Hillary and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

[CampDem]

I found this article at the Village Voice. It shows how right wing pundits were Hillary bashing until it looked like Obama was sure to win. Then it analyzes the last couple weeks of full on Obama bashing.

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Hillary and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
The strange case of conservative pundits and their love for Barack Obama
by Wayne Barrett
March 11th, 2008 12:00 AM

The prime movers of both political parties have long tried to game the presidential nominating process—not only to choose their eventual winner, but also to pick their November opponent. And in this landmark election without incumbents, the media wing of the Republican Party, in particular, has quite visibly been playing that game. Right-leaning pundits for months now have very openly not just called for Hillary Clinton's head, but also coddled and promoted Barack Obama, salivating over the prospect of facing him in November.

Meanwhile, voters have been echoing that program: Barack Obama has been beating Hillary Clinton in part because Republicans are helping him.

Sixteen of the 45 Democratic primaries and caucuses held before this week were open affairs, allowing Republicans and independents to take part, and Barack Obama has won 11 of those contests. He almost invariably carried the Republican vote, which accounted for as much as 9 percent of the total in Wisconsin and Texas, and frequently ran even stronger among independents, who represented a fifth or more of Democratic primary voters in state after state. The 75 percent of the Republican vote that he won in Missouri, for example, may have pushed him over the top, and certainly, when combined with his 67 percent of the state's much larger independent vote, it delivered many of the district-apportioned delegates to him. Republicans in Obama states like Washington, Wisconsin, and Virginia were even freer to cross the aisle, since by the time they voted, John McCain had already sewn up the GOP nomination. While Obama often won some of these states so handily that Republicans and independents could not have provided his margin of victory, there is no way to know how many delegates in close congressional-district contests will wind up in Denver because of the impact of Republican or independent voters. And there is no exit-poll data to measure their impact on the caucuses.
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full article http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374100,374100,2.html

[lapfog_1]

1. Zellary and the VWRC...

I think Zellary adopted the attitude of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em".

Hence the 3am ads, and the "McCain has crossed the threshold to be C-in-C, but Obama has a speech", and the latest outrage, the "Obama is lucky to be a black man, otherwise he would never be where he is today" crap.

Sorry, Zellary left the Democratic party some time ago.

And, yeah, the repukes are playing us about all of this, but we DON'T have to play along... like Zellary is doing now.

[CampDem]

4. Well, I don't think there is anything wrong with her trying to fight for this, but I agree that we

as Dem's should not let the rethugs play us against each other to the point that we lose.

[MagickMuffin]

2. As I recall Rush Limpballs called on his supporters to vote for Hillary

in Texas to keep her in the race to "bloody up Obama" until the convention.

It also accounted for 24% of her vote in Mississippi. She won the conservative districts there.

So, I guess the VRWC is voting for Hillary more than they are Barack.

D'oh.

[CampDem]

3. Yes Rush did call on them to vote for her but I think Obama still took most of the rethug vote in

Texas. Here is an excerpt from the article.


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Rush Limbaugh, whose radio show reaches 13 million, dropped his "mafia wife," "Nurse Ratched," and "testicle lockbox" descriptions of Hillary Clinton long enough to urge his listeners to vote for her "if they can stomach it." His rationale was to keep the bloodbath going. Up to then, he was unabashedly boosting Obama with the same perverse purpose. Obama still carried most of the 252,000 Republicans who voted in Texas—a Limbaugh stronghold—but his percentage dropped from 72 percent in Wisconsin to 52 percent.
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