7 May 2008...3:00 pm
Rush Limbaugh is a Criminal
I think the title will speak for itself, but I’m going to write a post anyway.
Hillary should be very pissed and hurt for winning in Indiana. The group of Republicans who voted for Hillary, pushing her past Obama in the primary, voted for her as a joke. Carrie White won prom queen and Hillary Clinton won in Indiana. Neither of them were popular or deserving of the title, and both elections ended in hundreds of children dying in a crepe-paper-fuelled inferno. Well, maybe not that last bit. But don’t say I didn’t warn you when it happens.
Rush Limboob, everyone’s favourite lard-assed conservative lunatic, called out his cult followers unthinking drones mindless Republican zombie horde fans to make a mockery of the Democratic primary system and, indeed, the entire American election process by ordering them to flock to the Democratic polling stations and vote for Hillary Clinton. This caused Hillary to unfairly win in Indiana and kept her on the campaign trail where she can continue fucking the party in the rear.
Rush Limbhitler’s campaign, “Project Chaos,” is a reprehensible move by a scared-shitless conservative. Rush Libaauuuugh (the sound you make when puking) is so scared that Barrack Obama will defeat John McCain that he tampered with a federal election and should be pulled from his radio show and made to serve the maximum time in a federal prison.
“Rush Limbaugh was tampering with the primary and the GOP has clearly declared they want Clinton as a candidate.”
- John Kerry
Why does he still matter?
While there is no law (yet) against voting for Hillary Clinton (Maybe one of my more legal-savvy readers could draft one…) there are certainly several reams of paper in the US Code of Law written on tampering with a federal election.
Why don’t we prosecute this one? Tampering with an election is not only despicable, it’s illegal. Oh… that’s right… the government won’t uphold the laws against election tampering because the overwhelming majority of our elected representatives, and the corporations who purchased those positions for them, are guilty of having forced, non-consensual anal sex with democracy as well. I almost forgot.
What’s so wrong with letting candidates win on their own merits? I thought that’s what democracy was. Is it really just a room full of fat business men chuckling while they choose our Presidents for us and we while away our time doing silly things like campaigning and voting? I must be so naïve to think that possibly… just possibly… democracy wasn’t a game for pundits and journalists to play when pushing around their power to scare the sheepish Americans into following their every whim. I guess a green little independent journalist like myself doesn’t understand that democracy is just a façade to hide the fact that our voices are essentially insignificant. All hail the American Fascist Party! Democracy is dead! Demokratie ist tot! Demokratie bleibt tot! Und wir haben sie getötet.
Rev. Reed Braden
cjdeak
9 Comments
7 May 2008 at 5:32 pm
Fucktards did it in Ohio, too… I have a “friend” who is a Rep and voted as a Dem just to vote for Clinton. Fucking making a mockery of the procedure.
7 May 2008 at 6:13 pm
It’s not election tampering. These people have every right to vote for whomever they want for any reason they want. Provided they did not lie on any paperwork or applications, then they didn’t do anything wrong. In my case, if I were in one of those places I would have voted for Hilary as well. Since, as a republican, there is no reason to vote in the Republican primary (since it’s over). And I would rather have Hilary than Barack in the event that the Democrats win.
7 May 2008 at 7:31 pm
Corey, it’s tampering and no amount of your own personal delusion alters that fact. It may be in a grey-area, but it’s dirty, low and an act of assault on the entire democratic process. It’s not a black-and-white case of voter fraud or ballot tampering, but it is tampering with an election.
PZ Myers does the same thing to internet polls. One only has to look at the results of PZ’s skewed polls to see the danger that a charismatic speaker with a large audience can have on a poll or an election. In PZ’s case, it’s harmless fun, but in a federal election, skewing primary votes is a dangerous and reprehensible thing to do. It’s a legal grey area, yes, but that doesn’t mean it’s not wrong. It’s wrong and while it might not technically be illegal in the way it was carried out, it mocks the law and disgraces our political system.
7 May 2008 at 8:19 pm
These were my thoughts when he concocted this little scheme months ago. But then again, he’s a drug addict and a cunt, so it’s not shocking for a political tabloid personality.
I think the area is really gray, and while legally it’s a conflict with free speech, it’s a loud insult to the democratic process.
