I briefly mentioned the letter sent to thousands of Hispanic voters in California telling them immigrants were not allowed to vote and could go to jail.  I also briefly mentioned this group tends to vote Democrat and that it was a curious mystery (read as “obvious”) as to the source of the letter (read as “Republicans”).  Now we have the proof:

Tan D. Nguyen [the Republican congressional candidate] denied knowing anything about the letter in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, but said he fired a campaign staffer who may have been responsible for it.

County Republican Chairman Scott Baugh, however, said that after speaking with state investigators and the company that distributed the mailer, he believes Nguyen had direct knowledge of the letter. He told the AP that the party’s executive committee voted unanimously to Nguyen to drop out of race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez.

The letter was sent to registered Democrats only.  Not a single Republican got a copy of it.  Imagine that.

It gets better.  Nguyen is a naturalized immigrant from Vietnam.  Um, that would be a member of the same group of voters to which he sent the letter.  Talk about hypocrisy!

Is there no level low enough for this group?  Let’s see.

They’re trying to blame the entire Foley scandal on Democrats even in the face of mounting evidence GOP leadership knew about it years ago (and now there’s sworn testimony to that fact).  They never warned Democrats about Foley even though they warned their own party and their own pages (so Democrat pages aren’t the kind of children they wanted to protect from a predator I guess).  They’re committing a federal and state crime by trying to interfere with an election in California (and, honestly, if they did it there…).  They’re making false claims about a Democrat candidate in Ohio (even in the face of Ohio state law enforcement and government officials telling them their claims are false).  They’re running racist and sexist ads that refer to women as “hos” and Caucasians as “crackers” (I’m serious!).  They’re running ads that claim Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican and would endorse their efforts.  They tried to break the law in Florida so they could post signs at voting places telling people to vote for Foley even though he wasn’t up for reelection.  The Republican in the Ohio governor’s race who is also the secretary of state is being closely watched for fear he will try using his current authority to have his Democrat opponent tossed out of the race on a technicality (since the secretary of state in Ohio has control of who’s allowed to run for office).  They tried to cover up more pedophilia in New Mexico involving the husband of one of the Representatives on the Page Board on Capitol Hill (they intentionally hid the police report so she wouldn’t be associated with covering up Foley’s mess in addition to her own husband’s).  They have burned every international bridge our nation had and alienated our friends and allies.  They’ve generated historic amounts of debt for our country that we the people must repay.  They have engendered more terrorism around the globe and made Americans less safe.  They have reduced our civil liberties without a single iota of increased security as compensation for the loss (not that the loss was ever justified for security).  They’ve blindly ignored global warming and climate change while offering lucrative deals to companies that plunder and ruin the environment.  They’ve been caught so many times taking money for votes that lobbying should now just be made completely illegal to prevent further abuse by anyone.  The list goes on and I got too depressed compiling it, so I won’t continue.

The answer to the question is obvious: no level is too low for these people.  It’s horrendous, and yet they continue this corrupt and dishonest and—let’s not mince words here—downright evil approach to partisanship as though this country is their own personal sandbox.  Oh, and it’s one they just keep pissing in like no one will notice or care.

The GOP has single-handedly proven the axiom in the last six years.  Power does indeed corrupt.  With control of Congress and the White House and even a play for the Supreme Court, there can be no doubt this barbaric bunch is interested in only one thing, and that is extending its control at any cost.

There is no good reason to vote for Republicans in November.  There just isn’t.  They can’t be trusted with the country, with children or their welfare, with the law, with the Constitution, with the budget, or anything else.  These people have become so selfish and so blinded by that selfishness that nothing will stand in their way, just as they proved in California by subverting our democracy with threats against people who have every right to vote.

I can’t stress enough how horrible this political group has become.  I can’t stress enough the damage they’ve done and continue to do.

While I abhor the thought of voting party lines and always have considered it a poor excuse by the mindless as they pretend at democracy, I am making an exception this year in this way: I will absolutely not vote for a single Republican.  That’s period, end of story, no more to say.