Republicans For Hillary?

March 20, 2008

Blame it on El Rushbo (Rush Limbaugh)! You know the conservative icon that exudes integrity but tells Republicans to forget their conscience and party affiliation and cross over and vote for Hillary. Anything is fair in politics and war! The best analysis so far shows that Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: about 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show.

The theory is two-fold. Voting for Hillary who lags behind Obama will keep the Democrats tied up in bickering among themselves. Secondarily, they think that Hillary is the easier candidate to beat. To which I would say two things.

Pride goes before the fall and you need to be careful what you wish for because you just might get it and find out that you don’t want it.

Since Senator John McCain effectively sewed up the GOP nomination last month, Republicans have begun participating in Democratic primaries specifically to vote for Clinton, a tactic that some voters and local Republican activists think will help their party in November. With every delegate important in the tight Democratic race, this trend could help shape the outcome if it continues in the remaining Democratic primaries open to all voters.

“It’s as simple as, I don’t think McCain can beat Obama if Obama is the Democratic choice,” said Kyle Britt, 49, a Republican-leaning independent from Huntsville, Texas, who voted for Clinton in the March 4 primary. “I do believe Hillary can mobilize enough [anti-Clinton] people to keep her out of office.”

The Hillary Clinton campaign may be struggling now but I’ve learned to never help you opponent up until the fight is really over and it ain’t close to be over.

Scary logic to me but is there any logic in politics or war? But one more specific example.

About 1,100 miles north, in Granville, Ohio, Ben Rader, a 66-year-old retired entrepreneur, said he voted for Clinton in Ohio’s primary to further confuse the Democratic race. “I’m pretty much tired of the Clintons, and to see her squirm for three or four months with Obama beating her up, it’s great, it’s wonderful,” he said. “It broke my heart, but I had to.”

The current Democrats dilemma just may be the Republicans problem in November and their heart just might get broken again in November. It’s much like the Federal reserve trying to manipulate the markets. You can do it for only so long and then it all catches ujp with you. The markets are paying the price NOW. Republicans just might pay the price come November!

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Election News