Markos Urges Michigan Mischief

Democrats voting in the Republican primary in Michigan will be wasting their vote.

If you favor Obama or Edwards you must vote uncommitted in the democratic primary. Otherwise you are voting for Clinton.

I am a Ron Paul supporter, my sister who is so upset with the Republican party was going to vote for Guiliani to mess with them, but I talked her into voting for Ron Paul to upset them even more.

I am far from naive. I worked in DC for the Reagan adminstration long ago. The hostility that exists today was not there then. It wasn't taken out into the public with a 'win at all costs attitude'.

McCain won't run circles around Obama. And if he did, is that a problem as long as the best possible president has been selected? Or is 'winning' more important than getting things right?

Jim: McCain will do circles around Obama, Politicians have no nobility. you are a either a fool or naive.

It should be obvious to even a 3rd grader why The Daily Kos is urging Michigan liberals to vote for Romney. It's because their worst nightmare is seeing John McCain win in Michigan and SC and then use the momentum from those wins tp wrap up the Republican nomination on Super Tuesday. And that's because McCain is the candidate they most fear having to run against. Republicans everywhere need to wise up, put aside their differences with Senator McCain on individual issues, and vote for him in their states' primaries. He's the only candidate we have that can win in November.

I'm a Republican and I support Obama.

It's not because he's easy to beat--it's because he doesn't sink to that level of thought. He is trying to run a positive campaign, something lacking in most other candidates.

I am hoping for a Obama/McCain campaign so issues can actually be discussed with a sense of dignity so that the extremists (who use terms like 'libtards') can have power yanked away from them and returned to the people.

Why not, the GOP screwed with the Dems primaray vote in IA and NH. They want an easier task in November with Obama, e.g. Experience vs Hope, with the general electorate.

Lori, I stand corrected. I just located an article that mentions that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on August 6, 2007 that the practice of vote-swapping IS, in fact, legal. Just Google or Yahoo: "Nate Anderson," and "Internet vote-swapping."

Lori, I don't consider ANY vote "thrown away." While others may vote for the person they feel is more likely to win or, as discussed in this blog, vote for someone based on an ulterior motive (not a negative criticism, just stating the fact), I am a firm believer in voting for the person I believe in. Regular readers of Political Punch know that I am HOPING for a brokered Republican National Convention; that hopefully the Republican delegates will unite behind Dr. Rice. So for me, and I emphasize for me alone, I am quite satisfied to let Dr. Rice know that there is one person who is willing to write-in her name on a ballot. But if one of the current Republican candidates does emerge with the majority of the delegates and wins the nomination, I will support that person.

jason, i will go with your advice and vote uncommitted here in michigan. but it was fun to dream about mischief while it lasted. some good comments up here, but bottom line, we really don't want to stoop to "repug's" level of operation. kind of scary to read some of these comments.
james danley:i don't know how your write in for rice would give you satisfaction-- it's a vote thrown away-no understand

America need a new civil war just to get all the bad blood between people to go away. You hate one another so much that one day violence will start and you will not be able to stop it.

The Republican Party has also sanctioned Michigan for moving up the primary. But their sanction results in half (30) of the 60 delegates to be seated. Actually the Republicans have sanctioned 5 states: FL, MI, NH, SC and WY. All five states receive just half of their original allotment.

The Democrats have sanctioned only MI and FL. But because they are not going to recognize ANY of these states' delegates, the other delegates will probably end up overriding the sanctions during the convention. That's because of all of the hollaring by Democrats claiming that Republicans caused massive disenfranchisement in the 2000 and 2004 elections. And now the Democrats don't want MI and FL to have ANY representation during the national convention! Well there is little chance that the other delegates will give the Republicans the opportunity to make the case for such an hypocrisy.

since i can't vote for obama, in michigan, i'm going to vote for that ron paul and stick it to the republican party.

I think Romney rocks. Everyone, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, should vote for him.

anything to prevent republicans from further destroying our country and our military is fine by me, as well as all our children, especially since they could possibly join the military and very well be led to their completely unnecessary deaths by another incompetent and ignorant republican president

I'm a Democrat and a frequent poster at Daily Kos...this is bad, Bad, BAD! I have said so on Kos, too! Markos is way out of line on this for two reasons" 1.) We should never stoop to the level of Republicans!

2.) Voting for Romney is dangerous in itself, because this man should not be allowed anywhere near the White House.

3.) If Romney did win the nomination, he'd use his millions of dollars to saturate us day and night with negative ads and do any of us really want to endure that torment!

Markos needs to think before he blogs! As liberals, we take pride in not allowing others--unlike Republicans--how to vote. He needs to remind himself of that, lest his blog lose its relevance!

If Michigan Democrats want to disrupt the Republicans they should vote for Ron Paul because he is the most disruptive of their candidates, no contest. Voting for Romney helps a viable candidate instead of channeling the momentum and media energy into a dead end who can't win. They also get to make a statement about the war, the empire and the national security state by voting for Ron Paul because he agrees with them and brings these up all the time. It allows Democrats to disrupt and embarrass the Republicans without cost.

A message for Scott:

3% of republicans, in Iowa< voted for democrats. Of that 3%, 44% voted for Obama.

I think you misread the results.

Its my belief that this Republic will never function again, way to much hatred between left and right. My generation was raised to believe in individual rights and freedom. And your not very free if a massive overbearing government can oversee and decide your every move. And believe me, in this high tech age with its high speed computers and satellite up-links, its not as hard to monitor 300 million people as you might think. We need to remember who built this country, it was US, the people, not the government. As of matter of fact, its the politicians that have brought us to each others throats with a vengeance. Which of course just happens to benefit them monetarily, as well as politically.

Proving once again that the left is not composed of destructive nihilists. Good. Gotta love it when people become their own caricatures.