“Operation Chaos created the path for Obama.” April Lexington
“I would really like to read your reasons for believing this. Obama was on the way to a primary sweep in the early spring. How did Rush help him, and what, instead, would have hurt his progress to the nomination? Thanks for your response.” ~ maica
I see you didn’t get a response, so I’ll provide the facts:
February 8, 2008 RUSH to caller: Let me tell you something. ...I’m going to tell you the bottom line here, Karina. For all the Drive-By Media and the power of the monopoly they have lost; I’m here to tell you that the Drive-By Media has chosen our candidate, and the Drive-By Media is going to choose a Democrat candidate. Right now it looks like if the Drive-Bys get their way — they did on our side — if they get their way on the Democrat side, it’s going to be Obama.”
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020808/content/01125108.member.html
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“Barack says nothing better than anybody in a long time. He’s just messianic. He’s saying nothing, but people are in tears listening to it. He could say anything. It really doesn’t matter.” ~ Rush Limbaugh 02/11/2008
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2/14/08 RUSH: “..There was nothing substantive; there was nothing about policy here; there was nothing about what he was going to do in the future. It was all psychological, the Oprahization of a presidential campaign. But here’s the real point. If you watched that whole speech last night, you know why he’s winning and why Hillary is losing. ..”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969918/posts?page=167#167
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3/5/2008:
“.. the ONLY reason Rush wants to keep Hillary in the race all the way to the convention is because she is the only one who has been willing to go after and “bloody up” Obama. If McCaniac and the RNC had the guts to take Obama on the way she has been doing, and will continue doing in order to win the nomination, Rush would not be advocating keeping her in the race:
“We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically. It’s obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it, they don’t have the stomach for it,” Limbaugh continued. “As you probably know we’re getting all kinds of memos from the RNC saying we’re not going to be critical. Mark McKinnon of McCain’s campaign said he’ll quit if they get critical over Obama. This is the presidency of the United States we’re talking about. I want our party to win I want the Democrats to lose.” ~ Rush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980146/posts
135 posted on 03/05/2008 10:10:55 AM EST by Matchett-PI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1980658/posts?page=135#135
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Rush in___ October 2006 ___ before the election:
“..But none of it still clicks logically to me why you expect — or why you think — by sending your own people out of power adds up to a good thing, especially positioning you for a re-conquest of that power in 2008. I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. If the Republicans lose the House and the Senate because of principled conservatives who exercise their power by doing nothing, by staying home and [not] voting, and if the Democrats win, they’re not going to stop being kooky and they can’t start being kooky because they are kooky to begin with. It stuns me. ...
“..The idea facilitating all this, while hiding under this or behind the banner of: “I’m principled and they’ve let me down and they need to be taught a lesson.”
Well, fine and dandy, but why is it that you don’t think the left needs to be taught a lesson for their absolutely unbelievable childish, immature, and dangerous behavior the last five years? How do they escape your wrathful eye? How is it that the Democrats somehow don’t make you mad? What is this death wish that some of you have? Why is it you cannot see who the real problem in America is or who your real enemy is in a political sense? Why can’t you see it? And if you do see it, then would somebody explain to me how ignoring the enemy and allowing them to gain more power somehow advances your cause? It may make you feel better, and it may mean that you are selfish, and it may mean you’re trying to portray yourself as smarter and more forward thinking than anybody else.
But it’s a death wish, particularly this notion that they’re not going to get anything done in the next two years anyway, and they’ll learn a lesson. Let me tell you about learning a lesson. In two years, you same people who will have helped bring about an ascension to power by the Democrats are going to be so angry; you’re going to be so fed up over what they have tried to do, over the things they will maybe have accomplished, that you are going to demand power back — and you will accept anybody that you think has a chance of winning it.
Right now, that looks like McCain above anybody else — who, I must tell you, is not a conservative — and so what are you probably going to end up doing? You’re going to be so frustrated by 2008 and the thought of Hillary Clinton becoming president is so obnoxious, so abhorrent, that in 2008, you will flush your precious principles down the drain and elect a Republican, precisely the kind of Republican you think you’re running against now. Or you will at least nominate one. Who knows how that election will go. So the very principle that you are fighting here, if you succeed, you will be given a candidate who fits the very thing you’re angry about, somebody who’s not conservative enough, but probably has the best chance of winning. ...” excerpted from:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1968154/posts?page=42#42
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Thirty-Five Undeniable Reasons To Be Thankful For Rush Limbaugh
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1928627/posts?page=141#141
As a daily Rush listener, and channeler of his thoughts, I already knew what you posted. What I wanted to know is why April Lexington posted
“Operation Chaos created the path for Obama.”
which is absurd.
The Dems had the Beast and the Boy and had a field day trashing Bush well into the summer while McNumbskull was drooling on himself in obscurity.
In my humble opinion... Rush should have been championing a conservative for the GOP in the primaries. Nothing. McNumbskull wins and Rush spends WEEKS trashing him. the GOP is deflated. Then, instead of (being quiet) and letting the floppy eared boy wonder win so McNUmbskull could have focused on his incompetence, etc... Rush stokes up this Operation Chaos crap and the nation hears about crazy Republicans, Bush, etc. for 12 more weeks! By the time Operation Chaos was over, the whole nation understood that the GOP is evil, we are morons (and by nominating McNumbskull, we probably did look the part by then), etc.
In short, we would have had at least 12 more weeks to expose Obama. By the time the Dem primary was over we didn;t have enough time to expose him.