A Modest Proposal

This proposal from Kos ought to get Bill O’Reilly in yet another spittle-fueled rage about “radical left-wing hate sites”:

With a history of meddling in our primaries, why don’t we try and return the favor. Next Tuesday, January 15th, Michigan will hold its primary. Michigan Democrats should vote for Mitt Romney, because if Mitt wins, Democrats win. How so?

For Michigan Democrats, the Democratic primary is meaningless since the DNC stripped the state of all its delegates (at least temporarily) for violating party rules. Hillary Clinton is alone on the ballot.

But on the GOP side, this primary will be fiercely contested. John McCain is currently enjoying the afterglow of media love since his New Hamsphire victory, while Iowa winner Mike Huckabee is poised to do well in South Carolina.

Meanwhile, poor Mitt Romney, who’s suffered back-to-back losses in the last week, desperately needs to win Michigan in order to keep his campaign afloat. Bottom line, if Romney loses Michigan, he’s out. If he wins, he stays in.

And we want Romney in, because the more Republican candidates we have fighting it out, trashing each other with negative ads and spending tons of money, the better it is for us. We want Mitt to stay in the race, and to do that, we need him to win in Michigan.

I like it. Meddling in the other party’s primary is sort of dirty pool, but in this instance it’s more like hoisting the bastards on their own petard. It would be a different story without the past history.

Not that primary meddling has been a purely GOP dirty trick. In California, Gray Davis did something similar in his last gubernatorial campaign. California doesn’t allow His coffers filled with money from the various special interests he pimped for and absent any serious Democratic challenge, during the primary season he ran ads attacking moderate Republican and former Los Angeles Mayor Mike Riordan and effectively tipped the scales in favor of Riordan’s batshit crazy right wing opponent, assuring a cakewalk in the general.

That kind of pissed me off, because Davis was an awful governor and Riordan was actually a viable alternative (especially when juxtaposed against the Governator, who eventually reaped the benefit from Davis’s underhandedness), but in the case of the GOP, and Romney/McCain, what’s the difference anyway?

They’re all for the war, all for keeping the corporate feed trough, distancing themselves from Bush while promising to continue his fucked up policies and pursue the same agenda.