The conservative movement is so unhappy with the Republican presidential nominee they've decided to flirt with Hillary in a big way. But making out with Clinton in the back room is merely the latest deliberate attempt by the Right to subvert the election process with money, with lies and with that familiar locker room style they do so damn well.
Richard Mellon Scaife, best known outside of the billionaire's club as the man who funded each and every scandal and dirty trick against Bill Clinton, is at it again in his endorsement of Hillary. Dubbed the 'Funding Father Of The Right', Scaife openly admitted that his intent was to engineer Gore's ascendancy to the Presidency, thereby galvanising the right wing and creating a backlash against progressive policies.
Rush Limbaugh, arguably the most influentual conservative radio voice in America, is giggling his way through his self aggrandizing comedy show 'Operation Chaos' in which he has been curdling the milk in Pennsylvania and Indiana by encouraging registered Rep's to switch parties in order to vote in Dem primaries and pushing Hillary to an artificial win. At the very least, these boys who act like jocks, hope to extend the Democratic internal battle until neither candidate looks electable in November.
That's how bad John McCain is. And that is how good the Democratic chances are (or were) to win the White House come the fall. Except.
The two candidates on the right, but left side, haven't yet formulated a 'Bash McCain' strategy, but appear to be content throwing barbs (that's putting it kindly) at one another.
Rachel Maddow (d'yall listen to talk radio as much as I do? No? Good for you) who has a steaming butter type of voice and is a dyke, said yesterday that she thought that at this point, McCain looked to be the winner in November. Unless, she added, Barack and Hillary finally make this about winning in November instead of counting super-delegates on an abacus over their oatmeal every morning. Hillary supporters are banking on Puerto Rico coming out strongly for her. Are they all nuts?
Who is to blame for Amerika's electoral shambles? I'll get back to you on that. Meanwhile, I think this will be an election spoken of in 100 years (just as the last troops are getting back from Iraq) as the election which finally brought a glimmer of understanding about the need for campaign and election finance reform.
I don't know this Rachel Maddow. Anyway, why does everyone think they can predict what will happen in November? It is only April. I didn't think Jimmy Carter would make it into office in 1976 but he did.
Posted by: Deb in Minnesota | April 24, 2008 at 07:48 AM
I don't have an answer, but there has to be a better way to go about this whole thing. It is hard for me to reconcile the obscene amount of money being raised and spent. And were months away from the general elections.
***the abacus/oatmeal line....hehehehehehe.
Posted by: Deborah | May 02, 2008 at 06:39 AM