Rush Limbaugh just said he is now confident there will be a bloodbath at the Democratic convention

[acrosstheuniverse]

And that it will be the most exciting thing to see in his life. He also said he thanks God everyday for Hillary Clinton and has no doubt now that Mccain will be our next President. I turned his shit off after that. I rarely listen to his show but it was on here where I work and the person who had it on just went home.

[azmouse]

1. Hillary's wish would come true if that happened.

[mod mom]

38. and Rush helped her by getting GOP Cross-Over voters since March 4:

What might have actually happened in Ohio and Texas? Tin foil hat?
▪ Clip:
: "Rush, I understand that the Rush Limbaugh audience is mobilizing in Texas for Hillary. Am I hearing that right?"

: "I don't know if the audience is mobilizing or not. I am urging people — I am using a phrase — the Republicans — our nominee is chosen. It's John McCain.

Texas is open. And I want Hillary to stay in this, Laura. This is too good a soap opera. We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically, and it's obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it and don't have the stomach for it.

As you probably know, we're getting all kinds of memos from the RNC saying not to be critical there. Mark MacKinnon of McCain's campaign says he'll quit if they get critical over Obama.

This is the presidency of the United States you're talking about. I want our party to win. I want the Democrats to lose. They're in the midst of tearing themselves apart right now. It is fascinating to watch, and it's all going to stop if Hillary loses.

So yes, I'm asking to cross over and, if they can stomach it — I know it's a difficult thing to do to vote for a Clinton — but it will sustain this soap opera, and it's something I think we need. It would be fun, too."

http://www.thomhartmann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=609&Itemid=113



Can GOP Voters Spoil the Dem Race?
Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2008By HILARY HYLTON/AUSTIN

As if Democrats didn't have enough problems deciding upon their presidential nominee this year, now they must contend with the possibility that Republicans are deliberately crossing party lines to prolong the bitterly contested race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. In recent weeks, conservative talk radio stars Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham have urged loyal listeners to vote for the much-despised Clinton in open Democratic primaries so as to prevent Obama from sealing the nomination, and there are some indications that their calls have already been heeded in states like Texas and Mississippi.
Even in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, where the April 22 primary is closed to independents and Republicans, there are signs that some Republicans are going so far as to switch their party registration by the March 24 deadline to participate in what Limbaugh has dubbed "Operation Chaos." In the last five months, there has been a 2.2% increase in the number of registered Democrats in Pennsylvania versus a tiny dip of 0.12% in Republican numbers. Veteran Pennsylvania pollster Terry Madonna expects some 100,000 new Democrats to vote on April 22, about 5% of the total expected to vote. In historic Gettysburg, Adams County Elections Supervisor Monica Dutko told the local newspaper, The YorkDaily Record, she was a seeing an unprecedented steady stream of switchers, some of whom volunteered they were changing registration from Republican to Democrat at the urging of Limbaugh.

Madonna, however, believes most of those new Dems will go for Obama, which goes against the Limbaugh conspiracy theory. It is also exactly what the upstart candidate himself has been working toward. Obama, who until recently was winning the lion's share of Republican votes in open Democratic primaries, is running radio ads in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia calling on voters to register as Democrats this week.

The first clue that Republicans might be making this kind of mischief came in the crucial Texas primary on March 4, a contest that most observers claimed Clinton had to win — along with Ohio — to keep alive her hopes for the nomination. Dave Mann, a political writer for the progressive Texas Observer, was driving to Fort Worth on that primary day when he heard various callers to the Laura Ingraham radio show claiming they had followed her and Limbaugh's call. One even admitted he would now have to go to confession and repent his sins. As he listened, Mann dismissed the idea that Republicans would have a significant impact on the Democratic outcome in Texas.

-snip

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1723756,00.html

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

41. Hillary's Rovian plan for 2012 is working to perfection by damaging Obama. Some Dem she is.

[Changenow]

2. Stopped clock

He may very well be right. Nothing has happened that would tell me otherwise.