10 May 2008 at 4:41 pm
This is a corrupt way to deal with the system. Not illegal, but certainly corrupt. The fact that this can happen leaves the system open to all kinds of abuse. Imagine if this had been done in most states and Republicans managed to get Hillary elected as the candidate. While I’m sure that for many of you Hillary fans out there it would make you quite happy, but it’s going to leave a sour taste in the majority who wanted someone else. And consider this…what if they do it again? What if they use this power in four years to push through a weak, terrible candidate that hardly anyone wants? I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t want a rigged primary just so the Republicans can push through another Bush.
I think the solution to this is to treat both primaries as one election. That is to say, you vote in the Republican primary, you get no say in the Democrat primary and vice-versa.
Here’s that law for voting against Hillary:
The citizens of the United States of America shall make no vote upon Hillary Clinton for she is stubborn and greedy and cannot go beyond the thought of getting to sit her ass down in the White House again to realize that she is just making things worse for Democrats and helping the Republican party continue stupidity.
Ok maybe that was a bit harsh. Sure she may pander and lie outright. Sure I can’t decide who I like less, her or McCain. But hey, I can always claim later that I “misspoke.”
10 May 2008 at 4:59 pm
It is certainly annoying, although on the list of annoying things that Limbaugh does, I’m not sure it cracks the top ten. Still, as close as the election was, I don’t think the exit polls support the hypothesis that Limbaugh threw the election to Clinton.
I just put up a post that said that Clinton needs to get out, now, but maybe that’s wrong. How about if she does what Obama’s doing, and starts running against McCain. There’s no shortage of points of vulnerability, so we need to be pounding on them right now, and every day until November 4.
10 May 2008 at 6:02 pm
People, I know that Rush didn’t really break the law. But he stretched several of them fairly well. We have laws about tampering with elections and none of them cover talk show hosts organising large groups of people to vote in the opposing party’s primary to skew the primaries of, arguably, the most important election in the United States since the Civil War.
Laws are generally made after the first instance of a person doing something. There was no need for a law against corporate embezzlement until corporations started popping up everywhere and CEOs started stuffing money in their suitcases before leaving work.. There was no law against walking or biking on the Interstate until an Interstate was built and someone died walking or biking on it. My post, sensationalist as it was, was not an indictment of Rush Limbaugh by a current US law. It was an indictment of Rush Limbaugh by a common-sense law, a law that didn’t need to be written down until now. Until recently, elections were a noble thing and were kept somewhat pure (literacy tests, 3/5ths compromise, and lack of suffrage for non-whites and women from the beginning are several exceptions). It wasn’t until recently that the fraud stopped happening in the line at the polling station where it has been easy to monitor and suppress and started happening in the media, other branches of the government and the tallying rooms. It’s time for some new laws, laws that would prevent (what, by common sense, should be) crimes like what Rush did from happening again.
Did I clarify myself enough and suck the meaning and emotion out of my words enough for you vampires yet?
10 May 2008 at 6:17 pm
Jack,
Tampering with what is arguably the most important election since Lincoln v. Douglas and throwing the primary to Hillary Clinton, who gave indication that she would drop out if she lost Indiana and North Carolina. Limbaugh won Indiana for her so that she would stay in the race and tear the party apart.
We know that Hillary won in many rural Indiana counties that are mostly Republican and historically vote Conservative. It was enough to put Hillary over the top. In a race where the leading Democratic candidates are so close in the polls, every delegate counts. We can’t afford to have our party split in two because Republicans are deciding how our Democratic delegates vote.
The data out of Indiana is still a bit confusing, but what about Texas, where it’s clear that Clinton won because of Republican crossovers? I doubt that so many Texan Republicans would honestly vote for Hillary over McCain because they suddenly started liking Hillary. I would be more inclined to believe that all of the Baptist churches in Houston and Dallas were allowing Satanist groups to hold black masses in their fellowship halls. That’s certainly more likely.
Rush is clearly demented and a law should be created to clearly define what he is doing as a criminal action. I still think that there are some laws that he is stretching inappropriately, and if he is tried in certain districts, he could be convicted of at least a misdemeanor.
10 May 2008 at 6:19 pm
Yes. I said that. Some of my long-time readers will want to make notice of that.
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