His Czarness illustrates why following your heart (or other internal organ of your choice) and voting for Santorum, Gingrich or Paul in the primaries is a Good Idea (TM). Even if you think that Romney is, indeed, going to be the eventual winner:
... every vote for Rick Santorum makes Mitt Romney that much more determined to win those conservative votes back. The numbers show it’s happening: Romney now knows pretty well what real-life Republicans want him to focus on.
The Czar knowingly cast two votes for eventual losers today, because it is in the Primaries you send the message. In the Fall, you fire the shot.
This actually fits in quite a bit with something I've been thinking of for a while. Now, I'm a registered Republican. As time goes by, though, I wander more and more onto the libertarian side of the road.
I've been thinking about making a permanent lane change this year.
Here's my thinking: I want to stay registered as a Republican for the PA primary this year. I really want the chance to cast my vote and - as the Czar points out - tell the eventual winner of the primary what real-life Republicans are concerned about. No question there.
Outside of the primary? Well...
... you know, it really doesn't matter much.
Seriously. I live in a pretty blue area of the country (southwestern PA). As a Republican, I get the privilege of voting in the Republican primaries for the eventual looser in just about any local, county, or state election. Sometimes. When the party actually bothers to put someone on the ballot
So, if I were to register Libertarian? No big change at all, really.
So. Let me 'splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
Utah's primay is the last before the presidential election, on June 26th.
The Republican national convention starts on August 27th.
So, on July 3rd, I'm going to take the time to head down to my local government office in person and change my voter registration from Republican to Libertarian.
I'm taking the Czar at his word, you see - and then some. I've got between now and the national convention to convince the eventual Republican winner that if he wants my vote, he's going to have to be a hard line, small government, reduced spending, low tax, no-social-issues-please-just-fix-the-freaking-economy-by-getting-the-government-the-heck-out-of-it candidate.
I'm hoping that the whole vote-your-conscience thing in the primaries gets the message across loud and clear. The Czar thinks that is what's happening. Still... it can't hurt to follow up that message with a bit of a reminder, can it?
The reason that I'm telling you this now is 'cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation. And if you're in a situation like this, there's only one thing you can do; and that's to walk into the local government office wherever you are, and say, "I want to change my voter registration to Libertarian", do it, and walk out.
You know, if one person, just one person does it... they may think you're really sick and they won't pay any attention to you.
And if two people, two people do it, in unison, they may think you're both nuts, and they won't pay attention to either of you.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in, changing their voter registration to Libertarian and walking out. They may think it's an organization.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in, changing their voter registration to Libertarian and walking out. And friends, they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is: the Embedded Theologian's Anti-RINO Movement, and all you got to do to join is go down to your local government office on July 3rd, and change your voter registration to Libertarian.
Or you can just mail it in during the first week of July. I'm not proud.
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