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.
We’re doomed with McPain.
The gun issue hurt Romney bad in Florida , as it will in other places . He should have gotten right on this issue from the start .
Just struck me...that was good insight Mr Wayne, but nowadays it seems like politics is all about money and to heck with principals...
Many of us here adhere to Conservatism because we have a Higher moral code...many more adhere because the conservative principals fit their own ideas about life in America..we take the high, hardworking road...
The Dems seem to focus more on money and power..They threw out God from their secular politics long ago and see money as the means to all ends, from getting to the WH to using taxes to further their liberal/socialist agenda...they like the wide easy road, filled with handouts along the way...
So we are fighting an uphill battle but in the long run it is we who are defending the freedoms and way of life our country has fought for...our job now is to work smarter, not necessarily harder...collectively we have the right answers for our country’s problems...and it’s not all about money and rapid social change...change, but in a way that benefits everybody ...