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Operation Chaos Can't Backfire (Rush)
Rush Limbaugh Home Page ^ | March 28, 2008 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 03/29/2008 5:01:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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RUSH: Next in Barbara in Logansport, Indiana. Welcome to the EIB Network on Open Line Friday. Hi.

CALLER: Hi. Mega dittos, Rush.

RUSH: Thank you.

CALLER: I'll tell you what I'm really concerned about. Operation Chaos, or, as I call it, the War of the World, how can you guarantee that this won't backfire and we'll end up with Hill and Bill in the White House again?

RUSH: I can't guarantee that.

CALLER: That is my concern. What if all these votes and everybody switching over and voting for Hillary, next thing you know, bam, they're in there!

RUSH: Look. I want you to follow me on this. The Clinton threat was going to occur whether there was Operation Chaos or not. The purpose of Operation Chaos was to keep her momentum going so that the Clintons would not be tempted to quit or that the party would not be empowered more so than otherwise to kick 'em out of the race and it was important that she win Texas and Ohio for this, or at least do well, and then in Mississippi cut into Obama's lead. All of that happened. But if the Democrats play by their own rules, she has less than a 5% chance of getting the nomination. There is no way that she can, on the first ballot, according to the votes of the pledged delegates -- superdelegates are still kind of up for grabs, but there's no way that she can win this.

CALLER: She says she can. She's on TV all over the place telling everybody she's in it for the long hall, she's not quitting.

RUSH: I understand, but she was going to do that regardless of Operation Chaos. Can you hang on? It's a good question. People are worried about backfiring, and I want to try to assuage your fears.

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RUSH: Now, we go back to Barbara in Logansport, Indiana, and I have a little bit more time here. I was up against what we call in real radio broadcasting, a hard break.

CALLER: All right.

RUSH: Meaning it didn't float, I had to take it when it comes up. Operation Chaos, there's always been, in every operation, there's always a chance that the great strategic planning could backfire, because there are so many unknowns that take place once the operation's been implemented. You would agree with this?

CALLER: Yes, because what I'm hearing from people is, they're not really talking about Hillary. They want Bill in that White House to have peace and prosperity and fun times. And they want him, and the only way they can get him is to get her!

RUSH: I understand all that. But Operation Chaos is not about that. Let me try to explain this again. The purpose of Operation Chaos and the true genesis for it was two realizations that hit me like a ton of bricks. One is that the Republican Party nor our nominee are going to fight the Democrats. They are not going to be in attack mode, they want to run an honorable -- I mean, I have looked, I can't find what the Republican Party stands for these days. I can't find any Republican out there trying to take advantage of any of this that's going on on the Democrat side. Now, maybe our nominee shouldn't do it, but there are plenty of surrogates that could be, and I don't see 'em, I don't hear 'em. This circumstance here, Operation Chaos, was designed to get these two opponents on the Democrat side to bloody each other up since our side wasn't going to do it.

CALLER: Exactly.

RUSH: And our side isn't going to do it. So from that standpoint, Operation Chaos is a success. By the time we get to the convention, we've got Jeremiah Wright out there, we've got Hillary telling lies about snipper fire, telling lies about NAFTA and now Northern Ireland, she's been claiming she had everything to do with peace. Wait 'til you hear the story about that. We are in the process of discrediting both of these candidates; we're dispiriting the Democrat Party. So the point is that whoever wins, because we can't really predict, all we wanted was the contest to go on, and for that to happen, Hillary needed to rebound. If it had been the other way around, if it was Obama that needed to rebound, Operation Chaos would have been oriented toward helping him rebound. The whole point of this is to take this out as long as it can to show this party for what it is, to get the Democrats to expose themselves for who they are. They are the real racists. They are the real sexists. Here's Mrs. Clinton running around saying that those votes don't even count. The primary votes that nominated the pledged delegates, those don't even count. The Democrat Party is showing exactly -- can I ask you a question?

CALLER: Sure.

RUSH: Seriously, Barbara. Just imagine, hard as it may be, play the game with me for 30 seconds, imagine you're a Democrat.

CALLER: Oh, my gosh.

RUSH: But wait. Everything else about you is the same. You care about the country; you're really interested in the future. Would either of these two candidates be exciting you?

CALLER: No.

