I'm still pulling for the big asteroid that somehow, someway takes out Congress and allows US (as in "U.S.") to start fresh:
Posted on 05/11/2008 4:19:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Limbaugh: 'My impact will increase'
Jonathan Martin 55 minutes ago
Conservatives are despondent, liberals are as enthused about a presidential candidate as they've been in 40 years, and the candidate he has long loathed won the Republican nomination.
But never mind the pervasive sense of GOP malaise: Entering his 20th year on the national airwaves, Rush Limbaugh is having a dandy 2008 cycle.
Regardless of how many votes Limbaugh actually pushed into Hillary Rodham Clinton's column with his mischief-making "Operation Chaos" plan to encourage his listeners to keep the Democratic primary going, the endeavor was a success in another important way. It reminded the mainstream media and others outside the conservative orbit of the following he commands.
And that the "drive-by media" he so delights in tweaking would recognize his influence enough to put his stunt on the front page, as The Washington Post did last week, underscored another essential fact about the right-wing talk show host: Limbaugh is one heck of a showman.
Even as the Internet supersedes radio, Limbaugh's skills as a political provocateur, as much P.T. Barnum as conservative ideologue, are such that he can fuel buzz in the political-media world like few others.
In other words, Operation Chaos was good box office, and that may well have been the point.
"In my universe, there is no doubt it worked like a charm," Limbaugh wrote to Politico in an interview conducted via e-mail last week. "My audience loved it, they participated in it, they had fun with it, as did I."
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No it was not. The point was to get Clinton to bring up issues that Republicans would not be able to bring up as effectively, if at all.
I know I loved it, and still do. Remember, its underlying premise was not only to keep Hillary in the race - he’s certainly no Hillary fan - but to keep her on the attack against Obama.
Because Rush knew what we all know - our party has little or no backbone. It used to. We used to push back, and hard, too, as recently as 2000. But our backbone has disappeared under the still-crushing weight of the MSM firestorm over the Bush Presidency.
That onslaught has made us so timid that, as Rush has been so eloquently pointing out, Republicans are the only people in the country who will NOT attack the Democrats.
He is the only conservative with any media savvy who is on the offensive - and he’s using the opponents to do the dirty work for us.
God Bless Rush Limbaugh, Sean and Mark Levin. With Rush leading the way, they are the only ones who defends us and our principals. Our politicians, from top to bottom, are proving to be worthless.
How Congress can look at $4/gallon gasoline and still look at themselves in a mirror is beyond me.
Operation Chaos will only improve the odds a socialist will occupy the White House by helping McCain. Great strategy Rush.
First, he got so much free publicity. Even this article is more free publicity. Second, he was able to keep his audience engaged when the political news was mostly irrelevant and boring because we didn’t have a stake in the outcome. Rush created a side to be on. Finally, Rush tweaked the Dem’s because they have no idea what the level of influence was.
The guy is a master.
Wait ‘til they catch on that Rush is having his Dittoheads have extra babies so we can achieve world domination by next century. The real Operation Chaos is happening in the bedroom.
No matter who wins in November, it’s going to be a looooong four years. Having Rush to lighten the mood will be indispensable.
Thank you, Rush!
Bush is a moderate. His ideas have all been half-ass attempts to coddle liberals. He has lead this party down the road to giving in to liberal presumptions which have only ruined whatever conservative progress the party had made since 1996. He has let liberalism thrive within our own party. He started the decline with his B.S. "Compassionate Conservatism" and he isn't even a true conservative!
Make no mistake about it, Bush is the reason we conservatives do not have a Presidential choice this election!
That possibility has already been secured.
The odds of a socialist being elected are 100%.
Easy. Who do you think created the domestic shortage? PETA?
It was Congress that closed off most drilling in the US.
It was Congress that made it impossible to build a refinery for the last 40 years.
It was Congress that saw to it that no nuclear plant would be built the last 30 years.
It was Congress that closed the largest, cleanest coal reserves in the world.
Further, did you think the Bush family would put a ounce of pressure on the Saudi thugs and say, hey any short fall, domestically, and your War on Your own Wahhibi Thugs Tax is oil for us at half price? No.
Well, at least we don't have to see any pictures of a Bush tongue swallowing a Saudi.
It is not all on Bush. After all it was conservatives that nominated and elected him even after getting to know his Daddy.
The scare tactic that our country is complete hype.
No matter who becomes President.
We need to hold firm in our resolve not to support McCain if and until he moves to the right.
