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Have Rush Limbaugh and GOP Crossovers Helped Revive a Nightmare Ticket?
North Star Writers Group ^ | March 10, 2008 | David Karki

Posted on 03/10/2008 5:29:52 AM PDT by Dukes Travels

After Tuesday's primaries it's official – Hillary Clinton has gotten up off the mat, and an opportunity to possibly finish her off has gone by the wayside. Just how much, if at all, this might have been due to Republican crossover voting in Texas is unclear. But one thing is not: The chances of a potential Clinton/Obama unity ticket, which would have the best shot of all possible tickets of spelling doom for the GOP in November, have just gotten better.

Yes, there is still the possibility of a Democratic civil war and intra-party meltdown, which was apparently the point of conservative crossover voters trying to keep Sen. Clinton's candidacy alive. Mathematically, it appears almost certain that neither she nor Sen. Obama can obtain the number of delegates needed to prevent a brokered convention and keep the nomination from going to the superdelegates to decide. But to presume that this will automatically get the fur flying is presuming a bit too much.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gop; hillary; limbaugh; nobama; obama; rush; talkradio
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To: rollo tomasi
Could be the Clinton's only desire White House “access” and would accept a number 2 position to unleash their ideology and quid pro quo schemes from.

Dems who thought that Dick Cheney was a real Machiavellian power behind the throne will have their eyes opened if Hildebeast gets the VP spot and goes into office.

She and Slick will be eating Obama's lunch in short order from her EOB office. Those two will make the Borgias look like a bunch of boy scouts.

21 posted on 03/10/2008 5:58:27 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Dukes Travels
Have Rush Limbaugh and GOP Crossovers Helped Revive a Nightmare Ticket?

Yes. It is shaping up to be a nightmare for Democrats and sweet dreams for Republicans who can look forward with some confidence to a McCain win in November- Oh well there is always a cloud in every every silver lining.

22 posted on 03/10/2008 5:58:45 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: TCats
That Limbaugh is a mean old man, and he has some noive forcing we the sheeple to vote for Hillary.

They should revoke his hypnotist license!

23 posted on 03/10/2008 6:01:30 AM PDT by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of out-thinking our adversaries?)
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To: TCats

Both of them become more beatable because of the Clinton tenacity and dirty dealing. McCain and the Reppublicans won’t attack Hussein. So it is good that the Clintons are there to shovel mud and excrement. And the shoveling of that mud insures that the Democrat lock on the black vote will be a lock an an exceptionally low turnout if the Clintons are the candidate. The Democrats are falling into a lose-lose abyss that just might bring us back Congress to balance our own McDemocrat.


24 posted on 03/10/2008 6:03:55 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I do not think I am wrong. The Clintons will make this thing as much of a mess for the Dems without Limbaugh and his ill-timed strategies. My problem is he is making it possible for her to win the nomination which, as I said, to me is tantamount to another Clinton as POTUS. :-((( !

I am sure I'm not alone in finding her as POTUS to be unbearable and, to boot, I think Obama will wilt in the general. If that's true then Obama is the preferred opponent. I do not understand Limbaugh’s thinking and IMO he should just shut up.

25 posted on 03/10/2008 6:05:49 AM PDT by TCats (The Clintons Are Not Just Wrong - They Are Certifiable AND Dangerous! See my Page)
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To: muawiyah

Even if Obama accepted #2 spot, Hillary couldn’t afford anyone that might shine the light into the dark corners of her administration.

Obama would be set up in some way and forced to resign or have an unfortunate accident. He’s not safe with Hillary in any combination.


26 posted on 03/10/2008 6:06:45 AM PDT by listenhillary (Michelle Obama - America is Just Downright Mean)
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To: rollo tomasi

I can’t imagine Hussein Obama being stupid enough to take on the Clintons as VP. Surely he would have Ron Brown in the back of his mind and Vince Foster and a whole Arkansas full of ghosts.


27 posted on 03/10/2008 6:08:07 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Conservative Vermont Vet
Moreover, many whites (including Reagan Democrats) are beginning to resent what they perceive as being used and are resisting jumpin on the ObamaMama bandwagon.

Generally unnoticed in the returns from Texas the other day was the news that it was East Texas "yaller dog" Democrats who gave the state to Beastgirl.

