Do you really think that the reason so many more people voted in the democratic primary was because the republicans don't like McCain? That seems more rational than the republican presidential primary was a don't care?

I think we have a certified case of MDS. And it is about as pretty to watch as BDS.

Limbaugh doesn't want either in the big seat. What he was asking was for repubs to vote for Hillary to keep the fight going for another 7 weeks. It gives more time for Hillary to "bloody up" Obama. Find a chink in the armour. It's not about getting Hillary elected.

The exit poll data is really only worthwhile when talking about groups that make up a significant chunk of the polled, otherwise the sampling just goes out the window.

I will certainly grant you that neither Obama nor Clinton will win Texas in November.

With John Sidney McCain III as the Republican candidate, I'd almost be willing to take that bet. I guarantee that Senator McCain is not a popular man here in Texas. He never has been. The Baptists don't like his adulterous past and everybody else disagrees with him on everything from campaign finance to immigration.

There is a reason only 1,319,960 people voted in the Republican primary yesterday (compared to 2,812,289 in the Democratic primary) and only 51% of those voted for McCain, and it sure as heck was not Rush Limbaugh. (Though I am sure the fat blow-hard would like to think so.)

Anyone who thinks Hillary Clinton won Texas on merit and thinks Hillary Clinton can win Texas in November is very very naive. Rush Limbaugh won Texas. Who lost..........America.

As a Texan, I can tell you that in talking among conservatives, there is a strong debate as to which one is the weaker candidate. Obama has charisma, but he has paper thin experience, his supporters can't seem to articulate any reason to support him besides that charisma and as his recent press conference shows he folds after 8 questions that aren't fawning adulations about how wonderful he is. Clinton has high negatives, lots of baggage and is just plain unpleasant. Her experience seems primarily concerned with whose bed she shared (and even that fact is questionable). So even if you say all conservatives were voting strategically to wreck the democratic party, there was still a 53 to 43 split that they could decide which was the weaker candidate.

2008 had all the hallmarks of being a democratic year, but by putting forward two old line liberals with very limited experience the democratic party is doing its best to lose the election.

That's hardly surprising. The Republican contest was a non-event.

If that were true, then most Republicans would simply stay home rather than go through the inconvenience of standing in long lines to vote for a Democrat. They had to have some motivation to go to the polls.

It was either Rush or it was a strong dislike for McCain.

McCain is in deep doo-dah because it means that a large number of conservatives voted for someone other than the Republican candidates.

That's hardly surprising. The Republican contest was a non-event. McCain was the all-but-certain nominee and Huckabee had no mathematical way of winning enough delegates.

Now, I can understand why Limbaugh would want Hillary in the White House next January, but do you think most rank and file Republicans would prefer her over Obama?

I wonder if McCain is paying attention?