The Clinton-Limbaugh Ticket
Over the past couple of days, culminating in last night’s primary results, Obama learned the hard way that a jab to the kidneys and a knee to the groin are perfectly acceptable campaign tactics once the brawl reaches its current stage. These UFC maneuvers brought Hillary close enough in Texas that Rush Limbaugh’s diabolically brilliant plan encouraging his listeners to vote for her in order to create a deep blue logjam pushed Mrs. Clinton over the top.
Now that Hillary’s been hoisted back on the tracks, the party elders have to make sure there’s no train wreck down the line. If Obie still holds a slim delegate lead post-primaries, and the super-delegates decide the nominee and negate the will of the people, that may well keep enough Dems at home in November to color things red. Obie getting the nomination without a decent margin of victory and without winning any of the big swing states is just as problematic.
As noted previously in these pages, Dean Dean has to preclude a campus dispute.
Pragmatically, should Hillary win the nomination by hook and by crook, I’d have to hold my nose and vote for her rather than see the future changed for the worse by a McCain nominated Supreme Court leaning so far to the right it’d be a miracle if they didn’t fall over, while another 50-100 years in Iraq further accelerates the insolvency of social security and medicare.
Come November, gotta find the clothespins before proceeding to a polling location.
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It is a sad day when negativity and indeed racism can still blind so many from seeing the best, and most obvious choice for this Country’s future…when all else fails, the Clintons turn to the ultimate Republican mantra to win at all costs…the fear card. They are truly no better than the ones they supposedly loathe and criticize. As a result, I, in good conscience, can not convince myself to ever vote for such a low-life, low class candidate. A candidate who quite obviously puts her own ego and greed, above the good of her Party, let alone that of her Country. This political system has truly failed to evolve even in the face of pending disasters. After all, it will still be, business as usual.
as much as it pains me to witness the underhanded tactics referred to in the USDA grade A comment that precedes this one, i still feel the nose holding while voting Dem regardless of the candidate will be more productive than sitting things out come November. i doubt very much that the Dr. Dobsons of the world are going to stick to their guns and continue to refuse to back McCain in an election that’s bound to be as close as this one.
for a split second there it looked like this go ’round wasn’t going to be the usual lesser of two evils.
better luck next life, i tell myself. LK
I am a perpetually disenfranchised Florida voter. During all of my adult life (1968 on), I was registered as an Independent, leaning Democratic. Following the 2000 debacle, I registered as a Democrat for the first time because I recognized that I would never be able to bring myself to vote for a Republican again.
Fast forward to the primaries of 2008. The REPUBLICAN Florida legislature voted to move the state’s primaries for both parties forward. The DNC then ordered that Florida’s Democrats be dis-empowered from the primary process as punishment. Not a good decision, in my opinion, but so be it.
Now, the Democratic candidate who has trailed consistently in delegate count is insisting that she continue the primary battles, acting as a very divisive element within the party, and is insisting that Florida’s delegates be re-empowered. And Republican Governor Crist has offered to pay for a second primary, because it’s in his best political interests to see a divided Democratic Party.
To that I say, NO WAY! This has been an astonishing primary season, but if the DNC kowtows to Clinton’s machinations, I will be done with established party politics. Nor do I think I will be alone in that.
Obama has shown that it is possible to engage young and first-time voters in massive numbers, but if the Democratic Party messes this one up, those folks aren’t likely to stick around.
If ever there was a time for the DNC to represent democracy, this is it. Keep the rules that were established at the beginning, even though they weren’t good rules. Insist that all candidates play by the same rules. Make it clear that the candidate who can’t get the delegates legitimately won’t be nominated.
Period.
LK, I just don’t think clothespins will be enough.
I just received an e-mail from Democracy for America asking for a signature on an “Open Letter to the Candidates” and stating that Clinton and Obama should “fight McCain, not each other.” Sounds nice, doesn’t it?
From where I’m sitting, it looks like Clinton’s doing all the fighting. For example, an Obama campaign adviser makes a personal ad hominem attack against Clinton, and she’s GONE. IMMEDIATELY. Yet a Clinton campaign adviser makes not one, but a SERIES of racist remarks about Obama’s candidacy, and it’s “regrettable.” And she stays with the campaign for several days.
Beginning with former President Clinton’s statement that Obama’s campaign was a “fairy tale,” the Clintonites have played the race card, the gender card, and every other back-room, back-stabbing Washington ploy they could invent. They are doing McCain’s job for him, throwing mud by the bulldozer-load, and then, when Obama presses Clinton to release her financials, they accuse him of going negative.
Come on, this should be an open letter to the Clinton campaign. Making it a letter to both implies they are equally culpable when clearly they are not, and is an insult to Obama.
So, here’s the question. What’s Clinton running for? She’s behaving like someone who’s seeking the VP spot with McCain . . .
I will not sign such a monstrous affront to the campaign that has held itself above the vicious, petty smears that have been going on for the past few months. And I hope you won’t either.
The Limbaugh-factor:
When will Democrats, and the rest of the world, stop saying that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote and received over 18M votes in the Democrat primaries?
If not for Limbaugh’s Project-Chaos, an effort he designed to get Republicans to vote for Hilary Clinton in “open” primaries, the NY Senator numbers would be abysmal…
hi Dan. i don’t thinks the Dems will admit to themselves the manipulative powers of Limbaugh that have and continue to dilute and derail their efforts. their pathetic Air America attempt at same is a joke and, until they master that element of the mass media expect more of the same.