In my years here in Ohio I’ve tried as best I could to ignore what is printed in Portland’s daily dead fish wrapper, The Oregonian. That is until they started commenting on Ohio. In what could best be described as his Fourth of July message, liberal columnist David Sarasohn warned that the country that derives its just powers from the consent of the governed is in danger of losing that consent through the last two presidential elections he and others say were stolen. Like so many other liberals before him, Sarasohn points the finger of blame squarely at you and I in the Buckeye State.

Sarasohn repeats many of the same allegations concocted by left-wing groups two years ago, regurgitated by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (if there’s anyone who knows about stolen elections it’s a Kennedy), ridiculed and ignored by each of Ohio’s eight major newspapers, and laughed out of Ohio and federal courts. The Oregonian even went so far as to print “statistics” gathered from Spencer Overton’s book Stealing Democracy, which was published this summer. Their allegations- which supposedly prove widespread fraud and theft- even if true are trivial (rejection of voter registration forms that were improperly printed off the internet, longer lines in urban precincts than in suburban ones). What they’d have you believe are scenes from forty years ago, complete with ballot stuffing, deceased voters, and fire hoses- all of which were the work of Democrats. What they allege is not based on any kind of substantive fact or empirical evidence but on wild conspiracy theories involving hackers, supercomputers, and Karl Rove.

Most unbelievably, in the midst of all his accusations of systematic electoral theft and fraud, Sarasohn argues against a federal proposal requiring that photo IDs be shown at polling places in order to vote. One would think that if preventing elections from being stolen is in fact a worthwhile cause it would make sense that potential voters are who they say they are (and most importantly, are actually US citizens). The accusations of Sarasohn and so many others on the left are nothing new and nothing more than petty and childish whining about not getting the result they wanted two and six years ago. Indeed, many of the recommendations of Sarasohn, Kennedy, and others were considered by the people of Ohio and each was defeated soundly as an attempt by the far left- angered at the outcome of the last election- to change the rules of the game to benefit them. This just shows that whoever said “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” never met a Democrat who lost an election.