Operation Chaos

This is why I refuse to even consider being a Republican. I was actually tempted to vote for a few Repub platforms I really enjoyed during the state elections this Spring…but shenanigans like this make me bitter and hostile towards any Republican candidate I might have considered.

Rush Limbaugh urges Republicans to “switch sides” and vote for Hillary Clinton to prolong the Democratic Primary.

According to this article - 10% of Republicans who voted for Hillary Clinton in the Indiana Primary will, in reality, vote for McCain in November. This isn’t just paranoiac liberal talking - this is an honest to god “Operation Chaos” being perpetuated here.

I imagine this isn’t the first time this kind of bullshit has happened in politics, but HOW UGLY can you get?

The positive spin that will come from this, I suppose, is that superdelegates are aware of this crap, and are factoring this into their decision making.

The person hardest hit by this information is Hillary Clinton - who just dumped another $6 million of her own money into her faltering campaign.

I echo the notions and sentiments at the end of the TIME article - it would be sad for Clinton to just concede at this point because her run is so historic - but my opinion of her is altered after the vicious ads and attacks she has perpetrated against Obama.

She has a heavy burden on her shoulders at the moment, and is in danger (according to all the pundits) of wrenching the Democratic party in twain. I have nothing but sympathy for her, and I am totally supportive of her as a woman. But she is still not my choice for presidential candidate.

I think a lot of women are afraid that if Hillary doesn’t make it into office -there won’t be another opportunity for a woman to be president in our lifetime. I think that’s incorrect. I would totally support this woman running for president, though at this point I think she’s a little too old to be holding this particular office. As is the current Speaker of the House.

I’ve debated this issue long and hard - having a woman in the White House. And I don’t think the issue is “any old woman will do” as long as she has a vagina. I think she needs to be the right PERSON for the White House. That could be Hillary Clinton, but at the moment, I’m putting my weight behind Barack Obama - he has far less skeletons in the closet for the Karl Rove style of politics to dredge up. And while the Clintons have done nothing NEARLY as atrocious as Bush and Co. (or at least, not so flagrantly) - she is still too shakey for me to support.

The Final Word: Fuck Operation Chaos and Fuck Rush Limbaugh. Republicans fairly screwed themselves out of the White House for at least the next four years. It’s time to swing the spotlight away from whatever the Dems are doing, and see what McCain is about: Here’s some more food for thought.

Much Love, Mindy C