Posted on 03/17/2008 12:55:05 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show.
A sudden change of heart? Hardly.
Since Senator John McCain effectively sewed up the GOP nomination last month, Republicans have begun participating in Democratic primaries specifically to vote for Clinton, a tactic that some voters and local Republican activists think will help their party in November. With every delegate important in the tight Democratic race, this trend could help shape the outcome if it continues in the remaining Democratic primaries open to all voters.
Spurred by conservative talk radio, GOP voters who say they would never back Clinton in a general election are voting for her now for strategic reasons: Some want to prolong her bitter nomination battle with Barack Obama, others believe she would be easier to beat than Obama in the fall, or they simply want to register objections to Obama.
"It's as simple as, I don't think McCain can beat Obama if Obama is the Democratic choice," said Kyle Britt, 49, a Republican-leaning independent from Huntsville, Texas, who voted for Clinton in the March 4 primary. "I do believe Hillary can mobilize enough [anti-Clinton] people to keep her out of office."
Britt, who works in financial services, said he is certain he will vote for McCain in November.
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Rush Bimbaugh is no genius! Ann Coulter, however, IS a genius! She preceded Bimbaugh with her “I’ll vote for Hillary before I’ll ever vote for McLame!” statement on
H & C.
Some Republicans think that Hillary will be easier for McAmnesty to beat than Obmama. Could be...However, the Clinton Machine is more powerful than most people realize, and she’s not going to back down easily. So far, Obama hasn’t won any big states—Hillary has. Obama has not proven he can win the big ones. Hillary has, and WITHOUT the black vote! Independent conservatives like me have no wuff in this hunt, but many of us know that a MQueeg Presidency means a weakened and possibly a Pelosi-led House, and that means Amnesty! The only hope of these three, bad, rotten apples is for Hillary to somehow pull it out—the nomination from the Obamanation, I mean. If she does, we’ll almost certainly get enough conservative Congressmen elected to regain control of the House. It is THE ONLY hope we have...
Without Rush Limbaugh’s endorsements of Fred Thompson and Mitt Romeny in South Carolina and Florida, the GOP would have ended up with a nominee like John McCain.
I agree, this story is a plant.
One thing Republicans know is that Democrats are institutionally racist.
If Obama wins the nom, white Republicans won’t vote for him because he’s a Democrat. White Democrats won’t vote for him because he is black.
It is to our advantage to see Obama get the nod. As such, there is no way repubs would vote for her in the primaries.
Hillary also knows this and she also knows that if she does get the nom, it will be at the expense of losing the black vote. The damage control spin has begun.
It’s hard to fight the wind or the rain, which is exactly what you’re fighting with Barak Obama. The guy is all things to all people—a master of the term “we.”
With Hillary Clinton, you have a polarizing force that you can mount an assault upon. And she doesn’t have the protective coast of race, either. Nor the silver tongue.
There’s also the side issue that I trust Hillary Clinton a lot more than Barak Obama to defend our nation if things go south. Nobody challenges her authority and gets away with it. My guess is that this applies on a global scale, as well.
Obama is just as much the socialist. He’s far more effective, and he’s far more likeable.
That's putting it mildly. When she gets into the climax of a speech, she sounds like the demon spawn of a hyena and a fishwife. And that cackling laugh, God, it will drive me crazy if I have to listen to four years of that as she dismantles everything that made this country great.
You have lost your mind......
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step outta line, the men come, and take you away
Not at all. El Zibo wants McCain defeated at any cost and I stand by my statement.
Rush doesn't have the power to determine who is selected POTUS from this point forward. It's up to the delegates now. He could have easily influenced the outcome of the primaries, but chose not to until the 'Pubbies selected their nominee. On this basis, your theory is bunk.
Many independents will vote for Obama in the general election who won’t vote for Hillary.
Many conservatives will (grudgingly) vote in the general against Hillary when they might stay home if against Obama.
Hillary is easier to beat. She lacks the messiah factor and she already has a well-proven and very high hate-index.
It does not matter. Two states she wins and it is over.Ohio and Arkansas.
How can he possibly know that? He doesn't and neither do you.
Hillary has something on the order of 49% negatives, and the real dirt on her hasn't even come out yet, nor has it come out on Osama/Obama, either, for that matter. This latest flap with Osama/Obama's pastor is just the tip of the iceberg. Similarly, Hillary can't hold off releasing her tax returns and other financial information much longer, or it will raise serious eyebrows. Then, you add to this all the anger that both have stirred up in the anti-war leftists, and we have the makings for 1968 (or worse) all over again. You do recall which party won in 1968 after the fiasco in Chicago, right?
On top of that, Hillary will have to use Superdelegates, most likely at a brokered convention, to steal the nomination from Osama/Obama. Mathematically, it's the only way she can win the nomination, even with a do-over in Florida and Michigan, which ain't gonna happen. I suppose Rush is going to force the Superdelegates to vote for Hillary, too, so "he" can defeat McCain?
“Rush Limbaugh (El Zibo) goal is not to have a fight between the democrat his goal is to have Hillary Clinton the nominee because she has better chance of defeating McCain than Obama does. El Zibo and many like him have only one goal in this election: “Defeat John McCain at any cost”.”
Quite an active imagination you have.
No, Rush's strategy is consistenmt with the theme, "Keep her in it so we can win it!!!".
There are 50 states, not 2. Everything I said will have an effect in all 50 states, including the 2 you mentioned.
I pity those charged with protecting obama. Wait till obama states getting into the clinton past as the race get's tighter.
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