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RUSH: Bob in Erie, Pennsylvania, I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush, from Erie, which right now is being inundated by Ted Kennedy, surrogate for Obama. He\u2019s in town speaking several places.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, you know where Obama is not going to speak himself?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Black neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Obama is studiously avoiding black neighborhoods in Philadelphia in an outreach effort to the white vote.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. First of all, I am a lifelong Democrat, conservative, Reagan voting member of the chaos army, and who was visited by a delegate or a person from the Hillary camp over the weekend to my house. I\u2019m what\u2019s called the super voter around here because I vote twice a year in primaries and in the fall, so I\u2019m on a special list, hot list they call it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So somebody from Hillary\u2019s campaign came to your house?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. They were in the neighborhood, and they did not go to every house, but they rang my doorbell, and she said, ‘Well, who you voting for?\u2019 And I said, ‘Well, Hillary.\u2019 And, boy, she was ecstatic, and I said, ‘Where you from?\u2019 She said Buffalo. She wasn\u2019t from Pennsylvania. Buffalo, New York. And she said, ‘Why are you voting for Hillary?\u2019 And I said, ‘Operation Chaos,\u2019 and she looked at me, I said, ‘I\u2019m also a Reagan conservative.\u2019 And she had a little clipboard there, when she started asking me questions, I said, ‘Lady, just do me a favor, Operation Chaos, that\u2019s all you need to know.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) That a way, that a way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I said, ‘I\u2019ll vote for her in the spring but then I\u2019ll hold my nose in the fall and vote for McCain.\u2019 She did not know — I said, ‘You want me to spell it for you so you can write it on your clipboard,\u2019 and she just stood there and she did not know what to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But she wrote it down?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, at the bottom of the thing, and I said, ‘Make sure you turn that in, don\u2019t go tearing it up and throwing it out in the street and being a litterer.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Great story.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, and like I said, NRA, life member, just about, belong to all kinds of outdoor clubs, gun rack in the back, pickup truck, the whole nine yards, flag in the front, everything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why are you Democrat?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s more fun.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I like you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, thank you. No, I have more fun arguing with people, they say, ‘Well, gee, you sound like a Republican.\u2019 I said, ‘No, I give to them, but I said, no, I\u2019ll keep my Democrat voting record because then I could have more fun.\u2019 So that\u2019s why I do it. But chaos is my middle name right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. Thanks for the call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Very good, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s use this and go to the audio sound bites here at the top of the list. This is this morning in Louisville, 84 WHAS, the morning host Tony Cruise interviewed Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, and Tony Cruise said, ‘Apparently thousands have either switched, I guess switched political affiliation, notably from Republican to Democrat, or from Independent to Democrat, to vote between Hillary and Barack, but there may be a problem now, I\u2019m reading.\u2019<\/p>\n

GRAYSON: There is a problem. Kentucky has a law that not a lot of people remember because it only affects a few people, but if you switch your party affiliation after the first of the year you can\u2019t vote in your new primary, new partisan primary, and because you\u2019ve switched, you can\u2019t vote in your old primary. And so you\u2019re locked out. But for new registrants, the rule doesn\u2019t apply. So if you\u2019re not on the books, you just moved to Kentucky, you can go ahead and choose whatever party you want or no party and then you can vote accordingly. And about over 9,000 people have shut themselves out of the primary.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, now, this is not Operation Chaos because you had to switch parties before the end of the year. Well, it might be Operation Chaos. It might be Operation Chaos if people didn\u2019t know about it. So an obscure Kentucky law — (interruption) no, if you registered for the first time, you could have lived there for 30 years and never registered. If you registered for the first time, cool. If you change your party affiliation, and you\u2019re already registered, you gotta do that before the end of the year. So 9,000 Operation Chaos operatives may be wiped out here because of obscure Kentucky law. So Tony Cruise, the host, then says, ‘Do you have any guess as to how many people just simply are voting because they may not vote Republican, in other words, but they were voting because they really don\u2019t want either Obama or Clinton on the ticket? Is there any idea about that?\u2019<\/p>\n

GRAYSON: Most folks I think vote for who the best candidate is because at the end of the day, the person that comes out of the primary can win and can represent you. And that\u2019s really what you ought to do, but Rush Limbaugh has his Operation Chaos — <\/p>\n

CRUISE: Yeah.<\/p>\n

GRAYSON: — where he\u2019s been encouraging, folks, Republicans to switch or, if you\u2019re allowed to vote in some primaries where they\u2019re open, to go in and vote for Hillary Clinton, although the irony is in Kentucky, she polls a lot better than Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that\u2019s the secretary of state Trey Grayson on 84 WHAS in Louisville today. Operation Chaos voters may get the shaft in Kentucky. Then yesterday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton held a press conference. Unidentified reporter said, ‘When you were walking up and down the street in your short conversations, what are people saying to you? Any issues that they say like we need to you to address X?\u2019<\/p>\n

HILLARY: There was a man over on the street back there who said he was a Rush Limbaugh Republican who was voting for me because he\u2019s 46 years old and doesn\u2019t have any health insurance, and we have to get health insurance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you believe this? Well, it\u2019s hard to believe Mrs. Clinton or any of these people when they tell the truth. However, let\u2019s give her the benefit of the doubt. This is a brilliant Operation Chaos operative. This is brilliant. He\u2019s got Mrs. Clinton thinking all these people are changing over because they like her and because they want health care. (laughing) I guarantee you that if there is a Rush Limbaugh Republican voting for Hillary, there\u2019s no such thing. There\u2019s no such thing as a Rush Limbaugh Republican wanting to vote for Hillary for health care. That\u2019s just not possible. So we probably have a brilliant operative here approaching her about this. It\u2019s an old sandbag routine. You make her think that she\u2019s got this genuine support here. Now, everybody in Pennsylvania is trying to figure out if the Rush Effect, Operation Chaos, has caused crossovers or simply the attractiveness of the Democrat candidates is responsible here. Sorry, Drive-Bys, but it\u2019s not the candidates. I\u2019ll just tell you. This is Philadelphia TV, WPVI Inside Story, attorney Christine Flowers and an unidentified female host have this exchange about me, the commanding officer, Operation Chaos.<\/p>\n

FLOWERS: There are two things, one, the Rush Effect, which people are saying may or may not actually have —<\/p>\n

UNIDENTIFIED: Rush Limbaugh, right.<\/p>\n

FLOWERS: — with Rush Limbaugh saying, ‘Okay, Republicans, go to the Democrats, have a voice, have an effect on the Democratic primary.\u2019 <\/p>\n

UNIDENTIFIED: Pick the weaker candidate so we can beat them with John McCain, is the theory.<\/p>\n

FLOWERS: The other one is, when you\u2019re talking about people who are new registrants, who aren\u2019t Republicans who are going from Republican to Democrat, maybe some of them are actually attracted to the fact that they\u2019re — the candidates, the cult of personality here. You have a female candidate, the first legitimate female presidential candidate, the first legitimate African-American candidate. Maybe it\u2019s not that they\u2019re so attracted to the fundamental principles of the party, but they\u2019re actually —<\/p>\n

UNIDENTIFIED: The theory —<\/p>\n

FLOWERS: — attracted to the characters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Attracted to the characters. Or maybe the voters are just stupid. I mean, why don\u2019t you go all the way here in analyzing the voters. But, nevertheless, the Drive-By Media now doing everything it can to understand the Limbaugh Effect, Operation Chaos, and to proclaim it irrelevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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