Posted on 03/05/2008 4:29:03 AM PST by shove_it
K-Lo, writing here from Austin, Texas.
Not sure why the networks havent picked up on this, but there is definitely a sizable portion of the vote in Texas tonight comprised of Republican voters looking to game the Democratic primary. I spoke with numerous friends today, who claim to be Republican, who said they voted for Sen Clinton with the thought that it will prolong the Dem in-fighting and therefore benefit Republicans. I wont debate the merits of their argument here, but the phenomenon (Republicans voting for Sen Clinton to gain the system) is real and I think material to the results. Im surprised I havent seen anyone reporting it and just how large the impact might be. Im sure it is contributing to the number of voters deciding in the final three days to support Sen. Clinton. Would be curious to hear your contributors comment on this dynamic. The VRWC conspires to save the Clinton campaign?
Name one time in 16 years when a Rush prediction about the Clintons came to pass.
I agree. Let's do process by elimination:
If McLaim is prez, then all of his screwups will be blamed on the Republican Party and it will be harder to rebound in 2012.
If Obama is prez, he'll be untouchable.
If Shrillary is president, she'll be an easy target. And from this Hillary-Obama battle, many many Democrats have seen the light and realize that Republicans have been right all along about Hill-Billy.
Maharushi is right again.
Not true. Rush was too afraid to support a candidate....remember all his weeks of explaining why he couldn't.
When he finally "sort of" backed Romney, it was already too late.
Yeah, Rush is one heck of a political strategist.
Aw grow up and the rest of you numbed mind robots. If you listened to Rush seriously and very much, none of you would be making these insane comments.
Rush needs no one in politics for ratings and he cares more for others and the country than you are capable of realizing.
McCain COULD exploit B. Hussein, but won’t. Hell he already apologized to him once! Half the people in this country hate Hillary. McCain is anemic, but has a better chance of beating her.
McCain will beat either Hillary or Obama by ten or twelve percentage points and a wide margin in the Electoral College.
Jeff Greenfield talks about why Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck: (http://www.slate.com/id/2185720/
Bugs: JFK, Reagan, Clinton, Bush II
versus
Daffys: Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Gore
Obama (a Bugs) would face McCain (a Daffy) and likely win. But McCain (a Daffy) has a good shot at beating the more polarizing Hillary (also a Daffy).
So Rush is the new Bill Buckner?
Or maybe he was just out to prove to the MSM--after McCain's comeback--- that he still has influence.
This is the more likely scenario since he sets aside an hour of each show to talk about himself.
You can't reason with many of the hate Rush goofs on FR. They have bought into the claim that Rush benefits if either Clinton or Obama is in the White House...he's just in it for the ratings. I suspect most of Rush's critics never really listen to him or understand what motivates him.
It will be interesting to see if those who claimed that Rush lost when Rommey dropped out will now admit he won by helping Clinton win. LOL!! Buy popcorn futures!!
People are projecting Bill’s charm and slickness onto Hillary. Hillary doesn’t have 1/10th of the political skills of Bill or even Obama for that matter. Hillary is a terrible candidate. Hillary will have to tear the party apart to win, and then she would have to put it back together by naming Obama as VP. I am not sure Obama would take it.
Don’t know that we will ever be able to prove it but I would be willing to bet the crossover vote totalled less that 1/2 of 1%. That a fair amount of time on talk shows was given to people who did so should in no way be definitive proof that crossover voting happened in a big way. I see the impact as being at best minimal.
I heard on the news that 1/3 of the primary voters were Repubs so yes, I think Rush played a part in Hillary’s victory. If she wins the presidency, it is on his head. There was a chance to defeat the witch yesterday...thanks Rush.
Clearly, many conservatives have not learned anything in the last 18 years. El Rushbo is right most of the time. I think he’s right here as well.
This strategy has some major benefits:
1. It prolongs the cat fighting in the Democrat party.
2. It points out an ongoing problem with our primaries. For 50 years, in many states, the Democrats have been crossing over and voting for RINOs. This may put an end to that. I live in NH and the Democrats have been choosing our candidates forever.
I’ve been listening to Rush long enough to know that he’s probably right. He threw out a line. As usual, he caught a whole lot of MSM and citizens who don’t listen to his program. Rush has once again caused the MSM to react in exactly the way he wanted.
Bravo Rush!
I understand Rush’s reasoning...but I think getting the Clintons out of the race was more important.
“McCain will beat either Hillary or Obama by ten or twelve percentage points and a wide margin in the Electoral College.”
Now that is a prediction from deep inside the echo chamber.
Every intangible factor in this election points to a huge Dem win: Change/Bush/GOP fatigue, unpopular war, media hungering for a Dem, Dem base actication at all time high levels, GOP base hate McCain...McCain a weak candidate at best.
What factors do you see, pointing otherwise?
The pimping and whoring for Hillary Clinton in an attempt to manipulate the election is a perfect example of what Rush refers to as being “too smart by half”. (Which makes you a hole).
We agree on this... I think Rush views this as a second chance to defeat the Clintons...he lost round one-now we have round two. Rush has been wrong about the Clintons before. I hope he is not this time. You can’t really trust Rush or Dick Morris when it comes to the Clintons.
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