CNN: Rush Limbaugh urges vote for Obama

[The Night Owl]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- He has publicly urged Republicans to vote for Sen. Hillary Clinton to keep the divisive Democratic nomination fight alive, but talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday he really wants Sen. Barack Obama to be the party's nominee.

"I now believe he would be the weakest of the Democrat nominees," Limbaugh, among the most powerful voices in conservative radio, said on his program. "I now urge the Democrat superdelegates to make your mind up and publicly go for Obama."

"Barack Obama has shown he cannot get the votes Democrats need to win -- blue-collar, working-class people," Limbaugh said. "He can get effete snobs, he can get wealthy academics, he can get the young, and he can get the black vote, but Democrats do not win with that."

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/07/limbaugh.obama/?iref=hpmostpop

So, when Rush Limbaugh was urging listeners to vote for Hillary Clinton, many Obama supporters argued that he wants Clinton to win the Democratic nomination because she is a weaker candidate than Barack Obama. Of course, now that Limbaugh is saying that Obama is a weaker candidate than Clinton, they suddenly stop relying on him to determine who the strongest Democratic candidate is.

[NightWatcher]

1. he just wants to be covered when the repubs switch sides

then he can say HE did it. what a douche

[shadowknows69]

2. Good, underestimate him.

Obama will leave the GOP a smoking crater in the earth.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I wish there was a way to get a brain and conscience in that man.

[Andy823]

4. He is an idiot

With an ego that needs to be deflated!

[RainDog]

5. so rush is campaigning for Hillary in KY and WVA?

making her talking points for his listeners?

[kentuck]

26. Right!

We'll see how much he can help Obama in KY and WV! He gets a chance to prove his worth. If Obama wins either of those states or comes within 5 points, I will give Rush the credit.

Let me see if I get this Operation Chaos. He was telling his dittoheads to vote for Hillary because she would be the best person for the Repubs to run against? But now, since that strategy hasn't worked, he wants his supporters to vote for Obama because he will be easier to beat in November? What a windbag!

[polticalpout]

6. Rush is an attention pig and drug addict, nothing more /nm

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[invictus]

15. Exactly! n/t

[Occam Bandage]

7. And now, after telling them to make Hillary the nominee, he has to convince them

that Obama won't actually steamroll them. Good luck, boil-ass.

[peacebird]

8. so Rush - you encouraged people to vote for HRC because then McSame could have an easy win, and now

you try to sell Obama as someone who can't win... LOL! You can't have it both ways.

:eyes:

You are scared to death that your operation Chaos failed and now McSame will have to debate Obama! There is NO WAY Grampa ChipmunkCheeks can best Obama in a debate and you know it.

[NotThisTime]

21. McCain Obama debate ROFLMBO.... I think we know who will win that one....

And it ain't grandpa chipmunk as you referenced

[mohc]

9. Well then

Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

The best way to interpret what Rush says is to completely ignore him.

[whatchamacallit]

10. Totally transparent reverse psychology - He's desperate because operation chaos didn't work

now he thinks he can get the left to do the opposite of "what he wants". Fat fucking joke.

[PassingFair]

11. I'm sure that all of our SUPER DELEGATES are tuning him in!

:crazy:

[casus belli]

12. Interesting that the same guys who helped revive the GOP

would be the very ones destroying their own party for narcissistic purposes. I think Franken said it best: "Rush is a big fat idiot".

[gcomeau]

13. Of course he does.

And when did he do this? Right after it became engraved in stone after NC and Indiana that this was over. So now it's "Oh, we want this to happen! Yep, all according to plan! Obama is the most horrible candidate that we're so going to destroy in the GE!"

Obama scares the shit out of him. He and every other thinking person in the country knows that encouraging his supporters to vote Obama in the primary NOW accomplishes what? Nothing. It's already done. If he wanted Obama to win he would have encouraged his voters to vote for him when there was still any possible sliver of a doubt as to the outcome to make sure he got the result he wanted. But he waited until it was completely and absolutely settled, THEN all of sudden Obama is the one they want to run against.

