I hate to defend Rush Limbaugh, but…

March 25th, 2008 at 01:39pm Pat Cunningham

 

Some of my fellow liberals can be pretty silly at times.

Take, for example, THIS controversy over radio ranter Rush Limbaugh having encouraged Republicans to cross over to Democratic primary elections and vote for Hillary Clinton — on the theory that she’d be easier to defeat in November or that an extended battle for the Democratic nomination would hurt the party.

Ohio is one of the states in which an untold number of Limbaugh dittoheads heeded this advice. But Ohio has a law requiring that citizens genuinely support a political party in order to vote in its primary. To change parties for a primary, a voter must pledge that he or she is affiliated with the party and “supports” its principles. Lying on the pledge is a felony, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

Some libs think that Limbaugh should be prosecuted for encouraging violations of the Ohio law.

Nonsense.  I doubt that the law in question has ever faced a court challenge, and I’m sure that it could never survive one.

Come on.  The statute at issue is ridiculous on its face.  It would prevent affected voters from changing their minds over the course of time. Besides, who’s to say what a voter actually thinks? (Indeed, some seem not to think at all.)

Limbaugh’s an idiot, yes, but so is any lefty who thinks he should be charged with a crime for abetting violations of that patently unconstitutional law in Ohio.

UPDATE: MSNBC’s Dan Abrams (whose pseudo-populism wears thin after a short while, by the way) has JOINED THE CAMPAIGN for strict enforcement of the Ohio law.

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