilege. that means that it is the responsibility of the election officials to issue a valid id of any sort compliant with state and federal law, at the time registration is validated.
if the unamerican republicans want to change the law they must provide a reasonable period of time and the resources necessary to provide the id's in a timely manner that does not impact the legal voter, i.e., american citizen.
there were many cases that proved that wasn't the situation. the misinformation campaign that's going on in pennsylvania is shameful. but as we all know shame requires a moral compass and republicans are immoral scum.
what about election fraud ?what about the electronic voting machines ?our country is getting robbed !
Sounds like the GOP thinks the ballot box is [their] personal property. I have the right to lock people out of your my own house, but not to lock them out of City Hall or the local polling place.
let's just call him out: media, newspapers, dems, analysts, magazines, etc...he is a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!!! no one wants to say the TRUTH, this is what ROMNEY & RYAN ARE BOTH OF THEM...LETS STOP BEING PASSIVE ABOUT THIS, THIS IS WAY TO SERIOUS TO LET THEM GET AWAY EVERYDAY OF THE WEEK WITH THIS CRAP...OVER & OVER AGAIN, STOP THIS SHT!!! Not 1-day has gone by in over a year when Romney has told the truth expect his 47% tape, all the other words out of his mouth are lies...don't we call people out for just blantantly just lying everyday all day, no matter who they are?? who lies like this?? wht kind of person wakes up everyday and starts lying to millions & millions of people on a daily basis??wht kind of people support people like this that lie every single day??