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Politics : MITT ROMNEY

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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (3195)4/23/2008 11:30:24 AM
From: sandintoes  Read Replies (2) of 5586
 
In my opinion the only reason Hillary won PA was because of Rush's operation chaos.

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Let's go right to the audio sound bites. Our troops are on the battlefield today, and I do not want those of you who have yet to take the battlefield to be deterred by any of the efforts ongoing in the Drive-By Media to dissuade you or to say to you that your importance is irrelevant. We'll start with Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel this morning. The cohost Gretchen Carlson had this exchange with McCain campaign New York state chairman Ed Cox about Operation Chaos.

CARLSON: We want to talk to you about Operation Chaos, because Rush Limbaugh has been advocating his listeners to go out and register Democrat and vote for Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary, just to keep the whole chaos going on the Democratic side. Ed, your thoughts on that.

COX: Well, I -- I don't think that's going to have that much of an impact in the end, uhhh, but -- especially with this kind of a large turnout.

RUSH: Not even the McCain camp is willing to acknowledge Operation Chaos. By the way, the intended beneficiary of Operation Chaos is indeed Senator McCain, yet he cannot have his campaign chairman in New York go out and acknowledge the effort we are making here on behalf of his campaign. Same program, Dee Dee Myers talking to Steve Doocy on the Fox & Friends show. Doocy says to her, "Are you afraid of Operation Chaos, Dee Dee Myers? It sounds very scary."

MYERS: It sounds very chaotic.

DOOCY: (laughing)

MYERS: I think people are reluctant to throw away their vote. I think that most Americans take the franchise very seriously.

DOOCY: But if you were a Republican, you wouldn't vote today in Pennsylvania.

MYERS: Yeah, but I -- I just don't think people mess around with their vote. I just don't -- I mean, some will, there's no question that some will think it's mischievous and fun and, yeah, let's keep the chaos going. But I think most people don't want to -- don't want to do that if they've already -- you know, if they have to reregister as a Democrat that's the only vote they get in this primary process.

RUSH: Dee Dee and all the rest of you -- including those of you in the McCain campaign -- who are doubting the size and the impact, the effectiveness of Operation Chaos, let me ask you why you think that in the final days, less than three or four days leading up to registration to change parties in Pennsylvania six weeks ago (or four weeks, whatever it was), there were maybe 178,000 people who changed registration from Democrat to Republican in the last three or four days? Do you think it was because those Republicans all of a sudden at the same time had a revelation that they wanted to vote Obama? Do you think those Republicans had a revelation at the last moment that they wanted to vote for Mrs. Clinton? Or do you think they are Operation Chaos operatives? Now, I could understand, ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats would like to play this down, and elements of the Drive-By Media would also like to play down the effectiveness of Operation Chaos. This is primarily aimed at me. It is professional broadcast jealousy, ladies and gentlemen, professional broadcast envy that I have the ability -- using our relationship here, our familial relationship here -- to inspire and motivate so many peers toward a cause, and as I have mentioned over the course of recent days, the Drive-By Media budget meetings every morning have been oriented toward, "How can we talk about this without mentioning Limbaugh and Operation Chaos?" I want to send a heartfelt thanks out to the Fox & Friends morning crew for daring to have the political and journalistic courage to ask various politicos the question. We move on now to KYW-TV in Philadelphia. The anchors Chris May and Liz Keptner were interviewing Harry Smith, the cohost of the CBS Early Show.


KEPTNER: It's just incredible. You know, we keep hearing so much about, I guess you can say the conspiracy theories, a lot of Republicans who are changing their affiliation for the primary --

MAY: Oh, sure.

KEPTNER: -- to elect what they consider --

MAY: The Rush Limbaugh chaos --

KEPTNER: Right.

MAY: -- chaos plan. Right.

KEPTNER: -- the weaker Democratic candidate primary --

MAY: Right.


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