Rush Is Right About Crossover Voting

Open primaries are the real "perversion of the process". Change the law.

by Rod D. Martin
March 5, 2008

Not that that's shocking. But for Democrats to claim that his telling Republicans to go vote for Hillary in the Democrat primary is "ungentlemanly" or "a perversion of the process" is the height of hypocrisy.

This is not just because the Dems and their media allies have been glowing (for years) about the supposed "bipartisanship" of Democrats and Independents voting in our primaries, for Bob Dole, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, or whomever else the left may think easiest to beat come November. It's also because Democrat state legislatures have for years been loosening the rules requiring that only party members could vote in their party's primary, even to the point of trying to utterly eliminate party primaries in states like California and Louisiana.

Why? Because it's easier to manipulate the outcome that way, especially in states with historically large Democrat majorities. And its easier for the media to have its way too.

Rush was just giving them a dose of t…