Father Of Gop Right-Wing Movement - "I don't want everybody to vote"

Paul Weyrich, "father" of the right-wing movement and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority and various other groups tells his flock that he doesn't want people to vote. He complains that fellow Christians have "Goo-Goo Syndrome": Good Government. Classic clip from 1980. This guy still gives weekly strategy sessions to Republicans nowadays. The entire dialog from the clip:

"Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

I see the GOP telling the truth here for once, and I'm amazed. Lower voter turnout favors the Republicans. Getting the sheeple to vote for you is like money in the bank.

Getting people who think for themselves to vote for you? Um, not so easy.

Then there is that whole Republican base "hatred and racism" thing, and one can easily see why they don't want Hispanic or African-American voters coming to the polls.

I honestly hope voter turnout is above 50% this year, and the Republicans freak out about the record number of people exerting their right to vote. Nothing we do can be more American then going to the polls on November 4th.

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