Waaa! Oh, the irony. The master of dirty tricks in this primary is now whining, calling foul and gnashing teeth over Santorum reaching across the aisle to Democrats in an open primary and asking for their votes. He's just ticked he didn't think of this first!
Wait, though...what's good for the goose is good for the gander, Mitt. Afterall, the Romney camp used fraudulent robocalls of Santorum endorsing Romney in Michigan! So, Rick's just taking advantage of the open primary process, which is a much more genuine effort than attempting to trick voters into believe that one candidate would endorse against his own candidacy.
And as I recall, Democrat and Independent votes assisted Romney in winning New Hampshire, and we'll see that model follow suit throughout the New England primaries (he just doesn't have to ask for their votes up there...it's an unspoken rule). So when we're told that we, conservatives, must gain Independents and Reagan Democrats 'to win', it's now wrong for Santorum to reach across the aisle? I'm calling BS on that establishment double-standard.
ADDENDUM: Rush weighed in like only he could: "None of this bothers me."
And why should it bother us when we've come to find out that Romney's done similar, and perhaps more, in past Massachusetts elections! Politico points out that Romney himself raided the Democrat primaries to crossover vote during the 1990s in Massachusetts:
"In Massachusetts, if you register as an independent, you can vote in either the Republican or Democratic primary," said Romney, who until he made an unsuccessful run for Senate in 1994 had spent his adult life as a registered independent. "When there was no real contest in the Republican primary, I’d vote in the Democrat primary, vote for the person who I thought would be the weakest opponent for the Republican."
