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April 15, 2008 at 07:01:21

Headlined on 4/15/08:
Cross-Dressing For McCain: Limbaugh Camps Up Democracy in David-Goliath War of Words

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RuPaul would be so proud.

It may look and sound like Democracy, but if you look behind the talk radio curtain, you'll find Rush Limbaugh duck-taping Karl Rovian junk back between the thighs of Republican partisanship.

In the spirit of our forefathers who forged out country and our soldiers who have fought and died heroically over the centuries, the loudest of the Lords of Loud has created a campaign to corrupt the presidential primary into a Machiavellian game of pretend.

It's no longer voting for whom you'd like to win, nor even voting against who'd you like to see lose. It's now come down to voting FOR whom you'd like to lose...or as Limbaugh puts it...Operation Chaos.

With touting the value of a John McCain presidency either irrelevant or nonexistent, El Rushbo has been pushing for his dittoheads to cross dress as Democrats and vote for Hillary Clinton hoping to pervert each primary outcome for two reasons: One is to keep the Democratic battle going on as long as possible to create divides within the party for a long as possible. Two, is to somehow garner a win for Hillary who Maha Rushie feels is an easier get for invigorating the Republican "I hate her with a passion" base when McCain reenters the fray.

Operation Chaos is not meant as would be a profound and complex gender transformation, but more an elaborate Cher impersonation who those without solid political radar would swear was an actual Democrat. You know, if it quacks like a Democrat... Still, it's less Christine Jorgensen and more Crying Game. Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Shockingly, the name Operation Chaos was born out of an earlier election and devotee to American integrity...Richard Nixon, who consolidated a number of domestic surveillance agencies (legal and not-so-legal) under the moniker of Operation CHAOS. After the patriotic Watergate break-in, Operation CHAOS was shut down.

Leave it to Rush to breath life back into such a proud moment in American history.

But the moment may have ricocheted into a Democratic four year term and a parade down Pennsylvania Ave (as well as I'm sure, most of San Francisco).

And speaking of Pennsylvania, Rush may not have only done his job too well - ex. for the first time since 1978, Bucks County Pennsylvania has more Democrats than Republicans - but he has also given a Democratic politician a ton of something you can't buy for any amount of money...free publicity.

A virtual unknown outside of Bucks County, PA, County Commissioner, Diane Marseglia, has become a bit of a national name as well as somewhat of a David to Rush's Limbliath

Marseglia, didn't take Rushbo's Pennsylvania meddling sitting down, slingshoting a return salvo directly at the giant's soft-spot...his ego.

"Bucks County is privileged to have people of superior intelligence, and they don't listen to Rush Limbaugh."

Bam. That's gonna leave a mark.

With his usual disdain for women (look at his marriage/divorce record), a wounded Limbaugh branded Marseglia as "The Democrat Babe," on his national radio show.

Reloading, Marseglia, launched the shot that - if aim be true - could fell the radio colossus ego or at least leave a nice dent... "if they feel they have a voice in this election they will stick around."

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Tom MurphyJust a person that knows he matters and placing more on acceptance than expectation... And while this explanation is viewed apparently by some as limited, here's some more personal information that those same some believe I "need" to testify that I can post here at OpEdNews.com:
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There's nothing pretend about Operation Chaos - it's real

"I'll leave pretend politics to Rush," says Marseglia. "He seems much more comfortable with being a fraud."

And this is why she will fail because she believes that Mr. Limbaugh is practicing "pretend politics". Her words are symbolism over substance and fail to address the real issue of how so many people (seemingly only at this point) are so concerned about the election that they will switch parties in an effort to sway an outcome. You can just toss this one off to people being "dittoheads".

This is anything but "pretend" to the conservative side, and I'm not saying that based upon my personal desire. For me, I'm exhausted by the endless Democrat/Republican bickering and need for one upmanship that's been occuring for the past couple of decades.

I want someone in the presidential office who (1) knows both the strategic and tactical value of compromise and (2) stands for his (or her as a nod to Senator Clinton) principles. With these in mind, there's only one candidate that meets the criteria. But it'll be up to the people, however THEY play it, to decide who's the "best" candidate.

After all, no one is forcing or compensating people to change party affiliations. This is being done of their own free will - even if they turn to "guns and religion" when times get tough.

by Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 1719 comments) on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 7:55:41 AM

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While I mostly agree with you Tom....

I wish I knew which candidate you're referring to. If it's McCain, I'm not sure that "stands to his principles" is accurate. For me, this election has been hard to get excited about.

The Hillary/Obama show HAS been fun to watch, though.

by Matthew Griffin (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 35 comments) on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 10:19:45 AM

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Robert MacNicolMBA International corporate real estate executive and broker, tri-lingual English, Spanish, Portuguese, resided in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Argentina.

Rove Dirty Tricks

Scripted by Karl Rove. Obama won "Red States" because Republican strategy involves G.O.P. crossover voting to take out Clinton, marketing newcomer Obama.

Evidence of a covert campaign to undermine the presidential primaries is rife, so it's curious that the Democractic Party and even some within the G.O.P. have ignored the actual elephant in the room this year. That would be Karl Rove. Long accused of rigging the two previous presidential elections, this master of deceit would have us believe that he's gone off to sit in a corner and write op-eds.

Not so. According to an article in Time magazine published last November, Republicans have been organized in several states to throw their weight behind Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic rival of Hillary Clinton. At least three former fundraisers for President Bush flushed his coffers with cash early on in the race, something the deep pockets had not done for any candidate in their own party. With receipts topping $100 million in 2007, the first-term Illinois senator broke the record for contributions. It was a remarkable feat, considering that most Americans had not even heard of him before 2005.

The Time article went on to explain that rank and file Republicans were switching parties this spring to vote for Obama in the Democratic primaries. Though not mentioned in the piece, a group called Republicans for Obama formed in 2006 to expedite the strategy, and the Obama campaign launched its own "Be a Democrat For a Day" campaign in 2007.(An official video distributed in in Florida, Nevada and Vermont explains how this legal form of vote stacking is accomplished .) Many states have open primaries, allowing citizens to vote for any candidate, regardless of their party affiliation. In Nebraska, the mayor of Omaha publicly rallied Republicans to caucus for Obama on February 9th. The tactic, called crossover voting, appears to be part of a Rove-coordinated effort to deprive Clinton of the nomination. Even with the full compliment of election-scamming tools available to him - phone bank sabotage, fake polling data, swiftboating, waitlisting, electronic voting equipment, Norman Hsu, etc.- Rove would be hard pressed to defeat Clinton in November, since she's popular nationwide and has promised an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq. If the contest isn't close, the vote-rigging won't matter. Several influential Republicans admit as much in a February 11th story for Politico.

If, on the other hand, Obama wins the nomination (or even the VP spot), Rove's prospects brighten considerably. Largely unvetted by the media, the senator carries considerable baggage from his stint as a state legislator, particularly his 17-year relationship with Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko. So far, the mainstream press has paid lip service to the particulars of Obama's past and instead portrays him as a fresh new face in American politics. The author of the Time article, for instance, offered the following explanation to account for the bizarre love affair G.O.P. voters say they're having with an African American senator on the other side of the aisle. "It seems a lot of Republicans took to heart Obama's statement in his rousing speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that 'there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America.'"

Is he kidding? The conservative publication National Journal claims Obama's voting record is the most liberal in Washington, even moreso than Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Not everyone agrees with that assessment by a long shot, but it's nevertheless hard to picture the voting pattern Jay Newton-Small implies here: Nixon - Reagan - Bush - Dole - Bush - Obama.
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by Robert MacNicol (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments) on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 11:07:43 AM