Posted on 03/07/2008 6:08:22 AM PST by fightinJAG
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh led a campaign to have his Republican followers in Texas cross party lines and vote for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the state’s open primary last Tuesday. Why? Because Limbaugh thinks Republicans can defeat Clinton in a general election. Plus, watching Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama bloody each other in a nomination fight is pure sport for Limbaugh conservatives.
According to exit polls, Clinton won a notably higher number of Republican voters than she has in past open primary contests. Of the 9% of voters who identified themselves as Republicans in the Democratic Primary, Obama still edged Clinton 53%-46%. However, that margin is significantly slimmer than earlier contests. In Wisconsin’s open primary, for instance, Republicans broke 72%-28% for Obama. Similarly, in Virginia’s open primary, Obama was favored 72%-23%.
Clinton unquestionably secured a Texas victory, but some locals are convinced it was a false win bolstered by dirty politics. Laura Jean Kreissl, an accounting professor at West Texas A&M University, served as an election official in Canyon, Texas on Tuesday. She contacted the Wall Street Journal to report the hijinks she observed at the four precincts that voted at her polling location.
Of the 181 voters she personally dealt with, 70 offered that they were “Rush Limbaugh voters” who were there to cast ballots for Clinton. “I’m here to vote for Hillary Clinton, I want to see the Democratic Party implode,” one voter told Kreissl, she recounted in an interview. “I was just stunned,” she said. “As an election official we can’t say anything. We just jot them down and let them vote.”
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Dittos..... To what you said.
I am heartened by the fact that a large number of Freepers have spoken out against this "strategery". From here on, I will remember 3/4/08 as "The Day (Misguided) Genius Thwarted Common Sense and Principle".
An alternative title could also be "The Day Rush Jumped The Shark."
“...Remember, you can’t teach a liberal until their own tactics backfire.”
and then they still don’t learn, or retain what they may have for an instance at least positively acknowledged.
Caught up in a whirlwind of illusion their heads constantly spinning.
You are 100% wrong...Almost EVERY poll shows that Hillary Clinton has the highest negatives of almost anyone in the WORLD...these polls suggest that she is IN FACT the
more defeatable. 50% say they CAN’T wait to VOTE AGAINST her.
Now, having said that, I think it a mistake for Rush to call for GOPers to vote for her. GOPers will be BLAMED (as the media is doing in this article) for the defeat of a BLACK canidate (if Obama does not get the nomination).
We had a chance here that should Hillary by hook and crook get the nomination, many blacks would vote for McCain to pay Hillary back...NOW, unfortunately, they will not vote for McCain because the MEDIA is telling them that the only reason Hillary won Texas was due to republican voters...and the will spin the “republicans are racists” crap. Rush handed this spin to them.
Wait a minute?? I thought Limbaugh had lost his touch and his control of the GOP when he couldn’t get his candidate elected.
The fact is that Obama won Texas. He picked up five more delegates than Hillary. It is hard to find that in the MSM.
Politics is a game of chaos. Nothing more.
And your vote IS just a poker chip, whether you feel morally indignant about the fact or not.
“Remember, you can’t teach a liberal until their own tactics backfire.”
exactly.
At first I thought it was a silly thing and didn’t think many republicans would actually follow through.
When I heard Limbaugh say on the air the following day that he hoped the dems were just as happy with the candidate we chose for them, as we were with the candidate they chose for us (not just w/ crossover voting - but with MSM support as well) - I decided it wasn’t so silly afterall.
You make some very good points. We had to show ID to vote in the first primary. I had not considered the dems who voted for McCain - very interesting. The national dem party’s decision to punish Michigan and Florida seems to be having the opposite effect. It appears to now be punishing the dem party.
You have to change your affiliation something like 6 weeks before an election, I am not sure of the exact time frame. And I am thinking about switching.
In Michigan, that would be very interesting since you can cross over the same day there.
Certainly for Texas I agree. We knew going in that Dem Hispanics were predominately aligned with Clinton so her winning Texas should only be a surprise to those who have not yet had to learn Spanish to conduct business in their home State.
I voted in the Texas democrat primary to re-pay the cross over democRAT voters in NH, who voted for McNasty. I have been a republican since 1972. Go Hillary Go. Let them eat cake! I did not know Rush wanted a party switch in TX? I am a FM listener. This is going to be a fun primary, and a hoot of a convention in Denver. Shades of Chicago.
I agree with you 100% and cannot describe how ANGRY I am at Rush and his acolytes (Sean, Laura, Bob Grant etc.) for promoting this so-called “strategy” for days prior to the Texas and Ohio primaries. It is a terrible thing to say but I was happy Rush was sick the actual day of the primaries so that he lost a day of continuing with that drumbeat.
I don’t know if you have noticed but Rush returned on Wednesday to considerable heat from listeners and the announced he was taking the next couple of days (Thursday and Friday) off. If you ask me he was running for the hills as now Hillary’s campaign has been revived and she is at least one step closer to being CIC.
Thanks Rush, for allowing these grifters another shot at the White House.
Rush jumped the shark the day that he, like millions of other “grown” men, decided that it was a felony to be photographed without a cigar, the day, in short, when he said to himself (only after millions of other non-thinking lemmings had started a trend)”Hey! If I go around with a big cigar I will look powerful, mature, and sophisticated.” On that day, he became just another 15 year old kid looking to define himself.
It’s impossible to make a lib play “fair” until you slap them with their own tactics.
It will be DE-licious to see Hillary steal the nomination via the dhimmirats’ own version of the electoral college.
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