Should Republicans pick the Republican candidate, and Dems pick the Dem candidate?
If you think they should, and live in one of the states where you can vote for any candidate, regarless of party, contact your political party, and tell them how you feel.
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Thanx.
Even her pals at the MSM are not buying that whopper.
Unfortunately, on the Dem side we have only two liberals to choose from. There is no conservative we could pick for them. Meanwhile on the GOP side, they picked a lib for us.
Well since all candidates are basically the same no loss, OTOH, they got who they wanted on both sides, we got screwed.
No, I do not appreciate uninformed voters from a whacked out leftist political party playing games in my presidential primary.
As much as Clinton wants to be on all the ha-ha late night comedy shows, the office of the president and the person elected to sit in the oval office with the sworn duty to protect and defend our borders and Constitution is very serious business and primary election pranks should never be sanctioned by any political party.
The valient sacrifice that many generations of brave and courageous men and women have made so that we remain free should be honored. The right to vote is a very precious and dear duty and should not be made into political bloodsport. Otherwise, I fear, voting will become a sham.
It’s a Chinese fire drill! (and why not? we get everything else from China...)
@Sun:
YES! You may ping me anytime!
We just didn't have anybody really conservative, and really exciting to pick from. Even Fred Thompson's supposed 'draft' went nowhere fast. And I had a Thompson bumper sticker on my car! There was no conservative front-runner on January 1, 2007. Things might have been very different had there been one.
I'm glad that we have the chance to wreak havoc on the Rats. I love the fact that "selected, not elected" will apply to the Rat nominee coming out of Denver instead of GWB. I'm happy that we have a chance to alienate either the rabid feminazis or the African-American voters from the Rat party for at least a generation.
A few weeks ago Cross-Over Voting was a Capital Offense here at FR.
This week Cross-Over voting is sacrosanct.
The very premise here is doubtful. Democrats are riled up and frantic to be voting for Obama and Hillary - to make history, don’t you know. While Republicans may be taking part in the Democrat primarys, the opposite is unlikely to be true. Is the suggestion that on top of the staggeringly huge Democrat turn-out, an additional staggeringly huge number of Democrats turned out to vote for McCain as well?
If so, if Democrats outnumber Republicans by 5-1 as those numbers would suggest, and are actively out voting, we’re in for a very painful 8 years.
If I could choose the Democratic candidate, I’d pick Zell Miller.
We chose poorly, not because of Dems voting, but because most of the party faithful’s fear of Hillary. Almost every arguement in favor of their candidates was, “He can beat Hillary!” Hell of a criteria for selecting the leader of the free world.
Operating out of fear instead of being governed by principle led to McCain getting the nomination.
And I am still voting for Duncan Hunter.(unless a great third party candidate comes along)
thanks for the ping! :)
Seriously, DOES THAT HELP?... I would think they should have figured it out by now, many on the base we are not happy with the way Macaca was chosen - by independents... But then again, I have the feeling many of our unhappy customers will end up voting for him anyway... and so my thinking is, ACTIONS ARE LOUDER THAN WORDS, and we end up being exactly all NOISE but not action, then I ask myself, why would the party bosses change anything? :)
See my point?... It's such a basic rule of life I don't know how you can get around it.
Furthermore I actually think it's in the BENEFIT of our politicians and party bosses to ALLOW "independents" to vote in order to water-down the conservative's vote, which I am sure they consider "extreme," and damaging to the party. In other words, politicians care about one thing above all: getting elected...and they can certainly weasel their way best, in and out and around us, as long as the can maintain the voters "divided." Off balance, so they can apply the old triangulation thing...
I generally dislike politicians because I don't trust them. But I RESPECT them for being the ultimate con-artists that they are, smart, charming, etc. I mean look at is happening with Macaca himself...Even with the Internet and all the communications we have today... We still can't defeat them. They somehow, directly or indirectly, as we see it here in FR with the constant 'propaganda' :) that we *** MUST *** vote for any piece of s*** given to us... because!... oh yes, the "less of two evils," or other BS like that.
The elitist Republicans aren't even trying to hide their agenda anymore!
God help us.
The libs here are PO’ed to say the least. Not until Mark and SGT Sam tried to explain that the dims crossed over and voted for OUR candidate in the early primaries and caucuses, did some sense prevail.
One particularly vicious, blathering, foaming at the mouth female called in (and would have used four letter words if allowed) and spewed a diatribe of hate filled lines about the Republicans being unethical. She was hoping that Hussein would take out hellary and get on with his campaign against the (R) candidate. The hosts reminded her that the libs did the same thing, but she just kept on and finally hung up.
The next caller was a man who made the point that we had little choice with our candidate, since McCain got momentum after he was almost out of the campaign, not trying to finish strong before the convention.
I hate open primaries.
I don’t want to pick their candidate. I voted for the beast Tues. because I want them to destroy each other. They got to pick McCain, it’s the least I could do.