Posted on 05/01/2008 11:43:06 PM PDT by Yosemitest
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RUSH: Mike in Warren, Ohio.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Oh, hi, Rush.
All right. I'm calling about Operation Chaos --
RUSH: Yes?
CALLER: -- which so far has been, you know, an incredible success. I don't need tell you that.
I just turned 18, and it was my first election, and I live in Ohio, and, you know, I voted for Clinton to throw off the whole Dems.
Basically my question is this. Since it's been so successful, what do you think...?
How do you think...?
You know, what can we do to prevent the Democrats from trying this, you know, on the Republicans?
RUSH: They've been doing it!
CALLER: You know, doing their own Operation Chaos in 2012.
RUSH: No, no, no, no!
This is a great question. You're 18?
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: And so you have some things have happened, you were not old enough to pay close enough attention.
Who do you think picked John McCain as the Republican Party nominee?
You think Republicans picked him?
CALLER: I assume more liberal and mainstream Republicans would vote for him.
RUSH: No, no, no.
Do you think Republican primary voters nominated McCain?
CALLER: Probably more independents.
RUSH: Uh-huh. And Democrats crossing over in places like New Hampshire, it was Michigan in 2000.
The Democrat Party chose our nominee.
They didn't put him over the top, but they gave him the early lead in the early states where there were not a whole lot of conservative Republicans in these early primary states.
The Democrats have been doing this as long as I have been alive and longer.
This is balance! This is us playing by their rules.
To worry about if they turn it around?
They have never been this effective.
Well, they have, but they've had the whole Drive-By Media urging voters to do this and getting their message out.
We are but one show, and we have equaled and surpassed their efforts in the past.
Fear not on this.
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Though Democrats and the MSM share McCains views they will rip him to shreds. No one will come to his defense.
McCain stands alone on a sinking ship that he torpedoed.
Is it too late to call a Mulligan?
I have gone full circle on this issue. I agree with everything you say in that the republicans will be forced to go along with McCain’s liberal polices whereas we could unite and oppose everything if it were Hillary or Obama. That being said I now think this reasoning has a flaw, a flaw that may prove to be a tremendous blow to our great nation. The problem is that in this election we are dealing with more than just political ideologies. Let’s face the facts. Barrack Obama is not who he says he is, and neither is Hillary Clinton, not even close. The hard left, to include the radical media have become strong enough to possibly elect a president who would deliberately work to undermine the liberty of the American people and replace it with an all powerful central government. Obama and Hillary are not just liberals, they are people of questionable character at best, and we must not allow the hard left to succeed in putting them in power. If we don’t stop them now the bar may be lowered to the point where the next progressive step might be unthinkable. While John McCain is far from conservative, I’m at least convinced he is a patriot.
Thank you both for a dose of common sense this morning.
It stops my head from spinning with all of the newly arrived McCain supporters around here.
I’m not voting for McCain either, because he does not reflect my values. He not only does not reflect them, he disdains them.
The McCainiacs here can “save the country” but it will be a pryhic victory.Sidney will just be emboldened, and as you both have pointed out, no one will oppose him.
There are four months to the convention—we can only hope Sidney fizzles out before then and we get a real Conservative to run, Heck, I’d settle for a real Republican at this point.
If the GOP had any sense they would realize that the Dems and Indies selected our nominee, and most Republicans were disenfranchised on this go-round. What will really get their attention is the lack of donations and the lack of workers on the ground.
Even if we “save the country” by electing McCain, he will utterly reshape the GOP to permenant RINO status. He will also ruin the country by allowing 10% of Mexico’s population to become citizens. He actually thinks global warming is real. He wanted to give us an 18.4 cent/gal. temporary tax holiday, and then saddle us with a $ 1.2 trillion cap and trade system that will relegate us to fourth world status.
And for the life of me, I cannot forget that a man who served five plus years in the Hanoi Hilton teamed up with the traitor John Kerry and shut down the investigation of the 600 known missing POW/MIAs from Vietnam in 1992, severley castigating the families of these men, who he served with and knew. That’s a betrayal of the highest order to me.
And it was not the first or last betrayal by McCain, as the last eight years have shown.
It is astounding to see the level of fantasy on this forum, with people actually believing this tiger is going to change his stripes once he gets to the Oval Office. Talk about the audacity of hope!
That is not going to happen, no matter how hard we wish it to be.
We are just political spectators now. Buckle up, socialism is about to accelerate.
While the Democrats are in the middle of a heated primary election that have drawn record numbers of democratic voters to the polls and are at each others throats, they still managed to get enough voters out for McCain to make him our nominee?
That certainly makes sense!
Not
If Republicans cannot send enough voters to the polls to nominate our own candidate then we shouldn't even have a party.
The premise is wrong!
