RUSH: We\u2019re gonna go to Thorin in Houston, Texas. I\u2019m glad you waited. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, terrific, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I hate to change the subject from the left —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, you can. You can! On Open Line Friday, you can change the subject. Whatever you want to talk about\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Perfect. Thank you. But I\u2019d like to talk about another way the left is corrupting the system. I know recently we\u2019ve heard in the news about Nevada and Colorado changing the way they\u2019re gonna handle Electoral College votes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: As I understand it, since 2007 with this, this compact with these 14 states that have signed on, they\u2019re all agreeing to do this, and it really won\u2019t take effect until they\u2019ve reached a combined vote of approximately 270 votes. But I\u2019d like to get your thoughts on where we\u2019re going with this and what you might predict would be happening if this continues to move forward as it is.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think that this is a classic illustration of derangement. It is the epitome of the constant mind-set of the left, and that is every election is theirs. And when they don\u2019t win, then the system screwed up, and we have to change the system, otherwise they would have won. The system screwed them again. So now this is two elections for them, Algore and Hillary, where the Democrats won the popular vote but did not win the Electoral College.<\/p>\n
Therefore, the Electoral College must be gotten away with. They\u2019re gonna do this. I don\u2019t know how much… I don\u2019t think that they\u2019re actually gonna succeed with this, but I wish they would at a time (laughing) when they would benefit from the Electoral College but will have wiped it out and therefore will lose an election. I\u2019ll explain when I have more time. Hang on.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, back to Thorin\u2019s question here about the efforts in some states, Colorado and others, to eliminate the Electoral College. Let me tell you what it really is. It is the epitome of voter suppression. It is the biggest example of voter suppression that you can think of.<\/p>\n
The Democrats want to take away the votes of their states and basically say that they don\u2019t matter. The Electoral College is how presidents are elected in this country. It\u2019s right there in the Constitution. It\u2019s always been the case. There is nothing modern-day about it. And by taking states out of the Electoral College system, what these Democrats are doing is essentially saying the voters in their states do not have a say.<\/p>\n
Now, the Democrats want us to believe that they are the ones guarding the precious right to vote, voting rights and all this, standing in the way of voter ID so that they can promote fraud and so forth. But when you take your state out of the system that elects the president, the votes for the president in that state then do not matter.<\/p>\n
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The only way this would work is if the Electoral College is abolished and if the popular vote then determines the president. That\u2019s not gonna happen. So these people are making a political statement to satisfy what they think is raw emotion at the moment. And my point for the Democrats it will be just like them to do this. And then the next election comes along and their candidate would have won if those votes in Colorado were counted. But since they don\u2019t count, the Democrat loses. That would be a wonderful hypothetical situation.<\/p>\n
But the way to understand it is voter suppression. And this national popular vote compact that these people are trying to do, get rid of the Electoral College, violates the Constitution. The first clue is in its title. Any interstate compact must raise the issue of the compact clause in Article 1 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n
These people, folks, they\u2019re literally deranged, and it\u2019s to the point now where they think power and victory are automatic, that they are entitled. And whenever it doesn\u2019t happen, the system has screwed them, not that they\u2019ve been rejected by voters, but that the system is screwed up and the country is screwed up. Then they start their remedies on that basis.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing wrong with the system, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with the country. They just couldn\u2019t win! And rather than take that information and try to find out what they have to do to win next time, they want to go out and penalize the system, because they think it\u2019s so unfair to them. These are really, really, when you get right down to it, dangerous megalomaniacs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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