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Republican Double Standard Operating Smoothly
by Loree
05/08/2008, 9:57 AM #

Rush Limbaugh: Urging Republicans To Commit a Felony? By Tim Graham | March 26, 2008 - 12:01 ET

Liberals get a bit wiggy when it comes to electoral shenanigans in Ohio. On The Huffington Post, Ari Melber accuses Rush Limbaugh of encouraging Republicans to commit a felony by crossover voting for Hillary Clinton. Those "lying voters" are under investigation, although prosecutions are "considered unlikely," he reports:

"Operation Chaos," Rush Limbaugh's campaign urging Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries, has been very effective. It doubled Republican turnout in Ohio and Texas, boosting Clinton and prolonging the Democratic race. But in Ohio, it was also almost certainly illegal.

Ohio law requires that citizens genuinely support a political party in order to vote in its primary. To change parties for a primary, a citizen must pledge, under the penalty of election falsification, that she is affiliated with the party and "supports" its principles. Lying on the pledge is a felony, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. The law also stipulates that poll workers have a "duty" to challenge voters who are "not a member of the political party whose ballot the person desires to vote."

Melber, a writer with the far-left Nation magazine, concluded:

Limbaugh loves playing up partisan fights for his audience. But this is not only about politics. Limbaugh abused his listeners' trust and encouraged potentially illegal conduct. And after a Republican Justice Department spent years hyping voter fraud charges, now some of the most blatant election law violations are being stoked, repeatedly and unrepentantly, by one of the most prominent figures in Republican politics

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Rush Limbaugh is playing the Democrats.
by SouthernGal
05/08/2008, 10:12 AM #

He has been on a campaign to have HRC be the presidential candidate and then just yesterday he was saying he really wants Obama to win because he is the weaker candidate.

I believe the neocons think they know the Democratic mindset so well that they can influence how we vote by using reverse psychology.

Scary part is...they may be right.

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Without Republicans, Hillary would have lost Indiana
by larbabe
05/08/2008, 10:23 AM #

by a sizable margin. This comes from MSNBC News:

Even as Barack Obama's campaign celebrated Tuesday's primary results, aides charged yesterday that they would have had an even stronger showing were it not for meddling by an unlikely booster of Hillary Rodham Clinton: the popular conservative radio host and longtime Clinton family nemesis Rush Limbaugh.

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Limbaugh crowed about the success of his ploy all day Tuesday, featuring on-air testimonials from voters in Indiana and North Carolina who recounted their illicit pleasure in casting a vote for Clinton. "Some of the people show up and they ask for a Democrat ballot, and the poll worker says, 'Why, what are you going to do?' He says, 'Operation Chaos,' and they just laugh," Limbaugh said Tuesday.

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In Indiana, 10 percent of Democratic primary voters described themselves as Republicans, a higher rate than in any state but Mississippi, and they went for Clinton by eight percentage points, according to exit polls.

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Re: Without Republicans, Hillary would have lost Indiana
by TickleBob
05/08/2008, 11:11 AM #

So where is the double standard? Limbaugh didn't make that state law nor force anyone to break it, if indeed they did.

You are a fruit cake.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh is playing the Democrats.
by Loree
05/08/2008, 1:10 PM #

Rush is a riot...claiming so much 'influence' on the elections, wherever. He is nothing but a burned out pill addict, without the benefit of what once passed for his brain!

The country is full of those, and THOSE are the ones who hang on his every word. NORMAL and THINKING people know the 'mindset' of that type also...we can read them like a book.

He is a pompous, self-centered asshole...always has been and always will be.

Anything he SA"YS isn't worth the air he expends to say it, nor are the AIRWAYS doing themselves and their reputation any good, by allowing him to contaminate those.

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Re: Without Republicans, Hillary would have lost Indiana
by TickleBob
05/08/2008, 2:23 PM #

Loree, maybe you should read this post again.

larbabe:

by a sizable margin. This comes from MSNBC News:

Even as Barack Obama's campaign celebrated Tuesday's primary results, aides charged yesterday that they would have had an even stronger showing were it not for meddling by an unlikely booster of Hillary Rodham Clinton: the popular conservative radio host and longtime Clinton family nemesis Rush Limbaugh.

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Limbaugh crowed about the success of his ploy all day Tuesday, featuring on-air testimonials from voters in Indiana and North Carolina who recounted their illicit pleasure in casting a vote for Clinton. "Some of the people show up and they ask for a Democrat ballot, and the poll worker says, 'Why, what are you going to do?' He says, 'Operation Chaos,' and they just laugh," Limbaugh said Tuesday.

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In Indiana, 10 percent of Democratic primary voters described themselves as Republicans, a higher rate than in any state but Mississippi, and they went for Clinton by eight percentage points, according to exit polls.

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