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"Operation Smoke Screen"

By The Daily Dish
Apr 25 2008, 7:52 AM ET

A reader writes:

I just read your blog posting on Limbaugh's view that he is responsible for Hillary's win in PA. I am one of the individuals that changed his/her party registration from Republican to Democrat.  I did this because the Republican ideals of rational government, fiscal responsibility, and states' rights over federal rights have been thrown out for religious fanaticism, federal control over every action, and spending out of control.  I changed my registration to vote for change...to vote for Obama.

It is cute that Limbaugh saw that the electorate is upset with the Republicans and made up this Operation Chaos as a means of attempting to jump on the band wagon, but the underlying effect is clear. People are not changing from Republican to Democrat to assist the Republican Party in the fall.  They are changing their party registrations because they lost faith in the Republicans to lead.  If Limbaugh and others do not wake up to this fact, they will be given another great election result such as 2006.
 
Operation Chaos should be called Operation Smoke Screen.


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