We, like most of sane America, hate Rush Limbaugh. Really, what's not to hate? C'mon, the guy calls his faithful listeners "Dittoheads." (Editor Jill and Wikipedia told this Phillyist that it's because Limbaugh listeners start their call-ins by saying "Ditto" to echo how much they enjoy his show, but I know it's really because they're mindless, or misguided, carbon copies of one another.) We've panned Rush on these pages before for encouraging his Republican listeners in Texas and Ohio to switch to the Democractic party to vote for Hillary Clinton, because she's more likely to lose to John McCain in a general election than Barack Obama is. (And let's not forget, this is the same guy who swore he would not support John McCain, which may have been a ploy to make sure McCain—the only electable Republican who ran in the primaries—got the nomination, because his endorsement of a candidate is about the quickest way to turn off moderate voters.) And now it looks like the party-switching sabotage mission may be happening in Pennsylvania.

With that as a preface, we're going to type words we never thought we'd type on these pages: We agree with Rick Santorum. We. Agree. With. Rick. Santorum. Excuse us for a moment while we shudder. Why do we agree with him? Because he recognizes that Limbaugh's Operation Chaos campaign is one of the dirtiest political moves ever pulled, and could alter tactics and disenfranchise voters of both parties in elections to come. We know that there have been accusations, with varying degrees of viability or support, of voter fraud in past elections. But if anything is tantamount to voter fraud, this is. And it could deprive Pennsylvania of its rightful impact on the only presidential election in which a Pennsylvania primary has mattered in recent memory. Here's hoping that, by the time the next election cycle rolls around, an election reform bill has passed that would require voters to lock in their political party at the very beginning of primary season.

So, for an unabashed assault on the Constitution and our democratic process, and for forcing us into a position where we have to agree with Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh and his party-switching Dittoheads are our Assholes of the Week.

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