I sure do. Fox was talking about the exit polls earlier and said Romney won 2 to 1 over McCain among voters who called themselves very conservative. McCain won among moderates and liberals....and this was supposed to be a closed primary.
I guess that is the new code word now
1- If you are independed or lefty you can be considered Conservative
2- but to be a conservative you have to be Very Conservative!
LOL
It was, althoug obviously some democrats (but hopefully not many) and some independents registered republican.
The bigger problem, if you want to call it that, is that the moderates and liberals are looking at the democrats and saying, we’d rather associate with the republicans.
And having done so, they are picking a candidate that they think is more like them, which is McCain. They don’t like Romney, he’s too conservative. They don’t like Huckabee, he’s to religious. They didn’t like Rudy, because, I don’t know, maybe because he is Rudy.
anyway, I haven’t added it up, but it does seem more people voted in the republican than the democratic primary, which may bode well for Florida.
Would it be better if all the moderates and liberals voted in the democratic primary, and they had a 2-1 registration advantage?
I wish that we had republicans AND they all said they were conservative.
But in order for that to happen, we have to prove conservatism works. Unfortunately, our conservatives have mostly abandoned conservatism for expediency, so nobody thinks it works. Look at Rick Santorum, conservative icon, but gets assaulted by conservatives for supporting Specter, for some weird thing about the national weather service, and for a few other oddities.
We need to remain true to our conservative principles. We need to do our best to get conservatives elected, but we also need to get people into the republican party, and then to teach them about conservatism. We won’t get that chance if we chase them to the democrats.