Irony on the Campaign Trail - Obama and Clinton Charge Each Other With Voter Fraud in Texas While McCain Clinches GOP Nomination
Update: Clinton Wins Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island!
Terry Trippany on Mar 05 2008 at 12:01 am | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article
Update: Hillary Clinton lives to fight another day as Obama stumbles in Ohio, Rhode Island and Texas.
Hillary Clinton scored commanding victories in Ohio and Rhode Island Tuesday and squeaked out a narrow victory in Texas, breaking rival Barack Obama’s 12-contest winning streak and breathing new life into her Democratic presidential campaign.
On the Republican side, John McCain swept all four states voting Tuesday and clinched the GOP nomination, leading Mike Huckabee to drop out of the race. With his victories, McCain reached the 1,191 delegates needed to ensure he becomes his party’s nominee.
That leaves the Democrats to continue their battle.
Even more irony as the mainstream media all but held a wake for conservative talk radio when McCain knocked out Mitt Romney. It is not lost on us at Webloggin that talk radio helped push the crossover wave. The mainstream media picked up on it also although I believe they were using Limbaugh in an attempt to rally the left. So sorry, failed effort.
(CNN) – As Hillary Clinton battles to keep her presidential bid alive, she may be getting help from an unlikely source: conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Limbaugh has been actively urging his Texas listeners to cross over and vote for Clinton in that state’s open primary Tuesday, arguing it helps the Republicans if the Democratic race remains unsettled for weeks to come.
“I want Hillary to stay in this…this is too good a soap opera,” Limbaugh told fellow conservative talk-show host Laura Ingraham on Fox News Friday. He reiterated the comments on his Monday show and replayed the exchange with Ingram.
He also said Clinton is more willing than the Republican National Committee and John McCain’s campaign to criticize Barack Obama.
“We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically. It’s obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it, they don’t have the stomach for it,” Limbaugh continued. “As you probably know we’re getting all kinds of memos from the RNC saying we’re not going to be critical. Mark McKinnon of McCain’s campaign said he’ll quit if they get critical over Obama. This is the presidency of the United States we’re talking about. I want our party to win I want the Democrats to lose.”
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This is beautiful. For months we heard the mainstream media salivate over their fantastical wishes of a brokered GOP convention. The left was eating it up, characterizing the GOP race as “chaotic” and “confusing” while portraying the race on the Democratic side as tight but friendly.
Those days are long gone. John McCain wrapped up the GOP nomination tonight, Mike Huckabee dropped out, and Hillary Clinton is attacking Barack Obama on all fronts as the two of them accuse the other of voter fraud in Texas.
Republicans handed the losers on the left a taste of their own medicine by crossing over party lines and voting for Hillary Clinton in Texas and Ohio. The strategy may have worked. Hillary Clinton is projected to have won Ohio according to CNN.
Better yet, the Clinton and Obama campaigns are charging each other with voter intimidation and “chicanery” in Texas.
ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: The Texas Democratic Party has received concerns from both the Clinton and Obama campaigns about the other side improperly padding their caucus vote totals.
The improper padding is allegedly being done by getting primary voters to fill out sign-in sheets all day long rather than waiting until the primary polls close and the caucus process formally gets underway.
These sign-in sheets are the equivalent of caucus votes.
Texas Democratic Party rules only require someone to sign their name and state their presidential preference; Democratic Party rules do not require Texans to attend the entire caucus meeting.
That’s why filling out the caucus sign-in sheets early is a potentially serious violation.
The situation got so bad that the Texas Democratic Party had to step in and urge both sides to get along! The Clinton campaign interpreted this as a rebuke of the Obama campaign and made some sort of statement, which again prompted the Texas Democratic Party to make yet another statement - this time denying the Clinton campaign’s statement.
In response to the concerns expressed by both the Clinton and Obama campaigns, the Texas Democratic Party has issued a memo setting forth party rules urging both sides to stick to them.
The Clinton campaign is asserting by paper statement that the Texas Democratic Party is rebuking the Barack Obama campaign in particular with the memo’s reference to a “given campaign”.
Asked if the Texas Democratic Party is rebuking the Obama campaign in particular, Texas Democratic Party spokesman Hector Nieto said such an assertion is not true.
Whoa, I love it when the dirty politics of the American left comes back to bite them in the ass. What a great night.
See Also: Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Flopping Aces, Obligatory Anecdotes
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