Comments on: Some Republicans Vote Democratic In Indiana As Limbaugh Urges Indiana GOP Listeners To Vote For Clinton

By: openmouthedfool

openmouthedfool — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:52:37 +0000

Apparently, it IS illegal.

From TPMuckraker' jthomascronin:

Here's the Indiana election law:
IC 3-10-1-6

Eligible voters

Sec. 6. A voter may vote at a primary election:

(1) if the voter, at the last general election, voted for a majority of the regular nominees of the political party holding the primary election; or

(2) if the voter did not vote at the last general election, but intends to vote at the next general election for a majority of the regular nominees of the political party holding the primary election; as long as the voter was registered as a voter at the last general election or has registered since then.

link:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:25:45 +0000

Given how poorly it's performed over the past eight years, it's the Bush Administration that's giving "hardcore Republicans" a reason to vote Democratic.

Rush Limbaugh is nothing but a blowhard trying to claim credit for something he has no influence over.

Limbaugh didn't even have enough influence within the Republican Party itself to control their nominee.

Naturally, the media is eager to uphold its own belief that Limbaugh matters. No matter how ridiculous that belief is in the face of actual evidence. They're like Peter Pan exhorting the audience full of children to believe in fairies.

Sorry if that makes you imagine Limbaugh dressed up like Tinkerbell!!

By: PWT

PWT — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:16:19 +0000

I don't believe that Rush's exhortations to his listeners to vote in the democrat's primary is an example of the “win at all costs mega partisan mindset” as much as it is his attempt to show the deficiencies of what he considers to be his opposition. He is, by encouraging his republican listeners to vote in the democrats' primary, demonstrating the failings of the primary system that was implemented by the democrats. He is demonstrating that democrats are unable to manage their own primary election properly and therefore, by proxy, are unable to properly manage the country.

The fact that the ongoing primary leaves the candidates unable to focus their energies on their republican opponent is just a bonus.