[Bensthename]

3. I hear ya, I tune in to Limbaugh about once every other week. Then turn it off in disgust.

[Faygo Kid]

20. I used to listen to him while holding my nose. Even I can't stomach him anymore.

I used to listen to him because there was no mistaking his influence, even if 99 percent of what he spewed was hate. But he has been surpassed, and while his dittoheads still do his every bidding, he has gotten too looney to be considered influential except by that small hard core that thinks Bush has been a great president. Just look at his web site - all about his ego, and selling "Operation Chaos" crap to make a quick buck.

He's a putrid excuse for a human being. I hate sharing the same birth year with the turd.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

43. You're a better man than me. I couldn't take a nanosecond of Limpballs. Hillary must be lovin' it.

[NJmaverick]

4. Thanks Hillary! Thanks for making oxy contin boy's day

[GoldieAZ49]

5. Obama's words are dividing the party more every week

and neither candidate is going to drop out, so yeah the convention will be a real convention but I don't think it will be a blood bath

[acrosstheuniverse]

7. no it will be a bloodbath

She will MAKE it into a bloodbath. I see this happening now. She is determined to bloody Senator Obama and anyone else who gets in her way.

[Cameron27]

10. Obama's making this into a bloodbath

and he's doing damage to the party that will take years to repair. Obama's determined to bloody Senator Clinton (for his own foolish mistakes) and anyone else who gets in his way.

[Symarip]

14. How dare he be winning!

What the fuck is wrong with that guy?!

[Cameron27]

16. He hasn't won yet.

[Symarip]

18. What part of 'winning' didn't you understand?

Past tense, present tense. Oh it doesn't matter.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

17. And how exactly is he doing that?

So you're saying he deliberately misspoke to force Clinton to look bad by attacking him? Your "logic" is hilarious. :rofl:

[Zodiak]

40. This is the most projectionist post on DU today

Every one of your assertions are more applicable to Clinton.

[cali]

13. I'll make you a "lady's bet"

that it won't go to the convention. In fact, I'll bet it's over by June 15th.

[GoldieAZ49]

22. you are on!

it would be a relief to have this over before summer, we risk 'dem primary fatigue' if this continues getting more divisive in the party.

Why do you pick June 15th?

[cali]

28. note that I'm NOT betting who will be the presumptive nominee

on that date, just that it will be over- one way or another. I picked that date because I think the SDs will have endorsed in enough numbers to put one of them over the top by then. And the loser will drop out once that happens.

[GoldieAZ49]

45. ok

fair enough

but I can't see either one dropping out instead of courting SD to switch back before the convention

[Champion Jack]

15. Bullshit

[Hepburn]

21. LOL...

....please remove your cranium from your rectum prior to posting!

Thanks!

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Two months ago, Rush said McCain would be the ruin of the republican party.

Now McCain is the neatest thing since sliced bread.

[NightWatcher]

8. Translation: this will be over soon and the Dems will be strong going into Summer

thanks

[DerekJ]

9. Obama fighting the GOP and The Clinton Machines .. And Winning.

I Think he can take on McCain when the primaries are over.

[rodeodance]

11. why do you post crap on DU from RWers?

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

19. Do you understand the difference

between posting something said by a right winger as a topic of discussion, and posting something from a right wing source as a means to back up your argument? Clearly not.

[Demeter]

12. He Is Wishing, Not Predicting

Far more likely that there will be rioting in Red State Colorado streets due to GOP agitators and overbearing police.

I have faith that the Good Doctor will work something out inside that is a little less explosive, and well before the convention convenes.

[pompano]

25. The problem is....

Obama can win against McCain by a significant margin given the time to get his message out.

Until Hillary accepts the inevitable, the Supers stop dragging their feet, and this Party unites by a candidate that wants to win for the Democrats sake as opposed to someone's legacy sake, McCain gets another day head start. That fat, pimpled ass, gas bag over at the EIB mic. knows it.

Hillary could do the right thing but, her campaign debts, corporate cronies, and legacy keep getting in the way.

If the staunchest Hillary supporters can't see this by now they never will.

I am a 100% Obama supporter. When Edwards dropped out I picked Obama and never looked back. If the shoe was on the other foot and Obama was where Clinton is now I would expect him to move over.

