Why the GOP DOESN'T want primaries(look at defectors fleeing Bush)

[SoFlaJet]

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=7079&ntpid=5

That is true of every state. So why did the cancellations really occur?Because Republican Party bosses did not want Bush to be embarrassed by evidence of Republican opposition.

As it turns out, the concern was well founded. In several states that held Republican primaries this year, significant numbers of GOP voters rejected Bush.

In New Hampshire, for instance, 22 percent of citizens who selected Republican presidential primary ballots voted for someone other than Bush. (More than 3,000 New Hampshire Republican primary voters wrote in the name of Democrat John Kerry.) In Rhode Island, more than 15 percent of Republican primary voters rejected Bush. In Idaho and Oklahoma, more than 10 percent of Republicans cast Anyone-But-Bush votes, while almost 10 percent did so in Massachusetts. Even in the president's home state of Texas, more than 50,000 Republican primary voters refused to back Bush.

Despite the convention show that Republican leaders will put on in New York next month, Bush has inspired a good deal of grumbling among the faithful. The results from a number of the states that actually held Republican primaries reflect that embarrassing fact. There are no embarrassing results from states that canceled Republican primaries - which, of course, was the point of the cancellations.

[shoelace414]

1. "We're all for democracy as long as.."

it goes the way we want it to.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Much as I hate Bush

I don't think that's a fair article. People vote differently than they might otherwise when they think their vote is irrelevant, which it was.

[SoFlaJet]

3. I see it as a trend

and have not seen the likes of this party switching since Reagan dems.Bush is losing support by the day- this from his own base