Posted on 10/13/2011 2:49:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
......"It's a "pattern time and time again," said senior campaign strategist David Axelrod. "Its consistent with a guy who ran for the governorship and the Senate in Massachusetts as a pro-choice moderate who supported civil unions and environmental protections to the guy you see today hard after the Tea Party vote who has thrown all his positions over. If "you are willing to change positions on fundamental issues of principle, how can we know what you would do as president?" asked Axelrod.
The Democratic National Committee has already established a YouTube channel called "Which Mitt" which highlights his Mitt-flops."..................
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I wasn't meaning to imply that we had states which don't require people to register to vote (although same-day registration at the polling places comes dangerously close to that). The problem is that some states don't require people to declare a political party affiliation before being allowed to vote in the primary elections.
Republicans should be deciding who the Republican Party candidate will be. Same for Democrats, or members of the Libertarian Party, Constitution Party, or anyone else. Letting undecided people and independents vote is bad enough; what's even worse is that in too many local elections, one party may have few or no contested races so the members of that party cross over and vote in the other party's primary, doing so not to select the best candidate but rather the candidate they perceived to be the weakest.
Unless someone successfully talks one of the left-wing Democrats into running in the Democratic Party's presidential race on the grounds that President Obama is not liberal enough, we run the serious risk of a lot of Democrats becoming temporary Republicans merely so they can vote for the Republican they believe to be the weakest.
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