Rush Limbaugh sez “Hillary Clinton will be our next President.”
May 23rd, 2007 by John MixonI couldn’t believe my ears. I rarely listen to Rush Limbaugh any more, I guess that’s not a good thing since he’s on WGMD. Sorry, but I find him to be only 20% or so useful in shaping my opinion. His non-stop, one-sided rhetoric comes off as little more than a mouthpiece for the Republican Party, any more.
Rush did help wake me up from being a completely apathetic, self-absorbed, typical twenty-something when I first heard his program in the early 90’s. He taught me that the dialogue concerning our political system was a much-needed thing. Too many people were blindly re-electing familiar names and faces without paying attention to the deeper levels of how small changes have large outcomes.
Because of Rush Limbaugh I take a great interest in the issues and how to preserve our way of life. My life is no longer simply work, play, rest, eat, sleep, repeat. At times I wish he would go back to the way he was before his head got quite so large. There was a time he was fair and (I hate using this term) balanced. Now, he is critical of the ‘left’ while not accepting critique of the ‘right’. He is often unfair in how he brushes off criticism about specific actions, votes, behaviors of politicians he supports and then turns around and leans heavily on opposing politicians for the same or similar behavior. It causes me to doubt his words at all.
Which brings me to the Hillary thing.
Rush Limbaugh said that it’s time to worry. He said Hillary Clinton will be our next president! When he said that I had to pull over and chew on it for a while. I can’t decide whether he said it to cause a major stir in his faithful which would result in a large-scale grass-roots campaign to ensure that Hillary can’t win, or did he say it because he believes it. One thing is certain about Rush, he never wants to say things which can be pointed to by other news media so they can say, “Look what Limbaugh said on May 18th, 2007 at 1:42pm EDT, he was wrong then and he’s wrong now.” Rush only says things which prove him to be correct!
This logic tells me that he has seen the poll numbers, his staff has poured over the facts, other high-level people are telling him that this is the result and he believes it himself!
So, now I’m worried. I go to the net for more and this is what I find from a 2004 article:
If the 2008 presidential election were held today, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton would handily defeat three of the top Republicans being touted as possible candidates, a startling new survey by Fox News Opinion Dynamics shows.
Link to article: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/12/19/215312.shtml
Then more recently this from May, 2007:
May 14, 2007 - National Presidential Preferences
The following results are based on nationwide samples of 600 likely Democratic primary voters and 600 likely Republican primary voters (those saying they will definitely vote in a primary or participate in a caucus in 2008) conducted May 9-12, 2007. The theoretical margin of error for each sample is plus or minus 4 percentage points, 95% of the time.
Link to article: http://americanresearchgroup.com/
In this last survey, Clinton is up 5% from March of 2007 to 39% in May vs. Obama at 22% and Edwards at 19% with 11% undecided. The other 5 candidates are in single digits. This tells me that the Democrats are pretty far along in choosing a clear winner whereas the Republicans don’t seem to have it so fortunate.
There are 14 Republicans in active campaign mode, right off you can guess that the field is overflowed. There are only 9 Democrats running campaigns. The Republican leader right now? Giuliani at 28%, a man who can barely be called a Republican based on his record, lifestyle and statements.
Right behind him at 22% is McCain, a man who is so closely tied with Democrat policy he has been wooed by them to switch parties. Gingrich is the only other primary candidate with double digits at 13% and the rest of the field is mired in the mud of single digit support.
It seems Republican voters are more interested in keeping office than they are that traditional Republican platform planks be upheld. Scary.
As we all witnessed in the last primaries, a front-runner can implode in a moment’s notice without warning or even logic reason. (Can you scream like Howard Dean? I can.) I didn’t like this guy but I did think it was completely unfair how he was dismantled by the press for a strange noise in the heat of battle. It was funny, that’s all.
In the end I must say that I will be voting for the person who best supports my concept of what makes a great president and leader of the best counrty in the world. Firstly, that they believe we are the best country in the world and secondly that they aim to keep it that way. As with most politicians I will bear in mind that you can tell they are lying just by looking at them. If their lips are moving, they’re probably lying. So I must simply follow the money trail and vote for someone who owes the most favors to the organizations and corporations which I believe are best for our country.
If that isn’t a sad statement I don’t know what is.
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:23 am
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May 23rd, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Are you saying that prior to this you didn’t think Hillary had a chance? I find that hard to believe. I suspect more books have already been written about her potential candidacy than any other potential candidate in history.
If there were really a resurgence of individualism in this country she wouldn’t have a chance, but there isn’t. people want more government, not less (but they often lie about it in public). People with green doors and window frames want a government that will subsidize green doors and window frames, and penalize any who don’t have same.
The brilliance of the Democrat party is that they can convince so many special interest groups that they will take care of them, somehow, magically, without stepping on the toes of people who have contrary interests. People here WANT to believe in this fantasy, and I’m becoming convinced that until we have breadline conditions that the Soviets had, few here will appreciate that variety, choice, freedom are worthwhile objectives, even if they don’t make life for everyone perfect. The time is coming, almost here really, when the only job worth having, for ordinary people anyway, will be a government job. Total benefits, total security, pensions that can be passed on to your relatives when you die.
Votes for Hillary (takes a village) will get us there sooner. Votes for whoever the Republicans run will get us there later. But unless the dynamic changes (and I’m at a loss to see how) we (or our children) will get there sooner or later. Get used to it.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:25 am
Rush isn’t always right but he does make me think and that’s why his listeners are so loyal and interesting and his show is entertaining and enlightening. If you would listen more often to Rush, you would realize that his boastings and bragging are tongue in cheek or a poke in the ribs to his enemies to get a rise out of them.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:08 am
macb ~ I am saying that I didn’t believe that America was prepared to elect a female president. I actually thought that Hillary’s run was to be an effort to break down that barrier and pave the way for women in the future.
Knowing what I do of Hillary, I think her ideas are far to socialistic to be accepted by thinking Americans. But then there’s the rub, not so many thinking Americans as I thought. This also explains why Giuliani is doing so well.
You are right when you say we’re headed down the path to bread lines, sooner or later. I have long held that this country must first be brought to it’s collective knees before we can become what we once were and in that respect I held my breath and voted for Bush last time around while silently hoping Kerry would win and get us there sooner! The longer we draw this out, the longer it will be before we’re great again.
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kingcrab ~ Do you really think I don’t understand Rush’s tongue in cheek humor? Have you ever heard me on the air? I listened to Limbaugh every weekday from 1989 through 1994 and the I was an occasional listener due to a work change from then until 2000. Now, I listen once in a while. I read his book “The Way Things Ought To Be”. Do you think I don’t understand him? You would be dead wrong if you do.
Nowadays I listen to him and see through his hollow taunts. Yes, I think he has some valid points and I generally agree with his stances on many subjects. He also reminds me of things I forgot when certain politicians attack the right, but he’s not the only voice out there any more and I think he’s lost his sense of fairness in favor of party politics. This is what bothers me the most. It should be about who is doing a good job, not whether there’s an “R” or a “D” next to their name.