Over to you, Freepers...
Weasel words. The Republic is being stolen by criminals and all Rand can do is knuckle under to it. I guess he’s afraid they’ll send another MK-Ultra brain-washed assassin after him.
“The question is: Should Congress override the certified results from the states and nullify the states’ right to conduct elections?”
Does it matter? This isn’t about arcane rules. It’s not about the Constitution (which doesn’t sanction cheating. I looked). It’s not even about President Trump, mostly. This country is divided. It has been for quite a while, and it’s only getting worse. One side cheated; the side that ALWAYS gets their way cheated. The side whose views have been ignored for decades got screwed. We are tired of it. The protestors in D.C. are really tired of it. So, Senate, do whatever.
For a legitimate election, he is quite right.
For a fraudulent one that everyone knows is stolen, someone has to take a stand and not treat it as legitimate.
As far as I know, nobody declared Congress’ power to challenge the votes unconstitutional.
I suppose Rand will be fine, then, with Butt-Head and Commie knocking on his door to inspect his firearms, without his lifting a finger to make sure they won fair and square?
“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.”
Yet he rejects the fix.
All they need to do is send the contested states back to their respective state legislatures. The Constitution says that state legislatures appoint their electors for the electoral college. They could do a full audit if they want.
There’s no reason why the state legislatures can’t take a few days to take a look at their own election messes and decide what to do.
Senator Rand,
Fraud vitiates everything, including this election. You talk about fixing the election process, moving forward.
The people demand you fix this election, now.
You all broke it. Now you fix it.
On Monday Rand is brilliant.
On Tuesday Rand is prophetic.
On Wednesday Rand is confusing.
On Thursday Rand is kissing Mitch’s butt.
On Friday Rand is laying low.
On Saturday Rand is no longer mowing his lawn.
On Sunday Rand is preparing for a brilliant Monday.
Congress is not meant to overtime the states in this process IMHBDAO.
Oh Rand get a grip. Sending 6 state certs back to the state legislatures for final remediation isn’t that momentous.
I think he’s right on a basic level. We would seriously endanger the electoral college, set a precedent for future congresses & add further problems on top of all the fraud. We have to remember to think beyond the moment & our emotions. Cooler heads must prevail. We’ve got to stop attacking good, solid people raising good points. I trust Rand. He’s a good man! 😃
“We must restore confidence in elections by certifying a fraudulent election” is all I’m hearing.
From Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals:
“RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)”
Rand, you are a FOOL! In your zeal for the Constitution, you have destroyed it by handing power to those who despise it. Soon they will quite legally and pursuant to the Constitution pack the Courts, and the Constitution will at that point be just words on a piece of paper - they will otherwise be meaningless, because their Living Constitution judges and Justices will chip away at every single word until there’s nothing left. So will go what little is left of our Republic.
You LET them game the system. You let them play you and us. You operate by the Marquis de Queensbury Rules, they play to win. Guess who rules the society in that situation? Guess who writes the History books? All that you are is a well-meaning fool, and your foolishness combined with that of other Republicans unwilling to fight have doomed our society. Legal does NOT equal right - the Nazis very legally murdered millions, but that thin veneer of legality didn’t absolve them of the heinous moral crimes that they had committed.
Trump is the “One flew over the cuckcoo’s nest” President.
Why did they choose to do that, and create the chaos we are now seeing? Why didn't they just allow for the kind of post election audits that would have removed any question of who won the election?
I think you admiration of Rand Paul is misplaced.
Absolute BS. Rogue states can cheat with no recourse? Then when the legislatures of the state appeal to congress to change the electors once fraud is confirmed, Congress votes no!?! The fix was in from the beginning...
"Paul said, “You know, it wasn’t a good day for our country. People here are rattled. It brought back bad memories of being shot at at the ballpark a few years ago when we had the Congressional baseball practice.”
But the only person shot was an unarmed woman, and nobody did anything to harm any Senators or Representatives. The only person shooting was a government employee.
There was a big protest today, certainly not the first time protestors entered the capital building, but the establishment politicians all seem to be exaggerating the situation when they should be attempting to calm down the public.