The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Voters in Indiana and North Carolina!
The Republicans are clamoring for you to vote for Hillary Clinton. Rush Limbaugh's infamous Operation Chaos, which he began in March, is in full swing. You, the voters in the next set of primaries, are an integral part of it. He is attempting to set the stage so that Democrats are damned if they do, and damned if they don't, acknowledge his interference.
Limbaugh's insatiable ego is well known to everyone and he loves to constantly assert his importance. This was his statement the night after the Pennsylvania primary: "What Obama has to do is go out and say this (Hillary) win is artificial and this win is phony because of Operation Chaos. He needs to go out there and say, 'Why in the world is everybody taking this seriously? Rush Limbaugh had his listeners register as Democrats for one day to go vote for Hillary to prolong this. We're letting Limbaugh get away with making our party look like it's in a total sewer and a mess.' This victory in Pennsylvania is illegitimate, is undeserved because Democrats did not vote for her, Republicans did."
Of course, if Barack Obama did actually come out and say this it would play in the media as sour grapes and Limbaugh knows it. No person of any stature in the Democratic Party is going to want to acknowledge Limbaugh's role in their primary. And as Jason Linkins so ably notes, Clinton has plenty of supporters who are not unwitting tools of the right. It is just that those supporters represent a distinct minority in the Democratic Party.
Howard Dean, Democratic Party Chairman, joyfully noted yesterday on Fox News Sunday that, "Hundreds of thousands of Republicans have turned their back on their own party to vote in the Democratic primaries in the last six months." Dean would love to believe that this was the result of Republicans realizing the havoc to America that a McSame Administration would cause. No doubt some of it is just that. But a sizeable chunk of those votes, the majority of Republicans who have voted in the primary for Clinton, came as a result of Operation Chaos.
Subsequently, Clinton's popular vote total, as well as her pledged delegate count, have come from a corrupted process and do not represent a true count of what her support would be if she were to face John McCain in November. If Republicans are successful in maneuvering her into the Democratic nomination, McCain will be a shoo-in for the presidency. The Democratic Party will be in revolt with huge numbers of voters not voting while the Republicans who voted for her in the primary will quickly switch and vote for their party's nominee.
Of the two primaries scheduled for tomorrow, Indiana is the one that is an "open" election; members of any party can vote for any candidate. In Indiana Limbaugh's Republican ground troops will vote for Clinton in an effort to sabotage Obama. And, because Limbaugh is credibly claiming that thousands of Republicans have changed their party affiliation to corrupt the presidential election process, what happens in North Carolina will be highly suspect.
Regardless of the fact that the Democratic Party's patience for Clinton is wearing thin, she is able to continue to tout the illusion of a close race because of Republican interference which is occurring this year only because McCain's nomination has been resolved for quite a while now, leaving right wing voters with the time and opportunity to cause trouble.
Clinton's ego and lust for power being what it is, she is only too willing to go along with the ruse of her electability and she joyfully piles on with the McCarthy-esque guilt by association being played against Obama by some members of the media.
So go ahead Indiana and North Carolina, step up and pull that lever for Clinton. You'll make Limbaugh's dream of riots in Denver come true, rhetorically if not literally.
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There's a certain raw injustice that one feels when the well-intentioned, infomed votes of thousands are offset by the despicable arrogance of one. And the resulting anger and frustration has no place to go. Don't forget the flag pin, Rush.
You people do realize Hillary is polling better that Obama against McCain across the board these days, don't you? And that her numbers are hardly abysmal compared with his. The Limbaugh effect seems to be a concoction of mouth-foaming Obama supporters to excuse their lack of a useful majority.
Since you enjoy polls so much, you also realize that Hillary still has the highest negatives of anyone to run for president.
The daily tracking polls don't mean anything as they fluctuate with the wind. She's been doing well because everyone was/is focused on Obama. If she was the front runner and was under more scrutiny, her polls would dip too.
