What do Sanjaya Malakar and Hillary Clinton have in common? More than an astounding penchant for sounding shrill and one-note, apparently.
With the news Monday that Rush Limbaugh is telling his Texas listeners to take advantage of the open primary rules in their state by voting for Hillary, he has essentially taken on the Howard Stern role in keeping the vocally-challenged teenager alive on American Idol.
While Stern presumably sought to undermine the legitimacy of the Idol phenomenon, Limbaugh hopes to slow that of Barack Obama and give the Republican party the perceived advantage gained from a drawn-out summer slugfest on the Democratic side.
“I think we all agree that if Sen. Obama wins Texas and Ohio, it’s over,” said David Hardt, Dallas resident and DNC superdelegate, agreeing that if the nomination process lasts through to the convention, it will “tear our party apart.”
“There’s sort of a rush to finish this,” said Sue Lovell, Houston resident and fellow superdelegate to Hardt, emphasizing that no party members she has spoken with “want it to come down to where a smaller group of people cast their vote” and decide the outcome so late in the game.
