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05-08-2008, 07:27 PM
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Campaign '08: Rush Limbaugh is given both credit and blame for helping Hillary Clinton to a narrow victory in the Indiana primary. He says he's trying to kill the Democrats' chances in November. We prefer to call it an assisted suicide.
When Limbaugh launched Operation Chaos, a sort of get-out-the-vote strategy turned inside out, some thought it was a ratings stunt. El Rushbo's influence was thought to have waned since the glory days when he helped propel the GOP tsunami of 1994.
Not so. David Axelrod, Obama's top strategist, credited Operation Chaos with Hillary's two-point victory in Indiana and sent an e-mail to reporters Tuesday night asserting that 7% of the votes in Indiana could be attributed to the "Limbaugh effect."
Obama won big in North Carolina. Sen. John Kerry told reporters: "If it hadn't been for Republicans taking Democratic ballots, they (the Obama camp) likely would have win in Indiana, too. There really is no masquerade now — Rush Limbaugh was tampering with the primary and the GOP has clearly declared they want Sen. Clinton as a candidate."
Au contraire, Sen. Kerry. They want Sen. John McCain as a president. Rush has said it was never about which of them loses, but about our guy winning. It was about interrupting the cult-like Obama euphoria long enough for reality to sink in. And sink in it did. In helping to extend the primary campaign, Rush did a great public service.
The protracted Democratic debate gave Rev. Jeremiah Wright a second 15 minutes of fame and allowed Obama's association with crooks and influence-peddlers such as Tony Rezko and violent terrorists such as Weathermen William Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn to be more thoroughly examined.
Would we have known Obama's views on bitter, gun-toting, Bible-clinging townsfolk if the Pennsylvania primary didn't matter?
It's the Democrats who've set themselves up for a fall, first by selecting candidates whose basic philosophy is to raise our taxes and surrender to our enemies. Their energy policy is to light a candle and blame the darkness on the oil companies. Their economic policies are somewhere between Karl Marx and Groucho Marx.
It's the Democrats who in the prelude to the McGovern debacle devised a system designed to increase diversity that wound up increasing polarization. High percentages of Clinton and Obama voters say they won't vote for the other candidate in the general election. Talk about bitter.
The Democrats wanted fairness and got indecision. They wanted to jettison the winner-takes-all system of those unfair Republicans. They wanted proportional representation and open primaries. Rush didn't make those rules, he just played by them and exploited them.
The Democrats objected to Iowa and New Hampshire dictating who a party's nominee might be and wound up with a system that threatens to disenfranchise the fourth- and eighth-largest states in the union.
They chose Howard Dean as their party chairman, the man who wanted a 50-state strategy and got 48. In the end, they might get hoisted by their own petard — the 2000 mantra "let every vote count."
The Clinton-Obama debate has focused largely on who has the better qualifications and experience to be president of the United States. By helping to extend that debate and expose the weaknesses and pitfalls of each, Rush has helped us find the clear answer to that question: neither.
mrgrn
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Campaign '08: Rush Limbaugh is given both credit and blame for helping Hillary Clinton to a narrow victory in the Indiana primary. He says he's trying to kill the Democrats' chances in November. We prefer to call it an assisted suicide.
When Limbaugh launched Operation Chaos, a sort of get-out-the-vote strategy turned inside out, some thought it was a ratings stunt. El Rushbo's influence was thought to have waned since the glory days when he helped propel the GOP tsunami of 1994.
Not so. David Axelrod, Obama's top strategist, credited Operation Chaos with Hillary's two-point victory in Indiana and sent an e-mail to reporters Tuesday night asserting that 7% of the votes in Indiana could be attributed to the "Limbaugh effect."
Obama won big in North Carolina. Sen. John Kerry told reporters: "If it hadn't been for Republicans taking Democratic ballots, they (the Obama camp) likely would have win in Indiana, too. There really is no masquerade now — Rush Limbaugh was tampering with the primary and the GOP has clearly declared they want Sen. Clinton as a candidate."
Au contraire, Sen. Kerry. They want Sen. John McCain as a president. Rush has said it was never about which of them loses, but about our guy winning. It was about interrupting the cult-like Obama euphoria long enough for reality to sink in. And sink in it did. In helping to extend the primary campaign, Rush did a great public service.
The protracted Democratic debate gave Rev. Jeremiah Wright a second 15 minutes of fame and allowed Obama's association with crooks and influence-peddlers such as Tony Rezko and violent terrorists such as Weathermen William Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn to be more thoroughly examined.
Would we have known Obama's views on bitter, gun-toting, Bible-clinging townsfolk if the Pennsylvania primary didn't matter?
It's the Democrats who've set themselves up for a fall, first by selecting candidates whose basic philosophy is to raise our taxes and surrender to our enemies. Their energy policy is to light a candle and blame the darkness on the oil companies. Their economic policies are somewhere between Karl Marx and Groucho Marx.
It's the Democrats who in the prelude to the McGovern debacle devised a system designed to increase diversity that wound up increasing polarization. High percentages of Clinton and Obama voters say they won't vote for the other candidate in the general election. Talk about bitter.
The Democrats wanted fairness and got indecision. They wanted to jettison the winner-takes-all system of those unfair Republicans. They wanted proportional representation and open primaries. Rush didn't make those rules, he just played by them and exploited them.
The Democrats objected to Iowa and New Hampshire dictating who a party's nominee might be and wound up with a system that threatens to disenfranchise the fourth- and eighth-largest states in the union.
They chose Howard Dean as their party chairman, the man who wanted a 50-state strategy and got 48. In the end, they might get hoisted by their own petard — the 2000 mantra "let every vote count."
The Clinton-Obama debate has focused largely on who has the better qualifications and experience to be president of the United States. By helping to extend that debate and expose the weaknesses and pitfalls of each, Rush has helped us find the clear answer to that question: neither.
mrgrn