I believe Rush was urging Tejas Repubs to “pimp themselves out for a day” vote for the Hildebeest in the Primary so that she and the Obama-noids could continue to do battle up to the Convention.
With that goal in mind, I’d say Rush’s plan worked...
An August convention is way too late to mend the fences, particularly since she was planning on running to the right to take McCain. Now, she's got to run to the left against Obama. Obama is a Chicago political hack with a good voice. The Chicago machine can keep him rolling in Illinois, but it is not nationwide. Clinton's machine is nationwide. Right now, Obama's delegate lead is about as safe as a 7 point lead in the third quarter.
McCain has staked out the middle, and he's not moving.
This makes the election significant for conservatives, because if McCain wins, conservatism as a political force is dead for a couple of elections. If McCain picks up more of the mushy middle than he loses from the right, the GOP will trend towards the middle, which is their desire anyway. Obama's success has pulled the political spectrum to the left. It pulled Hillary left, and is allowing McCain to sit in his area of comfort.
Right. File it under Law of Unintended Consequences!