They're on to us! Our cover's blown! Get the hell out!
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."
If they activist prosecutors decide to railroad Rush Limbaugh they will also have to try and convict Obama and Clinton of the same charge as they solicited Republicans to “help them out” at the primary.
This is more witchhunting. By naked communists.
Ok thanks. But I’m not too worried about going out on a limb. I’m not making a living out of analyzing politics. I can afford to be wrong once in a while. I’m sticking to my statements.
“He’s also scared to death of having his attitudes about race rummaged through. He’s from Camp G. Ohio for crying out loud. That’s not exactly Sarajevo, ethnically speaking.”
WHAT?!
I guess by “Camp G. Ohio” you mean Cape Girardeau, Missouri, which is Rush’s home town. You also seem to be stating that anyone who comes from an area of the country that doesn’t have a designated quota of minorities MUST be racist by definition.
That’s right, you got it, he is a patron saint of the Obese-Americans!
Typical.
We all loved Toomie.
Deciding who votes for whom is Not Rush’s job.
You listen and then you decide.
Bush backed Arlen Specter not Rush
No conservative backed Specter.
Rush is gracious to ACCEPT a request from A sitting Senator to hawk a book regarding a subject called Brain Cancer. Limbaugh’s Mother died from the same disease.
What’s your deal?
Sooooo, we are to believe that Rush wants her elected because it will be good for business, AND he knows if she is elected he is out of business?
Makes perfect sense to me.
That's just ridiculous.
I can’t think of a scenerio where either Hillary or Obama can win. If they give the nomination to Hillary, not one black votes for her and she looses. They give the nomination to Obama, he us so flawed he looses in a landslide. Maybe if a third party steps in could salvage this for them but I can’t think who.
Damn,and all this time I thought it was Toots (he of the Maytals) who was the prophet! What do I know?
I did not create any "problem" for myself, the real problem is that if Hillary is elected Rush will have his role in it, then you and many others blindly trusting and following him may proclaim his "sincerity" and defend "operation chaos" for coming eight years of Clintons rule. It will be fun to watch
Agree 100%. It will take time for many people on this forum to see what you just said if they will see it all because many of them follow El Zibo to hell if they tell them to do so and then they say that people like us are crazy.
We should be able to do what we want, vote for who we want, and do what ever we want. We have an interest, a right, and a duty to determine what lunatic the dems put as their candidate.
Obama is a lunatic.... he literally worships the moon... I swear..... the moon!!
They're on to us! Our cover's blown! Get the hell out!
” voters who maliciously switched parties”
???
I thought dems hated disenfranchisement!
That's just ridiculous.
I believe that is an actual law...in Cuba.
Correct me if I’m wrong - but for Rush Limbaugh to be indictable for breaking an Ohio state law, wouldn’t he actually have to be IN OHIO at the time he committed the alleged offense?
So if its allowed how can it be a felony at the same time?
Hillary can’t put rush out of business.
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