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"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by

Posted: Jul 25, 2013

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."

--Paul Weyrich, cofounder of The Moral Majority, The Heritage Foundation, ALEC, and considered a founder of the modern conservative movement.

Note, this isn't just about voters on the left--GOP candidates benefit when voter turnout drops across the board, which is how many Republicans found themselves tossed off their voting rolls and standing in day-long lines with Democrats last fall.

Who are some of these conservative candidates who actually do do better when more Republicans don't bother to vote? People who don't bother to vote usually don't bother to learn what they need to know about who's running either...

A link to video of Weyrich. who died in 2008, speaking words he wished he'd kept away from cameras is below.

'I Don't Want Everybody to Vote' – The Roots of GOP Voter Suppression

SUBMITTED BY Josh Glasstetter on Monday, 11/5/2012 1:56 pm

The lower the turnout tomorrow, the better Mitt Romney will do. It’s always been this way for Republicans. Anyone who doubts that needs to watch the video below.

The media frequently reports on right-wing and GOP voter suppression efforts, but they rarely acknowledge the root cause – Republicans do better when fewer people vote. This is the driving force behind the GOP’s draconian voter ID laws and efforts to limit early voting, voter registration drives, and provisional voting.

The right wing and GOP have whipped up hysteria around voter fraud, which is virtually non-existent, in order to justify roadblocks to voting for millions of Americans. I’ll let Paul Weyrich explain why.

Weyrich is widely regarded as the “founding father of the conservative movement.” He founded ALEC and co-founded the Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority, Council for National Policy, and Free Congress Foundation, among others.

Speaking more than 30 years ago at a right-wing conference in Dallas, Weyrich set out the case for voter suppression. The right-wing and GOP are still acting on it to this day.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/i-dont-want-everybody-vote#sthash.3Rx9s9xV.dpuf

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