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Operation Chaos: What It Really Means PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Doug Warren   
Tuesday, 22 April 2008

chaos This 2008 election cycle has had many twists and turns. One thing I'm finding funny and sad at the same time is the number of people crossing party lines, at the behest of their favorite radio talk show host, to vote for the status quo.

Ever since the Barack Obama train began to pick up steam, the mainstream press, the Washington establishment, and the conservative radio talk show circuit has been trying to knock the guy off his perch and insert Hillary Clinton in his place.

One week ago today, the latest media shot at Obama took place when ABC anchor Charles Gibson and former Bill Clinton press secretary turned-media pundit, George Stephanopoulos, took Obama to task on a number of issues that many voters had already kicked into oblivion.

Is it a coincidence that this happened just seven days before the Pennsylvania primary - a primary that the establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton, needs to win to stay alive in the race?

The establishment wants the status-quo. The establishment owns and runs the media. The establishment owns and runs the lobbies and thinktanks that populate the D.C. cesspool. The establishment also owns the presidential candidates who have the calloused knees, chapped lips, and vaseline scorchmarks from their years of "paying" their dues inside the Washington Beltway.

Those are the candidates who make it to the ballot in November. Barack Obama hasn't been in Washington long enough yet. Hillary Clinton and John McCain sold their souls there a long time ago.

The syndicated talk show circuit is part of this machine. They have been blasting Obama for months. When it became clear that Obama wasn't going to go away without a fight, those talk hosts began to encourage their listeners to cross party lines and vote for Clinton. Their reasoning is that she will be easier to beat come November.

They may be right. However, I think the the reasoning goes deeper. The establishment doesn't want to take any chances. They want their Washington Howdy Doody's, McCain and Clinton, to square off for the White House. They do not want an upstart like Obama coming in, with all his youth and first time voters, to mess up the status quo.

Here is a recent message from the king pin of the conservative talkers, direct from his website:

Ladies and gentlemen, as Operation Chaos and soldiers prepare to deploy in less than 24 hours, the Drive-By Media is doing everything it can to suggest that these new Republican registrants in Pennsylvania are registering because they love Obama.  The Politico has a story today about the surge in Democrat voter registration from Republicans, and their number is that 62% of the switchers -- 62% of you Republicans who are switching registration to the Democrat Party for the Pennsylvania primary -- are going to Obama.  This is the theme now, and we will see how this plays out tomorrow.  Of course, the bottom line here is that Operation Chaos does not have a chosen candidate. Operation Chaos has as a simple, single mission to keep the campaign going; to keep chaos reigning supreme, to keep the Democrats continuing to conduct their war with each other on all fronts.

The funny thing about all of this is that these dolts who are voting for Hillary Clinton really think they are doing their country a favor. When in reality, they are doing just the opposite. They are doing exactly what the establishment wants - pitting two bootlicking, salad tossing, circle-jerking Washington status-quo puppets against each other in the fall.

We all lose when the status-quo wins.
 
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