Integrity of elections really a secondary concern

One of the objectives of the Republican Party over the last few years has been to eradicate voter fraud. No matter how few cases actually exist or how many legal voters must be purged from the system, the cost of not acting is simply too high.

The catalyst for this movement was the voter registration fraud committed by ACORN. As Michelle Bachmann pointed out this obviously covert wing of the Democratic party has probably infultrated the census bureau in an effort to collect sensitive data on the American public like how many people live at a given address and the racial makeup of those people. She also stated that there is a definite possibility that ACORN might be able to possibly regulate the financial sector - maybe.

Very scary stuff if it had any basis in reality.

But rather than sit back and just watch things happen Republicans decided to fight fire with fire and started falsifying voter registration forms of their own and to make sure the job was done right the RNC hired who a gentleman who had been accused of cooking the registration books in the past.

Of course now that they have been caught with their hand in the cookie jar the RNC is taking personal responsibility for the fraud and blaming someone else. Because as they stated "We have zero tolerance for any threat to the integrity of elections".

I wonder if these Republicans realize that purging legal voters is a threat to the integrity of elections or that passing a "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania" might be a threat to the integrity of elections or that championing unlimited undisclosed campaign contributions could be a threat to the integrity of elections or that running campaign ads that have no basis in reality may be a threat to the integrity of elections?

So while the media will latch onto this RNC story because of how bananas Republicans became when ACORN did the same thing, the truth is that registering fake names has almost zero impact on the integrity of elections. The real damage is being done by power hunger politicians who put their personal well being ahead of that of their constituents.