The Dan Parker Hypocrisy Du Jour

It seems that Indiana Democratic Party State Chairman Dan Parker doesn’t like Rush Limbaugh.

In fact, Parker dislikes Rush Limbaugh, and Rush’s “Operation Chaos” that urges Republicans to vote in the Democratic primaries, more than he likes Hillary Clinton.

The very idea of Republicans becoming Democrats is very troubling to Mr. Parker.

More troubling, it seems, than upholding laws that would prevent illegal aliens from voting and minimize voter fraud.

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From Protein Wisdom:

Indiana’s Democratic chairman said his party is ready to challenge the votes of any lifelong Republicans who attempt to vote as Democrats in the May 6 primary. This despite the fact that Indiana has an open primary.

Meanwhile, the Indiana Democratic Party is currently challenging the state’s voter ID law in the US Supreme Court.

In short, Indiana Democrats want to suppress voting by past Republicans, but welcome non-citizen voters. That whole “count every (non-military) vote” mantra Democrats have been chanting since 2000 turns out to be not as iron-clad as previously thought.

Hot Air is a bit less charitable in its characterizations of the eminent Mr. Parker and his efforts:

Considering whom Operation Chaos is designed to benefit — and may be benefiting — Hillary-supporter Dan Parker is a man of high principle. Or an abject moron.

I’d wager on the latter.

This being said, efforts by the Indiana Democratic Party to kill the voter ID law have a lot more to do with defending questionable voting practices and other shady Democratic get-out-the-vote behaviors in certain counties (Lake, Marion, Monroe, Clark, Crawford, I could go on) than it does with illegal aliens, the population of which in Indiana is rather negligible.

I would be surprised if this was substantially or significantly enforced in a lot of Indiana counties.

Republicans control a significant majority of the county election boards in the state (and a majority of the inspectors at the individual precincts; in 59 or so of 92 counties), and it is they who would have ultimate say.

It is probably empty posturing by Parker to cover his rear, since Indiana is a heavily Republican state and there will be a significant amount of crossover voting, and it will help Parker’s favored candidate.

In southern Indiana, where Democrats are more dominant than in most other parts of the state, it is not uncommon for Republicans to have an unchallenged primary slate and for most Republicans to vote in the Democrat primary in order to throw their primary selection process.

We have been doing our own version of Operation Chaos for decades.

Speaking of which, I have recently received some emails encouraging Republican cross-over voters (normal or new converts from Operation Chaos) in the 9th District to vote for Gretchen Clearwater in the 9th District Congressional primary.

(This post also available at the Hoosierpundit)