Posted on 02/16/2012 6:20:32 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Aping Rush Limbaugh's 'Operation Chaos,' Daily Kos Announces 'Operation Hilarity' to Vote for Santorum By Tim Graham Created 02/16/2012 - 8:30am
Please revisit all the liberals who called Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" effort urging conservatives to vote for Hillary Clinton "undemocratic" and worse. Because Daily Kos blog boss Markos Moulitsas announced on Wednesday "Operation Hilarity," urging liberals to turn out and vote for Rick Santorum to "keep the GOP clown show going!"
"Rush Limbaugh and his ilk have had no problem meddling in our own contests. And if there's one thing Daily Kos is about, it's about fighting fire with fire," he wrote. "And in any case, it's freaking hilarious. I mean, Rick Santorum? Really? The Republicans have offered up this big, slow, juicy softball. Let's have fun whacking the heck out of it." They're even raising funds for Facebook ads. He writes:
It's time for us to take an active role in the GOP nomination process. That's right, it's time for those of us who live in open primary and caucus states—Michigan, North Dakota, Vermont and Tennessee in the next three weeks—to head out and cast a vote for Rick Santorum.
Why would we do such a crazy thing? Lots of great reasons!
Republican turnout has sucked, and appears to be getting worse by the contest. Unlike the 2008 Democratic primaries, which helped President Barack Obama and the Democrats to build a national organization, the GOP is an organizational disaster, with waning voter interest. That means that it takes fewer votes to have an impact than if Republican turnout was maxed out.
Several of the contests have produced razor-thin margins of victory. Rick Santorum won Iowa by 34 votes, Mitt Romney "won" Maine by 194 votes. It won't take many of us to swing contests the way we want them to swing.
The longer this GOP primary drags on, the better the numbers for Team Blue. Not only is President Barack Obama rising in comparison to the clowns in the GOP field, but GOP intensity is down—which would have repercussions all the way down the ballot.
The longer this thing drags out, the more unpopular the Republican presidential pretenders become. Just look at Mitt Romney's trajectory, which followed Herman Cain's trajectory, and Newt Gingrich's trajectory, and Michelle Bachmann's trajectory, and so on.
Rick Santorum will inevitably follow the same path once he gets properly vetted. Mitt Romney has been unable to stem the bleeding despite his tens of millions. Just imagine Santorum, with the far more radical record and a continued inability to raise real money.
It's a no-brainer! The following states have completely open contests coming up: 2/28: Michigan (Primary) 3/6: North Dakota (caucus) 3/6: Tennessee (primary) 3/6: Vermont (primary)
If you live in one of those states, pledge to participate in Operation Hilarity by voting or caucusing for Rick Santorum.
In case anyone was in doubt that the Kosmonauts hate Rick Santorum from their toes up to their silly hats, see Jesse LaGreca, who wrote "spare me your self-righteous indignation, you mouth breathing, knuckle dragging troglodyte stereotype of a sexually suppressed Broadway villain from the 1950's."
And: "To the sexually repressed adults who want to make believe it is 1955 and that a voting booth is a Delorean with a flux capacitor, I'd like to remind you of the movie Back To The Future. Just like the movie, eventually you are going to be forced to realize it is 2012, but you are still the repressed, conspiracy theory driven John Birch Republicans of 1955, and you're gonna be mad as hell when you figure out that just like in the movie, at the end Biff is just a chump and the black guy who used to mop the floor at the diner who Buff used to look down on is going to end up running the town and there is nothing you can do, Rick Santorum, to stop it."
The same thing happened with the 1980 election. The left was praying for Reagan, and did everything to make it happen.
Actually the same thing happened in reverse in the 1976 election. The right was laughing at the idea of the Democrats nominating a hick peanut farmer from rural Georgia who not only openly talked about his religion, but claimed to be a born again Christian and felt bad about "lusting in his heart after other women." The pre-election portrayal of Jimmy Carter is very, very different from the left-wing liberal one you know today. Carter was considered a baptist religious extremest--at least that is how he was portrayed by the press.
