Excuse you? Rush urged people to vote for Hillary to prolong the fight because the Republicans were too gutless to damage Obama’s halo. He used Hillary as a vehicle to do it. So Stop with the lie otherwise.
In case you all missed it in your eagerness to crow about how wrong I am re the so-called operation chaos, see my post #42.
My reference is to the earlier part of the primary season, before McQueeg won the nomination. Are each one of you going to sit there and tell me that most conservatives were NOT more afraid of Hillary than Obama? Are you seriously going to claim that most conservatives thought Obama would be easier to candidate beat?
Rush transitioned into what he called operation chaos after playing around with encouraging Republicans to cross over and vote for Obama in New Hampshire.
There are a number of reasons why we have the O as president now: the economy, McQueeg's horrible campaign, Bush fatigue, and so on. However, one big reason is the fact that conservative Republican voters could not rally around one viable candidate early in the primary season. Emphasis on viable. Between our already split vote among a large field of Republican candidates, stupid cross-overs to try to manipulate the Dems into nominating Obama, the equally stupid Republican open primaries in early voting states, and other factors, we wound up with the weakest possible candidate while the Dems wound up with the strongest possible one.
That, in a nutshell, is how we got where we are today.