Obama Camp Rips Romney Flip-Flops (Dems already honing in on Mitt-flops)

Newser ^ | October 13, 2011 | Mary Papenfuss,

[darrellmaurina]

Clarification: I meant to say “due to crossover votes in states that don't have POLITICAL PARTY voter registration laws.”

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.