Well my friends said we should listen to the Republicans when deciding how to vote in the primary. And that, my friends said, was why I HAD to vote for Obama.
I said we can't trust the Republicans - some will say they're voting for Obama now, but will their loyalty hold until November? Still others will say they're voting Obama now, because they think he's easier to beat. I think it's the latter. My friends say I'm in denial.
All I know is: why are the Republicans determining who wins our primary?
Listening to the Republicans got us John Kerry. Now we've got a nominee who loves market-based solutions to Social Security. Correction - he doesn't support privatization, he just says everything should be on the table with Social Security. Likes vouchers for public schools.
Elections are the time to make demands of your candidates. Elections are the times when you have leverage - who has asked Obama for a pledge not to privatize Social Security?
I'm pissed that Hillary didn't have a better media team to go on offense with a positive narrative of who she is, and go on defense to beat back all of the nonsense and lies. But she didn't - maybe she just isn't vain enough to monitor her own image. Now we have Obama. You can be sure that Obama will win Texas:
But if some moderate Republicans do vote in the Democratic primary, that could mean conservative candidates in the local and state GOP legislative races might fare better.
Josh Earnest, an Obama spokesman, said the campaign had done less in Texas than elsewhere to target Republicans and independents because of the size of the state and short time before the primary.
Nevertheless, he said, "what we've seen in the previous primaries and caucuses — beginning in Iowa — is that Republicans and independents have voted in record numbers for Barack Obama, because they too are hungry for change in Washington."
If Obama is courting Republican and Independent voters to win the primary, when will he start defending Demcoratic values? When will Democrats start demanding he do so?
I've got a bad feeling about this. We've got a unity candidate, and I don't like that at all.