¿Se pasaron de marrulleros los republicanos texanos?

Houston - March 4, 2008 (LPAC)-- Some howls have been heard coming from GOP quarters here in Houston, as an unofficial strategy - that of urging Republicans voters to vote in the Democratic primary to aid the weaker of the two Democrats - seems to be backfiring, as the GOP "strategists" are increasingly confused as to which candidate that would be! The idea, which some attribute to Karl Rove, was to throw enough votes to the Democratic candidate which would be easier to beat in the November general election, by the Republican nominee. More astute Democratic analysts see this as part of the ongoing Bloomberg campaign, to wreak havoc on the Democratic Party in the months leading up to the nominating convention.

Working from earlier poll numbers, they thought Obama would be easier to defeat, so some Republicans voted early for Obama; others who voted for Obama were driven by long-term hostility (some might say spite) toward the Clintons, hoping they could finish off those pesky Clintons in Texas; still others, like windbag Rush Limbaugh, have been urging Republicans to vote for Hillary, to defeat Obama. Reports from precincts in solidly traditional Republican areas show a highly disproportionate number voting in the Democratic primary.

As voters went to the polls yesterday, leading Republicans are realizing that this strategy is backfiring. It seems it has become too confusing for these oh-so-clever Republicans to figure out which is the weaker candidate! There are credible reports that some dismayed Party leaders spent the weekend trying to figure out how to convince Republicans to vote in the GOP primary, without spilling the beans about their sly plan to disrupt the Democrats. Rank-and-file GOP voters called local right-wing radio talk shows this morning to complain that, after voting for Obama (or Hillary) in the Democratic Presidential primary, they discovered they could not vote for Republican candidates in the other races on the Republican primary ballot!