GIVE ME LIBERTY A TAX DEDUCTION OR GIVE ME DEATH FUCK IT, I'M OUTTA HERE.

The brethren are really pushing the idea that they deserve a do-over on the 2012 election because IRS. Superhack John Fund calls the IRS investigations of Tea Party groups "The Real Voter Suppression of 2012":

But it now turns out there may have suppression of the vote after all. “It looks like a lot of tea-party groups were less active or never got off the ground because of the IRS actions,” Wisconsin governor Scott Walker told me. “Sure seems like people were discouraged by it....

At least two donors told me...

At least!

...they didn’t contribute to True the Vote, a group formed to combat voter fraud, because after three years of waiting the group still didn’t have its status granted at the time of the 2012 election. (While many of the targeted tea-party groups were seeking to become 501(c)(4)s, donations to which are not tax-deductible, True the Vote sought to become a 501(c)(3).)

I desperately wanted to save America from the ravishments of the Kenyan Pretender, but I was afraid I wouldn't get a tax deduction on my substantial intended donation to yahoos in colonial lederhosen, so I figured let him go ahead and ravish her.

It won’t be easy to discover whether the “voter suppression” engaged in by the IRS was malicious and political.

Boy, and here I thought I was going to have to supply my own bullshit-quotes.

But we have to make every effort to find out before the American people start losing confidence in the integrity of our elections.

I'm beginning to think the strategy now is really just to create a saving-remnant narrative to help wingnuts keep the faith over the next few years, because no normal person is gonna believe that the 2012 Presidential election --which was not close and largely turned on the votes of black people unlikely to be sympathetic to the tax deduction concerns of rich conservatives -- actually hung on whether tricornered crackpots had enough money to pretend they were a grassroots movement.

UPDATE. Commenter D. Johnston:

Wait, 501(c)(3)? By what standard could these goobers claim that that status? According to IRS standards, an organization has to be dedicated exclusively to (if I may quote) "Religious, Educational, Charitable, Scientific, Literary, Testing for Public Safety, to Foster National or International Amateur Sports Competition, or Prevention of Cruelty to Children or Animals." What were they claiming, that they were "educating" the public on how the black guy in office is a Marxist? Preventing the cruelty of an adequate standard of health care to children?

I can see a "religious" angle, in the sense that these guys proceed on faith unsupported by reason.