John Kerry is outrageous!

[Berzerker]

Primaries should be open to all voters. We keep getting stuck with clowns because the truebelievers have more influence on who runs before we get to choose between tweedle dee and tweedle dumb

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Primaries should be open to all voters. We keep getting stuck with clowns because the truebelievers have more influence on who runs before we get to choose between tweedle dee and tweedle dumb

True, about 10 years ago, 74% of the Democrats in the congressional district I'm in switched parties to vote in the Republican primary so the guy they wanted to win the Republican nomination would win it.

They all switched back to Democrat later but that guy is still our Congressman.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Primaries should be open to all voters. We keep getting stuck with clowns because the truebelievers have more influence on who runs before we get to choose between tweedle dee and tweedle dumb

I disagree. Why should voters from one party get to dictate who the nominee will be for the opposite party? If you allow all voters to participate then you are allowing voters from the opposite party to screw things up. As a Republican, I wouldn't want a bunch of liberals influencing who my candidate will be. And I certainly understand that Democrats aren't going to want someone like me influencing who their candidate will be.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

True, about 10 years ago, 74% of the Democrats in the congressional district I'm in switched parties to vote in the Republican primary so the guy they wanted to win the Republican nomination would win it.

They all switched back to Democrat later but that guy is still our Congressman.

Site? This should be easy to show just by looking at voter regestration by county if 74% of democrats really did switch parties. Unless of course you once again pulled that number out of your ass.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Site? This should be easy to show just by looking at voter regestration by county if 74% of democrats really did switch parties. Unless of course you once again pulled that number out of your ass.

Site? There's no website about this that I know of, its a rural area in Oklahoma that Congressman Frank Lucas represents. It is (or was) predominantly Democrat but he was very well respected and my uncle (a yellow dog Democrat) respected him enough to switch parties for the primary.

Even the campaign ads talked about how many Democrats switched parties for the primary to get him elected.

I guess you could do a google search for Frank Lucas and switching parties.

Some background on the situation, Frank was a respected local rancher and was running against the Republican "Good Ole Boys" choice for the seat. The Democrat candidates were all part of the Democratic "Good Ole Boys". Most of the locals were fed up with the whole Good Ole Boy system as a whole and were concerned Frank didn't have much chance if it were left up to the registered Republicans.

My uncle was actually featured in 2 of Frank Lucas's ads later where he talked about the cross over.

[Winston]

Guy's a loser. Still puts a smile on my face just to think about it. Whatever he does from now on is beyond any significance, compared to the show he put on for us last year.