It seems more than a little odd that any Democrat in the Country these days would have the unmitigated gall to accuse anyone else of nasty tomfoolery, dubious character or immoral tactics.

Yet, a number of Democrats are all up in arms, in a tizzy, throwing a real hissy fit over Rush Limbaugh’s call to crossover voters in open primary states.  Ohioans are even mulling over the ridiculous possibility of indicting Rush on some type of election code violations.   

What balderdash! 

This is one of the biggest heaps of poppycock I’ve ever witnessed.

Ohio held an open primary this year in full accord with the wishes of both political parties. 

So, where’s the brouhaha?

Cross-over voting in open primaries has a long history and has been practiced by both Democrats and Republicans.   Every state and state party apparatus has its own legal code and set of rules for conducting primaries.  There is no national system, and primaries have only been the major factor in deciding nominations following 1968. 

Only 17 states have completely open primaries that operate in accordance with firmly set state law.  I happen to live in one of them, Georgia, and I’ve always preferred the flexibility of voting in either (no one gets to vote in both in the same election) primary, because I can remain an independent voter and often vote Democratic in local elections.  The political parties don’t usually like open primaries because they want only solidified, loyal party voters to influence the party’s selection of candidates.

Well, that’s the way the Soviets ran their “elections” too.   Only members of the Communist Party could vote.

Closed primaries seem downright un-American to me.  Nevertheless, there are 22 states with closed primaries.  The rules for each state’s primary system are no classified secret and can be easily checked online by every individual voter, well in advance of the primary.  It’s no use squawking about it after the fact; it you don’t like your state’s way of doing it, work to change it.  That is the American way.

But the point here is that in an open primary state, voters are perfectly free to choose the primary in which they prefer to cast their votes.

For the handful of Americans who haven’t a clue what Rush has accomplished with his call to Republicans to cast votes in open primary states for Hillary Clinton to keep the Democrat in-fighting going, here it is in a nutshell.

Rush Limbaugh is doing for the American electorate what the Democrat Party has utterly failed to do.

Properly vet their own candidates.  Investigate those candidates.  Look at their backgrounds.  Uncover improprieties, illegalities and dishonesty of every kind.  Make sure those cash bundlers are on the up and up.  Find out more about the company they keep. 

This is the work of a political party, and it ought to be done before that Party puts its stamp of approval on any candidate. 

This is the job that part of all that Party money is supposed to go for.  It’s entirely necessary.  It’s part and parcel of trusting the Party label. 

But for a long, long time the Democrat Party has shown a complete unwillingness to call its own members to the public or private carpet for all manner and sundry evils.  Instead they foist these improperly vetted candidates upon an unsuspecting public, and if any vetting is going to get done, we Republicans have to do it.

If Barack Obama had taken Texas and Ohio, as he might well have done if not for Rush’s heroic call for the crossover vote - Operation Chaos - then the American public would have been denied the knowledge about Obama that we rightly deserve.  Knowledge that has just come out in the past two weeks.

If Obama were already the nominee, then would a single Democrat-leaning, mainstream media outlet have shown us the disgusting anti-American, racist rants of Jeremiah Wright?  I doubt it very seriously. 

Every tape the church was selling on its website might well have been bought up surreptitiously by some fat-cat Democrat donor, like George Soros.  Soros is, in fact, backing Obama, and if Soros had had the chance, I would put hard cash on betting that he would have squelched this news.

And, if by chance, Fox news or another honest media outlet had gotten a copy anyhow and broadcast it, then the hollering and raving would have been deafening. 

How many Democrat media icons can you hear chanting in unison:

Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy!!!  Racial smear tactics!!  Hate mongering!

If the Democrat Party did its own job and weeded out the people who were not squeaky-clean, then we conservative pundits wouldn’t have to take it on the chin for America day in and day out.

Oh, and we now have the matter of Hillary Clinton’s records being released because of the insistence of Obama, who still remains her competitor.  They clearly show that Mrs. Clinton lied about her support for NAFTA.  Would we have ever known about this if the nomination fight had ended?  I doubt it.

So, let those open primary states investigate crossover voting, where Republican voters did their duty for America and let the proper vetting of the candidates continue in a public forum.  It’s about time someone forced the Democrats out of their backroom deals that sacrifice honesty and morality for political expediency.

It’s becoming such a bad state of affairs within the once august Democrat Party, that seemingly the only qualification necessary for membership or for being nominated for office is gullibility. 

And that, my friends, is the polite way of putting it.

In my opinion, Americans who love our Country and want to be able to trust the leaders we elect, ought to be lining up to give Rush Limbaugh a medal.