Right...

[Egnever]

14. Rush has already proven himself Impotent

and not just cause he takes viagra! Or have we already forgotten his stop Mccain crusade? No impact whatsoever on his own base. The guy gets way more credit than he deserves.

[Orangepeel]

16. I wonder if the bandwagon will support his weight

(I usually eschew fat jokes, being fat myself, but this one was irresistible)

Now that it is inevitable, he's wants to pretend he has some influence on the outcome.

[long_green]

17. Cheap and transparent hucksterism...

Now that an Obama nomination appears inevitable, Limbaugh pretends that's what he wanted all along. If HRC had won, he would have done the same thing, except he would have said that the Democrats had abandoned black and young voters.
Anything to take the heat off of the GOP's staggeringly weak nominee.

[Stagecoach]

18. He's playing with the superdelegates minds

He's just playing with the superdelegates minds. He probably figures by doing this, the superdelegates will think, "shoot, if Rush wants Obama that must mean Obama is our weaker candidate....I better give my superdelegate support to Hillary. We can't have our nominee be who Rush wants."

[helderheid]

19. your assesment is spot on

[BearSquirrel2]

20. Operation Chaos was unsuccessfull ...

Translation: Operation Chaos was unsuccessful. He would have had an easy target in Hillary. He could probably just coast with Hillary he has so much old material. Now, he knows Hillary CANNOT win now and it's plain and obvious to everybody but Hillary.

He's moving on to slandering on Obama. End of story. Move on.

The big "HMMMM..." here is how Hillary's language and Limbaugh's are so familiar.

[Stagecoach]

22. Exactly right

He's trying every avenue possible to get Hillary the nomination. All I can think of is he has a much bigger stockpile of ammunition to work with on Hillary than he does on Obama, and it's frustrating Rush that he's not going to be able to use it if Hillary doesn't get the nomination. I think McCain will have great difficulty in beating either Democrat, and Rush knows it...but he knows Hillary has more negatives for him to work with.

[Cha]

23. Anyone who falls for the cheap tricks of the viagra

inflated, oxycontin ravaged, traitor to his country for bucks, rush limbaugh, needs to be checked for brain seepage.

[JBoy]

24. It's an Ann Coulter move. Say anything to get publicity.

Look! CNN is reporting it. :puke:

[mindfulNJ]

25. Jebus Christ on a pogostick!

How stupid are the people who are actually STILL listening to this giant human carbuncle????

:eyes:

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Did he really say "effete snobs"? What, like he's some kind of working class he-man?

The most strenuous workout that pin-dicked fuckleberry gets is climbing on and off a golf cart.

[Stagecoach]

28. How hypocritical of Rush

He criticizes democrats anytime he catches them flip-flopping. Isn't Rush essentially doing the very same thing with this? LOL

[Warren DeMontague]

29. I guess Rush will be able to take credit for the massive Democratic Victory in November, then.

He's spent all this time urging folks to vote for our people; that must be it.

[Capn Sunshine]

30. Why listen?

You're playing his game. he wants RATINGS.

Without Hillary, he just won't be as potent

[seabeyond]

31. "blue-collar, working-class people," Limbaugh said.... wasnt that nice of hillary

to help limbaugh and repugs out. they are going to be able to say over and over and over until election day.

thanks hillary, you ole sport

[DangerousRhythm]

32. Roffles. I'm sure they'll do it just because he said so.

He's so ridiculous. The next day he'll be all "See? I told you so! They did what I told them to!" He fancies himself a puppet master. He actually called himself a commander in Operation Chaos. Mr. Ass Boil who didn't serve... it blows my mind.

[OHdem10]

33. The Gop have been saying this for months--Obama will be easier

for them to beat.

Did you see some of the professional ads they have already made
against Obama.

Fox showed one of them. It ends. Obama is out of touch with ordinary
Americans. Obama--Not Ready to be President. I would say they believe
Obama is our candidate.

[Seabiscuit]

34. What a pompous Moran ... how can anybody listen to this jerk is beyond me.

What is effete anyway?