By the way, Limbaugh is responsible for the Limbaugh Effect.
And finally, this lacking "useful majority" will be sure to send you a postcard from the White House. Wish you were there?
StephenDedaloss......There is really no other way to tell you but after reading what you just wrote one only has to ask, "How much did hillary or bill white trash with money clintons pay you to wrtie that . Most polls in the last 2-weeks have been fakes and in fine print have stated as much -why aren't you that honest?
The Republicans don't want to run against Obama. If they run against hillary they will win by a landslide.
This is sad. What I can't understand is why intelligent people would do something like this because Rush Limbaugh told them to do so. It is so silly that grown men(not sure how many women would do something like this) are acting like little children and taking orders from this stupid guy telling them what to do like they are 8th graders. And, I wonder what kind of people would do something like this. This says a lot about these individuals character. A real decent person would not participate in this kind of garbage. I would be very disappointed if I found out that one of my friends would do something like this. I think that I would have to stop hanging out with them.
2351 types,"What I can't understand is why intelligent people would do something like this because Rush Limbaugh told them to do so." AARRRGGGHHHH!!! Intelligent? Are you kidding? You'd have to be a complete idiot just to listen to that gasbag, let alone believe his spewed filth and help his oxy contin-induced fantasies come to fruition!
If you haven't read about them and seen the videos, find Milgram's studies and the Stanford Prison stuff and the Nuremburg trials.
People you would never suspect will do some pretty stupid things just because they perceive themselves as simply following orders. On a smaller scale, it really is a juvenile reaction, one that glories in messing up the other teams's chances by cheating and does what the group leader says because it's easier to unquestioningly and ignorantly follow the group than it is to think.
Say it, and say it again, "There is no greater motivation to the Republican base than Hillary Clinton."
Maybe Deans comment about "thousands of voters on the right have turned their backs on the Republican Party and their voting for Democrats", might not be true. But hey, wasn't it great to for Dean to say on Fox news!!!!
Dean is so clever.
Dean is an idiot. Dems voting for Republicans is a change. Republicans voting for Dems are suspect. Going from liberal to conservative political positions can be driven by personal values but a conservative going liberal? That just doesn't happen, especially if the votes are going for Hillary who still remain the arch-enemy of most conservatives.
There is real genius behind Operation Chaos. Republicans see what Obama is about and they need Hillary to do their job for them. It's not easy to disenfranchise an entire race of voters and young votes, both of whom do not support the GOP. GOP knows they will never capture those votes or surpress them enough on their own but they can get Hillary to upset them enough so that they don't vote and/or to turn off enough white voters against Obama to vote for McCain. In either scenario, GOP wins and they lose nothing.
Dems do not appreciate how dispised Hillary is to conservatives. Perhaps now Obama supporters are beginning to understand why Republicans hate Hillary. It's the person stupid.
I believe Rush is afraid to have McCain go against Obama. He must think McCain has a better chance against Hillary. A youthful Obama against the old war horse. Imagine what the debates will look like especially if McCain has a metamucil moment. Rush won't admit this, so he continues to promote operation chaos as a tool to beat up on the Democratic candidates. Otherwise why would you do anything that keeps Hillary in the game and gives her a chance to steal the election.
I'm not sure Limbaugh has stated which Democrat he would prefer McCain faced in the fall. What I do know is that he stated that he is pushing this Operation Chaos thing because he thinks, regardless of who he thinks is the stronger candidate, that Obama WILL be the nominee, and that getting Repubs to vote for Hillary at this point just encourages her, prolongs the Democratic nomination campaign, and thus prolongs the time when McCain can campaign to shore up Repub support and fundraise with reduced media scrutiny while the press covers Clinton beating up on Obama. Clinton is doing McCain's job for free. I imagine Limbaugh is thrilled with the Rove-like negative campaigning that Hillary's camp has waged.
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Posted May 5, 2008 | 10:26 AM (EST)