Seems their genetic predisposition to robes and pointy hats (OK, I'm being tacky now) interfered with their ability to see Obama as the Anointed of America, as David to Bill Clinton's King Saul.

The MSM Hive Mind isn't leaking its inner thoughts and fears about this slippage -- although I'm sure their queen's chamber is abuzz -- but it may be that the Dems refused to learn from their statewide extermination in Texas a few years ago, when they ran a "no white guys" ticket (black senatorial candidate, south Texas Chicano businessman with vague MeChista affinities for governor) at those same "yaller dogs", who responded by staying home on election day. Result: Bloodbath for the Dems.

The Texas Democrats intend to run that kind of ticket in the future as soon as they've side-door "naturalized" enough illegal Mexican aliens, and they telegraphed their intentions fairly openly, hence their defeat. But it may be that that kind of ticket on the national level is generations premature, and Hillary's identity-political appeals will in fact turn off a huge and active Democratic clientele -- labor -- resulting in an epic bitch-slapping at the polls.

We'll see.

28 posted on 03/10/2008 6:11:03 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Emrys

It is worse than it was for Algore. Hussein would be titled VP but would really be #3 or worse. He might not even make the papers for 4 years. By 2012 he would not even be remembered. Any tie-up with the Clintons, either as VP or Pres would ensure that Obama disappears from American politics.


29 posted on 03/10/2008 6:11:03 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Jedidah
her on the ticket would be a sign of desperation.

It would be a sign of losing the will to live.

30 posted on 03/10/2008 6:13:04 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: TCats
I'm sure Rush is flattered by all this but I can't believe he's responsible for Cankle’s comeback in TX and OH...
31 posted on 03/10/2008 6:13:57 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: arthurus

1. exit poll data from Texas indicated that most GOP crossovers voted for Obama, not Hillary, so the premise is flawed.

2. Obama’s supporters (not Obama himself) should subtly play the race card — whitey making the black guy take the back of the bus -— this is in effect more of the same racism from the Clintons IMHO


32 posted on 03/10/2008 6:15:17 AM PDT by mwl1
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To: Dukes Travels
Dream ticket, right back at the left:



33 posted on 03/10/2008 6:15:39 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Dukes Travels

Ugh!! This is why we can’t play Politics with the Rats! You fools! They’ll beat us every time. Our party won on principals and when it became a party of politics is when we started losing.


34 posted on 03/10/2008 6:15:47 AM PDT by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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To: Southerngl

When this sorts itself out, Rush will be seen to have had the last chuckle. We will elect a liberal in November but with the Democrats making it impossible for each other that liberal is much more likely to be McCain and he is apt to bring a more conservative new Congress with him that will keep him more in check.


35 posted on 03/10/2008 6:17:09 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I’m not so sure about a large boycott by either black voters or ultra-left whites.

Certainly, there’ll be a significant number who’ll stay home or vote for Nader but most will vote for Hillary - albeit with little or no enthusiasm or volunteer support.


36 posted on 03/10/2008 6:18:51 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: TCats

I’m not going to vote for McCain because he’s an evil scumbag, the idea of voting for Hillary just to play evil spoiler is disgusting.

If Hillary is the president, you conservatives who voted for her chose her.


37 posted on 03/10/2008 6:19:38 AM PDT by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I hope she does run with McCain. That way we get two of them out of the picture in the future via one embarrassment.


38 posted on 03/10/2008 6:20:51 AM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: Conservative Vermont Vet

Hussein could make a move “for the good of the party” but he will not see the GOTP as involving Clintons on the top of the ticket and CLintons see only the “good of the Clintons” which does not include playing second to Hussein for more than a few months and surely Hussein understands that.


39 posted on 03/10/2008 6:21:00 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: TCats
You think Obama will wilt in the general election. Considering Rush's past record, I think I'll trust his opinion more than yours.

If you actually listened to Rush, you'd remember he mentioned Dems floating this "Dream Ticket" idea long before he wanted to see Hillary continue in the race. This first time I heard this idea was July 07.

Obama having his POTUS nomination "stolen" by Hillary, and offered the VP spot, may destroy the Dems for a decade or more.
40 posted on 03/10/2008 6:21:06 AM PDT by jps098
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