Rand Paul Concerned that Getting People to Vote Could “Change the Outcome”
This morning on Fox Business, Rand Paul blurted out his concern about more people voting:
Rand Paul rails on how Georgia was supposedly stolen — “but probably most importantly” absentee ballot applications being sent out for the Senate runoffs.
“I’m very, very concerned that if you solicit votes from typically non-voters, that you will affect and change the outcome.” pic.twitter.com/J1TPaN02Us
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) December 17, 2020
Heaven forbid we have more people voting – right?
You know what class of voter he and all the GOP are concerned about, right? Hint. Rhymes with bigger.
It is far past time to pretend that this is not what they are obviously thinking.
1It’s way past time to affect and change the outcome. Those of us who don’t live in Georgia can send donations to Stacey Abrams at Fair Fight to help those who do live there in their election.
2Sorry about your luck, Runt. All your ratsoaping is falling to the wayside. When suppressing the vote is no longer enough to steal elections, your time is up, mofo.
Pull Georgia out of poverty: dump Loeffler and Perdue.
3@ 1… Not clever or funny.
4Good to see Republicans have moved on from disenfranchising regular voters, to begrudging participation in an election for qualified voters with mobility issues, or without transportation, or other difficulties in getting to the polls.
For comparison, Wisconsin residents who are blind can own a gun and purchase a hunting license.
5Earlier this week, nutty knute gingrich tweeted the same message about Georgia, complaining that they were making it hard for repugnanticans to win by making it easier to vote.
6Runt Paul’s neighbor probably got it right punching him in the nose. Maybe a neighbor of knute should do the same. Maybe not, but both deserve shaming by democrats winning again in Georgia. If I were a Democrat in Georgia, it would motivate me to vote.
https://www.newsweek.com/Gingrich-criticizes-georgia-sec-state-adding-drop-boxes-that-make-it-harder-republicans-win-1554427
Biden’s gotta stop poaching Reps outta Congress, the edge is too close to even now. This narrow a window gives too much leverage to a small group to block progress to fill their special interest.
7Do you suppose Ms Lindsey could loan him some pearls to clutch?
8Agree with Jace@7 – I cringe whenever I hear another cabinet nominee being pulled out of Congress. Also agree with megasoid – the first comment was ugly.
9Short Eff-er Rand is right. If you get people to vote you can throw your preordained result right out the window. I’m sure they never allow that sort of thing in Kentucky
10In Sam Shepard’s play “A Lie of the Mind” a very abusive husband says to his wife, “Do you ever think about what you say; or do you just say it?”
11Cheating on Stacey Abrams appears to have been the dumbest thing the Republican party ever did. They unleashed her to go forward and turn the party around. Get rid of that snively Tom Perez and make her head of the DNC
12Ditto Cheryl @ 12.
Then maybe they could get Howard Dean back in to make a Democratic presence in every congressional district.
13YES, Cheryl @ 12! Stacy Abrams would be an awesome head of the DNC! Tom Perez has more than had his chance, and it’s long past time for him to go.
14Crone – that would be awesome and game-changing. Never understood why they got rid of Dean, who got things done.
15did Trump reach out to non-voters in 2016? I would have to think that RP is correct, but in a time-warp.
16@ 4 .. Not meant to be clever or funny. Just true. In years past I have travelled for business extensively, and been in many social settings with all different types of crowds. Without any merit on my part for some reason I have seen that particular demographic .. the one that RP is speaking for .. with their guard down and I have been well assured they think and speak just like that.
You don’t need to take my word for it. In the Trump era they have become emboldened. Out in the streets and loud on the Internet. They love him so much because they don’t feel the need to hide so much anymore. You can find it all over without hearing it from me.
So: sorry if it is hard to hear. It is difficult for almost any decent person, but we have to put denial aside if we are going to make any substantial progress.
17I blame the votes in Kentucky. Not only did they reelect this fool, they also just reelected Moscow Mitch. This is all on them.
18Well, this just goes to show that, when push comes to shove, Democrats CAN do an end run around Republican voter suppression. Finally.
Stacey Abrams is showing the rest of us how it’s done. We need to sit up and take notice of what she’s been doing for the past two years and — you know — follow her lead.
