Pure conjecture on your part. Or 
You should blowback to the Great White North before Bush invades you. I hear you're harboring terrorist up there.
Posted on 11/09/2008 4:57:38 PM PST by firebrand99
Conservative radio buffoon Rush Limbaugh thinks of himself as an ace strategist and so he thought he was being extremely clever back in March when he launched "Operation Chaos" an effort to undermine frontrunner Barack Obama's chances in the fall election by prolonging the Democratic primary season and forcing Obama to deplete his resources early. Rushbo, accordingly, urged his conservative Republican listeners to take advantage of open primaries in many thats that allow non-Democrats to participate and vote for Hilary Clinton in order to drag the race out as long as possible. Brilliant eh? And how mischievous!
Unfortunately the Limbaugh his plan was too clever by half and has backfired.
DNC chair Howard Dean has talked about the importance of a "50 state strategy" for the past four years and Obama embraced the idea but it was the prolonged primary season that allowed Obama to implement it by virtue of necessity as the never ending race forced him to recruit ground organizers and campaign in red states that are usually flyover states for the Dems such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana. When the fall campaign came around, polls showed Obama competitive in states that the Democrats had long written off as a result of his spring campaigning and allowed him to use ground organizations left over from the primary season in order to keeps those states competitive forcing McCain to campaign in states which should have been sure things for him. Moreover, Obama won North Carolina and Indiana and thereby assured himself the presidency thanks, in no small part, to Rush Limbaugh's efforts.
You ain’t from here, are ya boy?
:-)
Pure conjecture on your part. Or
You should blowback to the Great White North before Bush invades you. I hear you're harboring terrorist up there.
I hear you. Vanities are out of control. I just checked. I’ve been here close to 8 years. I’ve posted 11,155 replies and a total of 4 vanities.
lol Goodness
And the MSM's willingness to overlook it.
-PJ
Perfect graphic. Thanks smoothsailing. :-)
I wonder if HilLIARy could have won? People HATE her and love Obamarama
Oh yeah, you’re gonna last. LOL!
Many thanks, 148!
“Obama was easier to beat than Hillary would have been.”
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Bad news. Obama turned out to be not so easy to beat.
But the post is correct for all the wrong reasons. Obama was greatly helped by a long, bifurcated primary with Hillary.
Imagine had Obama defeated Hillary very quickly and the GOP candidate as well as conservative media (Internet, Fox, AM Radio)was able to introduce and discuss Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers etc. very early when the country still had no idea who BHO was.
The long primary with Hillary helped BHO in two ways: 1). Since there was no clear Dem candidate, Hillary or Obama, the right did not choose a target so the damaging associations of Obama were held back so they did not influence the race and end up with H Clinton as the candidate. 2). Instead of being defined by the right, the long primary gave Obama the opportunity to introduce himself to the voters on his terms and allowed them to get used to him (and as it turns out lots liked what they saw).
I believe the long primary against one strong candidate helped Obama but that had nothing to do with Rush or Op Chaos. It was fun to watch the left squirm as Rush had them believing he was running the primary but that was about all it was.
On the other hand, had Rush and the rest of AM radio fallen behind McCain early, he probably wouldn’t have been trying to shore up the base in September and maybe, well......
Ah, hind sight is 20/20.
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