Obama Expands 'Be A Democrat For A Day'

by Taylor Marsh

The video above is from Obama's Be A Democrat for a Day that he launched in Florida last year. We all know the same campaign was tried in Nevada until they got caught distributing very negative fliers.

Below is part of an email going out to Californians, which my friends have been to kind enough to share. I'm not registered in my home state right now, so they knew I'd want to see it:

... ... Remember, you do not need to be a Democrat to participate in the primary. Republicans and unaffiliated voters who choose "Decline to State" as their party preference can vote for Senator Obama.

Once someone is registered as "Decline to State," here's how it works:

Unaffiliated voters must specifically request a Democratic ballot. If they are voting in person, they can request the ballot at the polling place.

If they are voting by mail, they must contact their County Elections Officer and request a Democratic ballot ... .. Our campaign wants as many Californians as possible to participate in the Democratic primary -- to support Barack, but also to reconnect with the political process. ... ..

It's seems obvious the Obama campaign realizes their candidate can't win the nomination with Democrats alone. So why not bring in other people, even those who have no intention of voting for him in the general? Great way to stack the game in favor of our opponents. Let them choose our nominee.

Mythologizing Reagan in Nevada, amidst union intimidation. Channeling Mike Huckabee in South Carolina.

I thought we were nominating a Democrat.

Comments

[Rebelfriend]

The feeling going on in the country right now around this campaign feels like everybody is drinking the koolaid rather than thinking -- thinking -- about what is best for America and the American people. They're getting drunk and feeling no pain. What on earth is going on? Manipulation is in full swing, and the koolaid is flowing. It's really getting scary.

[ThomasDoubting]

We are presently in the middle of the primary season. The positions that these Democratic candidates hold now, is as far left, as they are ever going to go. As soon as one of them wins the nomination they will veer back to the right. If there is something that we want from them, we better ask now. The majority of Democrats want to end the war now! They want a universal single-payer, not-for-profit, health care system! They also want Bush and Cheney to be impeached, indicted, and sentenced ASAP! It seems obvious why the Network decided to exclude Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the one and only candidate who supports these positions. . 'Medicare for All'

[BUSHsurvivor]

Yes, Obama basically is running as anything BUT a democrat. He should switch his affiliation NOW to be Independent or his true party....The Party of Reagan!

What gets me is that his supporters are trying to paint him as the Next Coming of Jesus, and he allows campaign tricks such as this to claim he can get "independent" voters which basically are Rethugs dressed up for a day!

Talk about inflating the numbers and definitely one sure way of guaranteeing another 4 years of Rethug policies!

Wake up people!

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

I assume that with Obama playing to center, all talk of Clintons triangulating will be dropped.

Nah.

[Pug]

Hillary has plenty of Indie and Republican support among moderate voters.

And there really is a Santa Claus, and a Tooth Fairy, too.

[Pug]

It's seems obvious the Obama campaign realizes their candidate can't win the nomination with Democrats alone.

It also seems obvious that Taylor Marsh doesn't realize the Democrats can't win the general election with Democrats alone. Get a clue.

[soylentgreenleftovers]

Taylah.....I was on my way to the fan club site for the best entertainer in history, Barbara Streisand, and I nearly schlock up in my coffee after seeing the gnectshlitzsen in your post! Obama is trying to win over the underschmeckel that don't usually vote Democratic?!

Taylah, honey can we talk? I was starting to think that Obama was like buttah......but now I think I'm becoming all verklempt!

[SCharb]

Name one rightwing stance Obama has. There are NONE. Zero. Zip. Nada.

Look at his record; read his book.

He's a bleeding-heart who doesn't harness a pathological hatred for all conservatives. He might even have some friends who aren't liberals!

Honestly, you party-supremacist fascists all sound exactly the same, no matter which party you come from.

[SusanUnPC]

I vote for REAL Democrats in the Democratic primary.

[TCB]

Oh, and look what a simple search turned up, on HuffingtonPost none the less, Hillary and Obama tied with Republican write in support in New Hampshire. Look - I already realize that Obama supporters aren't interested in the truth but you can't fool all us out here.

Viva Hillary!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/republican-support-hillary-clinton

[MartiP]

Obama is trying to pull the Democratic party to the right, in a year when we have a brilliant opportunity to pull the country left.

He is running praising the Republicans and their ideas, and scolding Democrats. He has been doing this from the beginning, and covering it in a veneer of hopeful unifying speeches. And the sheeple and the fawning media keep lapping it up, just as they did in 2000.

No thank you. I have had enough of a "uniter not a divider" telling me that the problem is those partisan divisive Democrats, and remaining strangely silent on the sins of those partisan Republicans who have run my country into the ground.

He is sounding way too much like the incompetent Georgie Boy for comfort. This guy is a disaster waiting to happen.

[altohone]

Oh my stars!

This latest campaign effort to spin Obama as a Republican is such a joke. How many posts, campaign memos and Hillary supporters need to push this line before people see it's just another page out of the politics 101 playbook.

Hillary voted with the Republicans.
Obama stood to oppose them.

Hillary voted with Bush.
Obama stood against.

Hillary votes with the DLC.
Obama refused to join them.


This scorn and ridicule being heaped upon Obama for trying to bring millions to vote for a Democrat!

How dare he believe our principles might be shared by a wider electorate?

[klm]

Thanks, Taylor, for being a voice of sanity and reason.

Obama is no democrat, folks. You don't have to be a seeing eye dog to get it.

[horizonr]

No candidate -- Democrat OR Republican -- can get elected with only the support of registered members of his or her own party.

Stop getting pissy, just because Obama is acting on the obvious -- and because your own candidate has little support outside the so-called "Democratic base."

[MRb1000]

Hillary Clinton will get clobbered by any Republican because see is so disliked not just by them, but also by her own party. If Bloomberg inter the race it is all over for her.