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Rush Runs Onto Shaky GroundPosted on Mar 26, 2008
Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” is meant to throw the Democrats into disarray by keeping their primary race close, but according to MSNBC’s Dan Abrams, it just might be illegal.
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By DennisD, March 28 at 10:59 am # Back in the USSAElection fraud in the U.S.S.A. - stop the presses. This isn’t exactly a man bites dog story now is it. Clowns like Limpbag are only here to remind us all of how far off the track our system of government has gone. Proudly defending either the D or R label only assures that it remains that way.
By forgot password, March 28 at 8:42 am # asdfI was watching Washington Journal on C-Span and a caller called in on the republican line and said she was voting for Hillary Clinton. The c-span moderator asked her if she wanted Hillary Clinton to win in November and the caller said that she was going to vote for John McCain in November. The moderator then asked the caller why she was voting for Hillary Clinton and the caller said that she wanted the democratic race to continue because it was destroying the party and she didn’t want Obama to win. It is happening.
By jfc, March 27 at 7:38 pm # WAKE UP FOLKS!!!If voting could change anything, it would be illegal. It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the vote. History, especially recent history, has proven these two statements to be true beyond a shadow of a doubt. You want to be counted? You want to make a difference?
By jon, March 27 at 12:40 pm # the practicality of temporarily switching sidesSo… I admit to have registered Republican for our closed primary in order to vote for the closest-to-center John McCain as the Republican presidential candidate instead of the right-wing extremists Rush and his friends endorsed. McCain didn’t win my state, but it looks like he’ll be the red candidate; and I’m thinking that’s maybe not an entirely bad thing. Who’s to say it’s not because lots of other folks did what I did, too? If so, the joke is on Rush. It’s more acceptable than not, in my opinion, for the winners of Democratic primaries to be people who mainstream Republicans (as opposed to nutcases like Limbaugh) could at least live with OR for the winners of Republican primaries to be people who mainstream Democrats (and even Barney Frank and Dennis Kucinich are much more centrist than Rush or Bill) could at least live with. That, I think, would be the optimal result of a truly democratic (little “d") system. Maybe this is a way for the system to correct itself just a little, and I don’t begrudge Republicans not having to live with a Kucinich presidency if I don’t have to live with a Huckabee. Did I obey the letter of the law in my state? Yes.
By dp, March 27 at 6:48 am # Whatever happened to voting to determine the will of the majority of the people? It’s like taxes, the rich have attorneys working full time to figure loop holes and shelters and ways of getting out of their fair share. Now, it seems, elections are a bigger sham in this country (maybe they have been for a long time) than in those developing nations we always seem to be monitoring during theirs. It seems Limbaugh has never worked at anything so hard as he is this attempt to thwart Senator Clinton’s nomination. Has she offended his male ego sometime in the past? Does he have a secret yearning?
By maryc, March 26 at 7:01 pm # I think I know ONE person who canLittle Miss “I’m getting nervous...” from Rush’s radio show. The call is on tape, and she is admitting that she defrauded the system (admitting nervousness to prosecution is practically tantamount to admitting guilt) It’s not Free Speech-it’s voter tampering and it’s illegal. But I guess that’s the ONLY way Republicans can win, isn’t it? Otherwise, Rush wouldn’t be encouraging it. Rush is basically saying, “We are LOSERS, unless we screw with the Democratic Primaries, that’s how strong their best candidate is”. Add Your Comment |
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