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Title: Hillary Wins; Limbaugh is Laughing
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The Huffington Post
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-w ... -wins-limbaugh-is_b_89928.html
Published: Mar 5, 2008
Author: Jon Wiener
Post Date: 2008-03-05 11:11:13 by aristeides
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Views: 134
Comments: 6
Hillary Wins; Limbaugh is Laughing Posted March 5, 2008 | 12:09 AM (EST) Tuesday night was a good night for Rush Limbaugh. "I want Hillary to stay in this," he said on Fox News, because "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." Limbaugh was interviewed Feb. 29 by Laura Ingraham, guest-hosting on the Bill O'Reilly show on the Fox News Channel. "If Obama is the nominee, we are doomed, " Limbaugh said on Feb. 6 to a Republican caller to his radio program. On Fox News, Limbaugh listed "another reason why we need Hillary to stay in:" the Clinton campaign can attack Obama in ways the Republicans cannot. "Who was it that first used Obama's middle name of Hussein? It was not us. It was [Clinton supporter] Bob Kerrey, over and over again, former Democrat Senator of Nebraska." "Who was it that talked about Obama not just using drugs, as he admitted in his book, but maybe even selling them and dealing them? It was [Bill] Shaheen, Clinton's co-chair in New Hampshire." Limbaugh's assumption here is that Obama will be the Democratic nominee. "We want the Clinton campaign to keep pumping out these pictures of Obama dressed up as Bin Laden," he said on Feb. 26. "If Hillary loses this thing, all of that's going to come to a screeching halt. We want all the disruption in that party as possible. . . . We need to keep chaos alive." Limbaugh concluded that "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." Limbaugh was not alone among Republican pundits hoping Clinton would remain in the race. At the National Review Online, Jim Geraghty wrote, "the bottom line is that the longer the Democratic primary goes on, the more Hillary and Obama spend their resources hitting each other instead of McCain." Hugh Hewitt declared, "the GOP will be popping corks all night long as the inevitability of a long, drawn out and increasingly bitter fight becomes obvious." Limbaugh summed it up: "The longer Hillary can stay in this, the better for us, is the bottom line."
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#1. To: aristeides (#0)
"If Obama is the nominee, we are doomed, " Limbaugh said on Feb. 6 to a Republican caller to his radio program. Oh good, sounds like Obama won't be willing to ignore all the corruption of the past 7 years.
'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.' Ironically, that picture was taken in Kenya - the country embroiled in violence attributed to a fraudulent election.
So much for that "Limbaugh's not supporting McCain" BS. These "conservative" talk radio hosts are almost to a man Republican Party hacks, and they're going to keep pushing that lesser-of-two-evils crap until this country is absolutely ruined.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BWS - Bush Worship Syndrome; a mental disorder that causes Iraq had WMDs and Saddam did 9/11 troofers to worship Bush no matter how much damage he does to conservatism, to the GOP, to the English language, or to the country. Rush "the doper" Limbaugh and Sean "the dope" Hannity are two examples of extreme cases.
Good point. And, Rush won't think it's too funny after hoping that Hillary stays in when she wins the White House, will he?
I suspect Limbaugh and his corporate backers would greatly prefer a Hillary presidency to an Obama one.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Right. Obama may kick those lucrative Halliburton contracts to a new group of entrepreneurs and leave the former insiders out in the cold. Hillary is a friend to a lot of good ol' boys.
Limbaugh summed it up: "The longer Hillary can stay in this, the better for us, is the bottom line."
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.
#2. To: aristeides (#0)
"We want the Clinton campaign to keep pumping out these pictures of Obama dressed up as Bin Laden," he said on Feb. 26.
#3. To: aristeides (#0)
Tuesday night was a good night for Rush Limbaugh. "I want Hillary to stay in this," he said on Fox News, because "I want the Democrats to lose.
#4. To: Rich (#3)
So much for that "Limbaugh's not supporting McCain" BS.
#5. To: HOUNDDAWG (#4)
And, Rush won't think it's too funny after hoping that Hillary stays in when she wins the White House, will he?
#6. To: aristeides (#5)
I suspect Limbaugh and his corporate backers would greatly prefer a Hillary presidency to an Obama one.
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