Mitt Romney Was A Democrat

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Posted Feb 3, 2012 7:38am EST

Mitt Romney's 1992 Democratic Primary vote for Paul Tsongas -- a technocratic modernizer and reformer, but very much a Democrat -- raised some Republican eyebrows last week.

What hasn't been mentioned: Romney's vote formally enrolled him in the Democratic Party.

Romney registered to vote in 1976 as what Massachusetts authorities now call an "unenrolled" voter -- a member of neither party. Under state law, primaries are open, and unenrolled citizens may participate in either primary.

But under the law as it stood in 1992 -- it was changed in 2004 -- "essentially enrolled unenrolled voters (commonly referred to as independent) into the political party based on the ballot they chose at the presidential primary," Michelle Tassinari, the director of the elections division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office, told BuzzFeed.

"After voting, a voter would have had to 'unenroll' by completing additional paperwork to go back to their 'independent' status," she said.

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[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

1. Mr. Romney was a lot...

[BeyondGeography]

2. Pro-Tsongas on the way to becoming the biggest pander bear ever

Dude is so messed up...

[GeorgeGist]

3. Politics can be petty.

You're usually above such stuff.

[IggleDoer]

4. Saint Ronnie also was a Democrat

Before senility set in.

[WI_DEM]

5. true in the 30's and 40's he was a New Deal dem and even campaigned for FDR & Truman...

it was his teaming up with General Electric in the 50's (and marriage to Nancy Davis, whose father Dr. Loyal Davis was a rabid republican) that changed him. He was on the corporate gravy train and enjoyed it.

[Robbins]

6. Compasion

Reagan's film career was In decline.He became republican after becoming spokesman for General Electric.ANd after he got with Nancy.

Romney actully voted In a 1992 Democratic primary for a Liberal Democrat.He ran to the left of Ted Kennedy on abortion and
Gay rights In 1994.He once claimed he wasm't part of reagan and Bush cwoad In his campagins In MA.Romney Is a pander.Eather he revised his postions to get republican Presidential nomination.Or he lied to voters of MA.

[BillyV123]

7. And...your point is?

He is now a hard core panderer...not unlike he was when he was hawking the Book of Mormon to the Sudanese.

Read today's blog posting and you'll easily see that he could call himself a Door Knob...and he still is what he is.

One thin he is NOT is a guy who makes the kind of mistakes in the numbers he is apopogizing for daily. If he wasn't a Calculating Panderer...he wouldn't own a BOX of Staples...let alone at one point the entire company.

Does it matter if a douche bag is a democrat or republican"

When the Party's over...they're still a douche bag.

He "Mispoke". Seriously. I'm Buyin' It. Thoughts at 3 A.M. http://thoughtsatthreeam.blogspot.com/?spref=tw