Posted on 05/19/2008 8:44:43 PM PDT by TheEaglehasLanded
I think Oregon has mail in system, but do they open the polls as well or allow people to mail votes tommorrow.
Kentucky has a closed primary that anyone voting had to be registered Dem by early this year I believe.
Thank you for posting that link. I watched it last night and it brings back all the anger and grief from that day. I have a bad cold and crying didn’t help my stuffy nose :). Watching it made me shake and smoke a few cigs. Five months after 9/11, I quit my good job to stay home to be near my 13 yo daughter. I couldn’t stand being an hour away from her, she in school, me at work. It was the best decision I ever made. She’s a good girl because momma was there. I didn’t know what would fresh hell would be unleashed on our country and where. I just wanted to be close, just in case.
More than 10 years ago I joined FR in part to help remove the President at the time, Bill Clinton, who had proven that he was utterly corrupt. By 1998 we’d had White Water, Travelgate, Filegate, Fostergate, missing Rose Law Firm records, Waco, Elian and many other corruptions. Exposure of Chinagate, Pardongate and Chinese temple fundraising were still to come, as I recall, but it really is hard to keep track of them all after all this time.
Apparently little remembered by Rush, one thing that those of us who were here well remember was the utter and complete corruption of the Clinton administration. It was not inconsequential corruption: in Chinagate Clinton brokered trading our most important nuclear, missle and missle guidance secrets to the Chinese for campaign cash.
For me, and I’m sure a few other old-timers who’ve been around here since the mid 1990s, removing the Clintons from office is still a priority. While I have no love for Obama he has not proven himself to be an utterly corrupt individual at this point. Hillary has, repeatedly.
To vote for Hillary is to give evil its day. To cynically vote or Hillary as a Republican in the hopes of preventing a different candidate from winning an inconsequential race, a race to choose a candidate you will in any case vote against strikes me not just as foolish, but really as wrong.
We, America, had a chance to repudiate Clintonism. And we almost did. An early exit by Hillary would have helped end her career as a national politician, and move us into a new era.
Instead Rush has led the effort to keep her campaign alive, and in the process helped rehabilitate her and her husband. He has perhaps insured that Hillary returns for another try in 2012, assuming that she doesn’t pull this one out of the hat.
Maybe Rush desires to see her in the white house. Times were good for talk show hosts. The Clintons were comically clown-like in their ability to create one joke after another in their last run as co-presidents. Rush’s big growth in listnership came during the Clinton years. Maybe it is nostolgia, I am not sure.
What I am sure of is that I completely disagree with his strategy and hope that it ends soon, and that Clnton loses big enough to get out of the race and that we are at last done with her and her slimy husband.
This can only be a very good thing for America, the sooner it happens the better for us all. The fact that it will not be as definative as it might have, and that conservatives aided and abetted this woman continuing to prevail in elections is a great shame of the conservative movement, and speaks volumes about our own listlessness and corruption.
One wishes Rush had put his considerable talents into, for instance, reforming the primary process for the GOP to ensure that future primaries are not open to cross-voting, are weighted more fairly, and do not feature all blue states in the key early rounds. Had he spent time rallying his troops on this quest perhaps we would already be looking forward to a better 2012.
As it is he has set the table for the certain return of one of the most heinous and criminal politicians America has ever seen, yet again. That’s not funny, it’s not amusing and it’s not responsible.
I expect a lot more from leaders of the Conservative movement. I have to sadly conclude that Rush’s time in leadership is as surely at an end as that of many other Republicans who have failed us in the last decade, Bohner, Delay, Lott.
Surely our next step as a movement has to include finding better leaders whose own ethical compasses are better regulated, and who put the good of the nation above their own amusement.
Sadly, those leaders will find that job number one still remains seeing Hillary and Bill driven from the political field, a job that without conservative complicity might already have been completed.
Rush is an entertainer. I’ve stopped listening to his program and wouldn’t take the call if he phoned my house and asked nicely.
Not angry, really. Just not entertained. He’s now in full-blown self-parody. Time to untie the other half of the brain.
The time I’d have wasted on Rush is now available to invest in reading David Limbaugh. :)
that’s right.
rush’s business is better when a democrap is in the white house.
what’s that do for the country? you? or me?
uh duh.
rush’s ego is as big as bill + hill’s combined.
i listen to dennis praeger. he’s got a brain. and, he’s a humble man.
You have my nomination for post of this week.
Obama's best buds include, but are not limited to, Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers - yep, no mass corruption from Obama... /sarc
I know. They have lowered themselves to a level even I thought was below them but...once again I was wrong. They are who they are and will never change. Disgusting human beings to say the least. The USA deserves better than the clintins.
I agree with you 500%.
I love Rush, but..
(you said it all)
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