…not that that’s shocking. But for Democrats to claim that his telling Republicans to go vote for Hillary in the Democrat primary is “ungentlemanly” or “a perversion of the process” is the height of hypocrisy.

This is not just because the Dems and their media allies have been glowing (for years) about the supposed “bipartisanship” of Democrats and Independents voting in our primaries, for Bob Dole, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, or whomever else the left may think easiest to beat come November. It’s also because Democrat state legislatures have for years been loosening the rules requiring that only party members could vote in their party’s primary, even to the point of trying to utterly eliminate party primaries in states like California and Louisiana.

Why? Because it’s easier to manipulate the outcome that way, especially in states with historically large Democrat majorities. And its easier for the media to have its way too.

Rush was just giving them a dose of their own medicine (and isn’t it funny that they’re hacked because he turned out votes for Hillary Clinton?!). But the real point is that party primaries are where party members are supposed to select their own party’s nominee. All this talk of “bipartisanship” is the real “perversion of the process”, and the Dems have been doing it for years.

So maybe the “Limbaugh effect” — combined with the fact that Louisiana just elected Bobby Jindal governor — can help focus these hypocritical leftists. Change the laws: require closed party primaries in which only the party’s members get to choose their candidate. Everyone gets to decide within their own group, and then everyone gets to decide together in November. Anything less is, and always has been, anti-democratic. The left just doesn’t like that small “d”.

Tags: Democrats, GOP, Election 2008, Rod D. Martin, TheVanguard.Org

1. It is kind of funny that the liberals who are the ones that always want to tell us what to do when, don’t like being told how to vote. I hope that many of the “independent” democrats do indeed vote for Hillary. She is a scarry lady and would indeed be a good choice to represent the left.
   Kudos to Rush for providing good sound advice to democrats.

   Comment by twig500 — March 10, 2008 @ 9:25 pm

2. Rush has the right to do what he’s done, but aside from that, the strategy could ironically help put Hillary in the White House. If Obama’s the nominee, he has a good chance of losing, because lots of Hillary backers won’t vote for him because of the Rev. Wright affair. On the other hand, if Hillary is the nominee, I fear she will surprise everybody by winning back far more support from Obama’s black base than folks realize. That will be the shocker of 2008 that will put her in the White House.

   I really hope I’m wrong on this….but…

   Comment by Charles Gordon — April 26, 2008 @ 6:06 pm