The Democrats are all lathered up over a wisecrack by Mike Huckabee, who jokingly told voters that it would be “God’s work” to let the air out of Democrats’ tires on election day to keep them from voting. The howls of protest are coming from Terry McAuliffe (whose supporters’ tires are the ones being threatened), as well as countless other Democrats.

I guess it is pretty bad when a prominent politician makes jokes about this sort of thing. One wonders where Huckabee might have gotten such an idea.

Perhaps from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on election day 2004?

On that day, four employees of the John Kerry campaign — including the son of a congresswoman and the son of a former mayor — slashed the tires of 25 vans the GOP had rented to drive voters to the polls. They were later tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Also in 2004, Democrats in Philadelphia physically blocked Republican poll watchers from entering polling places — with Democratic official Carlos Mantos sincerely explaining that since his district was 100% Democratic, the Republicans had no right to be there.

Apparently that was a bit too blatant, even for Philadelphia. In 2008, Mantos was muzzled — but replaced with Black Panther “volunteer security guards” who stationed themselves at the entrance of polling places, wielding clubs, until police told them to move along.

More recently, Democratic officials in New York have been quietly suppressing the rights of citizens to vote in the special Congressional election there.  And not just any citizens, but those military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even worse, they’re doing it with a wink and a nod from the Obama Justice Department — which decided to “help” by offering ineffective solutions and half-hearted assistance to those being deprived of their rights.

All that protesting over Huckabee’s stupid joke may only serve to remind people of some very recent and very real trespasses upon the rights of voting Americans.