Now, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck have all said they would support Hillary Clinton over John McCain. They would rather have a Democrat win this election. In this clip Glenn Beck and I explain why:
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Why Do Conservatives Want a Democrat to Win This Election?
Posted Feb 7th 2008 8:30AM by Cenk Uygur
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1. If Hillary is President, that strategy might work. Obama is not so divisive as Hillary is, so then I think this would blow up in their face.
AndrewV at 9:23AM on Feb 7th 2008
2. As a staunch Conservative, I would vote for the "wicked carpet bagging witch of the east" or the "other-brother" before I would vote for McCain.
McCain has stuck his thumb in the eye of the Conservative movement way to long. It is time we return the favor with a Fist!!!!!!!
Paul Sparcello at 10:57AM on Feb 7th 2008
3. I'm currently a Dem but am going to re-register as a Indepentant. I love the election process this year for it has been fiesty like it was during the 70's. I believe that Obama will be President one day but I do not believe that the day is now. He needs more experience under his belt.
The GOP race have caught my eye and have been following it for I was/am rooting for Romney. I do not like the arrogrance that McCain has shown in this campain. For me to vote for McCain he'd have to put Romney as VP for there is NO WAY I'd vote for a McCain/Huckleberry ticket otherwise I'll vote for Hillary. NO HUCKLEBERRY HOUND!!!
Denise at 12:35PM on Feb 7th 2008
4. Republicans are idiots.
The only excuse for them to vote Democrat is that they want to lay the burden of Bush' regime on the Democrats. Let them cut programs and add taxes. Let them cause havoc in the market so that they can then point fingers.
RMWiersema at 12:00PM on Feb 7th 2008
5. Okay I just heard that Romney is bowing out unlike Huckabee. I use to be REP till the Clinton campain and switched over. The current SHRUB has got to be one of the worst Presidents ever. I still feel that Gore was robbed. The current GOP's spend $$ like sailors on shore leave. Bush has left a mess for the next adminstration and has sold old our country.
Then immigration issuse is my #1 priority on my decision who to vote for.
Denise at 12:45PM on Feb 7th 2008
6. # 2, Paul, with all due respect, what possible good can come out of this descision by some conservatives to vote for Hillary out of spite? What is the point?
April at 1:21PM on Feb 7th 2008
7. Short of impeaching Bush for 9-11, the only way to get America past this low point in history is to punish the Party in power. America has been "Snake bitten" by Bush and Cheney. Conservatives want to suck out the poison to save the life of the Party. Everything wrong in America can be summed up in 4 little words "Bush!" He is the worst President in the history of the world! He's a spoiled brat who beat Congress by whining with a Father as a former President standing in the background crying to defend him. Suck the poison out and save the body. Conservatives will lose McCain, Bush, Cheney, Trent Lott, Lieberman, Graham, and Guilliani. Accountability is the anti-venom!
Cecil Jones at 1:41PM on Feb 7th 2008
8. Gee Cenk,why is McCain winning if all these conservatives are against him? Maybe liberals are voting for him. The fact is the pundits got it wrong. They have confused the religious right and a few talk show hosts with the voice of conservative America.
IRONBLUEEYES at 10:12PM on Feb 7th 2008
9. My problem with the GOP AND the Democratic party is that they have become polarized to the extreme right and left, respectively. Can you imagine a Democrat slashing taxes like Kennedy did? McCain appeals to me as a moderate Republican who lets logic dictate his decisions rather than partisan politics, and has the guts to stick with his beliefs. I, and most Republicans, will vote for McCain rather that have Clinton or the media-created Obama for President.
waynewoodson at 1:46PM on Feb 7th 2008
10. It's a mistake to assume that the next dem will bring about another Republican Revolution (like BJ in '92). Either dem, with a majority in congress could bring about enough "change" within 2 years that would leave the US resembling Brazil...
BirdmanJones at 1:45PM on Feb 7th 2008
11. 6. # 2, Paul, with all due respect, what possible good can come out of this descision by some conservatives to vote for Hillary out of spite? What is the point?