19Cheryl @ 12:
The Republicans are stacking up some sort of record here.
Remember when they refused to allow Elizabeth Warren to head up the CFPB that she had built from the ground up?
So she promptly ran for the Senate and has been a needle in the side of Mitch McConnell, the one man who was most instrumental in blocking her appointment.
I do love me some schadenfreude.
20Jace @7 re: “Biden’s gotta stop poaching Reps outta Congress,”
Ya know, if Rep. Pelosi says it is good, I’m betting it is.
At the minimum, Democrats are starting with 222 victories, a 4 vote margin. So far, Rep. Richardson, Fudge and Haaland have been named … but Fudge & Haaland will not need to resign until they are confirmed, which could easily be after Richardson’s district has its special election. And we don’t know that McConnell & his merry pranksters are going to be willing to confirm Cabinet members or not, ESPECIALLY liberal. women. of color.
21Barb@17 – don’t be quick to judge people from Kentucky. Have 3 like-minded friends there that have described Kentucky much like Texas – larger cities are definitely blue (like Texas, except for Fort Worth), but gerrymandering has rendered the state red, even though they are the minority. They can’t get past the manipulatable rubes that vote against their own interests.
22I would like to see a Gerrymandering Correction Czar
23For now, Kentucky Dems are packed into Louisville and Lexington while the rest of the state is bright red. Our best hope for the future may be State Rep. Charles Booker and his Hood to the Hollar organization. Booker came close to winning the senate primary and probably would have if he had started a month earlier. Now he is trying to build common cause between the poor in the cities and the poor in the mountains. They should be natural progressives, but far too many are non-voters. I’m hoping he can be KY’s Stacy Abrams.
24Cheryl @22, as a longtime (altho no longer) resident of Bluegrassia, let me respectfully disagree with your friends there, tho I certainly wish they were right. When it comes to electoral trends, Ky is nothing like Texas. For one thing, 88% of the population is classified as “non-Hispanic white”, compared to less than 50% in Texas. For another, Ky has only one major (Democratic) city. Lexington, the 2nd-largest, is not even big enough to comprise its own Congressional district, and the third “urban” area, Northern Ky, consists of the largely white and extremely conservative southern suburbs of Cincinnati.
And you can’t really blame gerrymandering either. Of Ky’s 120 counties, only the two urban ones, Louisville/Jefferson and Lexington/Fayette, went blue last month. Jefferson Co is essentially its own Congressional district, and sends the excellent John Yarmuth to Washington every cycle. Lexington, as noted, is surrounded by the genteel (i.e., white and relatively prosperous) Bluegrass area, which tends to outvote it and send a dreary succession of wingnuts (currently Andy Barr) to DC. The rest of the state, well, it doesn’t really matter how you draw the lines, it’s all bright Trumpite red. And Mitch & Randy, of course, run statewide.
Hate to be the downer here, and if I had my own blog I’d take even more time and go off on some of the reasons *why* Ky is like it is, but…it is like it is. You can’t compare it to Texas, or Georgia, or N.C., it has a lot more in common with Indiana and Tennessee, and not the good parts either.
25It must be 2020 (i.e. the End of the World as We Know It), because Rand Paul has said something with which I agree…getting out more voters CAN change election outcomes, and here’s to it!
My spousal unit and I would also like to see Stacy Abrams as DNC chair…but then, we liked Howard Dean, too.
26El Legarto, Does it have anything to do with KY being #44 (or 45 depending on the source) in education? Plus there’s no incentive to change when NY, MA, NJ and CT are subsidizing them.
27https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-zirpoli-050620-20200506-7ya7okjfk5btdpysnrnrfouyz4-story.html
Well, he proved that he is almost smart enough to come to a conclusion. But how could he help himself when this election had more voters than ever? That boy is a total branch off the old tree, namely his dad. Poor Kentucky!
28Yet another reason to scrap the electoral college, so every vote counts. Right now a lot of people who support Democrats can’t see the point in jumping through all the hoops set up by Red states to cast a “meaningless” vote. After nearly 250 years it’s time we had a democracy like Sweden and Japan.
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