Apparently Rush Limbaugh effect worked.
What Rush said:
To reiterate Rush's opinion on voting for Hillary as a strategy to undermine or even destroy Democratic Party's chance of gaining the White House in the general election late this November, he states on Fox News...
"Texas is open. And I want Hillary to stay in this, Laura. This is too good a soap opera. We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically, and it’s obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it and don’t have the stomach for it.
As you probably know, we’re getting all kinds of memos from the RNC saying not to be critical there. Mark MacKinnon of McCain’s campaign says he’ll quit if they get critical over Obama.
This is the presidency of the United States you’re talking about. I want our party to win. I want the Democrats to lose. They’re in the midst of tearing themselves apart right now. It is fascinating to watch, and it’s all going to stop if Hillary loses.
So yes, I’m asking to cross over and, if they can stomach it — I know it’s a difficult thing to do to vote for a Clinton — but it will sustain this soap opera, and it’s something I think we need. It would be fun, too."
And the result? Cleveland, Ohio-based The Plains Dealer reported approximately 16,000 Republicans crossed over and voted for Hillary in a particular county (where city of Cleveland is) in the primary -- and Ohio of course went to Hillary, vote irregularities notwithstanding. Only the few counties went to Obama -- and two counties are where Cincinnati and Columbus cities are, populated with substantially educated liberals and moderates.
Let's face the fact, because Hillary Clinton has proven her reputation as an overambitious politician willing to grab DNC nomination at any cost -- even disregarding the will of the people by entrusting the superdelegate loyalists to cast the ballot for her at the convention and recollecting the memories of the Clinton administration legacy (Monica-gate bad and Waco-standoff ugly; some still blame Bill Clinton for complicity in 9-11 terror attacks by criminal negligence while defending Bush) -- devout Republican Party members, most supporting McCain as the "It Man" for president overlooking his 'liberal' stances, swear to undermine Hillary's campaign by supplying the significant damage to the Democratic Party organization forced to stand by one of the worst Democratic presidential contenders imaginable if she does gain the nomination over the broadly likable and appealing Barack Obama. It would make Democratic Party polarizing in deciding which to choose to nominate as the most able candidate in terms of electability and probability to defeat the Republican rival (John McCain still polarize some conservatives who consider him a liberal -- he opposes gun rights for the most part and supports complete amnesty for the illegal immigrants -- and unfit for president due to history of volatile temper as a politician, corruption and accusation of extra-martial affairs).
Let's hope Republican strategy fail, because it's a completely selfish act of sabotage to turn the tide over to the neoconservative side of the GOP to control the executive position that will do more harm to the U.S. and the world in regressive policies. Those who voted for Hillary Clinton or even Barack Obama in fervent hope of dividing that party to improve Republican Party's chance of winning the election are not only dishonest but contravene the designs of the Republic itself -- corruption and vote fraud included.
This is what the extremist and delusional partisans of the Republican Party envision McCain in carrying out the third Bush term:
America cannot afford yet another disastrous administration whose Neanderthal policies will lead to the international calamity and lead the national economy into the abyss, coming from the man who has said he does not know economics and don't care, counting on his advisers to fill him in on the pictorial facts and graphs in elementary economics.