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The Spectacle Blog
I don’t think anybody is objecting to appealing to crossover voters in principle. The question is whether pursuing those voters by hitting Romney on his opposition to the auto bailouts, which Santorum also opposed, really advances conservative principles. (I agree that supporting TARP and opposing the auto bailout makes for bad politics in places like Michigan, but that is a separate question.) I don’t know anybody who thinks it is bad for a Republican to use his conservative positions to attract Democratic votes, as Reagan did.
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Mender| 2.28.12 @ 5:08PM
Well, here's what the Dems are planning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OXrnnmvdXg
Mender| 2.28.12 @ 5:09PM
So yeah, looks like Santorum's got that vote sewn up.
Chuck| 2.28.12 @ 5:18PM
I see that Romney was pandering to a Michigan audience and told a whopper...he attended the golden jubilee of the automobile yet he wasn't alive yet. That ranks up there with Hillary/Sir Edmund Hillary, another birth discrepancy and John Kerry's double whopper ordered into Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968 by President Nixon yet he was never in Cambodia and the president was Lyndon Johnson.
Dai Alanye | 2.28.12 @ 6:35PM
Yeah, whoever heard of Republicans trying for Dem votes. Not even Reagan would have... er, sorry.
Romney is upset because it's one thing to lie about your opponents' records, but it's quite another to tell the truth in order to attract crossover votes.
Tiffany| 2.28.12 @ 9:10PM
Tea Party Pac for Romney are saying they are going to Sue Obama for the Obama Administration to have (his People DEMS) do a robocall to Democrats to Vote for Santorum b/c the Obama camp told the DEMS Act like a Republican for the Day to Knock Romney out of the Race Mitt Romney and his Tea Part Pac and Other Backers of Romney said this is not “only” Foul Play, it’s down right illegal. There will be a Law Suit if the Numbers make Santorum win in both States especially Michigan. That everyone knows will be Foul Play and illegal. A Law Suit is on it’s way if Romney loses even one state let alone two
ggoblue| 2.28.12 @ 9:29PM
this is a michigan tradition....
george wallace won a primary here in 72....gop crossovers
jesse jackson won a primary here in 88...gop crossovers
geoffrey feiger won a gubernatorial primary in the 90's...gop crossovers...[feiger lost 65-35 vs engler]
mccain won the mich primary in 2000....dem crossovers...[a snub of engler who was backing bush]
its a state tradition.
WL| 2.29.12 @ 12:42AM
Don't worry Antle.
Hillyer knows....he just can't help himself....
He's just ooodlles for Santorum's Poodles.