RUSH: The flaws that have been exposed about both these candidates? I'll tell you something else, another added benefit to Operation Chaos is the fact that the longer this goes on, the angrier the losers' voters are going to be, and a certain percentage of them are going to be so mad at the Democrat Party that they're not going to be able to unify 'em and they're either gonna sit out or they are going to vote for McCain. You're worried about Hillary winning this and Bill getting back in the White House. If that happens, there is go going to be the long-awaited revolt that we have all hoped for between blacks and the Democrat Party in presidential elections. Because I will guarantee you, if they take this away from Barack Obama when he's got it 95% won, and especially if they do it on the basis of his wacko preacher who practices black liberation theology and separatism and hate America, if they take it away from him, there are not going to be just riots in Denver. It's going to be worse. The Democrats get 90, 93% of the black vote every presidential election. If they don't get that, if that's reduced to 80 or 70 either by them voting for McCain or not voting at all, huge, big-time huge.

The point of Operation Chaos is chaos, is to keep this going for as long as possible. The only way that can happen is if both these candidates think they are viable and have a chance. Now, the Clintons, if you're worried about the Clintons, the Clintons were not going to get out even if she lost Ohio and Texas. They're not getting out now, and they don't have a prayer legally of winning this, about a prayer is all they've got. Not legally. That isn't going to stop them. This is what she has lived for. This is what she's eaten all the excrement sandwiches for the last 20 years. This is the payoff for all the bimbo eruptions and all of Bill's philandering and all the humiliation from Arkansas forward, this is what it's been about. They're just not going to say, "Okay, Barack, congratulations, you won. We'll unify behind you." It's just not going to happen. They are saying, both of them are telegraphing, "These votes don't count. Let all the votes count, but they don't count." Clinton is out there saying, (doing Clinton impression) "Hey, can't we all just put this aside? Just let the people have their say. Let the people vote, let's count the votes, let's saddle up and let's let it happen." Hillary is out there, "It doesn't matter, Bill, what the people vote, the pledged delegates are not pledged." So we have the circus, we've got the Uncivil War that we wanted. This has been even better, Barbara, than I dreamed. Now, could it backfire?

CALLER: I hope not.

RUSH: Well, here's my answer to that.

CALLER: Okay.

RUSH: I'm not the Republican Party, and I'm not the Republican candidate. As I said yesterday, if the Republican Party loses this race and our candidate loses this race, they're the professional politicians, they're the campaigners, they're the guys supposed to know better than anybody else how to win elections. If they can't do it with what's been created in this chaos in the Democrat Party now, it's nobody's fault but theirs.

CALLER: Okay. I feel so much better.

RUSH: I'm glad that you called.

CALLER: Thank you so very much.

RUSH: All right, Barbara. Thank you.

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RUSH: Operation Chaos continues, ladies and gentlemen. And Vermont public -- audio sound bite number 21, Mike. Vermont public radio, Senator Pat Leahy said this.

LEAHY: There is no way that Senator Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination. She ought to withdraw, and she ought to be backing Senator Obama.

RUSH: Ah, ha-ha-ha-ha. Senator Depends, Pat Leaky Leahy says there's no way she is going to win enough delegates. Senator Leahy, you don't know the Clintons. That doesn't matter to them. What you just said, there's no way they can win enough delegates, doesn't matter to them right now. They are not of that mind-set. They do not believe anything of that nature. Let's see. Here is Obama on the CBS Evening News last night. Harry Smith said, "Several people have written that even in the best case scenario Hillary Clinton's chances of getting the nomination for the Democrat Party are about 5%. When is it time for her to leave?"

OBAMA: Oh, I think that is something that she's gotta make a decision about.

SMITH: If you are the presumptive candidate here, isn't it time that you say, with some severity, that we can't go on like this?

OBAMA: Well, no.

SMITH: At the cost of losing the general election?

OBAMA: I don't think so. I think that what's going to happen is that -- that as soon as the nominee is determined, whether that is two weeks from now or in early June, that there will be some bruised feelings, people are going to have to patch things together, and we Democrats have to get our act together and win this election.