April at 1:21PM on Feb 7th 2008
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paul can get some help he needs under a democratic administration eventually. It's ironic that hatred motivates his choice but it will be a good one for him.
McCain is just four more years of bush. His ads are already proclaiming his conversion to orthodoxy and he's not enough different on economic or foreign policy to belch at. and he's the slickest flipflopper in politics.
His voice though, is truly tragic. He sounds like he has a sinus condition,is missing one nut and has a kazoo stuck up his butt.
Clif Kuplen at 2:50PM on Feb 7th 2008
12. Just as the First allows you to express your thoughts in turn it allows myself to do in kind.
To vote for a candidate that will continue an illegal invasion of a country, indeed is indicative of complicity in that action. This means McCain, yourself, Congress, Senate, Committes(Judiciary), bush/cheney/rice and any other Citizen of the USA that allows our military to be sysematically murdered because of deception, along with Iraqi civilians, as certain persons without the need for education beyond 6th grade say, 'Collateral Damage', should all be charged with War Crimes, High Crimes and Misdemeanors and Crimes against Humanity. Hmmmm, wonder if it were any of the Americans sons or daughters were murdered for no reason you would refer to your child as the preceding obscene term.
These GOP people are so unawares of how egregious this administrations crimes are they will vote for a Democrat or Progressive. Sad, they would not even support their party for THAT reason, for the gazillion other crimes that bush et al have committed I understand, but geez louise, this is the rationale of mentally ill persons!
This country finds the crimes of the current administration so heinous they(73%)will not allow any Republican to win, now Romney is gone, so "The Fat Lady Has Sung." This country craves, thirsts for change. That we shall have, if your Congress Critter hasn't represented your voice, gone, outta here, he is to be my voice if he does not fulfill his duties according to the Constitution he should be replaced. Pelosi can be removed from office, Republican schill, according to Article.I.Section.2....The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. Impeachment, people say it is too late, they can be Impeached after they are out of office and after they are dead, wouldn't help much after death, though. There will not be a Republican in that White House for quite awhile, especially with the sociopaths that obfusicate the crimes of this administration by continual denial and then vote for the party they hate so much, truly insane.
I suppose they do not care that every word they have spoken or written via internet was illegally tapped and/or trapped using AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, Room 641A in San Francisco, remember it, since you are totally unaware of which parts of the Constitution and The "BILL OF RIGHTS" have been redacted. Fools those people, senseless fools.
rhodalee at 3:08PM on Feb 7th 2008
13. Conservative policies started by Reagan have
brought us to the sorry economic and political
place we find ourselves mired in now.
The war against Labor and the middle class
has made us into a third world country.
The shrinking middle class can no longer afford
to support our market based economy.
We have out sourced our industrial base to the
lowest bidder.
Since 1980,we have gone from the world's largest
creditor nation to the world's largest debtor
nation.
Yes,we now even owe billions to Mexico.
Oh, and those highly touted bush tax cuts are
nothing but a big lie.
That we are borrowing from other countries
to cover those tax cuts means that they are
only tax deferments plus interest.
Some day those debts will have to be paid.
BOB JOHNSON at 3:18PM on Feb 7th 2008
14. Huh. Never really thought of what the radical end of the GOP might be up to, but this theory really does make sense. We all know that we are at the tip of the iceberg with the fallout of Bush/Cheney failures. With elected and appointed Republicans coming out of the iron grip of Cheney policies and bullying, the party will be too disorganized to accomplish much for a while. But if the strategy is to let a Dem be scapegoat, it may backfire like the start of the Clinton era... (recession to surplus, remember?)
Certainly further polarization within the Republican Party is not the answer. Doesn't anyone remember all of the stats showing that the PUBLIC is primarily composed of moderates (NOT "liberals" and "conservatives") of both party affiliations? So the pundits would be advocating this scapegoating strategy in order to get bigger audiences/ generate larger revenue, but I have some faith left in people. Apathy can't last forever, and if the next prez brings us back on track, I gotta think that people will finally be ready to pull thier heads out of thier a**es.
purpsfrog at 3:21PM on Feb 7th 2008
15. HUCKABOOM!!!!
HuckabeeSupporter at 3:31PM on Feb 7th 2008