Comments on: The Rush Limbaugh Effect http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/04/the-rush-limbaugh-effect Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Michael Tedesco http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/04/the-rush-limbaugh-effect/comment-page-1#comment-31857 Michael Tedesco Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:40:16 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=3958#comment-31857 I am sure that at least to some degree this Republican crossover effort has had an effect but even prior to the beginning of these primaries I saw the writing on the wall when it came to the underlying race issue. Now don't get me wrong, I am not professing to have some deep insight into the Democratic mind but this battle is age old and evidenced in many ways. For example, this is the same social vs. fiscal battle that kept the Allegheny county Young Democrats from allowing the most qualified candidate who just so happened to be a progressive woman to become President (sorry for dragging you into this Jennifer). It is the same reason that the "issues" people will always remain on the sidelines in the party. Democrats, not unlike Republicans, take advantage of those they perceive to be "a necessary evil" - read progressives, environmentalists, gays, minorities, etc. - in order to win elections. I think the biggest impact Limbaugh effect has had on this primary is to feed garbage like <a href="http://www.eyeblast.tv:80/Public/Video.aspx?rsrcID=2036" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MttOOwwhVRE" rel="nofollow">this</a> into the Democratic mainstream thus fueling our inner haters (both of the links above were sent to me by the lifelong democrat I mentioned in my piece earlier). I am sure that at least to some degree this Republican crossover effort has had an effect but even prior to the beginning of these primaries I saw the writing on the wall when it came to the underlying race issue. Now don’t get me wrong, I am not professing to have some deep insight into the Democratic mind but this battle is age old and evidenced in many ways. For example, this is the same social vs. fiscal battle that kept the Allegheny county Young Democrats from allowing the most qualified candidate who just so happened to be a progressive woman to become President (sorry for dragging you into this Jennifer). It is the same reason that the “issues” people will always remain on the sidelines in the party. Democrats, not unlike Republicans, take advantage of those they perceive to be “a necessary evil” – read progressives, environmentalists, gays, minorities, etc. – in order to win elections.

I think the biggest impact Limbaugh effect has had on this primary is to feed garbage like this and this into the Democratic mainstream thus fueling our inner haters (both of the links above were sent to me by the lifelong democrat I mentioned in my piece earlier).

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