Posted on 01/06/2021 2:58:17 PM PST by RandFan
@RandPaul
This is the speech I'll be giving today from an undisclosed location.
I wrote a speech today.
I was planning to say I fear the chaos of establishing a precedent that Congress can overturn elections.
Boy, was I right.
Chaos. Anarchy. It’s wrong and un-American.
The vote we are about to cast is important.
Now more than ever.
The question is: Should Congress override the certified results from the states and nullify the states’ right to conduct elections?
The vote today is not a protest; the vote today is literally to overturn the election!
Voting to overturn state-certified elections would be the opposite of what states’ rights Republicans have always advocated for.
This would doom the electoral college forever.
It was never intended by our founders that Congress have the power to overturn state-certified elections.
My oath to the Constitution doesn’t allow me to disobey the law. I cannot vote to overturn the verdict of the states.
Such a vote would be to overturn everything held dear by those of us who support the rights of states in this great system of federalism bequeathed to us by our founders.
The electoral college was created to devolve the power of selecting presidential electors to the states.
The electoral college is, without question, an inseparable friend to those who believe that every American across our vast country deserves to be heard.
If Congress were given the power to overturn the states’ elections . . . what terrible chaos would ensue.
Imagine the furor against the electoral college if Congress becomes a forum to overturn states’ electoral college slates.
It is one thing to be angry. It is another to focus one’s anger in a constructive way. That hasn’t happened today, to say the least. We simply cannot destroy the Constitution, our laws, and the electoral college in the process.
I hope as the nation’s anger cools, we can channel that energy into essential electoral reforms in every state.
America is admired around the world for our free elections. We must, we absolutely must, fix this mess and restore confidence and integrity to our elections.
Over to you, Freepers...
Shut up, Rand.
I think he just officially became a douchebag.
So why vote at all?
Assbackwards
Another traitor.
A country unable to have free and fair elections is no longer a country.
PERIOD !
Hiding in a bunker like a coward. A leader would have stepped into the Capital lobby and talked to the crowd, calmed them down and ended the situation.
It’s not overturning an election it’s not certifying a fraudulent election - there’s a difference and if he can’t tell what it is he’s not fit for office.
Gutless idiot talking tough about vote fraud not how many days ago?
No it is not, it is a vote to turn it back to the states who asked to have a chance to look at the charges. Why not let the states decide.
RINO! LOST FAITH IN YOU PAUL!
Ok so he is COMPLETELY on the wrong side it.
He’s basically saying states can blithely ignore the Constitution and conduct illegal elections.
What does THAT do to federalism?
bttt
electoral reforms? LMAO are you kidding me? Not unless the whole of Congress and Biteme and his vice whore are tucked securely away in GITMO!!
no remedy in the judicial branch
no remedy in the legislative branch
and the executive branch won’t enforce the laws, because it is waiting for the courts to assess the evidence, back to step 1
net net
democrats are allowed to steal elections with impunity
alinsky wins....we are destroyed by them applying our rules to us, while they flout them
rand is an enabler.
he let china and the democrats steal the election.
that’d what he did.
dont care rand, thats what it boils own to.
rand says because the xheating states wouldn’t stop cheating, or change their cheating, they get to cheat.
dead to me, assbag rand.
Then why bother, Rand?
I’ve been listing to various news reports, talk radio and so called politicians. They all are making it look like we are the bad guys. Nobody has the conviction to call it the way it is. They deserve everything thats coming to them.
Rand is a libertarian right, so smoking dope is OK. Seems like he has indulged himself.
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