I will be voting for Santorum today as part of Operation Hilarity. I will do what I can to contribute to the carnival sideshow that is the Republican primary.

Cant wait to vote Peters out. The one thing I agree with Republicans on. He is dead weight to Pontiac and I must admit it is funny watching him fire his entire staff to make room for all the black people he has to hire. That is going to make a really funny before and after shot.

It's not appropriate to make a mockery of the election process. Our elections and candidates may not be perfect but it beats the alternative.

Democrats always look for a way to disenfranchise voters.

Disenfranchised by voting, yeah that makes sense. And the only people making a mockery of the election process are the Republican candidates. But that is their right, thus is America after all...

Chad, you represent all that is wrong with the Democrats and why they were voted OUT of the House in a landslide in 2010...But you are correct, it is your right to be UNAmerican in this country, and those of us who are true to the Constitution and our founding fathers will fight for your right to be as UNPATRIOTIC as you wish. That is our fundemental difference, I support your right to be a cartoon character even if it is fundamentally wrong.

Great comment! I'm unamerican because I voted! I think I know what "s" stands for...

It does not matter which way you vote, you all have a vote, but it is disappointing that we must vote for the weakest candidate in the republican party so the democrats can secure a win. The better question is, Didn't they already "buy" there votes when "they" saved the automakers. All taxpayers saved the automakers as we all paid and it was started with the republican party and it was moved forward because it was the right thing to do. Can't we all just stop bashing each other and support whoever is president. We were raised to Respect our Flag and our Democratic process, yet what i always read on here makes me sick.

Jerry, at least you acknowledge, unlike Mitt, that the Federal loans actually saved the automakers.The loans also saved the supply chain, at a time when no private funding was available and the credit markets were frozen. They were a huge success, in large part because the auto workers later gave up enormous concessions, along with suppliers and other creditors. But while we all saved the auto industry through taxpayer-funded loans (which have largely been paid back ahead of schedule), it was the leadership of President Obama, over tremendous Republican opposition, including all four Republican Presidential candidates today, that pushed through this success..
And by the way, David, Mike and S -- Didn't all those Republicans cross over to vote for George Wallace, enabling him to win the 1972 Michigan Democratic primary? And what about Limbaugh's attempted Operation Chaos in 2008 to have Republicans vote in Democratic primaries?

Mike, wow, the 2008 collapse was entirely the fault of Government??! (Presumably the Bush Administration and Congress.) In fact, the bundling of sub-prime mortgages by private banks and other mortgage companies, and the sale of these toxic collateralized mortgage oligations by free-wheeling, unregulated Wall St. investment bankers was a major reason.for the crash. The bankers and rating agencies had no idea what they were selling and no clue as to the value of these unsafe debt securities, but represented them as safe and valuable nonetheless.

I am unaware of Government forcing the auto companies (or any company) "to submit to the demands of the union"' or how that contributed to the 2008 collapse. Do you have any facts to support that?

But the cause of the collapse in 2008 is a whole different discussion from the response to it by the Bush Adminstration for the first four months, which then left it for the Obama Administration.

By the way, community organizing was never "fashionable". It was basically just very hard, low-paying and thankless work trying to help those who had no one else to speak on their behalf.

Folks, while we understand conversations become heated on these topics, please refrain from personal attacks and stick to discussing the issues. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

If the Republicans are so unhappy about non-Republicans voting in the Republican primary, why don't the Republicans just change their process to only allow registered members of the GOP to select the nominee? Sounds pretty simple. If the Democrats had a primary like this, do you honestly think the Republicans would not take advantage?

In addition to perfectly legal albeit potentially mischievous reasons, there are plenty of other reasons people who are not fanatical Republicans might be interested in this primary. Claiming voting legally is un-American sounds un-American to me.

Maybe it's just payback.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/28/10529940-flashback-romney-voted-in-92-dem-primaries

"Romney's explanation at the time: 'When there was no real contest in the Republican primary, I'd vote in the Democrat primary, vote for the person who I thought would be the weakest opponent for a Republican.'"

Lets all remember Acorn, just one of many democratic organizations responsible for voter fraud. Democrats are petty people.

It's amazing republicans always call Democrats petty for doing what they have done for years.

ACORN is a poor peopl'es organization. Not a single fraudulent vote anywhere was ever shown to be cast as a result of ACORN voter registration drives or other actions. The worst problems disenfranchising voters and getting votes properly counted was when the Republican party ran its caucuses in Iowa, Nevada and Maine!

Republicans continue to turn away working Americans, minorities & women with their petty nit picking and wanting to take away not only basic freedoms but our freedom of and from religion. They continue to do everything but address what the American people really want answers on...jobs and the economy. Everytime our President wants to address this issue, or anything else for that matter, they have to act like children and refuse to work together, pathetic and very unpatriotic. Why I left the party and will never vote Republican again until they get their backwards priorities straight.

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Most of you peeps are so clueless - no wonder this country is going down the tubes.
The diff between Republicans & Democrats can be summarized simply. Republicans appreciate & want to work with the founding documents that made this country great. Democrats want to take advantage of all the benefits, yet then want to destroy the whole thing. Why would anybody vote for a Democrat? To screw up families - the basis of a great society? To hand out money to people that don't need or deserve it? To make laws that go against our founding documents - such as taking away our freedom of religion one step at a time? To get out of the space program that has given us thousands of benefits in our daily lives with innovation, jobs, etc.? To get a health care system that requires Doctors let people die if their cost of care to life expectancy ratio isn't worth while (TO THEM), AND that creates huge increases in spending and hundreds of new government offices/ bigger beurocracy? Tries to leave the Bible, Christianity, faith, God out of everything, even though it is printed on our money, painted all over our buildings in D.C., is in our national motto and song, etc. and so on? 4 more years of osama and we will have such a huge defecit that China will probably be able to just take the keys to our country. I could go on, but will end inviting all people that want to ruin our country to move to Iraq where you will find what you are looking for already all set up.

Sorry dave but your hero did not kill Bin Laden. He just gave the go ahead and NOTHING more. The Navy Seals killed Bin Laden. Much better if he would have been captured alive to rot in prison without all his wives or porn!

You tell her Dave! and Jeff, his rotting in jail does not stop his rhetoric from getting out to his followers, dead does.

Sorry Guy but Obama didn't kill Obama. If he did the country would be around a trillion dollars less in debt. If the oportunity was there I'm sure any president would give the OK. And Jan, I'm afraid his rhetoric still gets out from his successors who follow the same beliefs. BTW Guy, I'm an independent and don't follow the leader like a sheep. Don't judge me without even knowing me.

Yeah I know Sammy, he was over there in Pakistan clandestinely sneaking around that compound and secretly gathering all the intel to make the call to go ahead with the mission. Then was the first down the rope and up the stairs to make the kill shot on Osama. Oh btw, congrees gave bush the green light to go into Iraq. Had the wmds that most of the worlds intel agencies thought were there been found and the war went like the first Gulf war, they would have all been falling all over themselves to take credit. But when we didn't have instant success, they all bailed like rats on a sinking ship. Personnally I don't think that any of of the countries in the middle east are worth a single drop of American blood! Get the oil we have here and we can tell them all to drink theirs!

They say that when something is repeated enough that some people start taking it as fact. Looks like you bought that story lock, stock and barrel! So they planted that story in the brains of the Clintons, several other top political leaders from both parties and many other foreign leaders? Come on, you can't be that naive. Looks like Rachel and Ed and co. are living in your mind!