Posted on 03/23/2008 5:58:43 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
As Ohio election officials investigate illegal crossover voting in the 2008 primary, questions arise on Rush Limbaugh's role.
Limbaugh, the nation's top-rated talk radio host, was urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to skip their party's primary on March 4 and instead cast a vote for Hillary Clinton in order to prolong the fight between her and Barack Obama.
What Limbaugh encouraged Republican voters to do in Ohio was a fifth-degree felony in that state, punishable with a $2,500 fine and six to 12 months in jail.
On Thursday, March 20, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the "Cuyahoga County Board of Election has launched an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against voters who maliciously switched parties for the March 4 presidential primary."
In 2008, 2.22 million Ohioans voted in the Democratic primary, compared to 1.27 million in 2000, according to unofficial results released by Brunner's office. In contrast, 1.01 million Ohioans voted in the 2008 Republican primary, compared to nearly 918,000 people in 2004.
Michael Slater of Project Vote, a nonpartisan group that designs voter registration drives for low-income people, said GOP meddling in the Ohio Democratic Primary was a clear-cut example of fraudulent voting, which is how Republicans have defined the issue in recent years, as GOP advocates have urged state legislatures and Congress to adopt anti-fraud measures such as tougher voter ID laws.
"Here we have a real instance of spurring people on to engage in illegal election activities with a real intent to affect the outcome," Slater said. "That is voter fraud. People were encouraged to break the law. They had to declare allegiance to a political party and sign a document under penalty of perjury. Intent is what matters in voter fraud."
Anybody who believes now, after late wounds to Obama campaign that Limbaugh is not in bed with Hildebeast
is delusional.
Obama is now unelectable in general campaign.
Missouri, fer crying out loud. You guys are tough. Flustered.
24% of the Hillary votes in ?Mississippi? ( or some other southern state nearby) were Republican crossovers.
Only in your dreams.
Are you guys sharing a pitcher of MoonbatJuice Koolaid, or what?
Keep your panties dry.
Rush is just like you and me, his “Constitutional Rights” are no greater than yours or mine.
Your insecurity comes from within somewhere.
WE ARE CONSERVATIVES.. not middle assed Pansies!
The silvery one will take over the campaign and the dems will roll over McCain unless there’s a big blow up in the ME or something between now and then that’s causing a mess in the world. And it’s going to have to be a serious mess. Otherwise the Dems roll.
There is hope, numbers are growing.
Sorry, still supporting O.C. And yes, I am enjoying it! (These threads, too!)
ACORN, yea I wouldn't doubt it. But "Project Vote" has been caught registering people ineligible to vote, they've tried to register people multiple times, and under fictitious names. (Oh and they pay their volunteers by the hour and a bounty for each registrant above some minimum.) They apparently get their money from Soros, at least in part.
And now we want to risk bringing all that back?
The Klintoons are an organized Crime Organization. Never underestimate them.
“Definitely not somebody who under a smoke screen of “prolonging chaos in Dem camp” hides a personal agenda and by irresponsible action helps 2 Klintoon criminals to be elected to the Highest Office for 4, very likely 8 years.
Hope this satisfies your curiosity.”
No, it doesn’t because you didn’t answer my question. You said Rush is neither conservative nor a patriot. So what is your definition of a conservative and patriot?
What the hell? He's from Cape Girardeau, Missouri!
Sheesh.
Tit for tat, but the liberals have won. We have three liberal or “moderate” candidates.
I wish the Republican Party in the various states would change the rules and ONLY allow REPUBLICANS to choose the REPUBLICAN presidential candidate.
Why should people register Republican, or donate $$ to the Republican Party, if Independents and Dems choose the candidate for us (McCain).
Tell the National Republican Party what you think:
202-863-8500
Who’s OC?
The Clinton narrative is going to be that she "surged" in Texas and thereafter, that she wins the big states that the Dems need in November, that Obama can't win the general election and that she actually won the popular vote.
The more Rush (and FR) does to help her, the more legitimate that argument becomes.
Furthermore, as Obama gets weaker and weaker, Clinton Inc., can get to work on the superdelegates and, pretty soon, she can take the nomination with a minimum of fuss. Sure, you'll get the KoS kids pissing and moaning, you might even get a riot at the convention but all that does is give her a chance to have her own "Sister Soljah" moment, to portray herself (again) as the 'sensible moderate' to the more extremist wing of the party.
As for the whole "half the country hates Hillary and will not vote for her," don't you believe it. For every poll that says something like that, another poll shows that she's tied, or ahead of, McCain and, either way, we're still eight months away from the election. Poll in March of 2004 showed Kerry crushing Bush. A lot can change in eight months.
I live in New York. I remember when Hillary ran for the Senate. A lot of people, RUSH INCLUDED, said that he negatives were too high, the rural GOP-dominated counties upstate wouldn't vote for her, etc. And, of course, those people were wrong. As Yogi Berra would say, it's deja vu all over again.
Limbaugh and FR have consistently underestimated the Clintons. In Rush's case, going back to 1992. The fact of the matter is that Hillary is a threat as long as she's in the race and people had better damn well remember that.
Go O.C.!!
Beware of the mentally challenged who open mouth and speak, before engaging brain.
The problem you have created for yourself has to do with the fact that the sincerity of Rush’s “operation chaos” is vastly more believable and agreeable to common sense than your nutty “in bed with Hillary” theory.
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the tension is so thick you could cut it with a knife I tell ya.
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