Awful awful tactic by the Republicans. Schneider: Did 'Operation Chaos' succeed in Indiana? Limbaugh’s ‘Operation Chaos’ plan was to have republican voters temporarily cross over to vote in the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton. (CNN) – How big of an impact did Rush Limbaugh’s ‘Operation Chaos’ have in Indiana? Did GOP voters really cross over to create havoc in the Democratic primary by voting for Hillary Clinton, as he’d asked his listeners to do? Roughly one in ten of the state’s Democratic primary voters were Republican — and that group did vote for Hillary Clinton, 53 to 47 percent over Barack Obama. But hold on: registered Democrats, who made up two-thirds of Tuesday’s primary voters, gave roughly the same edge to Clinton, 53 to 45 percent. Only Independents — who made up about a quarter of the electorate — voted for Obama, 53 to 47 percent. For whatever reason, self-identified conservative voters did overwhelmingly support Clinton – two out of three cast their votes for the New York senator. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/06/did-operation-chaos-succeed-in-indiana/
If the Dems had thought of this first and did this to the GOP, the right-wing radio kooks would have howled like dogs and called the Dems every name in the book.
When the people of this nation voted for W twice I knew we are/were screwed. It doesn't even matter anymore.
It's been done by a small number from both parties when the opportunity arises. Limbaugh claiming credit for it is kind of ridiculous though... does anyone listen to him anymore? When I'm driving across the middle of Nevada and he's the only voice on the radio, all I ever hear him talking about is how great he is, how smart his listeners are, his ties, and his cigars. Plus, you listen to the ads and they're all aimed at insecure men... baldness, sexual dysfunction... or idiots who might think it's a good idea to invest in heating futures with a FL firm.
It's simply losers like him dividing America, creating hatred amongst "conservatives" and "liberals" telling their "followers" to look down upon 'liberals' and vice versa. Wake up America! Go out and do your own research instead of relying on these people's words. After doing your own research and gaining knowledge yourself then you can truly call yourself a 'conservative' or a 'liberal' otherwise you are nothing but a puppet doing, believing, following on the words and actions of your master.
You all take Rush Limbaugh way too seriously. (Not surprising, seeing as how you react to TJ and Texx on the board.) He's a comic. He is a character. Once you get that, his show becomes very enjoyable, especially when he's attacking Democrats. I listen to it at work, and often find it laugh-out-loud funny.
Limbaugh pwn3d Obama last night. The grassroots operation chaos took the dems by surprise, and could have changed the results.
Remember the drum music (of the battle theme of Hillary vs. Obama),...he kept that going on for so long. It was hilarious...
Op Chaos did it's best work in Texas, which was a must-win for Hillary. That brought out the Jeremiah Wright story and extended the race for another 6+ weeks. But yes, Rush has made the Obamatrons his lil bittch. HO HO HO
There were a 100,000 republicans from Texas, who emailed fox news and acknowledged they did indeed vote for Hillary because of Limbaugh. Obama has been fighting half of the democratic party and the majority of the republican party since Texas and ohio.limbough is the leader of it, but every conservative radio host on the country, most republican TV analyst, and the whole fox news have been pushing Hillary since those primaries’. It’s so bad, that even heard McCain say I hope she could pull it out. Notice that she has had the silent treatment from the Republican Party since the Texas primaries. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bf1ugL4TDa8&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bf1ugL4TDa8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
It's definitely not over yet, with Kentucky and West Virginia likely to be landslide victories for Hillaroid. It's funny though how little Obama has needed to close her out, but he JUST. CAN'T. DO. IT. He's like the Brad Lidge of politics.
If Operation Chaos led to the Wright story coming out when it did, then Rush did a huge favor for Obama. The timing couldn't have been better for Obama. He's been able to dispatch it in the primaries, rather than having it hit and cause far more damage during the general. Thanks Rush!
I guess I don't understand why conservatives are so worried about Obama if they think he is so fringe, inexperienced, unpatriotic, elite, or whatever else their talking points are. Wouldn't they want to run against someone who is that marginalized? I guess we will see in a few months.
Rush Limbaugh is a nothing more. .and no better than any other Crackhead the fact that people listen to this Drug Infested Hypocritical Puss Bag says alot about them. Rocket River
It's the Democrats who have this stupid Caucus system/Superdelegate system, in the nomination process that makes them look like idiots. It's the Dems that won't let their own people in MI and FL count their votes that make them look stupid. Neither Obama or Clinton will have the amount of votes to win the nomination outright. So the ONLY way Obama technically wins is by NOT counting votes of people. By NOT counting MI and FL and by allowing the Superdelegates coronate Obama is the only way he wins outright. That is what makes this ALL stupid by Dems.
