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.
“we can channel that energy into essential electoral reforms in every state”
What would be the point of that?
We voted on Nov 3 assuming our votes would count, not that criminals would nullify that vote.
He’s nuts. There is no “Constitution” left if it’s a joke document that exists to validate a phony result.
I think that is what it comes down to.. These conservatives don’t want to overturn the electors the states have certified.
They see Congress having a very narrow role...
The quibble is with the states!
Rand Paul has been in the DC Beltway too long.
We’re not expected to be mindless robots following the exact letter of the law regardless of any circumstance. We’re supposed to reasonably abide by the Constitution but if there is clear fraud and theft, then we deal with it.
Validating a fraudulent election and a fraudulent President isn’t virtuous or “legal”. It is ratifying malfeasance at the highest levels and destroying the freedoms for which the Constitution stands.
All this caused by the SCOTUS who dodged very clear violations of the Constitution on a fake “standing” dodge.
John Roberts is garbage.
Antfa can’t be calmed down.
Normal pissed off patriots. Maybe.
How? Hold an election and vote on them?
Mitch’s bitch. Simple as that. Notice he didn’t speak against Mumbai Mike Lee’s Indians replacing American worker bill on December 2nd. Such priorities, tsk-tsk. Nice Christmas present there, Rand. We will all remember in spades.
“Depends on what the word IS, is”
I fear the chaos of establishing a precedent that Congress can overturn elections.
****I fear not!
“This would doom the electoral college forever.”
Ah, what we have now is a paradox.
Because the electoral college IS now doomed forever due to this STOLEN election being allowed to stand.
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A lesson they learned in Vietnam. They want to win, we want to be 'liked'.
Wrong, Rand, you f*cking prick - the vote should have been to right the wrong of a stolen election.
I’ve got a better idea:
Constitution ONLY 2021-
If it’s not in there; it’s null and void and no American is bound to abide by it.
Deep State wants a Tango?
Let’s make it SPICY!
You do not “overturn” Fraud, you punish those who committed it.
He's basically saying 'yea, there was rampant fraud but we must endorse it and then try to somehow fix it, or at least get you to think we did'
Very insprational.
He needs to shut up and so does everyone who thinks it’s ok certify fraud .
TIME FOR A NEW PARTY and let the Republicans go the way of Whigs .
Get the Democrats to vote for you
"Look, if we built this large, wooden badger..."
With that style of thinking United States of America would never get created. When the elites from England ruled the American colony, no amount of peaceful protests would have given to the greatest democratic republic of USA.
The DC elites, all of them have become too tyrannical and the last straw was to create a fraudulent win for Biden and the elites in DC have no problem going along. If someone thinks peaceful protests will change anything, they are delusional.
The largest democracy in the world of India was also formed by patriots sacrificing their lives to drive the British rulers out of their crown jewel colony of India. There were assassinations and firing squads faced by the patriots.
Rand Paul, Show me one dictatorship dislodged by peaceful protests in last thousand years.
With that style of thinking United States of America would never get created. When the elites from England ruled the American colony, no amount of peaceful protests would have given to the greatest democratic republic of USA.
The DC elites, all of them have become too tyrannical and the last straw was to create a fraudulent win for Biden and the elites in DC have no problem going along. If someone thinks peaceful protests will change anything, they are delusional.
The largest democracy in the world of India was also formed by patriots sacrificing their lives to drive the British rulers out of their crown jewel colony of India. There were assassinations and firing squads faced by the patriots.
Rand Paul, Show me one dictatorship dislodged by peaceful protests in last thousand years.
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