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Edited on Sat Apr-26-08 08:01 AM by leaningprog
Rush knows his blue collar white demographic better than most Democrats in my opinion. He is their champion, and they look to him for guidance and what to think on the big, hard, questions that confront them in elections. Staying true to his people Rush has come out strongly for Hillary and has sent her hundreds of thousands of votes in Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and soon Indiana and North Carolina. I know it is sad that he will go solidly Republican in the GE, but for now, he has elevated our preselected candidate, Hillary, with the vital voter base and staying power she needs to keep a terrifying, unapproved by Mark Penn for Commander in Chief, and let's face it, unapproved by the New York Media, AIPAC, and other vital sources that must approve all viable Democrats before they are allowed the votes of the little people in the flyover states for national office.
It is sad, but later this year when Rush is forced by his long term loyalties to stop backing a Democratic candidate, she is going to lose ABC News, valiant efforts from Fox News, and probably most devastating, Mr. Scaife, who has finally seen the light of Hillary after a little bit of forgivable mischief back in the Clinton White House days. Yet for this magic moment, they along with the almost 25% of superdelegates who committed to Hillary months before the primary began, we have the marvel of this bi-party coalition for our Democratic candidate.
In the final analysis, Rush will have brought our candidate perhaps as many votes as her husband in the primary, and I have a gnawing, growing fear, that when Hillary loses the Republican support, after the black candidate is destroyed, and she is finally ready begin the glorious 4 or 8 year constant trench war of a Clinton reign, that we will once again have to get our heads around the fact, that Rush, and John McCain, and Mr. Scaife, and Mr. Rove, and all the blue collar ditto heads they have graced us with votes for Hillary, are going to be lost to our Republicans in the GE.
A Clinton reign demands absolute loyalty, and I am afraid our new found friends really won't have it, once they get the beginnings of a revitalized and less polarized Democratic party stamped out like the terrifying wildfire it is to them.
If I had a cynical bone in my body, I would probably suspect something other than the truth, a grassroots outpouring of love and respect for idea of a first woman president.
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