Well...Okayyyyyy...
I would just prefer to do my business in the party of my choice, and not worry too much about what the opposition does, and let the regular election take care of this guy at that time...
Personally, I don’t believe Earle will survive either process...
Crossing parties is what basically gave us McCain in some instances, and ultimately Obama...Now we are dragging that political manuevering down to the state level...
Just my opinion...
I would just prefer to do my business in the party of my choice, and not worry too much about what the opposition does, and let the regular election take care of this guy at that time...
Personally, I don’t believe Earle will survive either process...
I agree basically with you.
My votes are more than just to “make sure they don’t get in”, they are to say FYall to the lot of them. Kinky Friedman sold out to Jim Hightower and dropped out of the race to clear the path for Bill White. Screw him for this act. He may not have had a genuine chance at winning the nomination, but now White faces no competition (a Palestinian “millionaire” “hairdresser” doesn’t stand much chance).
Ronnie Earle pulled the same crap as that prosecutor Nifong. Keep this man out of government and send him behind bars.
And voting against every incumbant Democrat in the state in the primary is a matter of principle.
I hear you on the issue of maybe not being able to vote in the GOP primary in 2012 but I don’t see that being the case (and our primary came SO late last time that we had no influence on the presidential nominations unlike Iowa and New Hampshire). States which didn’t even HAVE Democrat presidential primaries (Florida and Michigan) encouraged Rats to vote in the GOP primaries to have a say in presidential races.
And for the record, I think that each year you can flip flop between the primaries, the only limiting factor is in which primary runoff you may vote in. Lynn Ashby editor of the Houston Post bragged that he used to vote in alternate years for both party primaries so that he’d be on the mailing list for as many candidates as possible.
Many decades ago when the Texas GOP didn’t stand much chance in the office races, by dad would vote as a Democrat because all of the decision for who would ultimately win the offices was made in the primary.