With all the libs pushing a smoking ban in PRIVATE business, once again, I'm glad I had no kids. Just think, it 20 years, the government will tell you how to dress!(no exaggeration)
I once told a guy that if second hand smoke was so bad, why would he ever get on a crowded highway with all that carbon monoxide floating around? He just got mad and refused to talk anymore.
I enjoy a pipe once or twice a week. (but has been a month due to 16 hr shifts.)
Don't believe it. The Dem nominee will be known before the convention starts. The Dem convention is going to be a lovefest. Count on it.
“RUSH: DEMOCRATS CHOSE JOHN McCAIN”
Yeah, right. They had record turnout in Dem primaries AND they all voted for McCain.
Rush is like Fonzie on skis.
That is why there should be a NATIONAL primary
If no candidiate get 50% then a runoff with the top two
This state by state stuff is terrible
By the time PA had its primarymy vote meant diddly
That totally depends on whether Hillary Clinton drops out of the race in the near future. I wouldn't count on that. She seems to have a win-at-all-costs strategy, even if it means destroying her party.
And McCain’s fiscal retraining history is very much needed as we will not have a country left if the wreckless spending continues.
His “global warming” cap and tax will cost trillions.
Combine that with another form of amnesty and the Republic is gone.
It won't be Hillary's choice. Reid, Pelosi, and Dean will meet with her and relay the fact that a poll of the superdelegates indicates that Obama will get the nomination. She will be asked to drop out to avoid hurting the party and embarrasing herself.
FYI: Obama has closed the superdelegate gap to 19. Hillary leads now 260 to 241. The current delegate count is 1,732 to 1,592 in favor of Obama. You need 2,025 delegates to get the nomination. There are 408 pledged delegates at stake in the remaining primaries and 294 uncommitted superdelegates. Assuming Obama wins half of the pledged delegates, which is a conservative estimate given Obama's assumed win in NC with its 115 delegates, he would have 1,936 delegates going into the convention, leaving him with a shortfall of 89 delegates. All Obama needs is 89 [about 30%] out of the 294 uncommitted superdelegates to win the nomination. Hillary would have to win 229 out of the 294 uncommitted superdelegates to win the nomination.
If Hillary loses NC, there will be tremendous pressure for her to get out immediately. If she decides to run out the string in the primaries, then she will get out before the convention.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
- T. S. Eliot
You are of course right, but most conservatives are hoping for another Alito, instead of a second Ginsburg from McPain.
I wish that she would drop out immediately, but I don't share your degree of certainty that she will actually do that. And I don't think she cares what Reid, Pelosi and Dean would say. As far as she is concerned, the party exists to serve her, and she is entitled to that nomination. If both Hillary and Obama arrive in Denver with less than a majority, there is a good chance she will decide to fight it out on the floor.
The article in New York Times today indicates that she isn't showing any signs of dropping out. Never underestimate the Clintons.
I have said the very same thing, and I didn't vote for him in the primary, but I will vote for him in the general election. I consider him the lesser of three evils. However, I am learning some things about John McCain that I did not know. Karl Rove has written an article about some admirable traits of McCain as revealed by Col. Bud Day, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, fighter pilot, Vietnam POW and roommate of John McCain at the Hanoi Hilton. This is one of the stories Day told Rove that happened after he had escaped and was recaptured and punished by the Vietnamese :
"The break was designed to shatter Mr. Day's will. He had survived in prison on the hope that one day he would return to the United States and be able to fly again. To kill that hope, the Vietnamese left part of a bone sticking out of his arm, and put him in a misshapen cast. This was done so that the arm would heal at "a goofy angle," as Mr. Day explained. Had it done so, he never would have flown again. But it didn't heal that way because of John McCain. Risking severe punishment, Messrs. McCain and Day collected pieces of bamboo in the prison courtyard to use as a splint. Mr. McCain put Mr. Day on the floor of their cell and, using his foot, jerked the broken bone into place. Then, using strips from the bandage on his own wounded leg and the bamboo, he put Mr. Day's splint in place. Years later, Air Force surgeons examined Mr. Day and complemented the treatment he'd gotten from his captors. Mr. Day corrected them. It was Dr. McCain who deserved the credit. Mr. Day went on to fly again." Other stories revealed more admirable traits of McCain's character. I am not in agreement with many of his policies, but I am much more afraid of Hillary Clinton and Obama and a Democrat controlled Congress.
Two of the Supreme Court Justices you mentioned were nominated by a Republican President...Kennedy and Souter. I blame Souter for not revealing who he really was during the confirmation hearings. I don't totally disagree with you, because I would have preferred a different candidate, but in this case, "I'll play with the hand I was dealt", and hope McCain will listen to the Conservatives. He may be learning he can't trust his liberal cronies on the left!
If Clinton or Obama become President, every single Republican in the Senate and the House will oppose them
I’m curious, though - do you really think they will oppose Obama so strongly for fear of being branded racist if they don’t go along with everything he wants?
Oh, I’m still voting for him, I just kinda wish I hadn’t done any reading.
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