Chat transcript: Wayne Slater on the Texas primaries

DwayneH: Gromer Jeffers says that the Talk Radio Hosts were among the losers, but Talk Radio helped provide the Hillary with the margin of victory.

Wayne Slater: No question that the effort by conservative talk radio to have Republicans cross over and vote for Hillary Clinton had some impact. Of the early vote, some voters — perhaps 8-9 percent in some places — were people with a history of voting in Republican primaries in the past. And I’ve gotten anecdotal evidence of Republicans voting int he Republican primary. With the final spread between Obama and Clinton about 100,000 out of 1.8 votes cast, every vote counts. But whether these Republican cross overs actually produced the Hillary victory is debatable, I think.

(emphasis mine)

The Republican strategy, articulated quite clearly in a Harper’s Forum some months ago, was to attack each successive Democratic Front runner with a horrified “Oh, NO, They Can’t Be SERIOUS, ANYBODY but HIM/HER!!” The problem is, you can only do that a couple of times before it becomes obvious that you’re simply serial sliming.

When Clinton looked like a shoo-in and Obama seemed slated to be a heroic third or fourth place, Clinton was, of course, the WORST POSSIBLE CHOICE. When Obama surged, we saw the URQs move smoothly into “PLEASE NO NOT HIM”, “EVEN HILLARY WAS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE”, “A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE FOR OSAMA”, and all that crap. If they have to reverse themselves once again, they’re going to look even sillier than they already do.

Only to us, of course. Their loyal readership doesn’t seem to notice that kind of thing.