RUSH: So this is Harry Smith begging Barack Obama to tell Hillary to get the hell out. By the way, Howard Dean's always saying, "Superdelegates, why, they're going to vote, they're going to vote by July 1st." He said something else fascinating. Grab number four real quick. You've gotta hear this. Let me finish my Obama point. Smith begging him, just begging him to tell Hillary to get out. No, I don't want bruised feelings, doesn't want bruised feelings. Also on the Early Show today, Harry Smith talking to Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democrats. And he said, "Look, when the primary season is over, do you want superdelegates to have some sort of vote immediately so that you'll know months in advance at a convention what the outcome is?"

DEAN: Well, I think the superdelegates have already been weighing in. I think there's 800 of them, and 450 have already said who they're for. I'd like the other 350 to say who they're for at some point between now and the 1st of July so we don't have to take this into the convention.

RUSH: Howard Dean, Howard Dean, do you realize 450 have already said who they're for? Have those 450 voted, Howard? Can they not change their minds between now and then, Howard? None of them have voted, and yet Howard Dean is claiming to know that 450 of the 800 superdelegates have already pledged. They haven't. Ask John Lewis. John Lewis, he was in the Clinton camp, and then the Obama magic started happening, and the people started fainting at the rallies and a number of other things, and John Lewis from Georgia, superdelegate, it's the toughest thing he'd ever done, but he had to leave the Clintons. Who's to say that this stuff can't happen in reverse? Operation Chaos.


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To: pepperhead

Some blacks will stay home, but if Hillary wins PA and IN, and only loses NC because of a huge turnout of black voters for BO, she will have a very good case to make to the superdelegates, including those pledged to BO, that the exit poll demographics show that BO is fatally weak in the states Dems must carry to win. If black superdelegates and others explain this right, Hillary won’t be seen as stealing the nomination.

That’s why I think Obama, not Hillary, is the one Rush ought to help next. Obama can point to his white support in the late primaries, but it will be ephemeral, since it will include white Chaos Reps for McCain... or at least resigned to voting for McCain.


81 posted on 03/29/2008 9:52:47 AM PDT by GAgal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...The purpose of Operation Chaos and the true genesis for it was two realizations that hit me like a ton of bricks. One is that the Republican Party nor our nominee are going to fight the Democrats. They are not going to be in attack mode, they want to run an honorable — I mean, I have looked, I can’t find what the Republican Party stands for these days. I can’t find any Republican out there trying to take advantage of any of this that’s going on on the Democrat side. Now, maybe our nominee shouldn’t do it, but there are plenty of surrogates that could be, and I don’t see ‘em, I don’t hear ‘em....”

What he’s saying...why this appears to be the case...I believe it’s out of a PC fear.


82 posted on 03/29/2008 9:55:30 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My sister, who lives in Ohio, is a proud participant in Operation Chaos.


83 posted on 03/29/2008 9:58:01 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
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To: Jim Noble

A Obama/Hillary ticket would mean Obama would have to watch his back constantly. He would know that he could end up in the proverbial Ft. Marcy Park, and that there would be countless ways it could happen.

On the other hand, a Hillary/Obama ticket might have the same situation, because Obama would have reason to think Hillary would want him gone once she was in the White House.

And maybe she would have to watch her back in the same way, you never know with these leftists.


84 posted on 03/29/2008 10:00:12 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (The only way for honorable people to be liberal is to have no idea what conservatism is.)
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To: reasonisfaith

I would hate for the only thing between Hillary and the presidency to be my beating heart.


85 posted on 03/29/2008 10:03:41 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“how can you guarantee that this won’t backfire and we’ll end up with Hill and Bill in the White House again?”

In a “choice” between three socialists, who the hell cares which one destroys America?


86 posted on 03/29/2008 11:44:08 AM PDT by Grunthor (I promise in November to be just as loyal to the GOP as Juan McAmnesty has been)
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To: Jagman

If the Clintons manage to WIN-you’re going to have a lot of company. He’ll probably get a lot of Clinton supporters as new listeners, though.


87 posted on 03/29/2008 12:21:42 PM PDT by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney ("Rush has unsealed the mummy's tomb-he has unleashed the undead."-Hugh Hewitt)
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To: Grunthor
In a race that includes two misguided but seemingly normal people and a corrosive, crapweasel clinton, I think the choice is anybody but clinton!
88 posted on 03/29/2008 12:41:30 PM PDT by Jagman (Liberalism is a "progressive" disease)
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To: Jagman

Our “crapweasel” is not better than theirs, just as bad in different ways.


