Chavez Loses, Conservatives Wrong

2:54 am EST December 3rd, 2007 | News | 6 Comments

So before this vote in Venezuela, conservatives kept saying Chavez would rig the vote in his favor. Apparently he didn’t, and it made him lose face. But wouldn’t this suggest that earlier votes in which Chavez won were valid?

For me, this presents yet again the hazard of people whose knowledge of American politics are already iffy if best commenting on international politics of which they know diddly.

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6 Responses to “Chavez Loses, Conservatives Wrong”

  1. megamoze says:
    December 3, 2007 at 4:20 am

    To me it says that Venezuelans are a lot less tolerant of their president expanding his powers than Bush supporters.

  2. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    December 3, 2007 at 7:10 am

    I don’t like his power grabs, hopefully he will abide by the vote and note try something funny in the future.

    Although he could try with a new vote, add, “In a row” to the term limits.

  3. Diamond LeGrande says:
    December 3, 2007 at 7:24 am

    This also suggests that in the Venezuelan recall election, the charges of fraud were bogus. But we knew that already.

    Kudos to Venezuelans for rejecting both this amendment and the recall. Because for all of Chávez’s faults, like this amendment (though I’d support it were it not to apply to the incumbent — term limits are anti-democratic), his opponents are far, far worse.

  4. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    December 3, 2007 at 10:15 am

    “term limits are anti-democratic”

    I agree, but there has to be some way to battle the incumbency domination. It’s too hard to throw the old bums out people special interest money rules the day.

  5. midderpidge says:
    December 3, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    How do we know there wasn’t election fraud? It could happen on either side.

  6. Quaker in a Basement says:
    December 3, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    But wouldn’t this suggest that earlier votes in which Chavez won were valid?

    Not in conservo-world! Instead, it suggests that he tried to cheat and bungled it.