It will be easy to stop the Democrats if they are in the WH then if McCain is and he decides to go across the ailse.
Also, he has ststed he doesn’t need the conservative vote.
Good, because hopefully none will vote for this moron.
Be a maverick in the GOP, go against anything McCain wants you to do.
Picture a scenario where bama's wench says no to hillary as VP which is very likely.
At that point Hillary's best bet is to destroy bama and go after McCain in 2012, she could probably do it as well.
As a former critic of Operation Chaos, I thought that
Limbaugh’s efforts would insure the nomination of the
hated Hillary, and allow the ‘rats to traipze into the
Oval Office in the November ge’s.
However, I now know that I was wrong. What OC has done,
by helping to continue the hillary insurrection is throw
chaos into the ‘rat nominating process. Mr.Limbaugh was
just continuing the process he started by publically
raising the issues of Hillary’s numerous stands on the
unpopular Spitzer (hillary) driver’s license for illegal
aliens issue. As a result of his constant harping on the issue, and calling for Russert and other debate moderators to question Hillary about the issue, Hillary was finally asked about her position vis-a-vis licenses for illegals by Russert during the MSNBC debate. Hillary’s hamhanded answer (she actually took 3 differing positions in the spate of one answer) was the beginning of the end of her campaign.
Some will say that the political hemorraghing of the Hillary candidacy would have happened with or without
Mr.Limbaugh, but no one can deny that he was instrumental
in shaming the leftist media to broach the question about
her multiple public stands on the unpopular issue. And in so doing, her poll numbers began to go south.
Hillary was not going to go quietly into political oblivion without a fight, and that fight, goaded on by
Limbaugh’s OC has succeeded in pushing forward the issue
of Barack’s racist preacher and Baracks close relationship with domestic terrorists such as Ayers and Dohrn. Sean Hannity had been beating this drum (or drums) for the better part of a year, but to no avail until OC went into high gear.
Extending this political death match has allowed us to learn more about the thin resume, the lack of leadership, baracks associations with criminals (Rezco), domestic terrorists (ayers, dohrn, weatherunderground) and his close relationship with a david duke type anti-semitic and racist (his preacher, JWright)that an earlier Barack
victory in the ‘rat primary might have prevented us from learning.
I now proudly wear my Operation teeshirt every where I go, and I believe strongly in Rush the vote’s success in using hillary as a political catspaw against the bigotted barack.
And unfortunately, I was one of them and I was wrong. There's two things I like about Bush. The way he has been steadfastly solid in the WOT and the tax cut stimulus packages. But even with the WOT he's still been too moderate.
This attitude the party has of electing the lesser of bad, moderate, rinos instead of nominating what is good, solid, and conservative has to stop. I decided it stops at this election for me!
McPainintheass, the GOP, and the RNC can go pound sand, I won't vote for that loser liberal coddler! Until conservatives stop voting to nominate rinos and moderates the GOP is gonna think we'll elect them under any circumstances.
I'm telling them they can KMA, I will never again vote for another moderate/rino!
I’ve enjoyed most of your recent post, but you make no sense with your recent post.
All three are socialists to one degree or another. So, were getting a socialists no matter what, unless something happens to McCain that renders him unable to run.
Rush’s action has allowed Obama to be exposed while causing the democrats to spend loads of cash.
No 3rd party in American history has elected its candidate. Several have elected the worst of the three (see: Woodrow Wilson).
Mcidiot made a speech to NJ envirionmentalists touting his “reforms”, and as expected the environmentalists came out and said they would never vote for him. So he has alienated the conservative base and the left nuts are not going to vote for this idiot no matter how hard he panders.
“W” only has one vote - same as you or I.
Isn’t the purpose of a political party to elect?
Perhaps we all need to educate enough voters as to the correctness of our views.
I will never have someone to vote for who agrees with me 100% - unless I am the candidate.
Wasting your time with Man50d. I made the exact same comment to this person yesterday on another thread and he went off into a lengthy tirade where I was accused of discarding my conservative principles and enabling Socialism. Nothing could be farther from the truth, of course.
That dude simply cannot fathom the reality that the next POTUS will be McCain, Hillary or Obama. He's living under the illusion that if we all stick together and vote for his candidate come November (whoever that is) we can stop the Socialist train wreck with popular vote.(Article II, Section I of the US Constitution not withstanding)......
There are four things that I like about Bush: The WOT, tax cuts, Roberts, and Alito. Just about everything else has been a non-event, if not a complete failure.
