From the Boston Globe:
Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show."It's as simple as, I don't think McCain can beat Obama if Obama is the Democratic choice," said Kyle Britt, 49, a Republican-leaning independent from Huntsville, Texas, who voted for Clinton in the March 4 primary. "I do believe Hillary can mobilize enough [anti-Clinton] people to keep her out of office." Britt, who works in financial services, said he is certain he will vote for McCain in November.
Walter Wilkerson, who has chaired the Republican Party in Montgomery County, Texas, since 1964, said many local conservatives chose to vote for Clinton for strategic reasons.
"These people felt that Clinton would be maybe the easier opponent in the fall," he said. "That remains to be seen."
Wilkerson added, "We have not experienced any crossover of this magnitude since I can remember."
So much for the party that touts its ability to spread democracy and freedom across the globe. This is anything but democratic, and these false-Americans should be ashamed of themselves. It's not enough to wipe out nearly 90,000 civilian lives and coming up on 4000 American soldiers in their unnecessary war, but now they have to subvert the democratic process that is meant to make our country something special...something different.
This "great experiment" is an utter failure thanks to these extremists and their handlers.
Comments (6)
Stupid? Yeah. Hypocrisy? Not so much. They have every right to vote how they so choose for whatever reason.
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March 19, 2008 2:25 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 14:25
...and preach rhetoric about how they are a shining example of democracy and freedom while trying as a group of elitist patricians set out to fix elections and maintain a plutocratic (and fascist) state?
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March 19, 2008 6:40 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 18:40
Are you bathing in the blue juice? I'm warning you, it can go to your head and make you start thinking that pols in your party are somehow better.
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March 19, 2008 7:31 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 19:31
Besides which, they don't need to vote in the Republican primary so why not?
And while we're at it, our state is neither plutocratic nor fascist.
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March 19, 2008 7:35 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 19:35
I have a couple of links for your consideration related to this false voting scandal...
Mich. Democrats May Determine Republican Nominee
http://www.nysun.com/article/69551
And a trip to the way-back machine (anything in politics that happened more than 2 weeks ago requires a way-back machine)...
http://news.votepair.org/
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March 21, 2008 11:44 AM
Posted on March 21, 2008 11:44
Not sure that I agree about the Iraq War being a Republican one ... seems that a bunch on Dems gave Bush the okay to war it up over there.. and the Dems have had congress for a year and a half and haven't been able to bring the troops home.. and I'm not sure that either Dem candidate will quickly end the war if they are elected.. they seem to be doing a lot of back-peddling these days about when they will bring the troops home.
All that said, I have to agree about people not voting for the person they want elected.. seems duplicitous at best.
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March 21, 2008 4:27 PM
Posted on March 21, 2008 16:27