Marvel here as your ideological fellows all over the country go to the polls and once again press another progressive Republican on us, having been conditioned to believe that a conservative will turn off independents and “moderates” and is therefore “unelectable.”
Now I know why Bill Murray spent a good part of Groundhog Day trying to figure out ways to kill himself.
reposted here too
Surprise! It Was Romney Backers that Pushed for Open Primary in Michigan
Quick observation with regard to Democrats going to the polls to vote for Santorum (or laup nor) in Michigan: I voted around 9:30am. On the registration log I could see that I was the 25th person to vote and all were registered republican except one. In my work travels during the day, I went into two other buildings where voting was occurring. These latter two were in heavily democratic Saginaw. No one was in either place to vote. Granted I was only in each building for a few minutes. I’ll be curious to see (and probably skeptical of) any polling showing the democratic turnout.
ps superdooper tuesday is next week
CNN said that 10% of voters in MI were Democrats, which is not out of line with the norm. It was 7% (voting GOP ballots) in ’08 with the Hillary/Barack race raging.
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Maybe coercive contracts was the ends all along, and the whole health care fiasco is just a dadaist means.
The tea party people tried to get the Republican State Party to close the primary and were told that it was and would remain open as the ability of a Republican presidential candidate to attract Independents and Democrats was a crucial part of winning the general election.
Also the way Michigan’s delegates are selected means attracting the [D] vote is necessary for getting the most delegates. About a third(?) are awarded in proportion to the total State vote to candidates who get at least 15% of the vote. The rest of the delegates go to whoever wins the most votes within each separate Congressional district. Since a number of these CDs are heavily Democrat it would pay to get their votes in those districts.
One of the two ‘Lobsterpot Bimbos’ is not seeking reelection. Moderate GOPers who are AKA Establishment Party Hacks, aghast. Karl Rove on suicide watch ?
Me: good riddance. Next?
Oh. Covered earlier, srry. But I do worry for Karl Rove.
the hermanator blasts past 999 to 2618 in mi
A double win for Mitt? Why, what could be better for Republicans?
— The kinds who want lower taxes but in nearly every other way are just like Democrats, I mean. Smaller government? Yeah, sure, teabaggers. Like we’re going to vote against giving ourselves enormous power over an entire country and the world’s largest economy. For something so bourgeois as principles.
Silly little Hobbits.
Snowe gives one last finger to the bitterclingers she never really much cared for anyway. She’s a fucking liberal. And if quitting now means she costs the Rs a potential filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and makes it so Barack Obama, when he defeats Mitt Romney, doesn’t have to veto a health care repeal bill pushed half-heartedly by GOP lifers, so much the better!
Eat that, silly Hobbits!
I’m just shocked she didn’t wait until March 14th to put out the word.
I hate it when Jeff’s right.
Looking at the returns scroll by, it’s like Santorum won nearly every county, but Romney took the big counties — and he won the Catholic vote, while Santorum won with Protestants.
Either way, if it weren’t for the GOP establishment consistently working against conservatives, conservatives would win and be put up against Democrats for national office.
Which is why I see no more use for aligning with GOP establishment types, and I’m ready to live in the wilderness until the useful idiots who call themselves conservative and yet are consistently finding themselves forced by circumstances to vote for establishment squishes, either go full on pink, or else come hard red, the only place left where the foundational principles of the US are being truly safeguarded.
that’s severely conservative
Given the way these primaries are going, my guess is you’re going to get your wish Jeff.
I’m fine with that, Ernst. We’re fucked anyway. Best thing I can do is say to my kids that it wasn’t me who fucked it up.
They’ll thank me from their hovels.
I’m fine with it too. I think I’ve made it pretty clear I’m more concerned about who wins the nomination than who wins in November.
It’s freakin’ February and we’re having a thunderstorm in my bit of the upper midwest.
the nice man with the nice hair is telling me about the “promise of america”. hope he’s not holding t-bills.
hot air kicked the othermccain off its blog roll. thighgate hit too close.
We’re under a tornado watch. The gods are angry.
In Oklahoma, a February tornado watch makes a bit more sense. May-June is tornado season in these here parts.
I guess one touched down in Nebraska earlier.
It’s a bit unusual. We’re also May-July. This is turning into a flat line wind which is threatening my ancient oaks. I hope it blows itself out soon.
If you are coming hard red, you may want to see a doctor about that.
Sorry, all I can do is juvenile humor in the face of this horror.
Our high wind warning here on the Left Coast got cancelled. Seems prophetic to me.
Ace Pilots rhymes with Ace of Spades rhymes with Allahpundit.
Let God sort them out.
God’s busy, the Democracy Alliance is apparently doing the sorting(or at least building some layers of plausible deniability).
Einstein defined insanity as…
Write your congresscritter. These folks will help and, well, we’re an obliging lot.
I could do it again if I only knew there was at least a slight chance of Andie McDowell.
Interesting read on Santorum and the natural tensions between libertarians and traditional conservatives which his candidacy has recalled to the attention of the wider movement.
Another interesting read, both for the discussion of intent and originalism, and the ridiculous, ill-informed, unremitting hostility displayed by the journolist from Inside Higher Ed.
That Higher Ed hatchet job left me wondering – within academia, is support for Santorum sexual orientation discrimination?
Just call it what it is, mv,
crimethink
That whole controversy was ridiculous. For that matter, so is much of the allegedly “conservative” blogosphere these days.