While the title might sound odd, Limbaugh's insatiable ego will not allow him to resist tarnishing Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions with a strong dose of reality -- as well as his confession to his personal involvement in corrupting the presidential election.
The backstory is riveting. In March, Limbaugh launched his infamous, "Operation Chaos," a devious anti-democratic plan devised to undermine the Democratic presidential nominee whom he believes will be: Senator Barack Obama. In several of his broadcasts, Limbaugh implored his legions of devout right-wing followers to cast aside their Republican inhibitions and vote in the Democratic primaries for Obama's rival: Senator Hillary Clinton.
Limbaugh's rationale? Obama's momentum had morphed into a genuine grassroots movement, and it had to be stopped at all costs - even unto the gross hypocrisy of asking die-hard Republicans to change their party registrations and cast their malicious votes for Hillary Clinton to poison Obama's candidacy.
Is Limbaugh's plot to defeat the first African-American candidate for the presidency: (A) insidious or (B) nefarious? Probably, both.
Come to think of it, is Operation Chaos really Limbaugh's plan at all - or was it designed by somebody else? Who knows - other than Limbaugh and his co-conspirators?
That said, James Carville and Mary Matalin are worthy suspects. Carville is a close and long-serving factotum for the Clinton family. Carville's wife, Matalin, is a top-ranking Republican operative who works in the Bush White House. It is well documented that Matalin is a longstanding ally and admirer of Rush Limbaugh. Matalin has appeared on his show to tout her appalling books. The two are frequently photographed at right-wing cocktail parties. They appear to be on warm and friendly terms.
QED. Republican operatives working with Hillary Clinton's campaign have introduced a new mechanism into the presidential nomination process: flooding the polls with Republican crossovers.
Of the final primaries, Indiana and Montana are both "open" elections - where members of any party can vote for any candidate. In Indiana and Montana, Limbaugh's Republican crossovers will be out in force to sabotage Obama by voting for Clinton.
Since Limbaugh is claiming that thousands of Republicans are capable of changing their party affiliation to corrupt the presidential election process, none of the other closed primaries are above suspicion.
The entire 'democratic' system in the United States of America is broken. From Republican crossovers to Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Katherine Harris who dealt the death blow to democracy in Florida and J. Kenneth Blackwell who sabotaged the election of 2004, America is staggering toward its new status as a Mugabesque nightmare ruled by invisible Leviathans, audible Limbaughs and desperate, presidential campaigns embroiled in vendettas that would make Michael Corleone cringe.
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Where was the outrage when the Daily Kos started using this strategy? Rush didn't start it, he just copied it from a far left web site.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#PADEM (page 4 of 7)
15% of democrats say they would vote for mccain in the General Election ... 90% of that 15% voted for Hillary Clinton..
Interpret that at your own peril.
Operation Chaos could end in Indiana???? Please say it is so!!
What goes around comes around I guess.
He's got juice, but just not quite enough, which translates into a Loss either at the Convention, or the Election. Which one would you rather see him lose?
And considering how much worse our country has gotten since the Democrats have regained the House & Senate, Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" shows him to just be a Piker compared to what the Democrats have done, or Not done!!!
Because since they have taken over, all of us have REALLY PAID THE PRICE FOR IT!!!
Ich denke, folglich bin ich ein Populist.
1. If you voted for Senator Clinton would you vote for her in the general election?
2. If you voted for Senator Obama would you vote for him in the general election?
I think this defuse some arguments and provoke some more.
What do I know I'm just a voter.
My Pennsylvania county (Chester) had one of the largest proportions of crossovers. Out of a voter base of 300,000+ there were 12,000 crossover registrations or which 6,000 had been Republicans. The rest had been independents, Greens or other parties.
Despite the large number of crossovers, our county went strongly for Obama.
I helped in the registration drive and I know we did not get big numbers of registrations because of Rush Limbaugh. We got them by enlisting Republicans who had been voting Democratic for years, by finding those who had become disgusted with the Republican Party and by the tireless work of mainly Obama volunteers.
By the way, a good friend of mine is a solid Republican and he works at our polling place. He said he knew of a very few Republicans who were crossing over for Rush.. His word for them was "despicable."
Most of the PA Republicans who voted in the Democratic primary went Obama.
He's been inciting riots in Denver this summer on his show this week.
He needs to be investigated and fined but something tells me it's not going to happen.
Frankly, I don't believe Rush has the clout to get Republicans to do this. I can just see my Neo-Con brother fainting at the very thought of voting for a Democrat...even at the instigation of his favorite "comedian".
They are by the very definition, anti-American. They have no love of country, they hate to pay taxes because it might somehow help other people. They believe that they know what's best because they make a great deal of money.
There are people like this in every country. We just need to stay vigilant and call them out when we see them. We need to let them know why they are anti-American and why subverting the spirit of the law if not necessarily the letter of the law is traitorous.