Santorum's campaign looks a lot like Jimmy Carters. Spent a year going door to door in Iowa and came out of nowhere. Relying heavily on religious conservatives, and is unafraid to talk about religion on the stump (you might even say both went out of their way to do it).
It was an effective strategy for Carter, there is no reason it won't also be effective for Santorum. People point out that the majority of the country isn't overly religious, which is true. But, what the forget that the vast majority of the country are not atheist either. Being a religious person is not a negative with most of the country--in fact, I would argue it's a positive.
It is a fine line though. Carter managed to walk it in 1976. There's no reason to think Santorum can't walk it in 2012.
“I am at the point of praying for a brokered convention.”
What took you so long? Many of us were there months ago. :-)
A goodly amount of 1955 would do the country a lot of good. What was our national debt the? Entitlements? Class warfare? Pre-’Great Society.’ Plus, there was the 55’ Chevy!
[ but you are still the repressed, conspiracy theory driven John Birch Republicans of 1955 ]
This is HATE speech!
[ A goodly amount of 1955 would do the country a lot of good. What was our national debt the? Entitlements? Class warfare? Pre-’Great Society.’ Plus, there was the 55’ Chevy! ]
Indeed, especially in the northern states and the midwest states where Republicans were railing against the Government Mandated Discrimination against Blacks in the southern states.
Democrats don’t remember history.
“How did encouraging people to vote for Hillary after she was already losing manage to foist 0bama on us? “
They voted for Obama. At that point, everyone thought that Hillary would be the nominee.
It’s a known fact that Obama’s surprise win of the ‘08 Iowa caucus was caused in part by republicans who showed up to vote for him as part of operation chaos.
!!! Good description. My theory is that people in that ‘demographic’ are going to be a) too lazy to show up or b) too vain to be seen at a Republican polling place.
KOS raison d’etre is ticking off conservatives. So everyone: don’t take the bait.
All this time I thought the Left’s choice of mayhem was Ron Paul. He has served to drain the crazy vote from the real players.
DMF Kos was pushing for Romney last time.
It’ll be Hilarity when Santorum WINS;
‘Operation Hilarity’ to Vote for Santorum By Tim Graham Created 02/16/2012
God works in mysterous ways!..
That's for sure. What about St. FDR? The idol of the left that Obama is matching program for program. Only WWII saved him. History repeats itself. . .
Less than a dozen.
Open primaries are insane. It allows the other side to try to choose the weaker candidates so they will lose against their candidate. Santorum doesn’t stand a chance, he never did and never will. Newt is the only one strong enough to go up against the Marxists in the WH and the only one afraid to call them what they are. The only one better is Sarah and
she’s not running.
GMTA.
if you believe that Hillary was losing so be it. believe what you will...I disagree.
I do not...Hillary was the presumptive candidate and I believe 2 things changed that...
one was the retarded system of Caucuses or as Rush calls them Cauci....the other was ‘caos.
you may not understand what Rush’s Operation Chaos was...Obama had it won. OC only extended the primaries by increasing Hillary’s vote totals in the later primaries.
Ask Buckyeyetexan. He voted for her because Rush said to do it, he can explain it. I believe he also witnessed massive voter fraud, reported it and they did nothing about it.
“At that point, everyone thought that Hillary would be the nominee.”
One thing I never do is underestimate Bill/Hill. Don’t count this out totally yet. She’s growing her hair, wore the pearls at the State of the Union, and soon she’ll be putting on the pink cardigan. Not to mention her bud Panetta dissing Obama last night.
“What about St. FDR?”
I call him King.
Saints are martyred for their faith.
King-for-life FDR took what he wanted from us and caused a big war. Only Democrats can get away with that.
GOOD King FDR, of course. /s
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