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Sat, 02/16/2008 – 10:41pm — afnighthawk (This post was neither authored nor approved by the leadership of Republicans for Obama. It is simply a posting in a public forum.)
Attention All Texas Republicans and Independents!!
On March 4th, Texas Republicans and Independents will have an opportunity to end Hillary Clinton’s (and Bill’s) presidential ambitions once and for all!
Since Texas has on open primary, Republicans and Independents should sign in at their polling place and request a Democratic ballot. They should then vote for Barack Obama. Even James Carville admits that if Hillary loses Texas, “she’s done!” Republicans can help make this a reality!!! Just think, no more Clintons in the White House!
Voting Democratic this one time will have NO effect on your ability to vote in the next Republican primary or obviously on your vote in November. Since John McCain has the Republican nomination locked up, voting for McCain or Huckabee at this point will have no effect on the outcome on the Republican side.
After you vote during early voting or on March 4th, you ARE NOT done! Report back to your regular polling place at 7PM on March 4th to sign the Barack Obama list for caucus delegates. In a little known Texas voting quirk, 67 delegates to the Democratic convention will be seated because of these caucuses. This is a full one-third of the total number of Texas delegates. For Hillary to lose, she has to lose the primary votes AND the caucus votes. I urge you to vote against Hillary Clinton by voting for Barack Obama.
Please forward this e-mail to all your Republican and Independent friends so that we can help ensure the Clinton’s defeat on March 4th!!!
This is the web site: http://republicansforobama.org/?q=node/358
Gilbert comment. While every US registered voter has the freedom to vote for ANY candidate in the November General election I oppose open or cross over voting in the primaries. I would argue that registered Republicans should only be able to vote for their party standard bearer and the same applies to Democrat’s. Those falling through the cracks in these primaries are the decline to state, and other secondary parties.
Your opinion on this post is both welcome and encouraged.
Email from a Democratic friend and (campaign consultant) in LA county. I am well aware of his statement but will post it for the readers.
Larry the reason this can happen is that Texas has no party registration. I know other Republicans voting in the Democratic primary for Hilary because they think she’ll be easier to beat.
email response:
Larry, you evil genius!
Dxxxxxxx
Gilbert comment. This is a no brainer. However both sides can play this game, and they are doing just that!
email response from head blogger “Republicans for Obama”
“While we do appreciate your attempts to publicize our group, you may wish to note that this is not “our blog report”, as you put it, but instead a random post on a public forum. As you can see from your quote, we added a note within the post to that effect.
I should think that anyone familiar with internet forums would understand how they work. We have no idea who afnighthawk is, nor has he returned to the site since his hit-and-run email post, which has caused quite a bit of excitement on the board.
As is customary on internet boards, we allowed his post to stand, though we as an organization do not now, nor have we ever, supported Obama for the purpose of blocking Senator Clinton from office. We have, for over a year, supported Obama for the reasons stated on the site.
Thank you.
Barbara
head blogger,
RFO”
Readers. I will alter the post to clarify the source.