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They do not work to the advantage of conservatives. They allow Democrats, who lack all sense of fair play, decency and honesty to make mischief and "help" Republicans choose bad candidates.
The worse case I can think of is when a whole bunch of Democrats in Vermont, a Democrat dominated state, decided to vote for a senile 80 year old eccentric in the primary to prevent the GOP from fielding a reasonable candidate to challenge the incumbent Team Donkey candidate.
They succeeded in their manipulation, and the Dem gov. won re-election by a huge margin.
Another great example is the 2008 GOP Presidential race. Without cross voting Democrats McCain would not have won the nomination. Guilliani would not even have been a factor.
As a conservative, and a Republican, I have ZERO interest in letting Democrats vote in my primary. I have little interest in letting undecideds vote. Why? If you aren't a Republican you have no legitimate business telling us who we should choose to represent us. We have enough factions and disagreements among our millions of members, as it is. The last thing we need is mischief making by libtards in our party processes.
The Dems are *always* arguing for rules that advantage them, and let their sick, unethical voters disturb our legitimate requirement for self-determination.
If I ran the GOP open-primaries for Presidential primaries would be voided. Votes cast in such would not be accredited in our conventions. Party chairs would be required to demonstrate that only Republicans were involved in selecting the states delegates.
The traitor Michael Steele has done NOTHING to fix the abuses of 2008, leaving us even more open to cheating by the lying Donkey-scum in 2012.
Imagine how many Democrats will vote to defeat any authentic Conservative who has momentum in 2008.
ARE YOU LISTENING SARAH PALIN?
The Demo-tards have their dream scenario for cheating coming up.
Obama will run unopposed in 2012, that is a near certainty. If there is a challenger it will be a back bencher, like Dennis Kocinich, who is zero threat to Obama's renomination.
Meanwhile, we in the ethical party, the Republicans, will *NOT* cheat, or cross lines to vote for a doomed third tier challenger to Zero-bama. So MILLIONS of Democrats (mostly in states that are solidly Democratic and will certainly go for Obama in the general election, like New York) will cross over to screw up our choices.
They will vote for RINOS, they will vote for unelectible fringe candidates, they will vote for favorite sons. They will do what ever is most disruptive of us choosing a real, strong, powerful conservative to raise an actual contest against the Obamanation.
It is stupid beyond belief for any conservative to argue that we need to accomodate this with open primary laws. I strongly disagree with the author of this article!
Katrina was a Federal Response Disaster because of JESSE JACKSON, and his reaction to the “Hurricane Diana” exercise just the year before.
He cried “RACISM!!!!” when he found out that it included the local population descending in to “Civil Unrest” after the “Hurricane” smashed New Orleans.
Funny how the media STILL refuses to acknowledge that, eh??