Nice Try, Rush

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[bodo]

03:10 PM on 06/09/2008

One thing is for sure. Rush will never "concede" that he failed when Obama is inaugurated. He will just start another spin about somebody else.

[magen]

04:56 PM on 06/06/2008

Imagine if Randy Rhodes or some other progressive talk radio host openly promoted messing with the republiCON nomination process.

Hopefully under the overwhelmingly Democratic congress that is coming, along with President Obama, we'll be able to get some media reform.

Be afraid CONserviCONS. Be very afraid.

Reich-wing crazies dominating the airwaves is gonna be over soon.

[Bobrobert]

03:35 PM on 06/06/2008

Question.

Why does anyone listen to a fool that hates them???

He laughes at his listeners all the way to the bank.

Remember to vote all.

:-)

[blessedfrog]

03:27 PM on 06/06/2008

Do y'all really think that Rush's ditto heads made it out in droves
to vote for Hillary + snarkle up the democratic primary?

It just seems so implausible and ridiculous.

But what do i know

[uvymopkq]

02:35 PM on 06/06/2008

Rush Limbaugh ....a great American!
"Operation Chaos" was great also.

[SouthFloridaDem]

02:33 PM on 06/06/2008

I heard a theory that the so-called "Operation Chaos" is just a cover for those conservatives who are crossing over to vote for Obama. A cover so that other conservatives -- known to "fall in line" and act as a group -- don't hear about the in-its-infancy trend and go join it. In a wacky kind of way, it makes a lot of sense to me. (Of course, anything about conservatives is kind of wacky.)

[KMKY]

05:59 PM on 06/06/2008

That is a much more interesting theory, considering Operation Chaos was "launched" as stories about Obamacans were picking up steam. What Limbaugh does intentionally, and Kerry unwittingly, is call into question the Obama campaign's earlier narrative about his appeal to Republicans. I think cross-over voting may have at least three different motivations: (1) a sincere interest in one candidate after disillusionment with your party; (2) a deep-seated desire to vote against one candidate in the other party; and (3) an overinflated belief in one's ability to influence the outcome of another party's primary. Rush Limbaugh may have 22 million listeners, but if 4 March is considered the date of Operation Chaos's first successes, then that means many of those listeners would have to be located in the remaining 14 states and Puerto Rico, or just in the 9 open primary states, or had changed their party affiliation by state deadlines in order to participate in the 4 closed primary states. Occam's Razor suggests the theory you heard is probably the most likely.

[KillTheMessenger]

02:33 PM on 06/06/2008

Leave the man alone. He has done enough (harm).

:-)

[zaza]

02:25 PM on 06/06/2008

Devious crossover voting is a good argument for having a single one-day national primary. This would eliminating the possibility of one of the party's candidate wrapping up the nomination while competitive primaries are still occuring in the other party, making devious crossover voting more likely. A national primary would also take care of the problem of states attempting to leap frog one another in order to have have more influence on the process by having an earlier primary.

[BigRube]

03:02 PM on 06/06/2008

I will agree with you on that.

[JimR]

06:09 PM on 06/06/2008

I don't think a national primary would work, but maybe several regional primaries. The circus we have now is exhausting and insane.

[KMKY]

02:14 PM on 06/06/2008

Mr. Giordano, You are feeding an ego that is already overgorged, and you diminish real concerns regarding whatever problem areas Obama may need to address to solidify his appeal to all voters in November. Deflecting blame is the same method by which Kerry-Edwards lost in 2004. (And I was deeply disturbed to see Kerry at it again in giving credit for HRC's Indiana win to Limbaugh, considering she had just won in Pennsylvania.) It's about the Party and the Nominee getting out a persuasive message to an undeniable majority.

And, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Kentucky, which went for Clinton, were all closed primaries, just like Oregon, which went by a wide margin to Obama. Had Limbaugh's influence been that heavy, she would have won or at least come closer in Montana and North Carolina, an open and semi-open primary respectively.

[skepticalindenver]

11:56 PM on 06/06/2008

Dead on target. operation Chaos? No, operation "Legend in His Own Mind" is more like it. Unfortunately people that wanted to discount any Clinton victory did what people do in a war. They portray an enemy in both superhuman and subhuman terms. You can't have it both ways, either Rush is a blow-hard that is insignificant, or he is a force to be reckoned with (in every contest that was an open one). I would think the former. They did the same with Hillary. While portraying her as a McCain lite when try to make her less a candidate and giving that as the reason she got blown away in some contests, then trying to claim she only got Republican crossover votes because Rush told them to when she did win. Which is it? Is it something else entirely?

An article like this serves to further distract and divide Democrats. Obama, like every other candidate for POTUS is needs to work on appealing to all, and it is indeed disturbing Kerry feels some need to try to cover up an Obama weakness by somehow trying to diminish a Clinton win. It serves no useful cause.

[KMKY]

10:46 PM on 06/08/2008

Yes, all good points. I have been concerned about this with the DNC trying to portray McCain as Bush's third term. I think it may be a strategy either to diminish his appeal as a maverick or to force him to separate from Bush and then further anger the farther right voters, but I don't know how effective that will be.

[DennySP]

02:07 PM on 06/06/2008

I remember the comedian's slogan....LET'S KEEP HILLARY 'IN IT' SO WE CAN 'WIN IT'. This was AFTER he espoused the idea that a Democrat in the White House for 4 years would create a Republican rebound in 4 years. He got so much flack from his "ditto-heads" that he changed his tune. Yep....entertainment in it's weakest form.

[desertdweller]

02:05 PM on 06/06/2008

Alas, the joke will be on Rush when the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th POTUS ushers in decades of Democratic dominance, re-alignment of the Supreme Court, and emasculation of the conservative movement.

[Monty1955]

02:01 PM on 06/06/2008

The prolonged race caused by Operation Chaos only served to help facilitate a 50 state organization for Obama. Thanks Rush

[SeriousBlack]

01:41 PM on 06/06/2008

If she "cleanly exits" on saturday. I'll believe it when I see it.

[CalexenderJ]

01:17 PM on 06/06/2008

It's probably a little more difficult to quantify the effect of operation Chaos than you assume. Yes Rush has 22 mil listeners, but how many would go out of their way to register as an democrat (which some of the primaries required) just to do what Rush commanded?

[JennyJay]

12:43 PM on 06/06/2008

The sad thing is that Hilliary thinks all those people voted for her because they like her. But they actually voted for her to mess up the system. Her strong showing in the race is just REPUBLICAN DIRTY TRICKS. I have Republican friends who actrually sent her money knowing . . . if she was nominated . . . . it was a sure fire Republican win in Nov. Boy! are they surprised now!