Was Rush Limbaugh’s ‘Operation Chaos’ A Success?
Republicans who cast ballots in the Indiana Democratic presidential primary broke for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, 52% to 46%.
Rush Limbaugh and his Operation Chaos will undoubtedly take credit for that. If you are unfamiliar with Operation Chaos, here is the short and sweet of it from Wikipedia:
“Operation Chaos”, a political call to action with the initial plan to have voters of the Republican Party temporarily cross over to vote in the Democratic primary and vote for Hillary Clinton, who at the time was in the midst of losing 11 straight primary contests to Barack Obama. “
Limbaugh says he couldn’t care less who wins the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. He just wants the two surviving candidates to beat up on each other as long as possible, hopefully…into their national convention in Denver in late August.
In fact, he admitted during a Fox News interview Monday that he thinks Sen. Barack Obama will ultimately win the Democratic nomination. But the freshman Illinois senator will be a lot more bruised than he would have been had he floated to easy victories all winter and into the spring as Clinton fell behind in votes, delegates and money…
All Rush is saying is that he urged Texas Republicans, without a real contest of their own, to cross over and vote for Clinton and she won the state’s popular vote. And he urged Ohio Republicans to cross over. And she also won there big-time, raising disturbing doubts about Obama’s ability to win the populous heartland industrial states that Democrats need for a November victory.
And then Rush urged Republicans to cross over in Pennsylvania. Which they did. And Clinton won again by nearly 10 points.
“Our definition of success,” Rush says, “is that there be chaos. Our original purpose was to bloody up the messianic Obama. We don’t care which one gets it as long as neither one gets it in the primaries. We want the fight to proceed into the convention.”
“That’s why,” Limbaugh explains using the royal we, “we’ve issued orders to our operatives in Indiana today to get out and vote for Hillary Clinton.”
And it appears it may have worked
This is the hypocrisy of the neo-cons at its finest. They decry other countries that are not a democracy….while simultaneously thwarting the democratic process right here in the USA all with glee.
[...] I have to ask the question “is Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” at play here or are Democrats in places like Kentucky or West Virginia unable to deal with [...]
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