89 posted on 03/29/2008 2:42:03 PM PDT by Grunthor (I promise in November to be just as loyal to the GOP as Juan McAmnesty has been)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gYJaQiRyrP6rD0dGdWZKNbT3-S5gD8VNAV580


90 posted on 03/29/2008 2:44:29 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rush: "I mean, I have looked, I can't find what the Republican Party stands for these days."

Well, that certainly bears repeating. But, having said that, I wish that the energy, enthusiasm and excitement expended on Operation Chaos could be channeled into finding more suitable, viable candidates.

91 posted on 03/29/2008 3:30:32 PM PDT by MaggieCarta (Will suggest (or even write) taglines for food.)
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To: AlexW
Four months ago, I would not have given McStain a nickel’s chance at being the nominee.

Me too. Man.

I mean, who could have contemplated it then -- utter trainwreck?

Kind of like the one we're watching unfold right now.

92 posted on 03/29/2008 7:02:29 PM PDT by Finny (Democrats are Gov't Mommies. Liberal Republicans are Big Gov't Daddies. Conservatives are adults.)
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To: pepperhead

The fact that Dems are talking about running Al Gore is proof positive that Operation Chaos is working like a charm.


93 posted on 03/29/2008 7:17:23 PM PDT by csmusaret (John McCain is the evil of three lessers)
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To: dead

I agree with you. It is funny how some will STAND behind Hillary on this thread, Believe her, vote for her.
Even after one lie upon another in just this past week or two.

Yep she sure is the “better one” to vote for!

Just check out her voting record.


94 posted on 03/29/2008 7:24:51 PM PDT by ConfidentConservative (“I think, therefore I am conservative.”)
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To: acw011

“If the Constitution Party wants to get serious then they need to start their campaign right now for 2012. It’s going to take that long to get going and considering our current state of leaders should be able to get traction. All they would accomplish in this cycle is to help Marxism succeed.”

I LIKE your way of thinking.


95 posted on 03/29/2008 7:32:42 PM PDT by ConfidentConservative (“I think, therefore I am conservative.”)
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To: NoGrayZone; Cicero

RE: Post 23. Read & Weep.


96 posted on 03/29/2008 7:47:29 PM PDT by Finny (Democrats are Gov't Mommies. Liberal Republicans are Big Gov't Daddies. Conservatives are adults.)
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To: Jim Noble

That’s harsh!


97 posted on 03/29/2008 7:48:07 PM PDT by Finny (Democrats are Gov't Mommies. Liberal Republicans are Big Gov't Daddies. Conservatives are adults.)
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To: CapnJack
Operation Banana Peel?

BWAAA-HAHAhahahahahahaha

98 posted on 03/29/2008 7:51:47 PM PDT by Finny (Democrats are Gov't Mommies. Liberal Republicans are Big Gov't Daddies. Conservatives are adults.)
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To: devane617
... if Hillary wins the nomination ... I think she can beat our NutCase candidant, hands-down ...

If it's race between Hillary and our NutCase, people would stay home in droves and of the few who came out to vote, a majority of Liberals would elect McCain, I think. I dread.

99 posted on 03/29/2008 8:00:06 PM PDT by Finny (Democrats are Gov't Mommies. Liberal Republicans are Big Gov't Daddies. Conservatives are adults.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
RUSH: Now, yesterday we had our second call like this. We’ve had callers from Texas who are foot soldiers, enlisted officers in Operation Chaos. Both of these gentlemen — one in Austin, the other from Galveston — not only voted for Hillary Clinton in the Texas primary, they went a step further.

They went back and they caucused! Operation Chaos operatives went back and caucused for Hillary Clinton. These two are just two of many. These two are now delegates to the Texas state convention.

The callers were mistaken. They called prior to their Texas SD/County Conventions, which happened today, where the State delegates were actually determined.

It is possible that they made it through the Democrat Nomination and Credential Committee process, but with the large numbers of people wanting to be State delegates in the Obama vs. Clinton fight, I'm sure they will be scrutinizing every delegate candidate with great care, especially after word got out about Operation Chaos.

100 posted on 03/29/2008 11:10:27 PM PDT by anymouse
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