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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Yet another one that wants more of The Clintons.
That's what Rush and his followers think, but there is scant evidence to back it up.
Right now, polls show that McCain pulls more independents than Obama. So the idea that Hillary is easier to beat is just fantasy.
Rush might not be meaning to do this, but he going to end up getting her elected. He has underestimated the Clintons at every turn since 1992 and here he is doing it again.
You are underestimating how much El Zibo hates McCain and wants him defeated.
Maybe you’re right that Obummer would be easier to beat than the Beast.
Either way, I don’t think anything Rush says at this point is going to have much of an effect on the outcome inside the Treason Party Primary Process.
After all, he didn’t have much of an effect in the Republican Party. (Zero effect, actually, from what I could see.) What makes you think he’s going to have an effect now?
When you look at how close the TX vote was there is a very strong possibility that Obama would have won the state if Rush hadn’t gotten some of his listeners to cross lines and vote for the Beast.
Rush very well may have let her live on.
I realize that Limbaugh claims that this is great because it is creating “chaos” in the Democrat Party but if that chaos allows a stronger Dem candidate to emerge then his plan has failed.
In fact, listening to El Rushbo today I see that he is already starting to hedge his bets for if and when his shenanigans get Clinton elected. Now he’s talking about how “who knows what will happen in November” and “at least we’re having fun right now.”
We partnered up with Russia to fight Germany in WWII
I guess I don’t see how Clinton is the stronger candidate.
A Magic Negro with yutes fainting at his feet versus a shrill old hag with an annoying sex-addicted husband.
I don’t get it. You really think the MN will be easier to beat?
He's already imploding. If Rush hadn't helped Clinton she might have dropped out by now and the DNC would be stuck with Barack Hussein Obama, his anti-American minister, his mouthy wife and an increasingly shady narrative about Rezko.
Furthermore, as someone who lives the GOP-part of New York (ie, upstate) I see very few independents or republicans excited about Obama. All his support around here is the crazy collegetown hippie crowd. Conversely, Hillary does well upstate, even among republican women, on the whole "sympathy over Bill" and "female solidarity" thing.
I lived through this once eight years ago. People were saying that there was no way that Hillary would get elected Senator in New York: she was a carpetbagger, her negatives were too high, upstate wouldn't vote for her, etc. I even remember Rush insisting that she couldn't win.
Well, we all know what happened. And I see it happening again, this time on a national scale.
Rush and his followers are like those morons in the horror movie who think "well, why NOT go back in the creepy house after sundown...the vampire couldn't have survived THIS time" and end up getting their necks bitten.
Time to vote for ‘Bama in Penn.....
Well, I’m glad he’s having ‘fun’, unlike the those of us who’ve been Wacoed by this nightmare of a couple.
You’re forgetting one thing, though. When the Beast won in NY, there was no threat of her horrible hubby being part of the deal. Being co-Senator is not in his playbook.
Being co-president is.
NY is not the entire USA.
Americans, when push comes to shove, do NOT want bubba back in the WH.
What do you think is propelling the Magic Negro’s candidacy?
At least 50% is relief on the part of even the rats that bubba will not be back.
If the Beast gets nominated, I bet McCain will beat her by a 55%-45% popular vote rout.
You forget that Bill consistently polls more popular than his wife. He might be a drag on the ticket now because of his anti-Obama comments but those will be forgotten in short order.
We were certain to have Clinton or Obama or both anyway,imo. If this strategy works,it is a plus.
If it doesn’t work we will be getting the same result that we would have gotten if the strategy had never been tried. IOW, it can’t make things any worse than they would have been anyway, and it has caused some long needed racial reckoning in the Democrat Party.
I disagree. What’s fueling Magic Negro Mania? Several different things but certainly one of them is the desire NOT to have Old Crook, the Crooked One, back in the WH.
The young idealists want someone as pure as the driven snow. Someone like Mao, sweeping away the Landlord Class, or Mugabe, clearing out all the Evil White Farmers.
They aren’t in the mood for a greedy reprobate child-molester with silverware sticking out his back pocket and the Pardons’R’Us sign back up on the WH lawn.
I think you are severely miscalculating how very much the youth commie vote in America absolutely does NOT want Bubba and the Bitch back in office.
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