This guy has lived in NY too long.
Seems like this guy has a firm grasp of the obvious. I generally vote in the dem primary because that IS the election for local/county offices where I live. Of course, in Ohio, it’s very easy to switch back and forth between the democrats and republicans due to the open primary format.
Pretty smart tactic actually.. or remain a republican with bitching rights to nobody.. (that counts)..
Not so in every city but in some citys and even States it IS SO..
The democrat party could use a few DINOs.. loud mouthed DINOs..
Spreading LOGIC all over the democrat spectrum..
A few Democrats in name only spreading the truth could be toxic to democrat party talking points..
Always half-truths and lies..
My dad told me years ago that a lot of NYC people were dems so they could vote in the primary. Not him and my mom of course. I’m not sure about Dad, but my mother would have cut her throat before she became a Dim.
Many well-entrenched institutions can only be destroyed from the INSIDE.
I saw at their convention how democrats count votes so even if we all joined up and voted in the primaries, I would have no confidence of an honest count.
how is 68% a 6-to-1 ratio? I must have missed school that day.
Can you imagine the fun of spreading the conservative message as a Democrat politician to groups of people who have been taught all their lives to listen to whatever the local Democrat told them to do? And the horrified reaction of the Leftist elites, who would then have to figure out how to teach complete idiots to listen to some Democrats, but not others?
I've always thought conservatives would have a much easier time taking over the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. The authoritarian structures are already there and the serfs are waiting to obey. :)
But.. but... - there will be CHAOS in the ranks!
I was a registered Democrat during the 27 years NYC was my primary residence. NYC is a one-party system. As a Republican, I couldn’t vote in the primaries - the Dems always ran unopposed. So I would vote for the most “conservative” Democrat out there (generally, Ed Koch). Then I would vote Republican (really, conservative) in the general.
Wow.
Times change.
There was a time when everyone in the South was a Democrat, liberals and conservatives alike.
“This time around, let’s prove them wrong. We live in a city where 68% of voters are registered Democrats, outnumbering Republicans 6 to 1. That ratio is even higher in districts like mine. That means that once on the ballot, the Democratic candidate could be the embalmed remains of Boss Tweed and still win. At the same time, the non-Dem voice, with its moderate and conservative points of view, is always silenced in the general election.”
Kind of a smart move.
Sadly, it wont really work. I’ve seen it in action: You have a crazy leftwing marxist, and a sort of normal not-crazy liberal, and its a 50/50 shot who wins the primary.
And then here in Texas, the Democrat liberals finally wised up and realized to win in SBOE races, they have to run RINO fake conservatives. So they did. Messing with the other guy’s party is less expensive than losing a general election.
Anyone standing up to the leftists is doing the Lord’s work, whatever party they are in.
I have to admit. I thought about changing my registration earlier this year just so I could start a “Democrats for Romney” group.
His vote still won’t have any mathematical meaning. The late Robert Novak was a registered Democrat when he lived in D.C. for the same reasons stated, and Novak’s vote never mattered either. NYC and DC are mostly monolithic and unyielding.