Democrats for Romney in Michigan
OK, this is somewhat awkward. IT seems that Kos and his merry bunch of liberal allies are encouraging Michigan Democrats to vote in the Republican primary tomorrow and to vote for Mitt Romney. Below the fold follows a video.
The reason? “Michigan Democrats should vote for Mitt Romney, because if Mitt wins, Democrats win.”
The idea doesn’t seem to be so much that Romney would make a weak Republican candidate according to Kos et al. but that “the more Republican candidates we have fighting it out, trashing each other with negative ads and spending tons of money, the better it is for us.”
In other words: “We want Mitt to stay in the race, and to do that, we need him to win in Michigan.”
And there’s more: “If we can help push Mitt over the line, not only do we help keep their field fragmented, but we also pollute Romney’s victory. How ‘legitimate’ will the Mittster’s victory look if liberals provide the margin of victory? Think of the hilarity that will ensue. We’ll simply be adding fuel to their civil war, never a bad thing from our vantage point.”
That may all sound logical from a Democratic perspective, but as Ed Morrissey points out: Democrats in Michigan aren’t voting for Romney, they’re voting for McCain. In fact, only 17% of Michigan Democrats say they’ll vote for Romney, against 35% who say they’ll vote for McCain.
This means that the only reason that McCain is competing in Michigan is because he’s supported by Democrats and Independents. Not because Michigan Republicans think so highly of him.
Will Independents and Democrats push out a conservative favorite and will they, perhaps, even decide about the Republican nomination process altogether?
Here’s the video I mentioned, sadly for Kos et al. it doesn’t seem to be working: Democrats in Michigan are voting for the guy they like, not for the guy they don’t like.
Video via Matt Yglesias.
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It’s sad, but Romney has won the Republican vote in 2 out of 3 states and is set to win it in Michigan. I always thought that Republicans would be too bigoted to vote for a Mormon. It looks like it’s the non-Republicans that are actually doing him in.
Don’t forget, Mitt’s hardly ‘done in’ at this point, with his 30 delegates — 9 more than Huckabee and three times as much as McCain. Just wait till we start getting results from states where democrats don’t pick the republican candidate.
I’m all for a dem to win in ‘08, but I think trying to endorse a candidate negatively and tainting his progress is a bit too far. No I am not saying the dems in general are going too far, nor am I saying they are doing so more than the other side. But I don’t like it much.
Democrats in Michigan should vote for Romney anyway because he’s the only candidate from either party who truly cares about Michigan and will be the best friend Michigan has ever had in the White House. Besides, the Democratic Party has turned it’s back on Michigan at a time when Michigan needs help the most (highest unemployment in the country).
The usual "Republicans do it too/worse" meme that is repeated above (as it is repeated on any post that criticizes any Democrats, apparently — seriously, do you people buy some kind of a standardized phrasebook for these things?) does not seem to apply well in this case. I am aware of no move from the Republican side to try to interfere with or sabotage the Democrats’ candidate selection process. I am certainly aware of none that does so just out of pure hatred, like this one from the Kossacks.
To try to corrupt the other party’s selection process just for "hilarity" seems to me deeply anti-American in that it is willing to actively vote for a candidate that might, as a result, become President but that the voter has no reason to vote for other than the fact it would be fun to watch the other side of an ideological fence tear itself up for a while.
Since the cost of the entertainment is a candidate that the voter believes may promote bad and even dangerous policies, however, that means that any voter who takes up the Kossacks on their little idea is willing to vote in favor of a scenario that risks doing damage to the country just so they can be entertained by the pain of their ideological rivals.
That is contemptible and those promoting it deserve to be directly and explicitly called out for exactly what they are.
seriously, do you people buy some kind of a standardized phrasebook for these things?
Close enough.
I think you can find the real motivation here.
I am sure if they vote for Romney he will not complain. The race is tight and seems like it will stay that way at least until Super Tuesday and maybe still after that. Every delegate a candidate can et may be needed. It would not surprise me if the nonaligned delegates free from state influence in both the Republican and Democrat party are the deciding factors. Look at Hillary who had a 100 delegate lead before NH despite losing Iowa simply because some of the nonaligned delegates had already pledged to her.