Rush’s Timeless Wisdom: Photo ID

BUCK: We have this issue of Democrats convincing themselves or at least pretending to be convinced that there is a massive voter suppression conspiracy all across the country. It is rooted in racism, they say — that’s what this is all really about, it is Jim Crow 2.0, and they will even say things that, by the way, have been tested in the courts and found to be completely legitimate, universally acceptable, things like voter ID, they’ll tell us that that alone, voter ID requirements for mail-in ballots, evil, undemocratic, and of course racist. But that’s not true.

Staunch majorities, solid majorities of the American people across all backwards and coercions except for maybe Marxist leftists, but they believe in voter ID. A majority of African-Americans polled believe in voter ID. A majority of Latino Americans, a majority all Americans believe in voter ID. And Rush knew this and spoke about this just in May of 2012. Here’s what he said.

RUSH: The old photo ID business. Think of anything you do in your life where you do not need a photo ID. You need a photo ID to cash a check. Need a photo ID to get on an airplane, the most mundane things in life you need a photo ID. But yet Eric Holder and his gang tell us that to require a photo ID when one votes is intimidation and it is discrimination and it will cause people to hole up in their homes and not vote when people say but, no, no, no, we’ll be glad to provide them a photo ID free if they just come down to city hall — that’s a trick also to get people out of their homes. It’s the state using its awesome fist to discriminate and intimate people who don’t have photo ID.

Okay, all well and done. Let’s take it at face value. The Democrat Party, standing tall, standing strong for people who want to be able to vote but who can’t prove who they are. By the same token, do these people who do not have photo IDs, are they thus able not also to get on an airplane? Are they not able to get a credit card? Are they not able to cash check? I mean, look at all the things you can’t do if you don’t have a photo ID. Look at all of the areas in our society, in our economy where you are shut out if you don’t have a photo ID. Just think about it.

The Democrat Party, which claims to stand for the little guy, wants to maintain that status for certain of its constituents. No photo ID, because it’s just too scary and intimidating to have to have one of those to vote. But at the same time, those people are shut out of the U.S. economy.

BUCK: Clay, not only is it untrue that voter ID is this massive suppression measure that’s rooted in bigotry, that Democrats always say that any voting requirement is somehow racist is itself troubling, isn’t it?

CLAY: Oh, it certainly is.