The Limbaugh Strategy: Keep the Democrats fighting.
Why We Want to Keep Hillary Alive
Rush and Laura talk Democrats and McCain (w/ video).
Laura Ingraham's Friday Interview with Rush on Fox News Channel
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 haven’t 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 won’t 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. I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone reporting it and just how large the impact might be. I’m 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?
You guys are nuts. If Rush had true big swaying power Mitt would be our nominee and I would be happy.
You can blame Rush for the universe being but it is NOT Rush’s doing.
People blow my mind and probably Rush’s also. Goodness what he accomplish if he had the power you think he does.
Obviously, you are not a chess player.
Do you have evidence to the contrary?
Didn't think so.
More than I believe the ravers here on FR blaming Rush and each other. Hillary was always ahead in Texas. It was hers to lose and she almost did. So much for Rush and crossover Republicans throwing the vote to her. The idea is ludicrous.
Anyone who believes there is anything phenomenonal about Republicans voting in the Democratic primary doesn't know much about Texas.
Some folks I know never vote in a Republican primary. They always try to game the Democratic primary. Then come the general election they pull the Republican lever.
You know, you are right. From a very cynical level, that is what he did yesterday. He clouded her victory with doubt as to how much of it was done by malicious republicans.
The dem candidate will win in November. No doubt about it. It’s over. What conservative could vote for someone who will stab you in the back as soon as he’s elected? Not me. McCain would be a horrible, horrible president. Worse than Hillary, that’s for sure!
Incorrect because Barrack can be forced to take the vice presidency to unify the party
Democrats will tell him he must do it or we lose black voters plus you are a young man who has plenty of time to be president. In fact you are next in line because you will be VP
But Hillary being older than Barrack and kicking around politics a lot longer would not run as Barrack's VP. Too humiliating plus no upward lift to the ticket.
But a Barrack VP would lift up a Hillary ticket. Imagine him out campaigning!
And Obama could very well be worse than either of them.
With the Clintons, the country was basically on auto pilot and did just fine! Come to think of it...under Bush all we have done is SPEND, SPEND AND SPEND! Maybe we don’t really need a president.
“Karl Rove was on yesterday and he has compiled polls from across USA and said McCain would beat Hillary.”
We started the Bush Presidency controlling the House and Senate. As we sit here today, we have lost both, and face a probable RAT Presidency. I don’t think Rove has much credibility.
Al Wilson, right?
Well it was just plain obvious she despises RUSH with every fiber of her being.
Check it out. http://www.newsweek.com/id/118240/page/1
“”Rush knows that should Clinton win her nomination, she is the weakest of the two Dems that will face McCain in November.
Haven’t you paid attention to the exit polling data? In EVERY race, the second largest group that is bailing out on Clinton is the white male vote (second only to the blacks), who will overwhelmingly vote Republican only to deny Clinton the power she so desires.
Rush knows what he’s doing.””
Bullsh_ _!!! Last night, Karl Rove discussed 3 scenarios where the democrats nomination goes to the convention and in two of the scenarios the nominee emerges stronger than if the nomination was decided early. Only in one scenario was the nominee weakened by the process.
1. The convention is so acrimonious that the nominee is weakened by the situation. thats the scenario we want.
2. The convention fight leads to resolution of long standing issues and a feeling of unification that helps the nomiee as well as the party.
3. The buildup to the convention and the newsworthiness of the convention push MaCain and the Republicans to page B22 of the newspapers and leaves McCain unable to gain traction in the general election until the Republican convention in Sept.
Rush is not only dangerously wrong...he’s an idiot.
That said, the rules are what they are, and had I been voting yesterday, I would have crossed over and voted to keep the dims at each other’s throats.
The point of Rush's ploy was that Hillary was the only one on the political stage that would lay a political glove on Obama. The media has treated him like the second coming and lord McCain's own democrat campaign guy said he would quit lord McCain's campaign if lord McCain went negative on Obama.
"My ratings are NOT determined by who wins elections."
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