Iffen McNutt’s brand of “conservativerepublicanism” triumphs in ‘08 (HA!), or fails (Most likely)—the probable outcome will be the demise of the GOP.
Don’t believe me?
Check out the WHIGS—that party died over slavery.
NOW, we have illegal immigration, taxes, “globalwarming”, offshore (or ANYWHERE) drilling, Nookerpower, Gitmo......
Oh that’s right....Had Rush not employed Operation Chaos Ron Paul would have been a shoe in.
You are wrong on both points.
Obama wasn’t exposed at that point. OC was nothing more then a plan to extend the dems race and bloodly both of them and have them spend tens of millions of dollars.
It is what it is with McCain.
The only we can do is hold his feet to the fire if he wins.
But he will have to do that without my vote.
Further, did you think the Bush family would put an ounce of pressure on the Saudi thugs
Do You think the muslim Obama will?
agreed.
How it happens who knows, but just watch thread after thread after thread of government nannies that want more government control right here on FR. They have every liberal excuse down pat that immediately ends all debate and they run around like a gang pounding down anyone that doesn’t agree or asks questions. Just last week one of them basically said we need more laws to help protect her from herself, and screw you if the law affects you too. Minor subject was that one, but just one of many small ones that I am seeing more and more of. They want control over your religion, your habits, the car you drive, the milk you drink, the money you make, the profit your company keeps, your bedroom, your privacy, your liberty, your freedom and even your DNA.
Is this the McCain effect via Bush? Are they emboldened now? Is it what we can expect by having a very liberal Republican (in name only) going up against two socialists?
I'm not talking about someone who agrees with me 100% and you know it. Get off that Fallacy Of Division horse. This has to do with the direction our party goes. Do you want to go down the moderate/rino road because both Bush and McCain have their left blinkers on to take that left turn on RINO AVE.
He does not seem to understand what the War includes. He is convinced, at best, that the war is to put a democracy demonstration project on Iran’s border so that the Iranian people will take the example and install Democracy in Iran. He cannot wrap his mind around the history of it- that this war is a contemporary eruption of the war that Islam has been waging against the West for mmany centuries and that to win this iteration requires total destruction of the Islamic military capability. In 1990 that meant destroying Iraq and colonizing the oil there. Now it means destroying Iran and ditto the oil. In a little while it will mean the same for Iran and Pakistan. In a little while longer add Saudi Arabia, etc.
That includes either party, I presume.
Until 'conservatives' learn how to become affective in politics, rather than ranting about what is 'right' and eating their own, you can expect more of the same.
What a difference just one more RINO in the senate would have made. Effective politic requires compromise. Those who are unable or unwilling to compromise in the political arena, will end up with nothing the vast majority of the time.
So go ahead and vote for some third party loser while the liberals elect their candidate. That will show them!
I think McPita is more of a liberal coddler than Bush, but Bush really started the whole effect.
Short and Sweet. In 1994 Repubs took control of congress. Do you remember the libs screaming about them wanting to abolish all these government programs and illplaced depts? (Education was one.) The Repubs never did it because they were scared to do the RIGHT thing for fear of liberals hating them? (Unlike liberals never really hated them before???? Go figure. /sarc)
It's obvious since then Repubs did NOT stand as conservatives and nail the coffin shut on the DBM/dems, they've just let them creep back alive until today where the DBM/dems have gained a NEW LIFE in 2006. 10 years is all conservatives could basically hold on for dear life because they let the namby-pamby moderates influence their stands.
For some reason people would rather be liked for doing the wrong thing, than respected for doing what is right! Unfortunately, this is life and few men have the nads to stand up, have good values and principles which they follow, and do what is right for the USA.
Boo got the gist of my comment rodguy but your scenario also totally plausible.
I was merely pointing out that of the 3 candidates, Hussein, Hilda and Juan, ALL are socialists.
Not quite. John Adams was the only elected Federalist, as well as we have seen 4 Democrat-Republican (that later became Democraps), 4 Whigs elected. Its has happened so it is very possible for 3rd party to win. Up to this time, no party has been able to generate a coordinated effort to really be taken seriously. Once America realizes (like it is now) that both partys are merging into one, 3rd party will definately be viable. The problem is the same attitude that you and millions have. If it doesn't have an (R) next to it, why take the chance? Hense the assorted crap we now have for Republicans in our party!
OC has done nothing but to help the GOP socialist John McCain become President.
Rush hasn't gotten that far yet, and that may be the most difficult part of Operation Chaos -
getting Republicans to cross the aisle and vote for McCain!
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