Hillary plays with a stacked deck. Accept it, or give McCain the keys to the White House.

Thats where we are at.

Thats my opinion.

[Demeter]

27. Based on Past Performance--Hillary Can't Do the Right Thing

I don't think she can conceive of the right thing--ethically challenged. And who is going to point it out to her that she will listen to? Eleanor Roosevelt is dead.

[pompano]

32. Oh Gawd

is she channeling her again?

I don't think she can at this point if she wanted to? It's just my opinion but I think she is too vested into the Republican money machine to have second thoughts this late in the game.

Also, If she wants to challenge Obama in 2012 she has got a mountain of debt to pay off to the ones she rooked this time. These people aren't going to work for free (although they are now) for another loosing effort.

This country has had it with Bush/Clinton-fatigue. Heck! I think even the Russians got tired of ol' Czars after a while, didn't they?

Americas best days are ahead. They won't be found dragging up ol' retreads from Administrations from yesteryear.

I'm old. If the young people in this country want to see a change in the way Washington does things they need to do what they are doing now. Start handing out pink slips and show the Washington elite we hired you we can fire you. The status quo didn't and doesn't work.

[Danger Mouse]

23. who cares what that tub of shit thinks?

[mrJJ]

24. SuperDelegates need to take a stand.

The "Grand-Poobahs" need to get off the fence. Pick one or the other. If the Democrat Party splits... so be it... a choice must be made soon. McCain will get a free ride until this nomination gets decided.

[backscatter712]

26. Rush is wrong.

Hillary will be pushed out fairly soon.

I still stand by my prediction of May 20th as the last day it is even possible for Hillary's campaign to be viable.

By that day, Obama will achieve 1627 pledged delegates, and when that happens, the superdelegates will swing to him, if they haven't done so already.

Hillary will likley bow out sooner than that, but her campaign absolutely will not survive long after May 20th.

[leftynyc]

31. Why aren't the superdelegates swinging NOW?

That's what I don't understand.

[backscatter712]

35. Patience, grasshopper.

The superdelegates are cowards.

They're not going to swing if they think they might swing the wrong way - they have to be sure which way the wind is blowing first.

But when the wind blows, swing they will. Eventually their cowardice will drive them from inaction to action, because none of them want to be delegate number 2025 after 2024 gives the win to the nominee.

[leftynyc]

36. Don't they realize

they can end this thing NOW? They can create the wind themselves.

[backscatter712]

37. Like I said, they're cowards.

They'll swing to Obama and end the race when the risks of doing so are outweighed by the risks of not doing so.

[leftynyc]

42. What the fuck are they afraid of???

Sorry for the profanity but honestly, what harm could it do?

[BigDaddy44]

39. Because they're not convinced Obama's the real thing

He's young, and relatively untested. He's riding a wave right now, but the superdelegates are waiting to see if the wave crashes. In other words, the fear of the major gaffe. Probably won't happen, but who said politicians (superdelegates) are as a class courageous?

[leftynyc]

44. I've been told that these are the

senior people in the party...the ones that are supposed to "save us from ourselves". How can they not see that this protracted battle is harming the party (or so I'm reading - I'm not actually convinced that's true)?

[DFW]

29. No matter what happens, I'm betting it will be resolved by Denver

And if it isn't, I'm still betting Denver won't be the bloodbath
the Limbaughs of the world hope it is.

Maybe they'll even turn to Al Gore and Limbaugh will have to go
into lard-burning overdrive to dredge up all his anti-Gore shit
that he had mothballed eight years ago. Only now, he can say on
air that Al Gore claimed to have invented glacial melting, the
Nobel Prize and the City of Oslo.

[smiley_glad_hands]

30. I bet limpnuts is happy.

She sold out the entire progressive movement and the Democratic party. Limpnuts is in ecstasy.

[symbolman]

33. a bloodbath?

Are they serving Limballs this year? Gonna need a BIG Oven for that P I G..

[RememberWellstone]

34. Who cares what he says?

Seriously...everytime I see a quote from him, I gag.

[WillyT]

46. And We Can Thanks Hillary For That